What's Like Happening to Like Culture?

My partner Albert complained a couple of days ago about the overuse of the word like. Like :-)...

There Is A Reason For Free And It Ain't...

The most intersting thing about Hank Williams post on Friday of last week - Free Is Killing Us -...

artificial scarcity

I have always hated the idea of artificial scarcity. It seems like such a waste of society’s...

Is there a business here?

Lots of folks I know set up standing queries to search for themselves on the web. It explains why...

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what revenue

If you know the revenue model when you start it is not sufficiently disruptive to make a difference

philanthropy has a demand side problem

Kiva and DonorsChose show that the future challenge in philanthropy will be finding and vetting...

A reminder that there are no absolutes

I am a huge fan of the shift to server side applications development. Applications hosted on the...

Secrecy No Longer Works

In an open network like the internet many things get turned on their head. Yesterday an entrepreneur...

There Are No Open Web Services

Let’s start with a definition. A service is open when anyone can take anything (code, data,...

is the net changing people or are people changing the net