Here's the state of play as I see it: it is expensive and difficult to borrow and this shows no sign of change; the US debt is rising instead of falling, propelled by the Iraq War and the reliance on ...
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I talk a lot to people who don't quite understand the scale of the media shift from bits to atoms, so I always have my eyes open for numbers and anecdotes that illustrate the point.The latest I found ...
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DonorsChoose is having their annual Blogger Challenge. O'Reilly's blog network hat is in the Technology Blog category along with Fred Wilson, AllThingsD, BoingBoing and Techcrunch. Let's see whose rea...
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The Internet changes the power relations between companies and customers.Social technologies like blogs, social networks, ratings and reviews etc. allow customers to share experiences; good and bad to...
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Apple has dropped the NDA covering the iPhone SDK. Developers will now be able to discuss how they develop for the iPhone. This was one of the biggest complaints developers (and technical publishers) ...
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Tele Atlas is going to start selling Tomtom speed profile data. This is the first sign of the acquisition having an impact on customers and potentially the geo-data market. The speed profile data is q...
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The official word is out, OSCON 2009 will be moving from Portland, Oregon to San Jose, California. We've received significant positive feedback on the move, and messages of welcome from Bay Area open ...
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I had a powerful conversation recently in Europe with one of the top executives of a major industrial company. They have 100K+ employees in over 50 countries. When he joined five years ago their busin...
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In my keynote last week at Web 2.0 Expo New York, I made the comment that, cool as Dell Ideastorm is, the fundamental supply-chain approach behind dell.com is actually a better example of how Web 2.0 ...
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Wednesday night in Wellington is a lot more exciting when the New Zealand Open Source Award ceremony is on! The Minister for Communications and Information Technology, David Cunliffe, made a brief spe...
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In case you missed them in Jim's post on Ignite Philly II, there are two great 5m talks on education online that you should really check out.Mark Yim: Engineering Education and the GRASP Lab is really...
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Last May, Tim O'Reilly posted a piece on whether or not Adobe was worried about the new threat to their dominance in the RIA space by the introduction of Silverlight from Microsoft.In a nutshell, the ...
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Yesterday at PICNIC Nike Techlab's Michael Tchao gave a great talk on their history of integrating technology and sports. Right now Nike (and Michael) is leading the exercise industry with its NikePlu...
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I had a great time Tuesday night at Johnny Brenda's for Ignite Philly II.The event opened with Josh Kopelman's talk on entrepreneurship (including some timely remarks about the relative security of wo...
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Today at PICNIC, Violet announced that it is releasing a mass-market RFID reader. The Mir:ror will connect to your computer via USB. It will read RFID tags placed near it and can perform actions based...
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I just read an article entitled Is Google Spreading Itself Too Thin? over at ReadWriteWeb.It repeats the endless canard that Google hasn't built another business yet to rival its initial search franch...
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Here at PICNIC there is a donkey named Asino being led around by a fellow named Christian. The pair have a GPS, solar-panels and a video camera. As they roam around Amsterdam they geotag videos and ph...
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When Apple announced the iPhone SDK last year I said: [...] Jobs makes it clear that the platform won't be completely open. While he says that this is to balance the benefits of an open platform with ...
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Ignite Boston 4 was an interesting and insightful event.We have many things to take away as we plan our next event for January.One of the themes, which was re-crystalized in my mind, was to do work on...
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The Web 2.0 Expo in SF is our largest conference for the web community. It brings together over 10K web professionals to meet in the hallways, attend sessions and keynotes, and explore the Expo floor....
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