Access a virtualized desktop from your browser with VMware
HTML5 roundup: access a virtualized desktop from your browser with VMware. I hope its obvious that this (VMware WSX, see link above) makes Office on the tablet even less attractive. At the very least it will hold the price of Office on single purpose tablets under $100 (prediction). What will change? People will demand virtualization […]
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 […]
Why BitTorrent inc lost the war for online content distribution
Excerpt from a strategy analysis done at the Columbia Business School Summary On the surface, Akamai and Bittorrent have similar solutions to similar sounding problems, to whit: How do you move content from content owner’s originating servers to requesting consumers without the delays associated with the general internet. This is a serious problem for (a) […]
Set Top Box vs. Mobile markets
Excerpt from a strategy analysis done at the Columbia Business School, months before the reveal of the nascent Apple TV plans and when Steve Jobs was still alive and king of the iKingdom – Oji Apple CEO Steve Jobs Live at D8 – John Paczkowski – D8 – AllThingsD Q: Is it time to […]
Hollywood’s harbinger of things to come
I was browsing the web for the ten thousandth time by noon this Sunday when I ran into this post on Boing Boing referring to this article on the Latimes website. The post is deliciously snarky about the current fortunes of uber senator turned lobbyist, Chris Dodd; implying that his crocodile tears are not credible […]
Facebook’s Integration Strategy
Summary At its core, Facebook is a 21st century iteration of a modern communications platform. Communications platforms need to perform a few simple functions – efficiently address the endpoints and provide a channel for communication of reasonable fidelity. Some improvements made over the 20th century include multi-party communications, address books and increasing fidelity (text, voice, […]