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 […]
Blogging and Spam Update
One of the ways that you can tell if a new Internet technology is going to be successful is to look for skepticism. When people begin to say the hype exceeds the reality, it means we are on the way toward the reality exceeding the hype. I am not referring to new business models that […]
The future is… Linux televisions
Recently I spoke with Munir Kotadia at ZDNet UK in London about the future of the Internet — a subject I love to talk about. One of Munir’s questions was “How long can Microsoft dominate the browser market?”. “Browser market”, I said? Sure, if you look just at PC’s you would wonder why anyone would […]
Where’s The Money?
The four Demo panelists did a very nice job of explaining their points of view about blogging. They talked about how blogging can fit into one’s personal life, benefit a small business, cope in a major corporation, and streamline the flow of information from blogs to your PC or handheld. Thirty minutes was not nearly […]
Power To The People
I knew that eventually competition would begin to take hold in broadband. I first wrote about this in a reflection May 12, 1998 — and must admit that my forecast was a bit premature. But now, at last, it is happening. At last year’s Vortex Conference, Larry Babbio, vice chairman of Verizon, said that they […]
