31
Dec

5 Trends That Will Separate the Strong From the Weak in 2009

Posted by: Kevin Kelleher
in web, Startups, Semiconductors

Year-end prognosticators have their work cut out for them. Most predictions made a year ago were undone by events few actually foresaw. Now things are as uncertain as ever. 2009 could bring a healthy recovery, or another financial crisis could set us back even further.
So rather than specific predictions, it seems more sensible to look […]

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27
Dec

Amazon: The Scrooge of Holiday-Sales Data

Posted by: Kevin Kelleher
in web, Featured, Amazon

I spent five times as much on Christmas presents this year as last year.
That is, I spent $500 in one frenzied day of shopping. Last year, I spent $100 a day over 10 days of shopping.
OK, I made those figures up, but you can see the problem with such selective statistics. I can pretend my […]

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25
Dec

2009: Year of the Hacker

Posted by: Kevin Kelleher
in web, Featured

Looking ahead to 2009, I can’t help but wonder what tens of thousands of skilled tech workers being kicked into a hostile job market will mean, what kind of creativity could be unleashed by workers who, though deprived of a steady paycheck, are freed from the tedious task of working for someone else. I think the results could prove to be positive for the Internet and its community over the long term.

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29
Nov

Is It Time to Buy Google Shares?

Posted by: Kevin Kelleher
in web, Google

Google shares recently fell as much as 67 percent from an all-time high in November of 2007. But while there is plenty of reason for concern in the short term, there are also signs that Google is growing slowly more integrated into many facets of our online experiences. So does that mean it’s time to buy Google shares?

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28
Nov

What If the Recession Does Turn Into a Depression?

Posted by: Kevin Kelleher
in web

It’s far from certain — it’s even a fairly remote possibility — but the possibility of an economic depression is being discussed more and more these days. As is to be expected, the discussion tends to be centered around how much of what we’re used to having could be destroyed.
As worthwhile as it is to […]

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1
Apr

How Google Can Eat Amazon’s Lunch

Posted by: Kevin Kelleher
in web, Google, Amazon

I can’t believe I’m going to do this, but I’m going to do it.

Yesterday, Dave Winer ranted about how blogs have become an ecosystem of recycled conversations about an original thought that happened long ago. Even so, I am going to talk about a post that Dave Winer wrote this weekend.

No, not that post, […]

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1
Feb

Dear Yahoo, I Pwn You. XO Microsoft.

Posted by: Kevin Kelleher
in web, Microsoft, Yahoo, Featured, msft, yhoo

Just when you’d think Google’s financial discombobulation would give Yahoo some rest comes this heartfelt bullet from Microsoft. On the PR newswire this morning runs this incredibly respectful yet dispiritingly asexual love letter from Steve Ballmer to Jerry Yang. And, oh how Mr. Ballmer loves to dish, to wit:

In February 2007, I received a letter […]

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31
Jan

Are the Markets Getting Too Heavy for Google to Lift?

Posted by: Kevin Kelleher
in web, Google, earnings, stocks

Ever since Google’s stock-withering earnings report, I’ve had the Flaming Lips’ “Waiting for a Superman” stuck in my head. Things are indeed getting heavy, and everyone was waiting for Google to lift the sun into the sky. That didn’t happen, and Google’s stock was quickly shoved down 9.5 percent in after-market trading.

Just as it was […]

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