A VC known as Fred Wilson shares his perspective on the current "tower of babble" that has been created by online music distributors with their competing formats, playlists, etc.  I share his view.  Just think how easy it is to send a file list, which most players autogenerate anyway, to your friends and family with [...]

And the company simply ignores the problem. I am posting this for the benefit of those who do a Google search for ” vsmon.exe memory leak “, as well as anyone else considering the purchase of the Zone Alarms Pro software firewall.  This program, vsmon.exe, is the core engine of the firewall and in any [...]

In spite of being an ardent free market propronent and a believer that less government is better than more, I am beyond beginning to believe, although not yet completely sure, that government would be the best WiFi provider. And I should add that maybe, maybe that could also be true for the physical wired network [...]

In keeping with The New Ground’s basic paradigm of Internet disruption, Techdirt asks – Does The Wall Street Journal Risk Becoming Irrelevant?. Does The Wall Street Journal Risk Becoming Irrelevant? Predictions Contributed by Mike on Thursday, February 24th, 2005 @ 03:04AM from the learn-to-play-online dept. Last year, Adam Penenberg knocked the NY Times for becoming [...]

Burnhams’ Beat describes The Death of Compiled Applications: Data was the first and most logical component piece to be pulled out of applications and from that a giant industry was created, databases.  Later, client-server architectures broke applications into muliple pieces and separated applications functions, but they didn’t actually pull a lot of functionality out of [...]

While wandering the Web, I stumbled across a company, Prime Revenue, that offers to optimize the "financial supply chain" of its customers.  PrimeRevenue is the key to a financially optimized supply chain.  For Buyers and Suppliers. Our program is an innovative and unparalleled solution that brings the benefits of information technology to the financial supply [...]

I believe Fred Wilson nails it in this post.. That was Blogging 1.0.  We knew back then that the web was a great platform for personal expression.  All three businesses still exist.  Two of them exist inside of web portals and About.com apparently is going to get sold soon, apparently to the New York Times [...]

Bruce Bartlett vividly illustrates PBS’s "agenda journalism by providing readers with facts regarding the astounding macroeconomic impact of Walmart on the US economy over the last decade. PBS, having been supplied the same facts during its "investigation" of the issue, chose to omit them entirely from its negative presentation about Walmart. I also pointed out [...]