Bittorrent Redux
I wrote about bittorrent here and contrasted them with the much more successful Akamai. This seems like an odd juxtaposition to some, but the fact is that bittorrent wanted to play in content distribution and even made and marketed products that claimed to do so. Of course we know their strategy was lacking vis a […]
Astroturfing the Windows Phone Platform
About a year ago, I came across a curious controversy by a CEO of a small expense management company Expensify. It’s pure geekiness but the comments by the CEO created a heated backlash, and it created enough of a furor in Nerdland that I took notice. True to the adage that there’s nothing like bad […]