Upon 2020

Upon2020 (archive)

  • A Human Right To Connect On The Internet: Wow

    Sounds like the Obama government is picking up the cause of what Nick and I called the Digital Deal. Amazing! This is powerful stuff, coming not from some fringe group but from the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Here are quotes from her speech today: Franklin Roosevelt … delivered his Four Freedoms speech in…

  • When Amazon Competes With Dell

    This is not about 2020, but about right now. I remember the first story I read about Amazon 10+ years ago. How Jeff Bezos moved to Seattle, set up shop across a bookstore, and sent people across the street to get the books that were ordered on www.amazon.com, so they could be mailed. Today, Amazon…

  • OpenID Connect? Messina vs. Obasanjo

    Chris Messina thinks the OpenID brand should come to mean a package of a number of related “Open Stack” technologies, called OpenID Connect, and start to compete with Facebook Connect. Dare Obasanjo disagrees: he thinks we only need an OpenID Connect if there were multiple incompatible implementations of Facebook Connect-like products from multiple players, to…

  • Stupidity, Cleverness and Predictions

    According to the 10-yr anniversary edition of the Cluetrain Manifesto: There’s a lesson in there: it’s easier to predict stupidity than cleverness. Sort of makes you think when trying to write this blog …

  • Man or Mouse? Google’s China Move a Major Challenge to Yahoo, Microsoft et al

    It is fashionable for corporations to declare their firm intentions to make the world a better place. If only one’s competitors wouldn’t embark on bad practices, then one would not have to copy them, or so the disclaimer usually goes. Google’s threatened move out of China disrupts this excuse. You can bet that there are…