A historical collection of our writing.
Brad BurnhamYesterday the New York Times ran an Op-Ed piece that led with the collapse of the effort to create a hand-held device for managing the 2010 census. The latest problem is the Census Bureau’s failure— after nearly four years and almost $600 million — to develop a reliable hand-held computer system […] Read more
Google has unveiled App Engine and unlike some other recent Google efforts this one feels fully baked and well thought-out. For starters it includes all the elements that I had identified in my post calling for a new platform, such as a highly scalable DB using a simple storage model that maps well […] Read more
Access to financial markets is fairly open. All it takes is a bit of money to set up a brokerage account and one can start buying stocks. Over the last decade the Internet has further opened up access by letting people trade from home (more recently even without commissions) and putting financial […] Read more
My list of most important apps/products of the last 30 years:*Remote control*MTV circa 1980-84*Curb-side check in*Caller ID*Email*Instant messaging*iPod 80 gig*EZPass*EpiPen*Metrocards on NYC subways*Suzuki method of teaching guitar*Senduit/Rapidshare/yousendit/megaupload etc etc […] Read more (opens Andy Weissman in a new tab)
There was a brief period of time around 1999/2000 when it seemed that B2B marketplaces would rule the world of commerce, but then most of them collapsed. Just go to the URLs for three of the big names from back then Chemdex, e-Steel, or PaperExchange and you will find that they have either […] Read more
Fred WilsonWe are in the middle of a disruptive change in the media landscape brought on by two-way interactive media. No longer do we simply rely on the New York Times for national news, Dow Jones or Bloomberg for business news, Ziff Davis for technology information, or Entertainment Tonight for the comings […] Read more
