Tag Archives: Net

How the Internet becomes the Content-o-net

The Cinternet is Donnie Hao Dong’s name for the Chinese Internet. Donnie studies and teaches law in China and is also a fellow here at Harvard’s Berkman Center. As Donnie sees (and draws) it, the Cinternet is an increasingly restricted … Continue reading

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The Father of All Business Models

First, read Dave‘s The Mother of all Business Models. The money grafs: Want to get a message to Dave while he’s on the BART riding under SF? $5. Want to get a message to him while he’s walking the tradeshow … Continue reading

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The Infrastructure Dynamic

I just posted Rupert Murdoch vs. The Web, over at Linux Journal. In it I suggest that the Murdoch story (played mostly as Bing vs Google) is a red herring, and that the real challenge is to free the Web … Continue reading

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Thinking past the I-I boundary

For the form of life we call business, we are at a boundary between eras. For biological forms of life, the most recent of these is the K-T boundary between theĀ  Mesozoic and the Cenozoic Eras. The Mezozoic Era ended … Continue reading

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The Trillion-Dollar Market

Forget financial markets for a minute, and think about the directions money moves in retail markets. While much of it moves up and down the supply chains, the first source is customers. The money that matters most is what customers … Continue reading

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Nettapping for everyone

ISPs are pressed to become child porn cops is a new MSNBC piece by Bill Dedman and Bob Sullivan. It begins, New technologies and changes in U.S. law are adding to pressures to turn Internet service providers into cops examining … Continue reading

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