• Aligning to the right market

    Om Malik just linked to an excellent post by Dare Obasanjo in which Dare takes a second look at the market for web 2.0 companies and reminds them that there are substantial differences between the early adopters and the real market that those companies are aiming for. As I’ve said…

  • links for 2008-05-20

    Micro Persuasion: The Hyperconnected vs. 84% of Everyone Else on Earth Why does this not surprise me? (tags: hyperconnected socialnetworking rubel)

  • HP-EDS is the most interesting story of the last month

    In a month when all the buzz about the on again, off again (and apparently on again) Ballmer-Yang waltz dominated the news, the HP-EDS deal may quietly emerge as the most significant technology consolidation we’ve seen in quite a while. Om Malik postulates that the real play here is not…

  • Crowdsourcing

    I’ve been thinking a lot about crowdsourcing lately, particularly how organizations can benefit by tapping the intellectual power (or sweat equity) of their customer base in helping build more reliable and relevant products. Josh Cantone over at ReadWriteWeb has listed out some of the crowdsource models that have cropped up…

  • links for 2008-05-08

    Panopticon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: surveillance architecture Prison wikipedia Philosophy privacy panopticon)

  • Yahoo is the big loser, but Microsoft isn’t far behind

    Unless you were living under a rock, you probably know by now that Microsoft decided to walk away from an acquisition of Yahoo! late yesterday afternoon. A great behind the scenes view of what happened was posted by Kara Swisher here. Earlier this week, a much smaller – almost insignificant…

  • links for 2008-05-03

    75% Of Your Site Visitors Will Never See Ads Placed Below the Fold (tags: ads webdesign advertising analytics toread web Design)

  • links for 2008-05-01

    Where I’ve Been A travel website to log all your adventures (tags: travel social)

  • Lessons from the Cougar Ace

    Image via Wikipedia Lately, Wired Magazine has become one of my must read subscriptions when I’m on the road, but not just for the technology coverage. Every once in a while they have pieces like the recent one (link) on the fate of the Cougar Ace, a cargo ship that…