Monthly Archives December 2007

I believe in the wisdom of the crowds

Apparently Google does too. Enter Knol. It is new google wiki….although nowhere in the article do they actually mention the word wiki at all, even though it’s now standard. Here is the comment I left at the techcruch article (there’s a screenshot!)
Please note that the original google blog post dose not mention the word “wiki [...]

Netflix Angers Post Office

Non digital things hardly scale. Netflix’s growth is it’s own pain(or the post office’s in this case), no matter how efficient they are they are bound to find bottlenecks in dvd deliveries. The inevitable future of movie rentals is online(are you listening Steve?). A couple of years from now, I hope to be writing about [...]

Being Open Pays: NYTimes Traffic Spikes

comScore is reporting that NYTimes.com has gained 7.5 million reader since August. Just more proof that being open pays. Subscriptions are a thing of the past thanks to really good advertising networks. Now once again I plead the WSJ.com to open their walls and do a facelift for their sites (so last bubble). Sending email [...]

Dell Turns to Xerox to help fight Apple

Why do companies companies insist on copying products and not the art of innovation?
As Dell and Gateway continue to get hammered by Apple, they turn to copying products rather than coming up with some of their own. In this case it’s the iMac again. I kind of feel sorry for big companies since they [...]