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Entries from August 2007

Rethinking The Chasm

August 8th, 2007 · No Comments

A great article on Crossing The Chasm, a theory on the diffusion of innovations by G.Moore, which had a significant and lasting impact on high tech entrepreneurship of the past two decades.
In Crossing the Chasm, Moore begins with the diffusion of innovations theory from Everett Rogers, and argues there is a chasm between the early […]

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Against Open Culture

August 2nd, 2007 · 5 Comments

A must-read for all internet web 2.0 enthusiasts, an article by Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur, the most disputable book of 2007, and a heresy here in Silicon Valley. Read also The Great Seduction, Andrew’s blog.

Web 2.0 has transformed our culture into a crowd of mediocrity without a voice.
The open community, […]

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Updates from Stanford Summit

August 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Everything Is Changing
“The #1 English-speaking nation in the world is China. China has more honors students than we have students. They graduate a whole Silicon Valley’s worth of engineers in a year.”
The Killer App for Virtual Reality Is Civility
“People spend about U.S.$30 million a month — $1.3 million a day — in Second Life buying […]

Tags: Web & Tech · Economy

Inspired by: Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart, Father Of Modern Computing

August 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments

I had the great honor of meeting Dr. Doug Engelbart, one of the greatest inventors of the 21st century. Doug, mostly famous for his invention of the computer mouse, is considered the father of modern interactive computing thanks to his visionary concepts and inventions of the computer networks, knowledge sharing, graphical user interfaces, and collective […]

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