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As far as I can tell Yahoo! did a lease/sale deal with Microsoft, thereby exiting the growing online search business to focus on the fragmented, super-competitive, online media business because Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz and her advisors said they could not marshal the capital to fight against the billions in R&D that Microsoft [...]
In his brilliant book, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Christopher Alexander asks, why can an illiterate builder create a dwelling that is cool in the summer, warm in the winter, and withstands hurricanes, but most modern designers create buildings that are too hot, or too cold, too difficult to maintain, or just don’t work? [...]
Following on yesterday’s blog, I wanted to reflect on a more specific Wiki innovation. My dear friend, and software genius, and wonderful human being, Dan Bricklin, in his understated way has launched wikiCalc, which allows the user to run a spreadsheet on a distributed basis, and enables the tracking of all versions, and changes to [...]
How to Save RFID Initiatives for the Department of Defense and Wal-Mart
When Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense (DoD) both push a new initiative it gets people’s attention, for together they represent roughly 5% of the US GDP. Today, they are both requiring suppliers to attach Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) to pallets of products [...]
