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- Play it again Sam
- A few weeks ago I was pinged by Sam Williams, who was writing a story on Attention for Technology Review. We had a nice chat, I asked him to let me know when it was published, and I forgot about it. Then the story came out and I once again...
- Blog posts 2006-05-02
- Gillmor Daily gets Sirius
- Gillmor Daily has moved into AttentionTech's slot on Sirius, beginning with last week's shows. Monday and Tuesday featured a two part version of my conversation with new Gang regular Mike Arrington. Wednesday and Thursday emanated from OSBC, with Stephen O'Grady from Redmonk and Dan Farber on the 15th and former...
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
- Havana Bob
- I'm sitting in the bar of the Argent Hotel with Dan Farber. He's just come from a concluding ODBC panel on open source and vs open standards with among others, Bob Sutor and Tim Bray. I saw Tim last night at Sun's sushi party where he told me that of...
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
- Show notes
- Dan Farber was strangely quiet for the first half of the new Gillmor Gang, and now we know why. He was taking notes. Monday at Yahoo! Research I glanced over at Dan during lunch and he was taking notes. Last week at Web 2.0 I came in late to a...
- Blog posts 2005-10-15
- Dan Farber: Invitation to a party
- Dan Farber questions whether Microsoft is able to cross its chasm in this Sunday morning post. He points at Gates' musings on how to avoid the scrap heap of history--by innovating its way out of the Xerox Parc deadend user interface. In suggesting an open source project to redefine the...
- Blog posts 2005-02-20
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- Bear Hug Camp: a microblogging meetup
- CBS Interactive hosted a meetup about the state of microblogging. Bear Hug Camp is about discussing the future of messaging. People use Twitter as a way to communicate and stay in touch with their audience. It's not always reliable though. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating system
- Microsoft is fighting on multiple fronts in its 100-year technology war. Acknowledged, Microsoft has notched just 35 years, but the company is good for another 65 if it can recruit a few more generations of Bill Gates generals to lead the charge. And make no mistake, dominating markets is what...
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Microhoo: Looking beyond the search war
- In the event that Microsoft ends up with Yahoo, which I view as likely, what happens to the Yahoo brand and properties. The back end, infrastructure and engineering issues can be sorted out, although nothing will be easy. Pooling engineering talent, data centers, search, ad systems, etc. can be a...
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Gates and Jobs rendezvous at CES
- Updated: I've heard from a Microsoft official that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs did not meet at CES in Las Vegas as purported in this post. I'm not sure how this error was introduced into my system, but I will investigate. Bearing with me, follow along with the speculation below...
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Busy weekend: Kindle and Facebook beatings
- Robert Scoble spent the last week giving his new Amazon Kindle ebook reader a test drive, reading a couple of books and declaring the progeny of Jeff Bezos a failure. He thinks the usability and user interface suck and it lack features such as a touch screen, social networking and...
- Blog posts 2007-11-25
- Latest 'The Group' podcast delves into Google Android, Yahoo's China syndrome, and Facebook gestures (again)
- Steve Gillmor's The Gang debuts its second coming for the second time. There's always good tibits and chunky nuggets in these roundtable gab-fests. As usual the topics straddle places more weight on the Web 2.0 side than the IT side, but I'm working on it. ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Google forays into the heart of social networking
- TechCrunch is reporting that November 5 Google, in another fit of competitive expansion (check out Google's funding of a trans-Pacific undersea multi-terabit cable), plans to lift the veil on its answer to Facebook. It was foretold in the 'Tech Talk' video presentation by Google’s Ben Darnell to new Google...
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Microsoft Office is dead meme revived
- My friend Steve Gillmor has been bloviating about the death of bloated Microsoft Office for years. Google's cloud-based apps are poised to put a stake in the heart of Microsoft's Office business, which accounted for the majority $16.37 billion in revenue for Microsoft Business Division in the fiscal year ending...
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Gillmor's Internet plate tectonics
- Steve Gillmor riffs on my post about Yahoo's lack of a social networking hub, where I state: "Yahoo is about making connections, but right now its more of loose federation of Web applications and servicesâ€"many spokes without a strong hub to hold together a social Web. Yahoo 360 has been...
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- Nick Carr's Big Switch
- Nicholas Carr, amongst the most incisive and profound critic of information technology, will be in Silicon Valley tonight, at Campbell's Barnes and Noble bookstore in conversation with ZDNet honcho Dan Farber, Edgeio co-founder/CEO Keith Teare, and Gillmor Gang ringleader & Podtech exec Steve Gillmor, and me. While the event is...
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Sun's courting of start-ups discloses a new quandary -- it needs to compete with its core market
- Some good blogging coming out of a Sun get-together this week. Dan Farber, Mike Arrington and Steve Gillmor weigh in. But Im not sure I get the follow-through of Sun wooing mashup artist start-ups. If anything, by Sun trying to appeal to these types of low-capital spending firms shows Suns...
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Not Gillmor Gang had some good moments, but not yet the same old song and dance
- I had the pleasure to participate yesterday in a roundtable podcast modeled after the late, great Gillmor Gang. Jason Calacanis was the host in Steve Gillmors (temporary?) absence in this "beta" CalacanisCast "not Gillmor Gang" production on PodTech.net.Jason is actively entrepreneurial at Sequoia (and wont say much about what hes...
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- Reflections on Office 2.0
- I'm about to leave San Francisco following the Office 2.0 Conference and thought I'd share a few of the highlights and some reflection on what transpired over the past couple of days. For the most part, I would declare this inaugural event a great success due in no small part...
- Blog posts 2006-10-14
- As I was saying
- When I met with Dan Farber last week to discuss closing InfoRouter down, we agreed I'd use a last post to both wind up the blog and detail my future plans. Although I'd intended to write this and release it tomorrow Monday it seems appropriate to work on it tonight...
- Blog posts 2006-07-30
- A Hamburger Today
- Now that BloggerCon is over, I'm going to start releasing some of the backlog of Attention Deficit Theatre and Gillmor Gangs that have built up. Those who, like me, stayed in bed this morning and listened to the ConCast were treated to a remarkable string of interesting stuff, none of...
- Blog posts 2006-06-25
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