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  • Innovation, Disruption and The Economics of Free

    Hank Williams managed to stir up quite the controversy with his recent post lamenting the rise of free and blaming the VCs . His assertion is that the venture capitalists have made free, ad-supported businesses the norm and effectively "ruined it for everyone else" (my words). I believe it...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-08-2008

  • A look at Apple and Microsoft strategies

    I've been thinking about some of the interesting strategic decisions that Microsoft has made lately. I already discussed their curious IP licensing strategy , and their choices with Zune and Windows Media Player have me similarly baffled. In many ways, these moves have been something I expect more from...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-01-2007

  • Is Apple following Palm's footsteps?

    The recent BootCamp announcement is an interesting shift in strategy for Apple, and I think there are two ways to look at this move. On one hand, they have removed a barrier for people buying Apple hardware. People who like the new MacBook Pro but are either afraid or unwilling to give up Windows. If...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-14-2006

  • Webaroo seems so 1999 to me

    At first glance, here's something I don't get: Webaroo . They store the content of Web pages for offline retrieval , apparently keeping it searchable and serving it alongside ads. Acer laptops will come with a 40Gb pre-packaged web pack. I'm sure, or at least I hope, they're doing something more than...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-10-2006

  • Redefining the Generalist

    Like Matt , I think this describes me pretty well . As you can probably tell from my writing, I find myself pulled in a number of directions. It's what attracted me a liberal arts school (to study Computer Science, no less) and eventually drew me to law school . Casting your net far and wide gives you...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-05-2006

  • Death by Risk Aversion

    Real innovation and revolutionary thinking necessarily requires an element of risk. Things that are safe and grounded in conventional wisdom are by definition evolutionary, not revolutionary. Risk-aversion is the single biggest innovation killer . Memo to Microsoft: you've got people doing some amazing...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-04-2006

  • My Crusade Against Cubicles

    Cubicles are just awful . It is often thought that the openness contributes to team building, but I still insist real relationships are not built in the office. The openness is also a huge drain on productivity especially for work that requires contiguous blocks of time. (Context switches are expensive...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-01-2006
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