The Most Valuable Spectrum on Earth

The 700mhz spectrum freed up by television broadcasters will partially be auctioned off next year and Google wants it. There is some great analysis of the rules and consequences elseware so I’ll spare my .02 cents. My primary thought on the matter is that if the CTIA is so strenuously opposed to Google’s rule proposal, well […]

Consumerization of the Enterprise

When the WSJ writes a serious piece about how mainstream business users are taking advantage of consumer technologies at work, and then offers up a detailed 10 point guide to going around IT in order to do it, well you just know this is no longer limited to rogue early adopter users.

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How Did This Happen?

We’re still wondering how venture investors such as Redpoint (which lost $25 million in this) and Highland (which lost $50 million) could have let this happen.

Matt is wondering how investors could have put so much into Amp’d only to see the remaining assets get auctioned off for a fraction of what […]

Bill Walsh, 1931-2007

Bill Walsh died today. If you grew up in the Bay Area in the 1980’s you grew up with Bill Walsh leading the dominant football team of the era… a team not of superstar free agents but of a team that won only 2 games in their first season. Who knew then that Walsh had […]

BioDiesel at Home

Make biodiesel at home… I am not sure I would be too happy about any of my neighbors doing this because the process creates a very distinct and far traveling smell. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t worry about safety as diesel and it’s variants, like kerosene, are very stable. 

The energy produced is [...]

Nerds : Whites Only

Though Bucholtz uses the term “hyperwhite” to describe nerd language in particular, she claims that the “symbolic resources of an extreme whiteness” can be used elsewhere. After all, “trends in music, dance, fashion, sports and language in a variety of youth subcultures are often traceable to an African-American source,” but “unlike […]

Invention Fund

Q A lot of folks who don’t know your model have classified you as a patent troll. Not just anybody, but even Shane Robison, the chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard.A That’s a strange thing. HP has a large group headed by a good guy named Joe Byers. They actively go out […]

Borrower’s Blues

More evidence of how hard it is to borrow money these days…

Expedia Inc. said Monday it is slashing the number of shares in its planned buyback by 80% due to a lack of acceptable funding, sending shares down 8.3% to $26.90 in early trading.

 

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YouTube Suckage Syndrome

YouTube under Google has been one long disappointment since the acquisition was announced last October. Where is the innovation, a better video converter and upload process, kick ass search, integration with other Google services?

Google seems to have been more concerned with copyright takedowns than creating a service that raises the bar for compelling content and […]

Social Media Strategy

I was invited to a workshop at SAP’s Global Marketing office in NYC this week, the topic was social media strategy. This was a good opportunity to think about the topic at a high level.

I would break down social media into four major areas:

Blogging
Twittering (I’m not sold [...]
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