June 2010
5 posts
Google won't kill Facebook - Distributed P2P...
The Day the Napster Died
Brad King 05.15.02 Napster, the software application that ignited the music file-trading frenzy, came to an apparent end on Tuesday after its board of directors nixed a sale that would have kept the company afloat.
When founder Shawn Fanning and CEO Konrad Hilbers abruptly resigned on Tuesday, the company that launched the most innovative Internet program was gone,...
Facebook won't kill Google - Semantic web enabled...
I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent...
“There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, more...”
– Niccolo Machiavelli
“The best strategy is the one you can execute.”
– Ralph Rivera
Crawl, Walk, Run
I recently got my 2 yr old daughter a scooter. As I was putting on her helmet, it struck me how quickly she has progressed from crawling to walking, and from walking to running. Now she is looking to go faster via the scooter, which will eventually become a bicycle and then a car and then who knows what – maybe personal jetpack. The progression she is experiencing parallels the progression all...
