“The Difference Between Sense And Nonsense: Trying To Make Sense Of Microsoft’s Facebook Deal”

October 25, 2007

As usual, Mike nails it. In marked contrast, the ‘sphere is full of puffery and nonsense today, as legions of tech bloggers pander to their tech-biased readers. The geeksphere is getting less interesting by the hour.

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“Too much face(book) time”

October 23, 2007

Doc Searls’ post on this is about the 20th post I’ve read recently expressing dissatisfaction with the Facebook experience for one reason or another. I’m barely on Facebook any longer. Early adoption works both ways, I think. We’re going to see more of this. We did already, actually – in Bubble 1.0.

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Verizon Redefines ‘Fast’ With Groundbreaking FiOS Internet Service Featuring 20 Mbps Download and Upload Speeds

October 23, 2007

Sigh.

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“Free My Phone”

October 22, 2007

What a terrifically lucid and compelling piece by Mossberg on carrier control and locked cel phones.

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“Rogers Portable Internet bait and switch”

October 20, 2007

From Alec – a nightmare with Rogers Portable Internet.

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Why I Know Feedburner Stats are Farkakteh

October 20, 2007

For those who check their feedburner suscriber estimates on a daily (hourly?) basis: during the last 3 or 4 months, which I’ve mostly taken off from blogging, my subscriber base has grown by 25%, according to Feedburner.

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“The business case for TimesSelect”

October 20, 2007

From Nick Carr, commentary of a study of online media that suggests that free would not have been the right strategy for online news at the outset. Gist: Gentzcow concludes that a newspaper’s print edition and its web site are substitutes rather than complements – the site cannibalizes, rather than promotes, the paper edition. The […]

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“Do powerful men in suspenders reprice their stock options?”

October 18, 2007

Yet another web biz free-fall story that was blindingly obvious from the beginning, or should have been to investors, in any event. DeCloet takes a closer look at JumpTV.

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“Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again”

October 17, 2007

As this round of “Bigger Fool” Musical Chairs gets underway, it’s kind of fun to spot the first seller to argue that a ‘New Paradigm’ is in play, changing traditional valuation rules. Careful though, they’re tricky, and you may be so dazzled by the superficial appeal of the argument that when the music stops you’re […]

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“Top Yahoo executive faces Congressional scrutiny”

October 17, 2007

I wonder if it occurred to the Globe that its AP story on Globeandmail.com titled “Top Yahoo executive faces Congressional scrutiny”, which is under a photo of Jerry Yang and subtitled “CEO Jerry Yang asked to explain allegedly false testimony about China human rights case”, shouldn’t have waited to the body to explain that the […]

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Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote

October 17, 2007

Whatever you think of the merits of denouncing Turkey by describing its treatment of Armenians as a genocide, isn’t one obvious response for Turkey to denounce the US by describing its treatment of Native Americans as a genocide?

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“Chretien’s Revenge”

October 15, 2007

Although I’m a life-long Liberal, I was happy when the Tories came to power – under Chretien the Liberals had become accustomed to power, and had grown self-indulgent and mediocre. And I’d never been impressed with Mulroney or his government. Frankly, I’d always believed that both Mulroney and Chretien saw themselves more as Kings than […]

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