Archive for March, 2006
Friday, March 31st, 2006
Susan Crawford: "How did the ICANN meeting go? Progress. Definite progress. We had a good public discussion about transparency...."
ICANN is important. And I know a number of people involved with it (Susan, Joi, Esther, Vint, Elliot) who are well-intentioned, thoughtful, and committed to making it work ...
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Friday, March 31st, 2006
Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels pushses back on blogging advocates Shel Israel and Robert Scoble. As Werner makes clear, Amazon is one company that shouldn't have to defend its commitment to heeding customer feedback. So if he thinks the case for blogging in the enterprise doesn't have enough data ...
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Knowledge@Wharton has posted the first Supernova 2006 podcast, What Makes an Online Community Tick? Knowledge@Wharton is the online business journal of The Wharton School, read by over half a million subscribers worldwide.
The interview is a conversation with Craig Newmark (founder of Craigslist.org), Julie Herendeen (VP of Network Products at ...
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
To answer Halley's question, yes, of course we have a first life. It's called World of Warcraft.
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Plaxo CEO Ben Golub is apologizing on his blog for his company's practices:
To everyone who hated getting Plaxo update messages, felt we were generating acquaintance spam, or otherwise were harmed by the service, I personally apologize on behalf of all of the people at Plaxo.
Believe me, I despise spam. ...
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web has joined Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet Protocol, in speaking out against telcos' plans to violate network neutrality.
As I suspected, though, the telcos are winning on the battlefield that matters.
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
I'm with Catrina. The good time to start a company was when she and Stewart started Game Neverending, which became Flickr -- otherwise known as the depths of the crash. That's when I started Supernova, and when most of the other Web 2.0 darlings (Technorati, Six Apart, Weblogs ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
If, as Scoble suggests, Second Life is an OS, then it's MacOS, to World of Warcraft's Windows.
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Don Park: "What I have seen glimpse of in the game world is the next generation of groupware."
I agree wholeheartedly. Of course, I would, given that Don is a guild-mate of mine in World of Warcraft!
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Saturday, March 25th, 2006
A couple weeks ago, I judged a Wharton business case competition to develop strategic initiatives for Lucent. Well, it looks like the company has chosen a road none of the students proposed -- merging with Alcatel. It's not easy being a telecom equipment vendor in this market.
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