June 2007 - Posts

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Is touch the next big thing in mobile? by Tim Marman

Om Malik says that, in a sense, the iPhone has already changed the mobile business because they're "making it okay to experiment with new ideas, and throw out previously taboo notions." Now Tero Ojanpera, the Nokia CTO, believes that "optical sensors...
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Twitter is, or will be, a Messaging Platform by Tim Marman

Charlie discusses the future of Twitter and touches on what I think are two key points: corporate twitter and content subscription. The key as Charlie discusses is the opt-in and one-way nature of Twitter. That is, I only get updates from someone if I...
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There's no such thing as Web 2.0 by Tim Marman

I've said before that I hate the term Web 2.0 but that it's more than a buzzword . Perhaps what I meant to say is what Marc Andreessen said: there's no such thing as Web 2.0 - thing being the key word there. The first Web 2.0 conference was held in the...
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The Sopranos Series Finale by Tim Marman

I never thought we were going to get closure, but perhaps the issue was that we got too much of it. A lot of it just felt, for a lack of a better word, cheesy to me. Complex story lines that were developed over several years were tied up with amazing...
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Refocusing Net Neutrality by Tim Marman

Awhile back, I echoed the electricity analogy : the problem is that the "telecoms are threatening to charge a premium for how the utility is used, instead of how much of it is used." Someone from the Hands Off the Internet Coalition commented on that...
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The real reason for Google's free 411 service by Tim Marman

Tim O'Reilly speculated why Google is really doing a free 411 service . In short, I'm speculating that the 1-800-GOOG-411 service is designed to harvest voice data to build Google's own speech database, rather than licensing from Nuance or another player...
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