By Tom Foremski - July 27, 2007
. . . Bad Sinatra IISteve Gilmor and gang:http://www.podtech.net/home/3694/bad-sinatra-ii. . .KISS and tell about the "connected life"John Earnhardt shares a video:Wilson Craig of Cisco's PR team interviews the iconic members of KISS about what the "connected life" means to each of them. They both give surprisingly good answers. And, of course, they are in FULL MAKE-UP!!! At one point it looks like Gene will poke one of Wilson's eyes out with his spikey costume. http://blogs.cisco.com/news/2007/07/kiss_weighs_in_on_the_connecte.html. . . "Love Letter" to AT&T CEO Ed WhitacrePhil Harvey, managing editor over at the excellent Light Reading skewers USA Today's article on retired AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre in which he is described as "the John Wayne of telecom."Phil Harvey says: Contrast ;John Wayne" Whitacre's career with that of BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen. Say what you will about Ben-Hur, he's the one who will leave the legacy of a truly transformed incumbent carrier.Link to: Come On, Pilgrim. . . Insight on the China VortexHere is a promising new blog on China from Paul Denlinger called China Vortex. Paul discusses a recent article at Knowledge@Wharton on "Quality Fade" by Chinese manufacturers, a practice that involves saving money on materials costs.. . . A minute with Tim Ferriss Who are you and what do you do? A Silicon Valley Minute pitch from Tim Ferriss, the author of 4-Hour Work Week.. . . Cooking for StartUps - Where MashUp Is LiteralMatthew Podboy writes: A friend of mine wrote a cook book for start ups. One of the authors, Nick DeMonner, is a serial entrepreneur. While working on his latest venture, BzzyBee, he and his colleagues were faced with the typical start up scenario: limited money, no time and no budget for eating out. So they began to write down recipes they developed along the way. The book is a short, fun summertime read about one aspect of life inside a start up. Nick (the author) and the Bzzybee team are using the book proceeds to generate money for the company….or as I like to say, “To help keep a good idea from starving.”The book was announced this week and can be purchased (hard copy or download) at http://www.lulu.com/content/1019008. . . Profiting from the Subprime MessMellisa Data just launched an online Foreclosure List for the latest foreclosure data.Updated weekly with approximately 35,000 new records from over 1,000 counties, the Foreclosure List identifies properties in all stages of foreclosure (both pre and active foreclosure, and real estate owned to scheduled for auction)www.MelissaData.com. . . What will you do for Peace One Day?This is interesting, because it puts people on the spot. It is a "digiwristband" for an international day of peace: September 21. It asks what is your committment?http://www.peaceoneday.org/Less chatter more action. Let Jude Law explain: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid933119042/bclid933518996/bctid1078602306
Wilson Craig of Cisco's PR team interviews the iconic members of KISS about what the "connected life" means to each of them. They both give surprisingly good answers. And, of course, they are in FULL MAKE-UP!!! At one point it looks like Gene will poke one of Wilson's eyes out with his spikey costume.
Contrast ;John Wayne" Whitacre's career with that of BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen. Say what you will about Ben-Hur, he's the one who will leave the legacy of a truly transformed incumbent carrier.
A friend of mine wrote a cook book for start ups. One of the authors, Nick DeMonner, is a serial entrepreneur. While working on his latest venture, BzzyBee, he and his colleagues were faced with the typical start up scenario: limited money, no time and no budget for eating out. So they began to write down recipes they developed along the way. The book is a short, fun summertime read about one aspect of life inside a start up. Nick (the author) and the Bzzybee team are using the book proceeds to generate money for the company….or as I like to say, “To help keep a good idea from starving.”The book was announced this week and can be purchased (hard copy or download) at http://www.lulu.com/content/1019008
Updated weekly with approximately 35,000 new records from over 1,000 counties, the Foreclosure List identifies properties in all stages of foreclosure (both pre and active foreclosure, and real estate owned to scheduled for auction)
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Richard, you could very well be right... But it seems to me that the chances of pushing through so many changes in regulations and creating private markets has a small chance of succeeding given the level of mistrust towards Wall Street. We don't want to be completely out of SOX, but we need a SOX that isn't such a burden on young companies. It would go a long way towards improving the IPO flo
Tom - Think you have called this one wrong. The SEC under Cox tried to reform SOX. It was likened to "catching javelins from Senators." The recommendations are actually quite clever - they seem to be advocating choice which is what we used to have before Regulation NMS homogenized the market (the NYSE was an auction market back then and NASDAQ was a dealer market). We need more choices to s
Albert, you make a good point but is the point of SIlicon Valley really about the weather? I live in San Francisco and my district has unremarkable weather. I've never heard anyone tell me they come out here for the weather. Surely people come here for the opportunities, the chance to do something on a global scale.
About the Quarterly Results Show Plunging Print : is it god or bad when fell 29.6 percent compared to the period a year earlier ?
I cant believe that they mean it very seriously
"sign of an improving economy and that fourth quarter losses should be lower than in the most recent quarter."
I would it call self-caused :)
La
On that point of the weather, you wouldn't have to worry about Hawaii because it is inconvenient to live so far away from everything else, so the weather is overshadowed by that negative. And if you've ever lived in florida, you'd know that the weather there is utter crap -- always humid with no seasons. Silicon Valley weather is so much better.
Laura, often the embargo is determined by the print side. For example, the New York Times newspaper first run is published at midnight or 9pm Pacific time. That's a common embargo time.
I ditto Diane's comment. I think the issue is really surrounding the emergence of real-time and even uber-short lead times of bloggers and websites that can break the story much quicker than a print outlet can. What's the protocol there?
I've never been able to understand the contradiction of being smart and independent, and yet somehow completely (not just partially) smitten by the dreams and fantasies conjured up in branding. The latter appears to cancel the former. But I may be wrong.
Ktyson: Yes, exactly. Between the two of us we could come up with way more interesting trends and issues than the man helming the world's largest and most interesting Internet company. What the heck is going on?
Thanks Meredith, some excellent points...
"There is more to be gained from developing an unique editorial stance than there is from pressing the publish button a few minutes earlier than anyone else."
I agree. Sam Whitmore talks a lot about this as well, and the point really speaks to a media organization as a business. In PR, we push our clients to differentiate themselves from their competitors... and media companies really a
What about the spread of 3d environments in more normal work and play spaces online?
What about the growing irrelevance (except as annoyance) of operating systems?
What about the replacement of the os with a universally standardized browser functionality?
What about real AI?
What's Google really thinking? Is this presentation of Schmidt's some sort of disinforma
What a joke. His predictions makes Bill Gate's "The Road Ahead" look like the book of Nostradamus.
I will bet that in 5 years, nobody is going to be talking about twitter. (for many different reasons. I have a feeling it's going to be a lot sooner than 5 years) Facebook will be around, but far far fewer people will be using it to the extent they use it today.
A Chinese equival
Mike Arrington is so arrogant. Everyone I talk to doesn't like that guy. Still Arrington walks around like he's a kingmaker. Someone at the web 2.0 conference told me that he treats people like shit and has burned all his bridges.
I recently heard that his partner Jason Calacanis won't even work with him anymore after being his partner for one year. It was also overheard from one
Kirsten, thanks for the update on the German scene. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't see our digital bohos in McDonalds no matter how good the coffee :)
Yes, compete.com is not an accurate count. I know it is very low when I compare it to my server logs. But I'm assuming the *relative spread* between Mashable and TechCrunch is accurate.
I'm suspect of Compete.com having recently compared their traffic data with what was really going on with a client's server logs. So, I went to Quantcast to double check. When I typed in techcrunch.com it got the curious message that the site owner has hidden the data from Quantcast. Interesting...
Controlling immigration to save domestic jobs hasn't been working for a long while. You can just export the factories. And now the Internet does a great job in tunneling through any border barriers.
Yes, increasing our job skills is essential. Learning how to learn is the best skill to have. But you have to keep running ahead of technologies that seek to replace human skills and labor
Harry, yes, the Internet is a great if not the greatest competitive lubricant :) But it also means that few businesses are safe from its effects. Yes, you can continue to scramble up the value-add ladder but surely at some point, there are no more rungs. At some point we will reach a stage that not everyone has to be in a productive job for society to do what needs to be done. Do we create jobs
Good points you are making here. In fact I used to do the same when I was still living in Berlin. We call this phenomenon the digital bohemia ;).
Here in the french countryside I have been cut off this for two years. But now Mc Donalds started to sell decent cappuccino in their restaurants. No Mc Café yet but I saw an amazing shift in those couple of weeks. Before the music they played
Love the post. I've long believed that the Internet devalues everything it can touch. The truth is that as you take the friction out of the economic system pricing goes down - and the Internet is the ultimate economic lubricant. Jeff Bezos becomes a billionaire selling books and Borders teeters on the verge of bankruptcy. Music retailers are toast and iTunes becomes the #1 retailer of music in
for some parts of your article i share your opinion but i think the infrastructure needs an optimization since... ever? or not? but realy cool that someone is starting to revive this stuff
dont click here!
I would hope that instead of trying to stop jobs from being exported, which would be the wrong thing to focus on as that drives competition and efficiency, that we instead focus on retraining people to do more difficult/higher value jobs.: things that make society more productive. We also must be reminded that a job isn't a right...you have to earn it. Keep upgrading your skills, take classe
Yes, the Internet enables huge amounts of value, I don't dispute that. But it also disrupts large numbers of businesses and jobs also. I'm interested in how our society will deal with that aspect of the Internet. And as for immigration laws, they exist because they protect jobs. What other reason is there? Since that's the case, won't there be some attempt to control the loss of jobs due to the
We are well into that golden age. The list of companies not devalued by the Internet is huge: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, EMC, Cisco, NetApp, Dell, IBM, Oracle, HP, Apple, Salesforce, Facebook, Samsung, eBay and on and on. The list is almost endless. Yeah...the content world is being disrupted, but business models are not guaranteed. They evolve over time, are destoryed, or they thrive. But to sa
The question this surfaces for me is how the onslaught of real-time, narrowcasting (read: one-to-one tweeting) changes the entire embargo paradigm, which is based on the established framework of sequenced broadcasting.
I am quite sure that Google can save newspapers, if they themselves are prepared to save themselves!
Google has created perhaps the largest metaphorical ocean and Facebook et al have created 'Countries' amidst those seas and as sure as Apple and Microsoft dominate operating systems, this landscape is almost certainly irreversible.
The Newspapers have resisted this by trying to c
Yes, there is tremendous value in talented journalists but look at the New York Times and its struggles to monetize the value its journalists create. Also, many of the "new" media sites are just barely making it and their costs of doing business are so much less than the NYTimes. Clearly, there will have to be other ways to pay for the things our society needs, which in this case is a vibrant m
Azeem, I agree with you that the Internet creates huge amounts of value but - we don't all get to share in the value created. Disruption is good. But at some point, not very far from now, we will be able to produce the vast majority of the products and services we need, for a fraction of the cost, and they will be many factors better than what was before. What happens when only, say, 10 per cen
