The Internet is a Rage Virus
James Hong penned a thoughtful essay on an important topic: “Why there are so many assholes on the Internet.” “There are hard ways to get attention, and there are easy ways. The hard ways are more meaningful, but almost by definition they are more scarce and harder to generate. The easy stuff on the other […]
The Mobile Gold Rush Has Just Begun
Mary Meeker is one of the few folks who was a leading figure during the first dot com boom who is still playing a similar role. (Contrast her with Mark Andreesen, who back then was the wunderkind behind Netscape, and today is an elder statesman and VC) That’s actually a good thing, because she continues […]
CES 2012
What a ridiculous show. The show is just too big. They say only Vegas can handle a show this big, but it can’t. Vegas has the capacity in conference and hotel space, but once the show expands into multiple locations the weak link becomes apparent: transportation. They were running large buses full time between The […]
Is Android gaining market share because of carriers?
Last week at Google IO, Google announced some improvements to Android Market. The video of the session ‘Android Market for Developers‘ is now available here. One thing that caught my attention in the video is Android installations by country. Here is the slide. As it shows, there is a direct correlation between device activations and […]
Control Swing
In 2007, Apple took the control from the carriers and put it in the hands of device makers when it launched the original iPhone. Here is an excerpt from a Wired article. For decades, wireless carriers have treated manufacturers like serfs, using access to their networks as leverage to dictate what phones will get made, […]
Not Surprising: Bittorrent Sharing Down, Rapidshare Way Up
One of the plausible guesses of what would happen when the Pirate Bay was sued was that file sharers were not only to go on doing what they wanted to do, but that other systems were going to be used rather than the all too traceable Bittorrent and P2P systems that are currently used. 10 […]
Happy 20th Birthday Web And Thanks For Giving Us Cloud Computing
Image by foxypar4 via Flickr Today is 20th birthday of World Wide Web, called affectionately as web by most of us. In the past 20 years, the web has transformed quite a lot but I think we should take time to check out the original document by Dr. Tim Berners-Lee as a tribute on its […]
No Internet on Internet Street
You can’t make this up … and since we bear the Cloud Avenue name, we have to be first to bring this news to you: there’s no Internet on Internet Street. Andrzej Gromek bought a house in Warsaw, Poland on a street named … Internet. Wow! How nice of the City of Warsaw to recognize […]
