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Jonathan Schwartz, up close and personal

by Mathew on January 20, 2007 · View Comments

I have to say right off the top that I haven’t really acquired the taste for Robert Scoble’s video-blogging or podcasting (or whatever we’re calling it now) over at Podtech.net. I liked reading his blog from time to time — in some cases for the comments — but I just haven’t gotten into the video [...]

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Is Amazon eating Sun’s lunch?

by Mathew on August 24, 2006 · View Comments

Amazon doesn’t get a whole lot of love from the “Web 2.0″ crowd most of the time — perhaps because it’s kind of a Web 1.0 company that just sells books and other stuff, and happens to use the Web to do it. The giant retailer has added some wiki-type features and other interactivity, but [...]

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The law of unintended consequences

by Mathew on June 9, 2006 · View Comments

Came across an interesting blog post just now by Jonathan Schwartz, the recently installed CEO of Sun Microsystems, who says he was on an airplane with a senior executive from the hotel industry, who told him that flat-panel televisions had helped to drive down occupancy rates in the industry. Why? Here’s what he said, according [...]

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Thanks for playing, Scott

by Mathew on April 24, 2006 · View Comments

It’s always fun when a rumour — or a rumour-based news story, which is often the same thing — gets poo-poohed by just about everyone, and then turns out to be true. It happened with eBay and Skype not that long ago, and now it’s Scott McNealy’s turn to put one over on The Register [...]

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Is McNealy right about the iPod? Maybe

by Mathew on January 12, 2006 · View Comments

Obviously, anyone with an eye for history has to take Scott McNealy’s comments about the future of the iPod (i.e., there isn’t one) with a large grain of salt. After all, Scott has been pushing the whole “network is the computer” vision since I was in junior high — or maybe it just feels that [...]

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