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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
The Enterprise, The iPhone, and the Role of Silverlight

With its recent announcement to support ActiveSync on the iPhone , Apple is clearly going after the enterprise user. The problem, as Colin puts it, is that the decisions that consumers make decisions on a radically different set of criteria than organizations . Lack of Exchange support was surely holding...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-27-2008
T-Mobile doesn't know how to treat its customers

It looks like T-Mobile dropped their data plan from $29.99/mo to $19.99/mo. I originally thought this was related to the new unlimited rate plans and losing the Starbucks account , but it was actually back in September (on my birthday no less). I must have missed it at the time, given that whole wedding...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-24-2008
CIGNA Sucks!

Jason explains why ( via Jesse ). (Yeah, I'm late on this one).

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-11-2008
When will the NFL Network standoff end?

Like so many others , I was furious when I couldn't watch the Packers-Cowboys games a few weeks back. The NFL Network is only carried on satellite which is simply not an option for many of us in urban areas like NYC. For those who haven't been paying attention, there's been a long-running...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-27-2007
Verizon to open up its network and devices

Verizon, a company traditionally known for being ultra-controlling with its network and devices on its network, is opening its network in 2008. As Om puts it, "given Verizon’s track record of tight-control of its network including the user interface, this is a huge announcement : akin to Mikhail...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-27-2007
The Case for Freeing the WSJ Online

An interesting article in Business Week about opening up the Wall Street Journal Online in the wake of the sale to Murdoch. For The Wall Street Journal Online, going free will come at a high cost. The daily financial newspaper is one of the few major publications to successfully charge for access to...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-25-2007
Taking on WestLaw and LexisNexis

Carl Malamud is taking on WestLaw and LexisNexis . Carl Malamud has this funny idea that public domain information ought to be... well, public. He has a history of creating public access databases on the net when the provider of the data has failed to do so or has licensed its data only to a private...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-24-2007
What exactly is an iPhone application?

Scoble mentions 3 new iPhone apps today from Newsgator, Bloglines, and Google. It's interesting that companies keep saying they are doing "iPhone development", when really these are nothing more than sites skinned to look more natural on the iPhone. The iPhone is the only mobile phone that...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-24-2007
The Hypocrisy of Live Earth

I'm with Fred on this one - the Live Earth is disgusting and self-serving. As Arctic Monkey drummer Matt Helders said, "Especially when we're using enough power for 10 houses just for (stage) lighting. It'd be a bit hypocritical." The hypocrisy doesn't end there. How many people...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-07-2007

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