Talking With Your Browser
Someone recently said that using Google has added 20 points to our IQ. Other than using Google, however, most of us use a browser the same way we used it ten years ago. We type a url and wait for the web server to return the requested page to us. Opera Software ASA is changing […]
PC Forum – Day 3
PC Forum day 3 opened with a talk by Eric Johnson, Norman Eig Professor of Business, Columbia University School of Business called “Defaults have value(s): How Do People Really Behave on the Web?”. His bottom line was that defaults have a huge impact on consumer behavior and he illustrated this point with many examples. He […]
PC Forum – Day 2
PC Forum day 2 was one of the best in all the 12 years I have been attending. It started out with Esther interviewing with Eric Schmidt, Chairman & CEO, Google. He wouldn’t talk about the rumored IPO but he was very bullish about the potential for Google. Eric then joined in on a panel, […]
PC Forum – Day 1
PC Forum is one of the conferences I most enjoy because it always try to look at the big picture. Esther Dyson opened the conference by announcing that her company, Edventure Holdings, has been acquired by CNET (see full press release for details). The agenda this year is focused on looking at the world and […]
Rounding The Cape
We just turned north after rounding Cape Horn, near the bottom of the Earth. Less than four hundred years ago, people still thought the world was flat and that ships would "fall off" the globe if they went too far. Once that belief was shattered, mariners headed out onto the oceans, many seeking passage around […]