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Chrome OS is a good long-term (10-year) play. Google is betting that mobile computing will become smartphone (Android/iPhone/WebOS) and netbook (Chrome OS) dominated, and laptops will mostly disappear. I can see it — I already stopped bringing a laptop on trips and do most communication & reading from my iPhone day-to-day. A netbook will do [...]
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Tags: android, chrome os, google, iphone, mobile computing, netbooks, smartphones
The release of Chris Anderson’s book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, has sparked a lot of interesting discussion over the past week or so, drawing responses/reactions from the likes of Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Cuban, and Fred Wilson, among others. For those who don’t know, Anderson coined the phrase “long tail” in a 2004 Wired [...]
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Tags: business models, chris anderson, facebook, fred wilson, freeconomics, freemium, long tail, malcolm gladwell, mark cuban, myspace, twitter, youtube
(Warning: weird, geeky search marketing stuff contained in this post. If you’re looking for lighter fare, try this.) Last week at SMX Advanced, Matt Cutts of the Google webspam team announced that Google was no longer honoring nofollows as a way of sculpting PageRank. In fact, as he clarified today, Google had made the change [...]
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Tags: internet marketing, seo
Malcolm Gladwell wrote an interesting essay in The New Yorker about how underdogs innovate and win: (a) they work harder and (b) they break convention. The work ethic element is obviously huge to Gladwell — he pretty much wrote an entire book about it. But breaking convention is equally important. In order to have a chance [...]
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Tags: innovation, malcolm gladwell, market disruption
The funniest thing about today’s WWDC 09 keynote: Apple’s multiple references to how their “partner” AT&T is lagging on supporting iPhone improvements. Apparently, MMS and tethering – both long sought-after features for the iPhone — are ready to go, but AT&T isn’t able to handle them right now. Apple is doing a great job of pushing [...]
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Tags: apple, at&t, iphone
