A historical collection of our writing.
Apparently some of the early television shows were essentially “filmed radio” (I know I have heard this quote a number of times, but of course right now I don’t seem to be able to find a link on google). In other words instead of developing a format native to the new medium, things got started […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Yesterday was an impressive day in tech news. Here are three announcements that caught my attention: I believe that each of these is important in their own right (and they may make it into their own blog posts). But what is mostly on my mind is how much is changing and how quickly that change […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
As I wrote last year, I am not a fan of the reasoning behind taking the Large Hadron Collider into operation. If you have followed this story, then you know that last fall, the attempt to start experiments failed with a meltdown of some magnets causing a significant delay. Then this summer, there […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
In yesterday’s “Dealbook” column in the New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote that Goldman Sachs is headed for record bonuses and is thinking about making a $1B charitable contribution as a way to deflect criticism. That to me seems to fall far short of what they should do. First, a one-time […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
We recently wrote about our search for native mobile applications, which we defined as applications that simply were not possible previously (as opposed to making something that already exists online accessible via mobile). We have also long been interested in gameplay (Zynga and Heyzap) and in […] Read more
Online casual games are a large and rapidly growing form of entertainment. According to Comscore over 85 million people play casual games every month in the US alone and minutes spent playing grew a staggering 42% from 2008 to 2009. Casual games originated as downloadable PC games. Based mostly on […] Read more
