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It is as if somehow someone was listening… only yesterday I was wondering if there was someone who could step into the void left by TiVo’s move towards advertising and offer a pure-play DVR that does “ad-skipping” well and is as easy to use as well TiVo. The answer just might be in Cupertino! Think [...]

Just like that the four day weekend is gone. The respite from writing, emails and phones is over. The upside is that I won’t have to see the gross commercialization of argyle. Downside, same triple digit torrent of emails and blog posts. Not complaining though, the NNW is still showing over 1500 unread posts. I [...]

Apple is offering a new software that promises to optimize and add a little zest to your broadband connections. The software called Broadband Tuner , “increases the default values for the size of the TCP send and receive buffers. With larger buffers more data can be in transit at once. A startup configuration file is [...]

How much do you think Slashdot is worth? Or Nick Denton’s Gawker Media or TheFaceBook or Boing Boing? You can find out the answers here… in my latest Business 2.0 story, The Return of Monetized Eyeballs. A sharp rebound in the online advertising market, and big media companies like AOL (a division of Time [...]

There has been a lot of talk about Google and Yahoo competing with the VCs. Well, here is my story from the latest issue of Business 2.0: Google versus The VCs.
Google’s sales pitch to the startups is simple: Come work for us, score some Google shares, and see your big idea rolled out to [...]

The Wall Street Journal is talking about the recent craze for Beta only products jump started by Google aka “king of beta.” I am sure there are a lot of people who think it is a good thing, but to me it represents a malaise no one talks about: lack of focus and intimate knowledge [...]