1 month ago
deusx : No Opera Mini for the iPhone | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com - Yikes. This is really making me hope that Android or Palm linux phones grow up fast. "It seems that the engineers at Opera developed a version of Opera Mini that would run on the iPhone (and the iPod touch), but this browser will never see light of
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Competing Against Open Source - “Divide and conquer,” says Haim Mendelson, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers Professor in the Graduate School of Business. Commercial firms, he says, have three levers to gain competitive advantage when they compete with a free product: Timing, p
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5 month ago
Richard Rutter : Penguin Design Award - Judging covers for “On the Road” .
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Linkorama : Google, Zen Master of the Market - The direct effects, he says, include software document formats and technology standards that are owned by one company and that are incompatible with a rival’s technology. The indirect effects, he adds, include large numbers of users, the ability to lear
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7 month ago
jonhicks : The Wanborough Scarecrow Trail - This is the sort of thing that should be in the book "Bollocks to Alton Towers". Awesome work.
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9 month ago
Linkorama : The end of software… - As the old saw goes: we live in interesting times.
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Linkorama : Google Sites the Next Sharepoint? - Maybe Not....Why Google Apps Could Lose the Enterprise Market - ReadWriteWeb
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10 month ago
Linkorama : IBM's fight over Web 2.0 will dwarf past clashes against Microsoft - IBM/Lotus this week shifted into high gear its integration, social software and unified communications story as it prepares for a Web 2.0 scuffle that likely will dwarf its past e-mail clashes against Microsoft.
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11 month ago
adamrg : Burton encourages Poaching... slopes. - Burton puts a bounty on the last four ski slopes that are "skiier only." Sick 'em.
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13 month ago
Linkorama : IBM, Microsoft, SAP lag behind on Web 2.0 - "Right now I'm seeing a clear preference toward smaller vendors," says Rob Koplowitz, an analyst at Forrester. "Generally speaking the big vendors are playing catch up, and the big vendors have a deployment model that is not very attractive
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19 month ago
Linkorama : Dog Eat Dog - Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson warned: Industries that buy a lot of technology are becoming as cutthroat as those that produce technology
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20 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Microsoft is Dead - Microsoft is Dead: I love it when Paul stirs the pot. :-)
Linkorama : Microsoft is Dead - In a bubble people have no fear, in a conversation bubble less so
François Nonnenmacher : Microsoft is dead - By Paul Graham
nelson : Microsoft is Dead - It's not quite true, but it's a good essay
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21 month ago
Linkorama : Has Open-Source Lost its Halo? - Is open-source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry?
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23 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Winner-Take-All: Google and the Third Age of Computing - Winner-Take-All: Google and the Third Age of Computing: "Google is not your competition, Google is the environment. Online businesses which struggle against this new reality will pay opportunity costs both in online advertising revenue as well as pro
Linkorama : Winner-Take-All - Great analysis of Google's dominance of search and ads, but couldn't either be dominated by a player whose core business is neither?
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deusx : Take me out to the 'Counter-Strike' | Tech News on ZDNet - "There are leagues, coaches, pep talks, uniforms, corporate sponsors, loyal fans and spectators perched in stadium-style seating."
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25 month ago
Linkorama : Liberating Wikipedia in China (almost) - "Marxism-Leninism fails to compete in a knowledge economy, where markets are conversations," he says. "When the world's greatest source of free knowledge cannot be accessed, the long-term impact must be considerable."
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Linkorama : Socialtext steals #1 - Well, the wiki seems to have kicked ass and taken names. Socialtext came from behind to beat facebook and steal the bowling 2.0 title.
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Linkorama : Software's Perfect Storm - These companies must assess a potential double threat: at the top, vigorous challenges by the mega-vendors bent on further consolidating the market; and at the bottom, disruptive challenges by software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers or open source vendors
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30 month ago
Linkorama : Spray and Fray - There is a lot of interesting truth in this post by Tom Foremski
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31 month ago
Andy Baio : Crushing Competition - tax preparers lobby to make California taxes more difficult to prepare [via]
deusx : Wired 14.05: Posts - "If figuring out your taxes were easy, why would anyone bother to hire H&R Block?"
Rod Begbie : Wired 14.05: Crushing Competition - Tax preparation companies in California are lobbying against simple tax forms. Unbe-fucking-lievable. [via] #
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32 month ago
Linkorama : In Silicon Valley, a Man Without a Patent - "The moral of the story is that for a long time now the patent system has been misused," said Mitchell D. Kapor
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Buying eyeballs - What Gates is saying - and it will not be music to Google's ears - is that there's too much profit right now in online advertising.
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Telco Thinking - Three years ago we used to have this as the focus of conversation. Sadly, this threat is of little interest when busy with W2.0, even though it might end it.
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Just Googling It - Is Striking Fear Into Companies - New York Times
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38 month ago
Linkorama : Defining the competition - Last week, someone using a computer with an Internet address assigned to American Airlines edited Wikipedia to describe Southwest Airlines Co. as "a notoriously litigious company constantly seeking to change laws to gain an advantage." The phrases were de
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