Once a monopoly, always a monopoly?

by DavidDecember 12, 2009

Many people in technology hate the thought of government regulation. We do a better job policing ourselves than to have bureaucrats who don’t understand what we do regulate that which they don’t understand, not to mention if politicians start to make deals about completely unrelated issues to get it passed. This is the first of [...]

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iPhone is a Hot Cheerleader / Android is a Nerd

by DavidDecember 7, 2009

Kara Swisher wrote about how she thought one of the latest Verizon Droid ads was bashing women and gays. Uh, no, not really. Maybe I’m the target. I love my G1 and would switch to Droid if it had a better thumbpad. I absolutely love the other Verizon ads. “There’s an app for that” and [...]

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Does Google’s Chrome OS mark the end of Microsoft?

by DavidNovember 19, 2009

A lot is being written about next year’s Google’s Chrome OS bringing the end of Microsoft… and for good reason.
Craigslist has revenue of $100 million. That’s amazing for such a small company. What’s more amazing is that Craigslist is pretty much all that is left of the $4 BILLION classifieds business. By giving most of [...]

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Poaching from DealTaker

by DavidNovember 12, 2009

DealTaker launched an interesting Twitter tool: @couponbot. If you reply (OK, it’s not really a reply but if you start a tweet with an @, it’s considered a reply) to @couponbot with a store name, you get up to 10 return tweets with links to pages on DealTaker that may have a coupon you are [...]

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Community Intervention: Twitter.com finally gets the RT

by DavidNovember 6, 2009

One of the great things about Twitter is that the community doesn’t wait for Twitter Inc. to get it. The community creates the conventions it needs. For instance, the RT has been around for it seems all time in the Twittersphere. I recently criticized Twitter Inc. for not updating its site in ages and soon [...]

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Yahoo’s Paid Inclusion is being killed

by DavidOctober 15, 2009

I just received the call informing me that Yahoo has decided to kill Paid Inclusion (originally Inktomi) on December 31, 2009. This isn’t a surprise to anyone who has been watching Yahoo’s failure in search. With Microsoft taking over Yahoo’s search for the next 10 years (did Carol Bartz really sign that deal?!?), there was [...]

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Twitter is Worth $2 billion (in 140 Words or less)

by DavidOctober 12, 2009

Last week I wrote that I think that Twitter is not worth the $1 billion valuation that it received last month in its latest round of funding. That analysis was based on the simple fundamental of top line revenue… and Twitter’s complete lack of it today and apparent lack of it any time in the [...]

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The Death of the Sidekick

by DavidOctober 10, 2009

T-Mobile today announced that the Microsoft/Danger lost all personal data of Sidekick users that was stored on its servers. Ah, life in the storm cloud.
I was a longtime Sidekick user. I migrated from the original Sidekick to the Sidekick 2 to the Sidekick 3 to the first Sidekick LX. When my LX was on its [...]

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Tweet Repeat & the Self Retweet

by DavidOctober 8, 2009

I’ve limited the number of people I follow on Twitter. I just passed 150 and it seems like too many. I’m sure it’s time to look at desktop apps or other websites to help me manage my Twitter reading but I usually read on my G1 with Twitdroid (agreed to be the best Android Twitter [...]

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Twitter is a river… and the levees may burst

by DavidOctober 6, 2009

There have been myriad articles written recently about why Twitter is or is not worth the $1,000,000,000 valuation it just received in its latest round of funding (10% for $100,000,000 in case you missed it).
[Note: As a Twitter neophyte I wrote about my first impressions upon tweeting and why I think you should try Twitter [...]

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