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4 January 2012 2 Comments

You’re not Google’s customer

By: Eric Peterson

There was a lot of hue and cry out there a month or so ago about the guy whose daughter cried when Google figured out she was underage and shut down her account. Most of the noise is appreciative of Rich Warren’s plight and we get it; a young girl has had her lifeline to [...]

15 November 2011 2 Comments

The seven deadly sins

By: Eric Peterson

If you’re in the US, you’ve probably noticed that all the trappings of the winter solstice celebration season have been in stores for several weeks, even predating the actual festivities related to the evening normally reserved for remembrance of the dead (and give adults an excuse to act like adolescents). However, several events over the [...]

5 October 2011 0 Comments

Thanks, Steve

By: Jason Levine

A random eulogy to Steve Jobs I’ve never met Steve Jobs nor am I important enough for anyone in the media to seek a quote from on his passing. But I have as long of a history as anyone with Apple products.  My first computer was an Apple II followed by the IIe, the IIc, [...]

30 September 2011 0 Comments

Disguising thoughts that aren’t there

By: Eric Peterson

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. — Voltaire (1694 – 1778), Dialogue, XIV, “Le Chapon et la Poularde” (1766) Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. — George Eliot (1819 – 1880) The other day, I wrote [...]

27 September 2011 0 Comments

Googlopoly

By: Eric Peterson

Last week, Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, spent a day in Washington subjecting himself to a little Senatorial inquiry into the way it does business, and as Stacy Higginbotham so adeptly noted on GigaOm, Congress doesn’t get Google, and Google doesn’t get Congress. At this point, though, it’s not easy to tell which will have a [...]