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Follow Me on Google+ 3 Dec 2012 | 11:05 pm
I'll be doing more blogging on Google+, and I'd be honored if you'd join me on Google+ and participated in discussions with me there. This is because I don't trust Twitter (which owns Posterous, where...
Teburu Illustrates the Real Opportunity in Mobile/Tablets 3 Dec 2012 | 11:05 pm
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/30/teburu-debuts-an-android-based-online-mobile-ordering-platform-for-restaurants/ http://www.teburu.com/ This is a great example of what I regard as one of the most im...
Brilliant advertising 8 Nov 2012 | 12:01 am
In Chicago. Day after obama wins. They saw it coming and positioned themselves accordingly. Permalink
The Virtual Currency Revolution Starts With the Poor 28 Sep 2012 | 05:32 pm
Here's a great article from The Next Web: http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/09/28/mobile-money-infographic/ The virtual currency revolution is how poverty gets solved. And it starts with the poor. Tr...
The Implications of Native Apps Opening a Can of Whup Ass on HTML 5 13 Sep 2012 | 04:51 am
Native apps are apps designed specifically to work with a mobile operating system. You may have seen app developers build one app for Android, one for iOS, one for Blackberry, etc. Okay just kidding, ...
Who's Going to Win Mobile Payments? Answer: None of the Existing Players 10 Sep 2012 | 07:33 pm
Leena Rao of Techcrunch has an article worth skimming on the burgeoning payments sector: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/rtJ2MI0_MKc/ NFC is the closest thing to a disruptive innovation....
Get Ready for $7,500 Investment Rounds 5 Sep 2012 | 03:09 am
I've been thinking more about the micro-city I want to create. Basically I want to launch a government within a neighborhood of Chicago. I blogged about this in my last post. I was researching the co...
Networks of City-States Replace Nations 2 Sep 2012 | 09:31 pm
I realized that's a simple way of expressing my view of how the world is changing. Here are some bullet points to ponder: 1. The global economic decline is fueled by excessive debt burdens in nation-...
Samsung Galaxy Camera Illustrates the Coming Android Revolution 31 Aug 2012 | 04:56 am
Here is an article I recommend skimming: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409092,00.asp Basically Samsung is introducing a camera that has Android built into it. All the things you can do with A...
A Great Article on the Bandwidth Crunch, And How to Solve It 20 Aug 2012 | 01:34 am
This is a really good article. I recommend reading it: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/260978/11_ways_around_using_mor... The basic point is that there is a spectrum shortage. Spectrum ...
