A journalist for an industry publication in Chile asked me some questions recently about Web 2.0 business models, when there doesn’t seem to be a lot of business actually going on. Here are some of the edited answers.
Do you think it was a bad business decision for Google to acquire YouTube, in terms of the [...]
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Journalists ask the darndest things
October 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
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Why does anyone care about operating systems?
July 9th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Before I was an analyst, I can remember lamenting why the people in our industry were so obsessed with chips and operating systems. It was around the time when DEC released the Alpha RISC chip, and rivalry between the different strains of UNIX and Windows was at its highest point. The horse race between BSD, [...]
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