Archive for March, 2012


Putting aside its recent struggles due to a price increase and confusion over its DVD-by-mail strategy, Netflix is still the most popular streaming service available today, with about 24 million users in the U.S. alone. But Netflix didn’t become popular because it had the best




“It doesn’t seem to me that Europe and North America will be major drivers of structural change in the global economy in the future. We have to think about how change will emerge in places like China, India, Indonesia, Brazil; understand what the push numbers


And then there’s the argument that the cloud is making it easier for a lot of people and organizations to do more than they would otherwise have done. As RedMonk analyst Tom Raftery noted (quoting Infochimps’ Flip Kromer), “anyone with a $10 bill can rent

Twitter is often mislabeled as a social network when it’s actually more of a real-time information network. Yes, people make connections, but they tend to connect based on shared interests and location above existing friendships. You don’t follow your friends from high school, or others
