I've been thinking a lot lately about the invisible consequences of our smartphone/mobile/digital world. Somewhere down the road, the dematerialization of cultural artifacts will be viewed, I…
Three data points start this exploration:1) According to Thomson Reuters, Apple is moving the entire S&P 500: "the fourth-quarter earnings growth rate for the S&P 500 is…
With the soft launch of Google Plus, it's an opportune time to thinkabout digital privacy, insofar as Google is explicitly targetingwidespread user dissatisfaction with Facebook's treatment of…
Thanks in part to vigorous efforts by vendors (led by IBM) to bring the idea to a wider public, analytics is coming closer to the mainstream. Whether…
As various analysts and technology executives assess the pros and cons of cloud computing, two points of consensus appear to be emerging: A) very large data centers…
In the beginning, there was data, enumerating how many, what kind, where. Data was kept in proprietary formats and physically located: if the library was missing the…
As one surveys the landscape of industries whose business models have been transformed by the Internet, airline ticketing and travel agents invariably come in near the top…
In this last week of 2009, it's scary to think that it was a full ten years ago that the IT profession was holding its collective breath…
As is our custom, every November we revisit the previous year's predictions. Given that one of the dominant themes of 2009 has been stagnation -- of reform…
This newsletter is about numbers, specifically these:9103,000664,93260100,000We'll take these in turn.According to Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker, whose Web 2.0 presentation should be required reading, the iPhone and…
