Archive for May, 2008

Keeping confidential, confidential

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

I treat the Internet as public. Acutally, I consider every communication public, meaning phone calls, text messages, emails, everything that you do and say in digital format can be seen by others. Based on the various scandals and crimes we've seen in Governement and the Corporate world I ...

Perspective

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

I had a good conversation last week about how vulnerable the global Internet cabling system is. Look at this map. If "Evil Doers" ever wanted to shut down international commerce, leaving us in the dark and unable to conduct the digital transactions that keep our economies going, sorry to say ...

New HostedLABS Brand

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

It's been an insane few weeks getting the new HL brand finished. The team has done a FANTASTIC job in a ridiculously short time! Also - thanks to Marco, Sean and the crew for hosting a great phptek conference. We enjoyed it! No related posts.

need a cool T?

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Another great Chicago web success story - our friends at Threadless. No Advertising No Professional Designers No Sales Force No Retail Distribution = $30m REVENUE & "most innovative small co. in America." Great going guys. No related posts.

The Kindle Paradox

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

When I first saw the Kindle from Amazon, I basically laughed out loud. (Kindle is an electronic book reader) Who is going to read all their books electronically? Really? Plus the pain of getting the content on the device, worrying about running out of battery on a long flight, is ...

Internet TV

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Crazy that the western word isn't even on the radar screen yet for Internet TV. Whatever they are doing in Hong Kong & Iceland is working. Why and How? Let's take some notes and somebody solve this problem plz. I'm having enough challenges setting up my new home media ...

Proud to join Hosted Labs

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

I am super inspired and proud to be a part of the Hosted Labs team. Stepping into the world of Cloud Computing, or "Cloud Service" as we call it, is already a thrill ride and I'm only knee deep! Come see us at at PHPTek Chicago. So many things in progress at ...