Well Under the Radar

I am attending the Under the Radar conference at Microsoft’s SV campus today and my first impression is that there is a real resurgence here. The team at DealMaker Media did their homework, not only are these companies very under the radar but they are also really exciting.

The other aspect of today’s event that I […]

NYTimes Reader

The NYTimes Reader is available for the Mac.

Great but I don’t get this entire initiative at any level. They position it as a way to enhance the reader experience but from my perspective it appears to be nothing more than a vehicle through which they can control access and charge a monthly fee.

Has a web-based […]

Incrementalism and Pyrrhic Victories

Last month I wrote something called Incrementalism and the New New Thing that got quite a bit of conversation flowing. While largely an observation about Valley dynamics and a malaise I feel about Web 2.0, the fact is that it’s a lot more complex than that.

Last night I was catching up on some reading and […]

All the Time is Prime Time

Like every train wreck, you can see it coming but only at the point of impact does anyone really pay attention to it.

But the more significant shift can’t be blamed on the strike. In the past television season, there has been a sharp increase in time-shifting. Some of the six million are still watching, but […]

We’re Still Defining Web 2.0

If after 6 years we’re still defining it, time to move on…

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Are we headed for a nuclear winter?

Dennis puts up a good post on the intersection of web 2.0 and the enterprise. O’Reilly actually talked about this in his keynote, that the enterprise is one of the 3 big themes he is focusing on, but I have to say that this segment will be a rude awakening for the 99.9% of companies […]

Web 2.0 Reflections

So Web 2.0 Expo is wrapping up today and after spending all of Wednesday and Thursday there, I have a couple of thoughts.

First of all, I have a love-hate with big conferences like this. On one hand there isn’t much intimacy or unscripted presentation, but on the other hand it’s very efficient because the 100 […]

What I Want From The Next Next Generation of the Web

I was thinking of this today was I head up to the Web 2.0 Expo in SF. Quite often we preoccupy ourselves with answering the simple question “what do I want…” in technical terms, as in more semantic web stuff, interoperable identity, and so on. What if we simply answer the what I want question […]

AWS Gets Cheaper

Technology is supposed to get cheaper over time, right? In the history of enterprise software and desktop OS when has that been true? AWS is no doubt responding to competitive pressures, which indicates the market is working as it should, and this is a welcome development because anytime your costs drop you add dollars to […]

Twitter Withdrawals

And I thought it was just a slow weekend in Twitterville… interestingly, I was getting Twitter updates in Alert Thingy via FriendFeed, not sure why it worked there but not in other Twitter clients or their own web interface.

Siegler’s comments about service status updates is really customer service 101 for companies like Twitter. I can’t […]

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