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Digital Music is Dead, Long Live Digital Music: The Case for Spotify
Back in the 1990s, there was Napster. I mean, the original Napster not the shadow of a brand that is part of the Best Buy electronics offering. Napster effectively eliminated optical media by making people realize that the digital format was the only long-term, effective, space-saving way of having music that was portable. Sure there…
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Venture Capital Irony, Bubbles and Booms
Late in 2008, after the rest of the economy crashed and burned due to the housing crisis, the tech sector seemed to be fairly resiliant. Maybe it’s the nature of the industry… less money at stake, generally, in tech VC deals than other industries. For instance, Biotech. That all went out the window when Valley-based…
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Ambient Findability
Mobile phones. They are the future. I’ve been saying that for awhile and giving no mulligans to those companies who are not embracing mobile or who are embracing it in a singular fashion (i.e. a company built on an iPhone app). Most of us use iPhones, Android devices or Blackberries. Maybe a few odd people…
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The Web Is Passing Most of You By… And You are Asleep
Usually when Dave McClure, Angel Investor and Hustler, has something to say on his blog, it is said with passion, drama, and a pinch of angst. But he’s almost always right and he makes you believe it in the end with unequivocal points and thoughts. Because this post is so utterly important and I firmly…
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Twilio: Phone API – Web Service for building Phone Applications
Twilio: Phone API – Web Service for building Phone Applications.
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The iPhone is to Smartphones as IE6 was to Browsers
A few years ago when Apple stormed on the scene with their new, revolutionary phone that they called the iPhone, a moment in history occurred that would change the mobile space. It suddenly became possible for rich web browsing from a mobile phone. It became possible to listen to music in a natural way on…
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The Best Business Smartphone Available (Today)
Chances are, if you are reading this blog, then you have some affinity to technology and that you’re in the business of technology (whether directly, or using technology to do your job – and I don’t mean having a computer on your desk at work). This is a pretty tech-savvy crowd around these parts so…
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Mobile Apps – Gold in Them There Hills?
For those of us waiting outside the Finnish Embassy earlier this week to get in for Mobile Monday (a.k.a. dcMOMO)””all that was missing was the velvet rope. “œOkay, we’re only going to let 20 more people in””to the rest of you, we’re sorry.” Me lucky. Geez. You’d think it was a not new club. Well,…
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It's a Read/Write/Execute Web and We Just Live In It
I hesitate to put any kind of definition around the versioning of the web. The fact that the internet world has to quantify the differences between the so-called Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is silly at best. However, there is no doubt that there is a vast degree of difference between the web that was…
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Own Your Travel Itinerary with TripIt
In October 2006, a new service appeared on the web that promised to make it easy to manage all the fine travel details of a trip. As a frequent traveler, I signed up for TripIt in November of 2006, shortly after they launched, and have never looked back. The concept is really simple. A traveler…