eBay and Skype not going so well
John Paczkowski at AllThingsD writes that the honeymoon is most definitely over in the eBay/Skype marriage:
This morning the Internet auction giant said it was taking a $1.43 billion charge for its acquisition of the Internet telephone provider and that Niklas Zennström, a co-founder of Skype, was stepping down as chief executive of the division. The [...]
Here’s to the crazy ones
I don’t have an iPhone - I must be getting older (come to think of it, I do turn 36 later this month which is starting to sound decidedly un-young), but it just doesn’t hold much fascination for me. Sure it’s an elegant piece of equipment, but I just need my preferred phone/device to make [...]
Randy Pausch
Not really sure that there are words that would do justice to Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture”, given “at Carneige Mellon”:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&hl=en recently. Randy’s “home page”:http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/ has a number of links to recent media coverage, but here’s the short version: he’s 47 years old, a legend in computer science (particularly in video game design and virtual reality), [...]
How Zune could beat the iPod
OK, here’s my crazy idea for the week: Microsoft should update the firmware for the Zune to add podcasting support, then cut a deal with T-Mobile/Starbucks so that every Zune owner within a few yards of a Starbucks would get free wifi access. The pitch? In the time it takes to order a coffee, your [...]
Techdirt Insight Community
I’ve enjoyed knowing Mike Masnick almost as long as I’ve been blogging (I used to work with a guy who was friends with Mike in high school, we got to know each other through Mitch), and I’ve always been impressed with the business he’s built around Techdirt. Most of us in the blogosphere know Techdirt [...]
Search as a leading economic indicator
Bill Tancer’s “latest post”:http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2006/08/unexpected_decline_in_existing.html about Hitwise having advance indications of yesterday’s announcement of a drop in July home sales is fascinating. In short, Bill points out that the National Association of Realtors require 3-4 weeks to put their analysis together, so, even though September’s almost upon us, we’re just now hearing that home sales in [...]
Feeding Geffen
I’m really excited to announce our latest customer over at FeedBurner, “Geffen Records”:http://www.geffen.com/. I wrote about it over on “the company blog”:http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/002773.html, and apparently this new strategy has already lead to at least one “album sale”:http://www.sortanalytics.com/sort/2006/06/takk.html. Sometimes it really is that easy!
Here’s why I think what Geffen’s doing is important: instead of trying to ignore [...]
Survey, take 2
The site survey link is now live, so any of you who regularly read this site, feel free to take a couple minutes and anonymously tell me all about yourself by clicking that link below.
John Zeratsky “shared some details”:http://johnzeratsky.com/archives/001478.php about how I did this. I’m pretty excited by this, as it’s a terrific [...]
On Start-ups
While on the subject of start-ups, some more invaluable links:
* Nick Denton (founder of Moreover, founder and head of Gawker) on “must-have apps”:http://www.nickdenton.org/002173.html#2173 for start-ups
* Ev Williams (Blogger founder, founder and CEO at Odeo) on “ten tips for start-ups”:http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp
* Socialtext’s “Startup Exchange”:http://www.socialtext.net/startup/index.cgi
Great stuff, all around.
Peter Drucker, RIP
I’ve written about Peter Drucker quite a bit in the past: “here”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2001/12/21/beyond_the_information_revolution_.php, “here”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2002/07/16/john_robb_ceos_who_get_technology.php, “here”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2004/05/26/it_innovation_in_the_next_decade.php, and “here”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2005/02/25/the_long_tail_and_km.php. He was the first to understand the concept of a “knowledge worker” (he coined the term), and foresaw the significant ramifications of that evolution. His Wikipedia bio is “here”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker, for those that want to know a bit more about [...]
