Nothing Ever Happens

Solving the Fermat’s last theorem vs. unlocking the mystery of the Linear B ancient syllabary.
When we started our first business in 1999, my partner Matej contemplated that success finally will result from the sheer amount of time that one is able to invest into a goal. He argued that no matter how good the […]

Esther’s on the board!
Fascinating and inspiring article about her from Wired (she calls herself a “radical,” in the etymologically correct sense of one who responds to root causes), and a recent video interview on Charlie Rose. “The best way to find edges is to fall over them.”
iPhone finally unlocked!
(by iphonesimfree.com, hope it’s not a […]

The Silicon Alley Insider analyzed revenue trends of 19 biggest US media companies, where 4 of them are online, and 15 and ‘traditional’ offline media companies (TV, print, radio, and outdoor).
The findings are stunning: the 4 online companies picked up 7 percentage points of market share in a single year from the combined total pie. […]

One of the major disadvantages of the CPM pricing model is that it means “Cost Per Thousand” and not “Cost Per One” as many oftentimes confuse, including top Morgan Stanley’s analysts.
Morgan Stanley’s Internet analyst Mary Meeker was a good deal more optimistic than we and others were about the revenue impact of YouTube’s new overlay […]

It is basically all about finding the right job for your product!
Clay Christensen, the eminent Harvard professor and author of one of the most important books on management, The Innovator’s Dilemma suggests that when customers need to get a job done, they “hire” products and services to do that job. Rather than match consumer demographics […]

“Fear of public opinion, like every other form of fear, is oppressive and stunts growth. It is difficult to achieve any kind of greatness while a fear of this kind remains strong, and it is impossible to acquire that freedom of spirit in which true happiness consists, for it is essential to happiness that our […]

IN addition to all said in mind-boggling Shift Happens video..there is now renowned visionary and computer scientist from MIT MediaLab Nicholas Negroponte, finally releasing to the World his One Laptop Per Child laptop.
Personal computing and online access becoming ubiquitous..means that the other +5 billion offline people will become netizens. This is the REAL shift.
It isn’t […]

“When the present catches up with the future.”
Marc Canter founded Macromind, which became Macromedia, where he invented the underlying technologies of the multimedia web of today..His new start-up is People Aggregator, a white-label opensource social network..
I met with Marc in Amsterdam over a real american 100% weed joint and a good cup of tea. […]