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Soylent Green is Content
Content Farms, Echo Sites, and the Future of Online Content Investors today snapped up shares of Demand Media, whose IPO gave the company a valuation of close to $2 billion — more than that of the New York Times Co. … Continue reading
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Stephen Elop’s Quest for ‘Unparalleled Customer Experiences’
Stephen Elop at the Wharton Business Technology Conference, 2009 Friday’s announcement that Microsoft Business Division president Stephen Elop had left the Redmond company to assume the position of president and CEO of Nokia has elicited a range of responses from … Continue reading
The Facebook Login Fiasco
The fault, dear reader, is not in our users, but in ourselves This past week, ReadWriteWeb published a post titled “Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login” about Facebook’s plans to use Facebook Connect to integrate users’ Facebook friends … Continue reading
Adobe’s John Warnock on Balancing Open Standards with Proprietary Software — and Maybe Calling Steve Jobs
Knowledge@Wharton published an interview I did with Adobe Systems co-founder and co-chairman John Warnock. Warnock discusses topics ranging from the origins of the company he founded with Chuck Geschke to the reason he doesn’t like to use Microsoft software and … Continue reading
Photos from Supernova 2009
Photos from the eighth annual Supernova conference in San Francisco are available in my Flickr photostream: Tuesday, Dec 1: Legal Pre-Conference Tuesday, Dec 1: General Sessions Wednesday, Dec 2 Thursday, Dec 3 Organized by Wharton professor Kevin Werbach and co-sponsored by … Continue reading
Is the iPhone the Next Windows or the Next Mac?
The announcements at Adobe’s MAX 2009 conference earlier this month have reignited the conversation about Flash on the iPhone — whether it will ever happen and, if not, why not. At the conference, Adobe announced plans to bring Flash 10 … Continue reading
Adobe’s New ‘In Your Face’ Attitude
The keynote addresses at Adobe Systems’ MAX developer’s conference this past week in Los Angeles contained the usual spate of product intros and partner announcements, including Adobe’s plans to bring the Flash Player to most of the major smartphone platforms … Continue reading
Adobe MAX 2009 in Pictures
For those who couldn’t attend Adobe Systems’ MAX 2009 conference — or for those who were there and want to relive some of the moments — photos from MAX 2009 in Los Angeles are in my Flickr photostream: Monday: Keynote … Continue reading
PDF Evolution and Compatibility: A Personal Anecdote
Adobe senior principal scientist Jim King recently posted an item on his blog introducing a paper he authored titled “On the Evolution of PDF.” In that document, King discusses how Adobe Systems has worked to maintain the compatibility of their … Continue reading
Redbox Cuts Deals as Movie Studios Scrape for Digital Dollars
As the old joke goes, everyone knew the floating crap game was crooked but played anyway — because it was the only game in town. This came to mind with a Wall Street Journal report earlier this week that Sony … Continue reading
