A lot of people have been saying that 2006 will be the year of video over the Internet. Some even think 2006 will be the year that broadcast television is overthrown.
While I agree to some point, here are my specific predictions for what to expect in 2006 with respect to video over […]
Om Malik discussing some of the bundling and network issues I discussed in my Bundling Part I and Bundling Part II posts…
I like to keep this blog mostly work-related, but since we now have a great compilation blog of all the great eBay and industry-related posts at Best of eBay Blogs, I feel like I can add a few personal things here and there…
I was recently discussing a particular poker hand with a friend of mine, […]
Om Malik recently wrote an article for Business 2.0 magazine, in which he discussed “the value of eyeballs.” The point of the article is that over the past 6-8 years, Internet companies have been bought and sold, and if you believe the premise that that a major driver of these acquisitions is users, then […]
Microsoft has announced that they are going to adopt the Firefox icon used to denote RSS feeds in the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7…
Here’s a preview:
For more information — or to download multi-colored and multi-format graphics for the new icon — take a look at feedicons.com…
Along with “Web 2.0,” the big buzz phrase going around technology marketing circles these days is “The Long Tail.” Now, unlike Web 2.0, there is a set of meaningful and useful concepts behind The Long Tail, and since I’ve had a couple people ask me about it recently, I wanted to take a quick […]
eBay today appointed Matt Carey CTO of Marketplaces…
From the Press Release:
“…Matt Carey will join the company as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for eBay Marketplaces, effective February 1, 2006. Carey, who brings more than 20 years of experience to the role, will report to John Donahoe, President of eBay Marketplaces.
As CTO for eBay […]
I’m all talked out about this whole Google/AOL deal, so I’m going to sum up my thoughts with some New Year’s predictions for 2006 and beyond…
- Google will enter into a deeper contractual relationship with Time Warner related to content, and will take full advantage of their new-found relationship with TWX;
- Google will somehow (through […]
I was having a conversation with my boss a couple weeks ago about the future of RSS. He asked me where I thought the technology was going, and where it would be adopted long-term. At the time, I gave the popular answer of, “Are you kidding!?!? It’s the greatest web technology to […]
I’m about six months late with this one, but I played a really interesting hand at this year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) that Phil Helmuth wrote an article about…
This is probably only interesting to you poker geeks, but it was fun making one of Phil’s “Hand of the Week” articles…