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Shocked at Apple buying Lala

I was wrong. I told Brad Stone at the NYT that I was 98% certain Apple would not buy Lala for three reasons: 1) Apple wouldn’t be buying them for the streaming licenses, since Apple has better negotiating power to get better deals and these licenses are never transferrable to an acquirer without... more »

Hopping on the Big Data bandwagon

Oracle is in danger.
In 13 years we have gone from 100,000 websites to more than 180 million, with more than 22 billion pages (Google indexes about 15.5 billion of them, maybe more). But this is mostly static data. The pages are made and are then indexed. With the emergence of the real-time web... more »

Some iPhone Gripes, Part 1

I love the iPhone. But it is a work in progress, let’s face it. I wanted to quickly list a bunch of my specific issues with iPhone in the hopes that someone at Apple is listening out there (crazy assumption, I know…). First post of several:

When connectivity is limited and I choose to... more »

How to Monetize Social Networks

As comScore and others have reported, we are spending far more time on social networking sites than on any other sites or web activities today. From eMarketer today:
Time spent on social networking sites is increasing steadily, taking users’ attention away from sites such as portals. According... more »

The Book Industry is in Trouble. But Piracy is Just a Symptom.

Randall Stross has an article in the NYT this morning suggesting that the book industry may soon get “Napsterized” — suffer the disastrous fate of the music industry, all because of piracy. This article performs revisionist history on the explicit actions of the music industry underlying its... more »

The Impact of Social Media on the Enterprise

For decades, companies have been defining the channels their customers must use to contact them. Social media challenges the long-held notion that companies control the conversation. “We are available by phone weekdays from 9am until 4pm Eastern Standard Time” is quickly becoming a thing of the... more »