I love Amazon.com. Why? I buy a lot of things from Amazon, but mostly music cd’s. There are three reasons for this: 1. Subscription shipping. With Amazon Prime “all you can eat” express shipping for $79/year, I never have to […]

Traditional radio is really feeling the heat these days. Increased digital downloads (legal and illegal), satellite radio usage, and IP radio alternatives (including podcasting) are consuming a larger share of people’s music listening time. Radio is slowly losing the power […]

With yesterday’s news that Friendster is laying off people and that the company’s CEO will be leaving in a few weeks, it’s apparent that some of the first generation social networking sites are hitting a few bumps in the road. […]

We all know about search engine spam. Wikipedia defines it using the coined term “spamdexing” as, “the practice of deliberately and dishonestly modifying HTML pages to increase the chance of them being placed close to the beginning of search engine […]

After the extended media blitz in the past few weeks, along with the recommendations from fellow bloggers like Seth Levine, I decided to pick up a copy of Levitt & Dubner’s “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of […]

While we transition from the Reference Web to the Incremental Web, more and more information will be available online – especially information about you. As the web moves from merely a reference medium to a true conversational medium, and the […]

In a recent Business 2.0 interview with Om Malik, Cisco Systems’ Chief Technology Officer Charlie Giancarlo is quoted as saying, “I think 100 megabits per second into the home is a given [in the near future] if we want more […]

The CEO of Indeed, Paul Forster, addressed a number of topics on yesterday’s Syndicate panel entitled “New Pathways to Profits: Exploring Business Models.” I caught up with him after the session to chat about the very insightful distinction he made […]

As I posted last week, I am here at the Syndicate Conference in New York City. The opening speaker Bob Carrigan, CEO of Computerworld, identified two major trends that are emerging in online media: “More Choice” and “Online Voice.” Coincidentally, […]

Jeff Bussgang reported from the annual VC Conference, “The enterprise software business model is dead… VC appetite for standard enterprise software appears to be dwindling to nothing.” And Jeff Nolan simply replies, “agreed.” But even though enterprise software is dead, […]