The Downside

So, I already blogged about Facebook’s Platform and how it will generate new business models and economies on the web. But today brought news of Facebook’s future plans to change the face of the Internet altogether with an online operating system. Facebook, in their first corporate acquisition, bought Parakey, makers of an online [...]

If you’re up-to-date in the tech industry, you’ve surely heard of the new Facebook Platform. It’s already been covered pretty extensively, so I won’t belabor the point except to say that I believe this is a turning point in the evolution of the Internet. It’s a brilliant move by the developers at Facebook. [...]

Six years ago, those of us in the Internet industry saw a massive collapse. It was created by a huge influx of money into any company with a .com in its name as VCs hoped to take companies public based on their number of users and brand awareness rather than their basic business fundamentals. [...]

The new Tivo Series 3 debuted yesterday, finally offering HD recording, lagging behind previous offerings from DirecTV and Sony. On the surface this is great news, but the downside is that this beast will run you $800. (In all fairness, the products from DirecTV and Sony are in the same price range.)
Clearly this [...]

Here’s the tally:

Launch delayed
$500 price point at launch (while Xbox 360s will likely be going for $350 by then)
400,000 units for US Launch, 100,000 for Japanese launch due to difficulties in producing BluRay drives
BluRay games will load slower than HD-DVD (Source: A cross-platform game developer)
And perhaps worst of all, Sony can’t produce BluRay discs fast [...]

We are on the cusp of a complete paradigm shift in technology. Just as it took humanity many years to learn how to efficiently use the combustion engine to propel itself around the planet, we are just now learning what the Internet and wireless technologies can enable us to do. We’re just scratching [...]

Within 5 years, you won’t hear the word podcast. You’ll forget the word podcast. It will go the way of the fax machine because it’s not a technology. It is a black hole of technology, sucking in all that is truly interesting and innovative. It’s the 8-track of the Internet.

First off, [...]