A historical collection of our writing.
Fred WilsonThe web has been largely a silent affair for its first fifteen years. Part of this is that the music industry has struggled with the web and what it means for its business model. Part of it is that podcasting and other forms of talk on the web have not yet gone mainstream. And the […] Read more
I ended yesterday’s post by saying that I would write about potential solutions to the global namespace problem for people (parts 1 and 2). So here we go with a post on what seems to be happening (to be followed by a final post on possible alternatives).The de facto solution for an increasing […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Fred WilsonThis is a followup post from yesterday's one on RSS. Two things I want to add. There is now an RSS feed just for MBA Mondays. It is available in the AVC RSS page. But for all of you who want to separately subscribe to MBA Mondays, here is the MBA Mondays feed. There's your […] Read more (opens AVC in a new tab)
Yesterday, I started a short series of posts on the global namespace for consumer web services. My quick and highly unscientific survey of readers showed a surprisingly high usage of usernames based on real names. I suspect that to be highly skewed by the audience for my blog.An important historic […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
Lou Reed wrote this line (my favorite lyric ever) in the context of relationships (I think). But it’s much more applicable than that.Ideas for new businesses are amazing, wonderful, creative things. What makes ideas so interesting is that they are unbounded by limits – they operate solely in the […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
I have been thinking a lot recently about the global namespace for people. My thoughts on this are far from settled and there are a lot of them, so I have decided to break this up into a bunch of different posts.When I was growing up near Nuremberg, Germany, I often had my last name […] Read more (opens Continuations in a new tab)
