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Cloud Computing & Recession?

Posted on November 02, 2008
I often "wax poetic" about the power of enabling technologies with respect to exploring revenue opportunities that were simply out of reach in the past for most small to medium size businesses. I remain a believer. We use these technologies...

The Next Frontier(s) of Search?

Posted on September 11, 2008
Link: Marissa Mayer Clarifies: Search Is Only 10% Done, Not 90%. I agree with Marissa's clarification. Search is just getting started, and so is the web (i.e. It is Still Early in Web Years). The future will continue to surprise,...

Self Powered Data Centers in the Ocean?

Posted on September 08, 2008
Link: Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com. OK so I have somewhat of a Google fixation but really, this is one of the most incredible ideas I have ever...

Google is God or Not?

Posted on September 07, 2008
Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Omnigoogle. I like this "complements" based economic analysis that Nick uses, it has a certain elegant appeal. But I do not believe it is the entire story, only the foundation for a much...

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Don't Look to Academia!

Posted on September 06, 2008
Link: MediaShift . Embedded at NYU::Old Thinking Permeates Major Journalism School | PBS. This post presents a more general point that highlights why "to get the Internet you have to live online." Many academics simply do not understand just how...

Chrome: the UI for the cloud!

Posted on September 02, 2008
Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The cloud's Chrome lining. Google has decided to take matters into its own hands with its Chrome browser, and rightfully so. It needs to control its own destiny and transform the cloud from something...

Reading Online: Is it really different than paper?

Posted on June 14, 2008
Link: How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine. The answer appears to be yes. I recently participated in panel discussion at RealComm entitled: "The Future of IT: Social Networking & Beyond." The question that I took...

Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check

Posted on June 13, 2008
Link: Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check - GigaOM. The numbers are starting to reflect what common sense makes obvious--there are only so many Facebook's & MySpace's that the known universe will suffer. This space will quickly consolidate but that...

Twitter

Posted on June 09, 2008
Link: Futurelawyer: Summize Conversational Search. I am definitely with Rick regarding Twitter. Who has time to follow all these conversations outside of the Tech guys who are able to monetize it because the "conversation" is their business? I have yet...

Change or die?

Posted on June 05, 2008
Link: Strategic Legal Technology :: Investing in Law Firms - Right Now [Interview of Lyceum Capital]. Foreign investments in law firms will drive the transformation of legal industries abroad because it will allow well capitalized firms to make the necessary...

The Singularity?

Posted on June 03, 2008
Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: What we talk about when we talk about singularity. Indeed the singularity may never in fact arise but the movement toward it is what I find of interest. Not only is this idea "conceivable"...

Amazon & Goolge: Scale is Mission Critical

Posted on June 01, 2008
Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Understanding Amazon Web Services. Nick makes a great point here. Scale is mission critical for Amazon & Google and therefore they have to get it right in order for their core business to survive....

Smart Buildings & Ideas that Scale

Posted on May 31, 2008
Link: Twitter: Don?t blame Ruby, blame Scoble » VentureBeat. Clearly the ability to scale an app to a "massive" number of users is a problem for a startup. You don't have the luxury to see that far ahead when what...

Google v. Everybody Else?

Posted on May 30, 2008
Link: Obama Spent Most of $3.5 Million This Year on Google - ClickZ. Need more convincing that Google should be the primary, if not ONLY, focus of PPC for online entrepreneurs? The Obama campaign spent over 80% of its online...

Lawyers & Process

Posted on May 28, 2008
Link: Strategic Legal Technology :: Measuring Lawyer Quality. Ron has a couple of excellent posts here regarding lawyers and process issues. It seems like, despite how legal services are sold, that there is relatively little process (read quality assurance) that...

Online: This is not your father's Chevy!

Posted on May 26, 2008
Link: Why Traditional Advertising Formats Fail On The Web - Publishing 2.0. Scott does a great job in this post of illustrating why most online advertising doesn't work. Only Google has cracked the code by tying ads to utility value...

Gilligan's web?

Posted on May 14, 2008
Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Gilligan's web. I am not certain that I buy this "liberation mythology" argument. It certainly raises some interesting points but Clay's argument is not quite as "simple minded" as portrayed here. Sure there is...

Open Source Law?

Posted on May 08, 2008
Link: Harvard Law School goes open access! - Boing Boing. Why shouldn't the masses be free to read the best in legal scholarship right along with the elite few? This is an important step on the part of Harvard Law...

Identity. Context. Presence.

Posted on May 06, 2008
Link: At Rearden Commerce, Addiction is Job One ($100 Million Round Confirmed, Major Deal With JPMorgan Chase). Think that "Web 20 like" apps are not going to have an impact on enterprise computing? Think again. Point and click ease of...

Lawyers: Risk Aversion = Missed Opportunities

Posted on May 05, 2008
Link: Strategic Legal Technology :: Risk Aversion and the Failure to Consider Alternatives. This little snippet is indicative of why many law firms will be slow to leverage the Internet in an aggressive way. It seems that lawyers are mostly...

Darkside of SaaS?

Posted on May 04, 2008
As we move more and more of our computing to the cloud one thing will become painfully obvious. It is not the service provider with the coolest interface or lowest cost that will win. It is the provider that can...

Super Blogger Makes TIME 100

Posted on May 01, 2008
Link: Michael Arrington - The TIME 100 - TIME. Is this is a sign of things to come? No. Blogging (and new media in general) have completely transformed journalism. It is game, set & match. It has been for awhile....

Tim Berners-Lee reads Web-tones?

Posted on April 30, 2008
Link: BBC NEWS | Technology | Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee. Well not really, but he does agree with me that it is still early in web years. Even though what we have seen so far is amazing, even despite...

SaaS is a no brainer!

Posted on April 29, 2008
Link: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: McKinsey surveys the new software landscape. The software as a service model is a "no brainer" and it is not surprising that McKinsey is finding growth. Just about all the trend reports I read...

Long arm of the law?

Posted on April 29, 2008
Link: Malware gets a EULA - Boing Boing. Here even the bad guys are trying to control downstream uses of their stuff. Of course, for obvious reasons, illegal activity will not be protected under any doctrine where the subject matter...

Brave New Internet(s)

Posted on April 28, 2008
Morgan Stanley?s March Internet Trends Report: Social Applications Dominating: It looks like social networking is certainly not a "fad" if these numbers are reliable. One extremely interesting data point is the non-US growth that is occurring. It remains to be...

Content Ownership Showdown!

Posted on April 27, 2008
Sports Blogging: Yeah this controversy is probably headed for the Supreme Court. Why? Well because big money is on either side of the "v" and the issue needs addressing. Professional sports organizations are concerned with the sports media using too....

Mac v. PC

Posted on April 26, 2008
Rick Georges, Futurelawyer & Godfather: I should have known this was coming. Where is Grant Griffiths when I need him? Rick has a good point and made his case (quite eloquently I might add) in a recent article in the...

Looking for inspiration?

Posted on April 25, 2008
Check out the 212 Movie! This is one of the best pieces I have seen on these Internet(s) ever. I have been surfing for quite some time, before Netscape; before Mosaic. This short piece is phenomenally well done and quite...

Switching Costs

Posted on April 24, 2008
I have made the decision to go the darkside and am switching to the Mac. I am excited about it? No. Are there legitimate business reasons for making the move? Yes. But I have to keep telling myself it will...

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