The last straw
The multiple issues/scandals/problems facing companies in Silicon Valley could drive you to ask if the wheels falling off the collective tech wagon. A recent article in the DealBook section of the New York Times asks the question, Are we witnessing the end of a mania? Investors, always willing to believe in technology companies, spent the […]
Mark meet Larry
Ok, this is kind of long. Go get a cup of coffee. Amid the anxiety and revelations of the Russia scandal including the Cambridge Analytica story that showed how easy it was to steal 50 million Facebook user profiles, it’s easy to mix up cause and effect. Importantly, Facebook wasn’t hacked or broken into but […]
Should we regulate social?
I was a guest on the Gillmor Gang last Friday hosted by Steve Gillmor and available for streaming on Tech Crunch here. If you’ve never had the pleasure, it’s an hour of discussion at the nexus of technology, business, and current events and well worth seeing. For the last few weeks we’ve devoted time to […]
A long good-bye
I’ve been a user of social media for more than 10 years and I was among the first to write about its potential long before there were social media products. The original research on 5 degrees of separation and the Kevin Bacon game that illustrated the power of social networking fascinated me. I started writing […]
After Davos
Some of the global leaders attending WEF in Davos. The just concluded World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was a time for world political and business leaders to come together to think bigly. But it would be a mistake to think that a confab of leaders would produce the last word on anything though you […]
More Bitcoin
Is Bitcoin just another scam? Why find out the hard way? Bitcoin’s end may be forecasted in its recent price run up (I intentionally didn’t say value because it has no intrinsic value). Late last week the digital currency traded above $20,000 for the first time according to an article in the New York Times. […]
Losing and finding Branson’s virginity
Losing and finding Branson’s virginity Richard Branson, the business icon and entrepreneur extraordinaire is back on the bookshelves with another autobiography, “Finding My Virginity,” which, um, bookends a shelf of previous autobiographies like, “Like a Virgin,” The Virgin Way,” and “Losing my Virginity.” Branson’s appropriation of virginity was mildly shocking once but in these times, […]
A Letter from CRM
In Letters from the Earth written in 1909, rather late in his life, Mark Twain took the voice of the archangel Satan (before the fall) writing home to his peers Gabriel and Michael about a visit to earth to observe the human condition. Satan’s greatest finding and source of consternation was that humans imagined a […]
Getting silly: Oracle, NetSuite deal
According to this story, the fly in the ointment for getting the Oracle acquisition of NetSuite completed is a large institutional shareholder, T. Rowe Price. While I know some people at NetSuite we haven’t been talking and I have not been following the situation very closely. But as an outsider looking in, it seems like […]
Verizon Buys the “Door to the Internet”
Okay, it’s that old entrance that no one really uses anymore, but still, it’s news. I guess that’s not fair, apparently a billion people still go through that door every month including 600M on a mobile device. There was a time when…no, you don’t need another nostalgic post on Yahoo, it’s been done, and done, […]
