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Do newspapers have a shot?

Newspapers’ business model is under severe pressure. We all know that, so I wanted to find out how bad it is by going over to Silicon Valley’s hometown newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, and meeting with Mac Tully, the President and Publisher. It was interesting to hear how the economic...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-03-2008
The future of the blog with Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg is the guy who runs Automattic, which makes WordPress and hosts this blog. Since they are about to come out with version 2.7, I wanted to have a conversation with Matt and pick his brain about the future of the blog. It’s long, but this is one of my favorite interviews, hope you...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-02-2008
Nokia N97: the ultimate Facebook device

Nokia just announced the N97. I got a chance to play with it last night and realized they have built the ultimate Facebook device. Now, I’m sure, lots of you will wonder how it compares to the iPhone. Well, for a Facebook user it isn’t even close: the new Nokia device wins hands down. Why...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-02-2008
Nokia’s touchiest week

We’ve arrived in Barcelona, Spain for Nokia World, a week where Nokia talks to its top customers. When we got here a Nokia executive met me and bragged that the Internet has no clue what they will announce this week. I asked “what about the touch screen cell phone that I’ve seen rumors...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-30-2008
Social network advertising: not your father’s banner ad

When i visited the San Jose Mercury News yesterday, what did we talk about? Advertising and how newspapers were going to make it online. Well, one trend we’re seeing big time is the move to social networks. Facebook alone has more than 100 million people on it. When you add MySpace, Microsoft’s...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-26-2008
Cisco’s new datacenter: does more, lower cost

Let’s say you are a bank, like Washington Mutual, and you’ve been forced to join another bank. What happens to your data center? How do the IT guys left in charge reduce cost? What other things are happening in the data center to squeeze cost out and return investment dollars fast? Well,...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-26-2008
A taxi business in Shanghai, China?

One of the best VCs in the world is Gary Rieschel. He started Softbank and now is EMD at Qiming Venture Partners. When I visited him in China, he took me into a taxi where he showed me one of the businesses he was investing in. Cool conversation about China enterpreneurship too. As to China, I’m...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-24-2008
Outlook for social media messaging inboxes

Fuser is something I took too immediately upon seeing it because it helps me with a new pain: keeping up with Twitter, Facebook, and other social media messaging systems. See, hundreds of people are trying to send me messages on those systems. But they don’t work in old-school email systems like...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-24-2008
Talking with 3Tera about cloud computing

3Tera’s co-founder Bert Armijo had a 10-minute chat with me on Friday about cloud computing and how he sees the enterprise usage of cloud computing evolving and how his firm stacks up.

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-24-2008
The Twitterization of Conversations

Yesterday I filmed a video about the half-life of conversations. When I started blogging back in 2000 a blog conversation could go for a week or more. Those days are long gone. In this video I cover why, and show you some ways that tools can be used to lengthen the conversation’s half life (which...

Posted to External News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-24-2008

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