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Rick Bookstaber opines about a future world in which the flood of information being produced will be filtered by third parties like Facebook and Google with as yet unpredictable consequences for society. Perhaps these filters are just…

Remember when I said that Google would get to scale "much,much faster than Facebook? Well this chart shows you this quite vividly. Wow!

If you had to start an online social network from scratch, how would you do it?

Android’s adoption is all about upgrades and not about switching. I see this as a land grab right now. The operating systems that can grab as much share as possible while people are upgrading from cheapie phones to inexpensive Smartphones…

Here’s an interesting conversation about social media and Internet and technology companies' adjustment to it.

Google is loaded o the gills with cash, yet today they are pricing up a bond issue. he Financial Times is reporting that Google will raise as much as $3 billion of 3, 5 and 10-year money. Here's my question: why do this? Acquisition:…

Back in December I wrote an article on how site scrapers were gaming Google's search algorithm in order to make advertising money from articles that they scrape from RSS feeds. Just after I wrote this piece, Google got religion about spam…

I would argue that this is evidence that these companies are wasting shareholder capital by plunking down for splashy acquisitions and large new capital investments that are not paying off. Cisco and Microsoft have huge cash balances…

I say fragmentation doesn't matter. Consumers are going to buy what is available and for offer. Distribution trumps ease of use. Ask Apple about Macintosh. And ask Microsoft about Windows. Market share trumps technological superiority too.…

Since early this morning, we have had server problems. I think using Google's Feedburner with full feed has borked our server. So until we can figure out what happened, we are switching to summary feeds. However, a link to the full article…