Paul Kedrosky wonders if there isn't some illegal tying going on.  "Why can't I have a better iPod and a nice wifi device without having to subsidize rapidly-obsoleting and declining-margin voice services from AT&T?"

My six year old, drawing up a sign for a lemonade stand: "They have to be able to understand it. If they don't understand it, they won't buy it."

Marc Andreessen on short attention span theater:

The obvious conclusion is that most Internet users have not yet even heard of social networking, much less adopted it, much less decided that it has hit some kind of "natural saturation point".

Purchased and installed: an HP L7580 color all-in-one. Printers keep getting better, faster and cheaper...but not inks, for some reason.

OMG, Jenny Holzer is on Twitter.  PLEASE CHANGE BELIEFS.

We found this hobo on the subway.

Jason Kottke on Facebook.

Eventually, someone will come along and turn Facebook inside-out, so that instead of custom applications running on a platform in a walled garden, applications run on the internet, out in the open, and people can tie their social network into it if they want, with privacy controls, access levels, and alter-egos galore.

Valleywag: Rich kid gets declined at the iPhone counter. 

Currently reading: Falling Man. 

July 2007 »

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