Twitter’s Realpolitik & The Sovereign-ization of the Internet
January 27, 2012
Reports that “Twitter Can Censor by Country” is a perfect example of how the world is changing the Internet. Change is a two-way street. Conventional wisdom that only assumes the Internet is changing the world risks being blind-sided by the Internet’s underappreciated exa-trend: how the world is changing the Internet.
See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post: “Twitter Realpolitik & the Sovereignization of the Internet” to learn about Twitter’s new realpolitik and how sovereign powers will increasingly be asserting themselves vis a vis the Internet.
Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet
January 11, 2012
Android’s Pickpocket Behind Google Wallet
December 9, 2011
The kerfuffle that paints the Google Wallet App as an innocent victim of Verizon blocking — in violation of an “open” Internet and net neutrality regulations — completely misses the forest for the trees. This conflict revolves around two ongoing industry battles.
To see what this kerfuffle is really all about, read my Forbes Tech Capitalist post Android’s Pickpocket Behind Google Wallet.
Jobs’ Apple Standard vs. Page’s Google Standard
October 12, 2011
Given that Apple and Google are the #1 and #2 most valuable brands in the world and that Google has invaded all of Apple’s markets in the last few years as a new competitor, it is illuminating and instructive to compare and contrast the radically different visions, values, and standards, of Apple’s former leader Steve Jobs and Google’s current CEO Larry Page.
See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post: “Jobs’ Apple Standard vs. Page’s Google Standard” here.
The Next Leg of Wireless Growth?
October 10, 2011
See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post “The Next Leg of Wireless Growth? here.
