Techies and normals
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
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
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
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
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?
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…