Should cable companies go wireless?

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I read today that two leading U.S. cable companies, Comcast and Time Warner, are teaming up with wireless operator Sprint-Nextel to offer mobile high speed data services (Using WiMax). This of course directly competes with the mobile carriers already offering these services (i.e. at&t, verizon), who are also encroaching on ...

The gift economy is good

Monday, March 10th, 2008

One of the greatest things about the more recently successful Internet 2.0 software companies is that they are based on consumer generated value. When you look at major successes like YouTube, Digg, Craigslist, Wikipedia, FaceBook, and Twitter, all of these sites rely on users to create value. Even better, the ...

American Idol Meets YouTube

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Here is Columbus Entrepreneur Wil Schroter talking about his new startup GotCast Go Hollywood from your computer by casting yourself for the next big movie or TV series. 10,000 users blooming. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "American Idol Meets YouTube", url: "http://www.georgetuvell.com/american-idol-meets-youtube/" });

Time for “The Big Switch”

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

I just cracked this book, and I'm ADDICTED. The world IS becoming one big interconnected computer, and it's mind blowing. Computing performance and broadband connectivity is now a UTILITY, one that is essential to sustaining the global economy, & life! Our technological capacity is doubling every decade (READ Kurzweil), and ...

A unique fact about Apple

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Here is my first post on Seesmic.. I was invited to join the alpha group, so I thought I'd try it out. The interface and tools are REALLY impressive. The video quality is however very bad. It doesn't help that Im' very boring either..:) I like the concept of combining ...

open ID, good and bad

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

I just signed up for an openID via VeriSign, mainly because I have about 50 accounts across different internet sites and I'd love to be able to login with using a single username/password. Open ID lets you do this. Microsoft tried this concept with Passport years ago...but for whatever reason it ...