Best connectivity is in the Bronx
Absolutely “fantastic article”:http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/sep05/0905nbro.html over at the IEEE website about Urban Telephone and Video, two entrepreneurs who’ve delivered the “triple play” (phone, TV, Internet access) to households in the Bronx for $99/month. (Hat tip: “Techdirt”:http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050907/0152243_F.shtml.) Here are two guys (Doug Frazier and Stuart Reid) who sum up their business strategy with a local saying:
bq. _”An old [...]
Visualizing data
Will “notes”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoxCrow?m=328 that “Style.org”:http://www.style.org/ has some incredibly neat pages that show different ways of visualizing data. I agree.
Kudos to Will, who poked around after I pointed out the attempt at determining the “airspeed of an African swallow”:http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/ (unladen, migratory) and found a “few”:http://www.style.org/stateoftheunion/ “other”:http://www.style.org/iraqielection/ “gems”:http://www.style.org/iowacaucus/. Style.org is the work of “13pt”:http://www.13pt.com, where “Jonathan Corum”:http://www.13pt.com/about/corum.html is [...]
Awe
Awe is the only word to describe the “Huygens probe landing on Titan”:http://www.slate.com/id/2112180/ this past weekend.
bq. !http://www.esa.int/export/images/landing01_S2.jpg!
I thought I was impressed when I heard that “Huygens”:http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMTV82VQUD_0.html had landed. Read the “Slate write-up”:http://www.slate.com/id/2112180/, then imagine you’re the guy pitching this project to his bosses over at the “European Space Agency”:http://www.esa.int/. Just try.
The Long Tail
You ever see a phrase pop up _overnight_ — suddenly it’s everywhere, you have no idea what it means? For me it was last week and it was “the long tail”. I saw it in blogs, I saw it in at least one news item, and someone even referenced it on a phone call.
“The Long [...]
SBC Cingular AT&T Wireless “synergy”
Got a call Thursday night. It was an automated call. “This is just to confirm that your order with SBC has been completed. If you have any questions about this order, you can call SBC Customer Service at 1-800-244-4444.”
I looked at my wife. “Did we order anything from SBC?” “No.”
So I called. How foolish of [...]
Six Not-so-Easy Pieces
Proof of just how powerful Amazon can be: six years ago, I bought a copy of Six Easy Pieces, a book of class lectures by Richard Feynman. Amazon remembered that, and linked to its sequel (of sorts), Six Not-so-Easy Pieces, it put a link at the top of the home page for me. That’s cool.
Feynman, [...]
E-mail as a platform - Why Gmail Will Win
Talking with “Buzz”:http://buzzmodo.typepad.com/ this morning, he reiterated something he’s said to me before: Outlook is a platform. (Others are on this train too: “Anil”:http://www.dashes.com/anil/2004/03/19/outlook_as_a_pl from Six Apart and “Omar”:http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2004/03/20/93095.aspx from the Hotmail team have both written on this subject.)
This is where I think Gmail will head. And all it’s going to take is for Google [...]
IT innovation in the next decade
De-captivating markets is my latest thinking out loud about the subject brought up in the post below. It begins,
I just realized what’s been missing from Clayton Christensen’s rap about “disruptive technologies”: most of his attention is on the customer side of the marketplace. It’s great stuff, but it misses the potentially critical role played by [...]
100 Conversations at Red Herring Spring Conference
I’m headed off to Monterey, California tomorrow to attend the “Red Herring Spring Conference”:http://www.redherring.com/EventsHome.aspx. (It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.) As a sponsor, we’ve set up a Socialtext Eventspace for the event, and look to encourage quite a bit of conversation amongst the Red Herring 100 winners and various attendees. As [...]
Reason proves WYSKster was only sort of a joke
From today’s New York Times, an article on how the print version of the monthly Reason is using personal data on readers in coordination with satellite technology to create magazine covers that picture the neighborhoods of respective subscribers. [beSpacific]
Imagine that — every subscriber is getting a magazine with a picture their neighborhood on the cover [...]
