eBay Sells Skype – should Facebook have bought them?
At $2.75 billion and 405 million users, Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen and company are paying $6.79 per registered user, and a little over five times 2008...
Starbucks Crowdsources Two Obvious Apps That Every Retailer Should Have!
Starbucks has announced that they are fielding two applications, in test, that help users find their stores, explore the menu and nutritional information....
Waiting on Genius: Musing on why business design is so hard...
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...
Why RFID Won't Fly for a While
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...
wikiCalc: The next killer app?
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...