The Problem With Anything Called “Name Here”-Killer
John is right, in spades.
That said, I don’t think LinkedIn is vulnerable to any new business network starting up, whether incubated at a newspaper on in-the-wild. LinkedIn is one of what I think of as one of the “three horsemen of the Social Web,” networks that are fundamentally about real identity and real [...]
Discredited CA Complains About Credit Agencies (again)
Bill Lockyer’s office (Treasurer of the state) had this to say about major credit agencies recently downgrading the state of California.
“The lower (California’s) rating is, the more (taxpayers) pay on debt service,” he said. “Every additional dollar they pay to investors is a dollar they cannot spend to educate their kids, protect their communities, clean [...]
California’s Biofuels Policy: Yes, No, or Both
It’s hard to come up with the words to describe how self-destructive the state of California has become… witness our energy policy:
Conserv Fuel’s abandonment of biodiesel grew out of a June decision by the State Water Resources Control Board to begin enforcing laws against storing biodiesel underground. As commercial fueling stations have no [...]
This Guy is Getting Screwed Over By This Guy
Every once in a while The Daily Show simply hits it out of the park, this is one of those bits.
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Saving the New York Times, Or Not.
Mike is correct to assert that many U.S. and international newspapers are structurally impaired and should simply disband but the debate in newspapers has shifted away from print vs. digital to one focused on digital monetization. The data is what it is, newspaper websites continue to grow traffic by double digits yet the incremental increases, [...]
Cash for Flunkers
Pixel Reclamation
I can’t tell you how many times I have looked at an app running on my laptop and thought “are they for real… did anyone test this on something less than a 24″ display before releasing it?”. I think the most egregious violator of laptop display personal space is Microsoft Office… you could enable enough [...]
SAP’s John Schwarz on Analytics
This is Part 2 in my Fortune Brainstorm Tech series. Part 1 covered a conversation with Vishal Sikka.
Vinnie Mirchandani, Oliver Marks, Dennis Howlett and I sat down with John Schwarz, who recently came to SAP via the Business Objects acquisition and has quickly emerged as the man with the plan. If you have been following [...]
Vishal Sikka on SAP’s Challenges, Futures, and Realities
The odds of sitting down with a senior executive of a major technology company and being surprised and enlightened are one in a million because typically they sit down with a prepared agenda and, with the benefit of years and years of media training, religiously stay on message turning every question back to the thing [...]
A Billion Here, A Billion There…
The quote famously attributed to the late Sen. Everett Dirksen goes “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money”.
It’s really quite breathtaking to hear public officials and commentators talk about billions as if it were a rounding error, and the reality that Federal government commitments for so called stimulus and [...]
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