SiliconBeat has a nice piece on how Stanford is the center of innovation, and how it attracts a lot of money, and produces entrepreneurs who start companies like Cisco Systems, Yahoo and Google. No wonder with such rich alumni, they are piping Harvard to the … Read More »
Archive for October 2005
GigaOM Frappr has 32 members already. Wow! Come on folks join the fun. Read More »
For last six months, I have been arguing that SBC got a real bargain in AT&T. Not only did AT&T bring to the table a fully modernized network, corporate telecom expertise, but also a company whose operations are on the mend. In the most recent … Read More »
Microsoft’s recent moves to play nice with Yahoo (first on IM and then more recently on an open book project) and Real Networks are part of its efforts to portray itself as a nice cuddly giant, aka Shrek. Of course, by teaming up … Read More »
Congratulations to the Chicago White Sox for their sweep of the Houston Astros in the World Series. Even though the White Sox won all four games in the series I cannot remember a more exciting matchup, with all games very close to the end. How close … Read More »
Matt Homann, Chief Thinking Officer of LexThink, sent me an email to let me know that the BlawgThing 2005 is teaming with Mindjet so the entire conference can be mapped. BlawgThink is a two day conference for legal bloggers in Chicago and will be held November … Read More »
New York Times’ David Pogue is smitten with Olive’s Symphony; funny no comparison with Sonos, the gold standard, Olive’s Symphony is desperately competing with! Read More »
Les Posen sent me a great little email about Garamond font, and Apple’s home page today, featuring Rosa Parks. He also sent me this link, a fantastic story by a former Apple employee, (Mike Evangelist) who recalls that this is not the first time Apple … Read More »
Pinstripes, the other ones win the world series. Congratulations Chicago White Sox fan. Totally cool and totally dominant, proof that fun and championships belong in the same sentence. Hope George is paying attention! Read More »
Nortel is really homeless. Look how the mighty have fallen! Read More »
iPod Killers for Christmas 2005 Part III. Same story, different year, same outcome – they all look to be iPod roadkill. Read More »
Here are two stories of mine in the November 2005 issue of Business 2.0 Taming the WiFi Beast: Home is where the Wi-Fi is. And the more Wi-Fi you get in your home, the bigger the business opportunity becomes. With a raft of new … Read More »
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