Archive for February, 2006
Friday, February 24th, 2006
As I mentioned in my earlier post, I've started actively playing World of Warcraft (WoW), a massively-multiplayer online game (MMOG). It has been a rewarding experience, going far beyond the entertainment value.
Now, I'm not kidding myself. I play Warcraft because it's fun. It's taking time away from ...
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
Yesterday, I helped judge the Wharton business case competition. This is a program put on by the Wharton Technology Club, in which MBA students analyze a business problem presented by a real company. This year's sponsor was Lucent, which asked the students to recommend a strategic initiative for ...
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
This won't just happen in Europe.
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Marc Canter reports that 45% of eBay's listings come through its APIs.
eBay, Amazon, and Google: three mega-success stories of the dotcom era. What do they have in common? All of them aggressively open up their technical interfaces, allowing other sites to plug into them, or projecting themselves out ...
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Sunday, February 19th, 2006
On Friday, I attended the 5th TechCrunch meetup and Naked Conversations launch party in Silicon Valley. It was a pretty crazy scene: 200-300 Internet entrepreneurs stuffed into the back yard and living room of Mike Arrington's house.
I was pretty thrilled when we partnered with Mike and TechCrunch for this ...
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
This Thursday night, I'm hosting a pre-pre-Supernova party in San Francisco.
Come hang out and network with a collection of technology innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, thinkers, and others. It will be at Cha-Am Thai, near the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Full details and RSVP information are at:
http://www.socialtext.net/snparty
Feel free to ...
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
I just noticed that I sent 5959 outbound email messages in 2005. That's down about 7% from the year before, and substantially below my all-time high of 7300+ in 2001. This is just personal messages typed into my email client, not broadcast invitations or promotional announcements.
Funny, I don't ...
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Thursday, February 9th, 2006
The US Senate held a hearing yesterday on network neutrality. As expected, most Senators supported the idea in theory, but there is little sentiment for any legislation that significantly restricts broadband operators' flexibility. I still maintain that, although we academics still have some things left to say, as ...
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Thursday, February 9th, 2006
So Vonage, the leading hardware-based consumer VOIP company, is going public. Not a surprise whatsoever -- it was just a question of when Vonage would file.
It will be very interesting to see how the IPO does. Vonage has been raising and spending money like a drunken sailor, hell-bent ...
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
President Bush's new budget proposal includes a provision authorizing the FCC to impose "user fees" on unlicensed wireless. This is a dangerous idea, clearly pushed by incumbent licensed wireless operators to dampen competition from innovative new approaches.
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