e-philanthropy
There are so many ways to help those in need. I wrote a story called e-philanthropy just over ten years ago — posted below. The number of developments on the Internet since then would have been unfathomable back then. I remember Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley giving a presentation about eBay back then and have […]
Nook Epilogue
I got “Kindlized” in March 2008. Two years later I got “nooked”. The “e-book” idea — replacing the paper book with something electronic — has been around for three decades but it is really taking hold now. Over the years there have been various “e-book readers” introduced and now we are seeing a flood of […]
Nook
I first got “Kindlized” in March 2008. Now, nearly two years later I have been “nooked”. The “e-book” — replacing the paper book with something electronic — is not a new idea. Project Gutenberg started in 1971 and has a collection of more than 30,000 books which have been digitized. Digital books can be read on a […]
DEMOfall in San Diego – 2009
There was a short overnight in Telluride with some friends and then on to San Diego for DEMOfall. Demo continues to be my favorite conference — the semi-annual event attracted nearly 600 attendees. The Demo conference allows entrepreneurs to show off new gadgets, software, hardware and business ideas and enables the press, analysts, investors, and […]
iPhone – Update No. 17
I am sticking to my story — the iPhone is fantastic. There are issues but Apple seems to be addressing them and has transformed the iPhone from a cool device to a major platform is just two years. The primary change in their strategy is that Apple came to realize that the iPhone is much […]
