n response to Wretchard’s post regarding the Second Gutenberg Revolution, I would submit that there is no need to worry about books as containers for human thought/history. Given the continually accelerating and exponentially declining cost of digital storage, I-Pods and similar devices with terabyte and petabyte storage capabilities are just around the corner.  Consequently, it [...]

Although a bit dated, this post by Michael Arrington at TechCrunch provides a great list of seriously legitimate web-based business ideas.  Will follow up on some of these later, but I thought this was a good link from which to begin my blogging here at NewGround Technologies.

These quotes aren’t linked because they were carried in numerous publications.  The first one is a "mashup" of irrelevant irrationality, economic idiocy, and illogical childish "that’s not fair!" temper tantrum.  Said differently, its just stupid! "During the hurricanes, Google didn’t pay to have the DSL restored," said BellSouth spokesman Jeff Battcher. "We’re paying all that [...]

Tom Evslin discusses Yahoo’s purchase of del.icio.us and touches on several issues of interest and/ or lessons to be learned.  First, he uses this deal as an example to put down the the notion that a company must be built to generate earnings/cash flow in order to create value.  Tom says: Even if Joshua and [...]

From Broadband Reports: "Cellular networks haven’t taken off [for data] because cellular networks currently suck. Badly. It’s our fault – we’ve done it badly," states Nokia’s Markku Hollstr�m to Silicon.com. Hollstr�m insists that while Wimax wireless broadband will have its niche, "WiMax is hype at the moment – and it’s pretty bad hype."

Here is a great chart prepared by Martin Geddes of Telepocalypse, along with some comments excerpted from his post regarding Ebay’s acquistion of Skype.  Together, they provide the best explanation I have seen for the strategic rationale underlying the deal.  Not surprisingly, my web wanderings have yet to lead me to a financial rationale justifying [...]

In this post, Fred Wilson discusses A VC: Point Solutions vs End to End Solutions. Point Solutions vs End to End Solutions

  In this post, Nicholas Carr asserts that software will have to eventually reach Bell telco levels of reliability.  I agree with this argument and believes it applies to almost all businesses.  Disciplined focus on process management is the only sure-fire way to attaining this standard of reliability (also known as five nines (99.999+%).   [...]