Writing

I did not study a lot of science in high school so this reference to mathematics is likely to be my last effort to come up with a model from high school science that sheds light on the evolution of [...]  Read more

I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel on Web 2.0 last week at the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) monthly meeting.It was a fun panel, featuring Dennis Crowley from Dodgeball (now part of Google), Josh Schachter from [...]  Read more

A week ago I stretched my rudimentary knowledge of high school biology to come up with an analogy that, for me, shed some light on web services. Today, I am going to try an analogy from physics which I know [...]  Read more

I wrote a post on my personal weblog several months ago called The Future of Media where I invited anyone to take my content (actually my RSS feed) and do anything they want with it. I suggested that there were [...]  Read more

More and more, the entrepreneurs we see present their business in the context of an ecosystem. This is a healthy development because it acknowledges the complexity of the environments within which start-ups operate today. Technology generally and web services in [...]  Read more

For years, we have been fascinated by the fact that many of the very best startup companies come out of "side projects". They are accidents really. eBay, Google, and Yahoo! are all examples of this mode of starting companies. Delicious [...]  Read more

I posted on my personal weblog about Windows Live and the threats that it may or may not pose to startups working in the web services market the other day.It fostered some good discussion in the comments section of that [...]  Read more