Amen! Thanks for putting it so nicely and quotable! This is indeed one of the mega-trends of our age, and I’m really hard-pressed to still find domains where that is not true yet (speaking about the US, other countries are different). Some examples off the top of my head: News: news organizations vs. bloggers. Healthcare: [...]
First there were the semantics, and then there are ways of rendering semantic information using things like HTML, or so established wisdom says. That’s why we have XSLT (to transform XML into HTML, for example, not the reverse), code and documentation generators (from UML, or from Java source code), and things like address book applications [...]
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In the week after September 11, 2001, I wrote the following piece for the TEN newsletter. Hearing about today’s bombings in London, I feel compelled to re-publish. Last week’s horrific acts in New York and Washington took the lives of thousands, cost untold billions for reconstruction and reportedly were committed by a network of middle-eastern [...]
VC Phishes at Movie Theater: Very Funny
David Cowan, General Partner with Bessemer Venture Partners, and frequent investor in security technologies, blogged how he phished movie tickets from unsuspecting kids at a movie theater in order to convince his wife that lots of work remained in the security space. It’s a very funny read that also, more seriously, illustrates very well that [...]
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