Umair Haque talks about how a lot of the digital economy is not creating real value - and may be in fact destroying it.  I agree with a lot of the analysis and will extend upon it a bit he …

While looking through facebook and twitter, you actually see some “grey hat” marketing activities going on by some of the more successful companies - e.g. zynga and slide for e …

I think there continues to be a significant opportunity here for both local content creation and/or aggregation - both text based and video based. Given the ease of taking and uploading videos now with the iPhone 3gs as well as other smartphones, the amount of video content (which can also be localized especially given that iPhones have location info) will explode. A …

Wow, for someone in the largely backwards publishing industry, the NY Times really gets it.  They’ve just announced that they will be opening up their data to developers starting wit …

While looking through facebook and twitter, you actually see some “grey hat” marketing activities going on by some of the more successful companies - e.g. zynga and slide for e …

Will the cost of custom hardware become low enough that we will have a long tail? - maybe so if crunchpad proves out. This would mean there would be much more innovation in hardware as the costs of experimentation goes down. We may see the same kind of innovations in hardware that we are seeing in software and the web today.