Category Archives: Information

From Vladimir’s Blog

Image by ulterior epicure via Flickr So this was a comment I posted on Vladimir’s, a very nice Young Man’s blog, about the fragmentation of the food industry. I was thinking about it recently anyway because right before my younger and only Brother had gone to college*, my only living grandparent had taken us out [...]
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Techstars Boulder 2009 Roundup: Next Big Sound, Take Comics pt1, Everlater, and Losing Facebook Connect Virginity

Image via CrunchBase So as usual, we’re overdue for a roundup.  Earlier, we heard about TechStars 2009.  There are already summaries of the products available, mainly at Techcrunch, and few at Fred Wilson‘s.  But we like doing reviews here.  So we are.
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Someone asked me about Second Life

Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life.  I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual [...]
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The Matryokshka Doll Principle

Image by Jeff Belmonte via Flickr The Matryoshka Doll Principle, Chinese Box Design, however you would call it. This principle will be a guiding force for the rest of your career.  It forces you into a quality product.  I see it all the time in products, particularly tech products that we all crave, as a [...]
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The Artist’s/Coder education: Blind Contour

Image via Wikipedia I wanted do a series about the art of design, rather than the more practical humdrum side. Most people find it very difficult to think creatively this way.  It takes a lot of practice, beyond native intelligence.  It is not a matter of just knowing how the facts work, but also a [...]
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A Brief History of the Last Two Times Newspapers Dealt with Tech

Image via Wikipedia As a medium of outward bound communication, Newspapers are about as old as the book.  The first agreed upon Newspaper was the Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, published in 1605 by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg, not much later than the invention of the Gutenberg Press , somewhere between 1439 and 1450 [...]
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A Precursory Look at Reed’s Law

Image by Getty Images via Daylife So for the past few days, on Fred Wilson‘s blog, there have been comment after comment about what to about, well comments. A good deal of this has to do with what to do with Newspapers in the Internet ecosystem, and their relationship to their readers, especially as their [...]
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Ring! Ring! Ring! Government-Phone!

In one of those odd sort of moves that I suspected for a while, Verizon is moving to cut its exclusive contract with cell phone makes (such as LG and RIM) to six months.
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Convergence and Divergence of the Flip

Image by Boyan Yurukov via Flickr Someone I was friendly with in college posted this link (http://bit.ly/15oAMt), from his Digg to Facebook. In it, is a whole analysis of whether, as shown by the IPhone 3GS, phones will also start converging into point-and -shoot camcorders, ala the Flip, owned by Cisco. A closer look around [...]
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The Price of Freemium

A number of links are now floating about the Internet about Malcolm Gladwell‘s review of Free, the book by Wired Editor-In-Chief Chris Anderson.  Another review, in the Financial Times, by John Gapper, also does not come out so strongly in favor of the economics advocated by Anderson. The reviews are essentially critiques of the Freemium [...]
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