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The history of Apple doesn’t bode well for its future

Let me start with an admission – I have never been an Apple fan.  My issues stem from my time working at my dad’s computer rentals business – we used to rent computers for as little as one day and were constantly moving them around the country, changing memory configurations, swapping [...]

Firefox’s billionth add-on download shows the power of extensible platforms

I’m a big fan of open and extensible platforms (ideally open-source extensible platforms) – with WordPress.org for blogging and Mozilla/Firefox for browsing being my two favourites.

So I was pleased today to read Mozilla’s announcement that they had crossed the one billion mark for add-on downloads since they started counting in 2005.  See chart [...]

Taking stock on cloud

There is a lot of hype around cloud at the moment – so much so that a couple of industry bigwigs have recently felt the need to take the heat out (and if ever there was a time for bursting bubbles, this is it….).

As reported in the Guardian Larry Ellison has criticised [...]

Chrome – wondering why we need a new browser?

When I saw Google’s announcement of their new browser, via the neat marketing trick of a comic book, I wondered what the point of it was. I was struggling to think of what it is that they could offer than Firefox 3 doesn’t have already.

The answer – to run applications. From Nick Carr [...]

The FLIRT model of crowdsourcing – an analytical approach

I write from time to time here about mass collaboration – and it is something I have been thinking about more recently as I read Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. In a nutshell I’m excited about this space because the way the internet lowers the cost and barriers to collaboration has the potential [...]

Will VRM be commercial?

I attended an NMK seminar on vendor relationship management (VRM) last night (thanks to Ian Delaney for organising a great event).  This is an area I have been getting excited about recently, and I posted some early thoughts here (the comments are also worth a read).

Unfortunately I had to leave the seminar early [...]

Musings on open-ness, extensibility and the writeable web

For me, it is increasingly the case that a lot of the best software is open and extensible, at least to an extent. The inspiration for this post came when I was playing with the photo sharing software and service from Jalbum last week, but it is true for a wide range of companies, [...]

Brand, new media and big exits

Fred Wilson wrote this yesterday in a post lamenting Murdoch’s announcement at Davos that he plans to expand the subscription area of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ):

Here’s the deal. Digital media is not about scarcity and never will be. That’s the old media game. Online it’s about ubiquity, about being part [...]

Mobile internet – when will it take off?

I have blogged a couple of times on the one internet versus two question, and it seems the debate is still raging – Alan Patrick wrote a great post on the subject last Sunday over on Broadstuff.

There are a couple of things I want to pull out from that post.  Firstly his concise [...]

Mass collaboration alive and kicking in Europe

Check out this link for a list mass collaboration/open source style projects.  The link is to an EU site, but the projects are all over the world.  About 50 of them.  They are all non-software.

Thanks for the link Marc.