Category Archives: Business
Virgin Mobile Brings A Bazooka To The Gun Fight (AKA The Motorola Triumph)
The mobile phone business is a gun fight, and Virgin Mobile has been battling with a knife — until now. Over a year ago, I wrote about how the pre-paid market was perfect for Google Android phones, and Sprint (owner of Virgin Mobile) is finally catching on. The proof is the Motorola Triumph. This is [...]
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Honestly, The Winklevoss Remora Should Have Bought MySpace, Here’s Why
A few minutes ago, I jokingly tweeted: “@tylerwinklevoss and @winklevoss should have bought @myspace and shown @finkdwhat’s up.” Now I’m starting to actually think I’m right. Here’s why: These guys are fighting the perception that they’re just suckerfish on the Zuckerberg shark. If they honestly think they’re the brains behind Facebook, they should use their brains to eclipse [...]
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Steve Jobs And Wonko The Sane Build A New Cupertino HQ
Steve Jobs thinks big. I like that, but he’s a little nuts. And he’s getting to be more nutty as he grows older. His latest space-themed office building / mothership headquarters / Wonko the Sane’s outside the asylum nut-barn finally shows him as being over the edge. If you haven’t read it, here’s the quote [...]
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How To Find Your I-Go Driver Number (Fix This, @igocarsharing)
I-Go Cars — I love them. I’m all for car sharing and auto borrowing and not buying a car or paying for parking and gas and insurance, but, for christsakes, how many user ID numbers do I need? I’ve got a member number and a member PIN. My member number is not the same as [...]
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Beat the New York Times Paywall with the Stop Button
I don’t read the New York Times much. I like their Chrome web app, but I just don’t always dig their content. It’s just a little oddly pretentious. (If I want pretension, I’ll read The Economist.) So the NYT 20-free-articles-a-month limit isn’t a big deal to me (I probably only read 3 articles in a [...]
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The iPad 2: I Guess I Don’t Get It
I honestly don’t understand all the fuss. There are three things that make the iPad 2 different than the first version: It’s thinner and lighter — not a surprise, that’s how technology trends. It’s faster — it got a new processor, that’s how technology trends. It has cameras … that Apple intentionally left off the [...]
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Pat Quinn, thanks for ending the death penalty, but why are you killing internet commerce?
Pat Quinn, thanks for ending the death penalty, but why are you killing internet commerce? Hello, For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of Illinois residents. Unfortunately, a new state tax law signed by Governor Quinn compels us to terminate this program for Illinois-based participants. It specifically imposes the [...]
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I’m with Coco, Wisconsin
I like Paul Krugman’s take on the Wisconsin situation: Some background: Wisconsin is indeed facing a budget crunch, although its difficulties are less severe than those facing many other states. Revenue has fallen in the face of a weak economy, while stimulus funds, which helped close the gap in 2009 and 2010, have faded away. [...]
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Double AdSense RPM 2.0
One of my most-read posts is about doubling AdSense revenue. The basic idea is to use common sizes (300×250, 728×90) and to give ads prominent (enough) placements. Jamming an advertisement in the footer or low on the page is a poor experience for the advertiser — nobody will see his ad — and a poor [...]
I was wrong: EVERYBODY* wants an iPhone 4S