December 2009
27 posts
TSA Security Theater →
Looking at the failed attempt by the “Christmas Bomber” to blow up a plane as he flew from Nigeria to Detroit, what can we say of the US government response eight years after 9/11? Umar Farouk…
Chrome OS Netbook Specs Leaked? – It’s Going To Be... →
Remember that Google was going to be very strict over what type of hardware was going to run the forthcoming Chrome OS? Put away the rumors that it was going to to be pricey, we have the data.
“If we can accept the fact that under-25-year-olds will not own content and stop...”
– In The New Content Economy, Consumers Want Access Not Ownership | paidContent
“The problem is systematic. When you have a multibillion dollar economy built...”
– Anatomy of a bad search result cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog
“thorium could solve the nuclear power industry’s most intractable problems”
– Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke | Magazine
“In 2010 the decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit at source.”
– Business: The end of the affair | The Economist
“So when I think about the current crisis in the print industry, this is where I...”
– Eric Schmidt: How Google Can Help Newspapers - WSJ.com
“I think the salient question to ask about any business model is: what is the...”
– Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business model. Choose one.
“Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.”
– Lessons Learned: Business ecology and the four customer currencies
“I’m undertaking a detailed analysis of these funds with the aim to...”
– Awesome Zombie: Analyzing Y Combinator
“A member of the Black Team was the last person a programmer wanted to see...”
– Tangled Webs 7.6 - The Black Team
Is the Sultan of Oman Gay? →
Sultan Qaboos of Oman took power from his mad father in a palace coup in the 1970s and has ruled Oman as an absolute monarch ever since. Oman is known to be a relatively poor country that…
Modified Subaru is an awesome way to get around in... →
The East Coast of the United States was hit by a record amount of snowfall over the weekend, and Core77’s home base of New York City ground to a halt. Roughly 1,200 area flights were canceled, and…
The Colossus: My Favorite Company I Met in South... →
“I just emailed you a video. You have to watch it now,” I said to Paul Carr, my resident TechCrunch partner-in-crime.
“Why are you sending me a video about….farm equipment?”
“Just watch it.”
“Broadband in 2009 is electricity in 1900.”
– Publicola » Blog Archive » The Killer App of 1900
“If the press no longer has the monopoly, or even an unassailable competitive...”
– The Renaissance of Journalism | Frontier Economy
What A Square Receipt Actually Looks Like →
We’ve already had a number of posts about Square, the new mobile payment platform launched by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey today, but we’re going to keep posting on it, because it’s…
CMT-380 supercar watches Porsche in the rear view →
Capstone MicroTurbine has revealed the jaw-dropping CMT-380 concept car. The 380 is an unlikely supercar: It contains lithium ion batteries, a diesel-electric turbine and design work from…
“Pageviews have been our standard measure of success.”
– Poynter Online - Romenesko
“Japanese operator DoCoMo, in an attempting at further monetizing their wireless...”
– DoCoMo to start new Environmental Sensor Network Business, 2500 sensors planned for March 2011
The Herd Instinct →
One of things that always amazes me about investors is the way we move in herds. Developing markets are in, everyone invests in developing markets. Dubai blows up, everyone moves out of developing…
“You cannot control people through design, but through design you can control to...”
– iA » Can Experience be Designed?
“We started our research seeking men in their twenties who had never consumed...”
– Are the effects of pornography negligible?
Crisis in Dubai: A Local Perspective →
As you have read and otherwise probably noted, I relocated my base of operations to Dubai last week. Days after I arrived, the emirate snatched global headlines as a number of companies owned by the…
Astonishment, its a cultural thing →
Pam persuaded me to watch the HBO documentary on the Mumbai massacre, Terror in Mumbai. It is an astonishing piece of film making, and highly recommended. There are two moments…