Why Boehner Consults Limbaugh

July 25, 2011

I hear Speaker Boehner ran his debt ceiling plan by Rush Limbaugh. Before today, I would not have been able to understand why. But this morning a taxi picked me up this morning to go to the airport. The driver, a long-haired Vietnam vet was listening softly to Rush Limbaugh. I like to get different […]

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Sonru Levels the Playing Field for Global Job Candidates

July 21, 2011

I’m telling you, the more I travel, the more I understand that the internet has leveled the playing field for entrepreneurship. Twenty-five years ago, Ireland was encouraging foreign companies to build facilities by providing mega tax incentives and cheap land.  That’s because a generation of highly educated Irish youth was leaving the country for jobs […]

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Katango Runs Circles Around Google

July 12, 2011

I have just had a mind-blowing experience: I downloaded Katango.   Robert Scoble, my fearless leader, had mentioned something about it offhandedly last week, maybe on The Gillmor Gang. His was an essentially content-free comment, something on the order of “wait until you see Katango.” I must have filed it somewhere, because when the press […]

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London Startup Roundup

July 8, 2011

i may not have seen Big Ben or the London Bridge, but i have seen my type of London, the London of innovation rather than tradition, youth rather than age. Like startups everywhere, London entrepreneurs occupy interesting spaces in low rent neighborhoods. In London, it’s the Old City area on the not-so-posh East Side. That’s […]

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The Fall of the Nation State

July 4, 2011

I am in the EU for the first time in five years, on a combination vacation and business trip. I mention this because the vacation part of this trip attunes me to more than just my customary meetings with geeks and entrepreneurs. And I’ve come to a controversial conclusion: we are facing the end of […]

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The Fall of the Nation State?

July 4, 2011

I am in the EU for the first time in five years, on a combination vacation and business trip. I mention this because the vacation part of this trip attunes me to more than just my customary meetings with geeks and entrepreneurs. And I’ve come to a controversial conclusion: we are facing the end of […]

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Google+, Jimdo, and the Future of the Open Web

July 1, 2011

The launch of the  Google+ “field trial” has provoked a raft of blog posts. Thankfully, most of them have stuck to describing the feature set and have refrained from making judgments about the product’s future based on two days of trying it out. Andrew Hartung of Forbes, however, decided to go out on a limb […]

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Social Media Delivers ROI, or How I Crowdsourced My Haircut

June 27, 2011

Every once in a while the value of social media is driven home to me in a spectacular way. I’m always asked by my old offline friends whether my online friends are really my friends, or how I can share so much of my life with “complete strangers.” That always makes me wonder who they […]

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If Our Health Care Becomes Like Canada’s is that Good?

June 24, 2011

My family doctor emigrated to the US from Canada years ago. He has just installed an EMR and qualified easily for meaningful use stimulus funds because he takes Medicaid patients. To qualify for meaningful use under Medicaid, all you have to do is order the EMR; it doesn’t even have to be up and running. […]

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The Problem with Social is Social

June 17, 2011

For me, all the new social services are much like bars. There’s nothing I like more than to leave my home office at the end of a day and go to a neighborhood bar. There, I will know the bartenders, and some of the regulars. And I will often meet an interesting new person. I […]

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