Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled

June 2007 - Posts

• Jun

  18

  2007

  Is touch the next big thing in mobile?

  Om Malik says that, in a sense, the iPhone has already changed the mobile business because they're "making it okay to experiment with new ideas, and throw out previously taboo notions." Now Tero Ojanpera, the Nokia CTO, believes that "optical sensors and touch will be the next big things". Personally... Posted Jun 18 2007, 04:51 PM by Tim with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Technology, Gadgets

• Jun

  18

  2007

  Twitter is, or will be, a Messaging Platform

  Charlie discusses the future of Twitter and touches on what I think are two key points: corporate twitter and content subscription. The key as Charlie discusses is the opt-in and one-way nature of Twitter. That is, I only get updates from someone if I explicitly choose to receive them, and the party... Posted Jun 18 2007, 03:05 PM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Technology, Web 2.0, Innovation, Business, Blogging

• Jun

  11

  2007

  There's no such thing as Web 2.0

  I've said before that I hate the term Web 2.0 but that it's more than a buzzword . Perhaps what I meant to say is what Marc Andreessen said: there's no such thing as Web 2.0 ( via Fred Wilson ) - thing being the key word there. The first Web 2.0 conference was held in the fall of 2004, and coincided... Posted Jun 11 2007, 03:09 PM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Technology, Software Development, Web 2.0, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Venture Capital

• Jun

  10

  2007

  The Sopranos Series Finale

  I never thought we were going to get closure, but perhaps the issue was that we got too much of it. A lot of it just felt, for a lack of a better word, cheesy to me. Complex story lines that were developed over several years were tied up with amazing ease, especially the whole feud with NY. (They went... Posted Jun 10 2007, 11:38 PM by Tim with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Rants, Things that bother me, Things that amuse me, Video

• Jun

  04

  2007

  Refocusing Net Neutrality

  Awhile back, I echoed the electricity analogy : the problem is that the "telecoms are threatening to charge a premium for how the utility is used, instead of how much of it is used." Someone from the Hands Off the Internet Coalition commented on that post. Tim, the analogy is flawed and doesn't make... Posted Jun 04 2007, 01:36 PM by Tim with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Technology, Rants, Things that bother me, Google, Video, Net Neutrality

• Jun

  04

  2007

  The real reason for Google's free 411 service

  Tim O'Reilly speculated why Google is really doing a free 411 service . In short, I'm speculating that the 1-800-GOOG-411 service is designed to harvest voice data to build Google's own speech database, rather than licensing from Nuance or another player. Charlie confirmed this at the recent Google Developer... Posted Jun 04 2007, 12:32 PM by Tim with no comments Filed under: Technology, Web 2.0, Google, Advertising