Posted on March 3, 2006 2:23 pm by Shel Holtz | Business | Technology
In a recent interview with Eric Schwartzman, IT Conversations’ Doug Kaye referenced an old explanation of the Internet: It’s a dumb network. It just gets bits where they’re supposed to go. The telecommunications industry wants to turn it into a smart network by routing paid-for traffic through faster pipes than content that hasn’t paid for the privilege. I wrote about this last month and pointed…
Posted on March 1, 2006 10:09 am by Shel Holtz | Business
At the TechCrunch party where Scoble and Israel launched “Naked Conversations,” I wound up chatting for a while with two guys from a company called Ether. We started out talking about the music recommendation service Pandora. I was trying it out (love it, by the way) and the Ether guys were standing next to the table where the Pandora demo was on…
Posted on February 2, 2006 9:56 am by Shel Holtz | Business
Google is getting a lot of attention over some of its actions—notably its agreement to filter content on its search engine in China—largely because of its oft-repeated and closely held belief that it should “do no evil.”
The fact that AT&T has never strongly asserted such a belief may explain why the company is getting less ink for some of the news it’s been making recently.…
Posted on February 1, 2006 9:26 am by Shel Holtz | Business
I remember driving home one night listening the radio (in the days before podcasting, maybe 20 months ago). The host was interviewing recently retired Fortune 500 CEO. He asked about the biggest obstacle the CEO faced in his tenure. The CEO didn’t hesitate. His answer: “Investment analysts.”
Because of the huge influence investment analysts wield when they set earnings expectations for each quarter,…
Posted on January 23, 2006 9:36 am by Shel Holtz | Business | External
Defenders of Wildlife wants your money. There are several ways to give your money to the Washington, D.C. based organization that is dedicated to “the protection of all native wild animals and plants in their natural communities.” Problem is, if you give them your money, they could become one of the major annoyances in your life.
At least, that’s my wife’s experience. Three…
Posted on January 17, 2006 10:07 am by Shel Holtz | Business
How many meetings do you attend that could be offloaded to a wiki or some other online mechanism? The kneejerk reaction to such a suggestion is that online community is reducing the amount of face-to-face contact we have and that’s a bad idea. We’ve been hearing this since message boards first gained popularity.
I’ve never bought this argument. I’ve met more people online whom I have…
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