I promised recently to publish more of my reflections on what I've learned from studying the parallels between Web 2.0 and financial markets, one of the real wake-up calls was the way that Wall Street firms moved from being brokers to being active players "trading for their own account." Ever since I heard Bill Janeway point out that over time, Wall Street "firms began to trade against their clien
That least-understood principle from my original Web 2.0 manifesto, "Data is the Intel Inside," is finally coming out of the closet. A post on the Google Operating System Blog entitled Google is Really About Large Amounts of Data notes that in an interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in October, Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of Search Products and User Experience, "confessed that having access to large amo
Today Google released functionality in the Mobile Maps product that will geolocate a cellphone based on the nearby celltowers called My Location. Your location shows up as a blue dot on the map. The Google Maps application will also use GPS to supplement. Since it is using celltowers your location should work internationally -- it all depends on the data. I just downloaded and installed the new ap
I wanted to add a few more thoughts about Google's new energy initiative, RE<C, or spelled out, Renewables less than Coal, an ambitious attempt to fund alternative energy technologies that offer the possibility of generating electricity at a cost less than that of coal. The stakes are high. If our worst fears about global warming are right, we're going to bring our technological progress to a halt
I'm pleased to bring the commentary of a couple of the publishing industry's most experienced and respected voices to conjecture on the economic ramifications of Amazon's Kindle. First, Jason Epstein has kindly agreed to share a back-of-the-envelope analysis of the Kindle in light of the common "razor and blades" analogy, in which some observers argue that Amazon would be better off giving the Kin
Over Thanksgiving dinner, Saul Griffith was complaining about the lack of mathematical literacy among people who should know better. "Take all that talk about the exponential growth of various web sites. Don't people realize that those curves are actually sigmoidal?" And of course, he's right. These curves look exponential but eventually they do flatten out. In fact, one of the most important sigm
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