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Category Archives: technology
Economists vs Political Scientists on the Web
Ezra Klein wants
to know why economists are overrepresented in the blogosphere, while political
scientists are nowhere to be found.
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What (Fake) Steve Jobs Thinks of the Music Industry
Could Fake Steve Jobs has the most astute
analysis of the simmering tensions
between Apple and the music industry that I’ve seen anywhere.
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iPhone to Support Wifi Calling
Apple and AT&T are OK with wi-fi based calling, which will be a godsend to people who travel or call a lot internationally.
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iPhone: Cheaper Than We Could Have Dared to Hope
It seems that AT&T is being very smart here, and offering good-value plans to iPhone buyers despite the fact that the company has a monopoly on the phone and could therefore, in theory, charge pretty much anything they wanted.
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How To Make $300 Million Without Really Trying
Here’s an idea. (1) Spend $7.5 million on the business.com domain name. (2) ?. (3) Profit!
The crazy thing is, it seems to have worked.
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The 100-mpg Car
Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, has already awarded $1 million
in grants in the field of plug-in
electric cars, and it’s now dangling
a $10 million carrot, saying it wants to help develop a car which gets 100
miles to the gallon.
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Arrogance + Insecurity = Success, Steve Jobs Edition
Underneath Jobs’s arrogance is always the ability to admit that he was wrong. And that is one key to his company’s recent success.
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Monday Links Do The Twist
Enough links to keep anybody happy for at least an hour.
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Yahoo: Terry Out, Jerry In, No Real Change
If it’s fast, new and vibrant you want, I really don’t think that Yang’s your man.
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Adventures in Web Design, eBay Edition
eBay is cleaning
up its act:
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Andreessen and Dyson on Facebook
Occasionally the blogosphere comes up with the kind of analysis that any highly-paid analyst would be incredbily proud of. In the past couple of days, we’ve seen both Marc Andreessen and Esther Dyson publish their takes on Facebook freely on the web, without any kind of corporate firewall or conflict of interest. If you’re interested in the direction that the web is going, both of these are must-read pieces.
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Is Google-DoubleClick a Monopoly?
The key monopoly here is the one on information about users’ web-browsing habits: what they search for, what sites they visit, what ads they click on.
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How Best to Maximize Blog Traffic
Barry Ritholtz and YouPorn.
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Bogus Counterfeiting Statistics Spawn Protection Racket
The anti-counterfeiting industry is using fear to sell its products, rather than economic logic.
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Tech Bubble Redux
The one silver lining for Microsoft, when Google bought DoubleClick for $3
billion a month ago, was that Google was suffering from the winner’s
curse, and paid way too much for the internet advertising company. Naturally,
then, it took Redmond’s best and brightest only a few short weeks to manage
to spend
$6 billion on their own internet advertising company, aQuantive.
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Subprime Mess: Small, by Dot-Com Standards
Bad subprime mortgages might be smaller than the amount of money that Intel stock fell in one day.
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Return of the Mac
There’s lots of excitement surrounding the iPhone. But I think the Mac could turn out to be just as big a story.
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The Microsoft Giveaway: Less Than Meets the Eye
Microsoft’s plan to sell software for $3 in developing nations is better for Microsoft than it is for developing nations.
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The BlackBerry is Closed
The Great
BlackBerry Outage of 2007 continues, it would seem, and I’m sure that Steve
Jobs has a smile on his face right now, since his iPhone
can use any wifi network to send and receive emails. The irony is that Jobs,
given the choice, has always opted for closed, proprietary sytems over open
ones.
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