Techies and normals

2010-01-22

There are techies (if you are reading this blog you are almost certainly one of them) and there are mainstream users – some people call them…

Collective knowledge systems

2010-01-17

I think you could make a strong argument that the most important technologies developed over the last decade are a set of systems that are…

Security through diversity

2010-01-12

Someone asked me the other day whether I thought the United States was vulnerable to a large scale “cyber” attack. While I have no doubt…

Shutting down

2010-01-09

I’ve seen a number of situations recently where entrepreneurs decided to shut their startups down while they still had cash in the bank…

The next big thing will start out looking like a toy

2010-01-03

One of the amazing things about the internet economy is how different the list of top internet properties today looks from the list ten…

What’s strategic for Google?

2009-12-30

Google seems to be releasing or acquiring new products almost daily. It’s one thing for a couple of programmers to hack together a side…