Media - what is it good for…

Steve Jobs may or may not announce a new iPhone today and that’s important but it almost does not matter because the real power of the iPhone is the SDK and apps that get built on it.  Apple has effectively turned the iPhone into a developer platform and that has a tremendous multiplier effect on the value [...]

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There is a fascinating series of articles about the singularity in latest issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine.  Read them all.  Very interesting.  Intuitively I believe in the possibility of “thinking machines” that exhibit some characteristics of human consciousness.  However, when and how sophisticated these machines will be is very unclear to me.  In terms of [...]

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Adobe and Qualcomm announced a deal today to integrate Flash into the BREW developer platform.  The most significant parts are:

going forward Flash developers can count on Flash being present on Qualcomm powered handsets (most prominently Verizon’s handsets)
that there will be no Flash royalty that handsets will have to pay to include the Flash runtime which [...]

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Saw this on GigaOM.  This software is a killer feature for me.  I have toyed with the idea of buying a cycling computer but this much slicker because I always bring a mobile phone anyway.  All the hardware is built into the phone already so essentially this is just software.  I am sure a cycling [...]

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Live Mesh was introduced yesterday by Microsoft.  It is the brain child of Ray Ozzie and really seems like an out-growth of the work he did with Groove.  At its simplest, Live Mesh is basic file sync.  But another way to think about Live Mesh is as the ultimate P2P platform.  When people think of [...]

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So Yahoo earnings are out and they are a little better than expected.  But you have to think Yahoo tried very hard to beat the expectations pulling all possible levers to make this happen.  If that assumption is true then the real numbers are probably more inline with what the street expected (or worse).  So [...]

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Noticed this week that Wordpress has upgraded to some new version (at least the UI has changed significantly). And it now does not seem to work very well with Safari. Specifically, opening the “link” window gives you an empty window. Any one else notice this? I actually have reverted to using [...]

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So MSFT just turned up the heat on Yahoo and I agree with Henry Blodget that Yahoo has been out maneuvered. I am not sure that there is much left for Yahoo to do unless some other deal gets done in short order. I also think MSFT has already figured out what kind [...]

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Fred Wilson has a post this morning about streaming audio services on the web.  Fred’s point is that streaming music is changing how people listen to and discover music on the web and that this type of use will accelerate.  And I agree with that.  But some fundamental problems still exist with streaming music.  For one the [...]

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Lost in the hubbub about DEMO vs TechCrunch50 is another news item that is getting some press today but not nearly enough by my reckoning.  Basically the study asserts that web influencers don’t really mean that much in the grand scheme of things.  People instead get their recommendations from people they trust, namely their friends.  And this makes perfect sense [...]

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