My Contrarian Stance on Facebook and Privacy - O'Reilly Radar (May 21 2010 Tim O'Reilly) つねにユーザに選択権があるべきだと言うだけならかんたんだ。しかしスティーヴ・ジョブズからマーク・ズッカーバーグにいたるアントレプレナーたちは、ユーザが…

Mobile apps & the missing links - bijansabet.com モバイル・アップス(とアップ・ストア)を開発することの強みは次のものだ。ユーザ・エクスペリエンス、配給の仕組み、収益の機会。 ところがモバイル・アップスはモバイル・ウェブの非常に重要な機能を欠…

A VC: I Prefer Safari to Content Apps On The iPad (May 30, 2010 Fred Wilson) (This is a translated version of "A VC" blog post. Thanks to Fred Wilson.) わたしはアイパッドで、話題の「ワイアード」アップなど、いくつかのコンテント・アップスを…

Android Fanboys Have Arrived. And That’s A Good Thing (May 30, 2010 MG Siegler) 先週にも長い文章で述べたことだが、アップルとグーグルの競合関係はわたしたち皆にとってよいことだろう。それはひとつには、両社の力がだいたい拮抗してくれば、その競…

House Increases Taxes On Venture Capital At A Time When More Investment In Innovation Is Needed | Techdirt (May 28th 2010 4:44pm Mike Masnick) There are certainly lots of problems with our financial system today, and many questions about t…

Rebooting Prosperity in an Age of Austerity - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review (12:42 PM Thursday May 27, 2010 Umair Haque) Rebooting prosperity is the great challenge of the teens. There's no single right way to do it. But those who …

Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Magazine (May 24, 2010 Nicholas Carr) What kind of brain is the Web giving us? That question will no doubt be the subject of a great deal of research in the years ahead. Alread…

Zuck: I Could Have Sold Facebook For $1 Billion At Age 22, So No, Revenues Are Not My Top Concern (May 28, 2010, 7:54 AM) So we had this episode where Yahoo and Viacom and all these companies were trying to buy the company. And it was this…

A VC: A New Look For AVC (May 28, 2010 Fred Wilson) Nathan and I started thinking about a new design for AVC a few months ago and I blogged about it. We got a ton of great comments from all of you which we read through carefully. We also u…

Does Warren Buffett Deserve His Outsider Rep? -- New York Magazine (May 23, 2010 Duff McDonald) Perhaps most damning to his cultivated image of being above it all is the fact that until last year, Berkshire Hathaway was the largest shareho…

Making Control Simple | Facebook (May 26, 2010 at 10:55am Mark Zuckerberg) On a personal note, I just turned 26 years old a few days ago. I started Facebook when I was 19 and it's amazing to look back at how it has evolved. There have been…

The Betterness Manifesto - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review (10:00 AM Thursday May 20, 2010 Umair Haque) Cut. "Consume" less. Do you really need another pair of designer jeans, three soy mocha Frappuccinos a day, or a bigger TV? Reall…

Don't Rule Out a Double Dip Recession - WSJ.com (MAY 24, 2010 Christopher Wood) Meanwhile, in America bank lending continues to decline as does the velocity of money in circulation. If this persists, markets will face worryingly low GDP gr…

Facebook and a question of trust - Times Online (May 23, 2010 Dominic Rushe) Facebook’s privacy policy is now 5,830 words long, more than the US Constitution. “Our online selves are not just stuff for databases, they are part of us. Facebo…

It's hard to do two things at once - bijansabet.com (May 25, 2010 Bijan Sabet) 昨日わたしはテッククランチ・ディスラプトに出席した。 古くからの友人に会ったり、新しいスタートアップに出会うことは楽しかった。 それから、わたしはあるパネルに「ジ…

It's Looking a Lot Like a Correction ... or Worse - WSJ.com (MAY 23, 2010 Dave Kansas) 4 The KBW Bank Index: The financial crisis began as a credit crunch that eviscerated the banking sector. When things are bad in Europe, bank stocks, esp…

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Facebook's identity lock-in (May 21, 2010 03:38 PM Nicholas Carr) More insidious than Facebook's data lock-in is its identity lock-in. The invisibility that Dylan describes at the end of "Like a Rolling St…

Yahoo Snaps Up Associated Content for $90 Million to Compete With AOL and Demand Media | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (May 18, 2010 at 1:00 PM PT Kara Swisher) Yahoo’s Ko also called Associated Content a “pioneer” in the space to m…

What Is Yahoo Thinking? Buying Associated Content Opens Up A Whole Can Of Worms (May 18, 2010 Erick Schonfeld) ヤフーはアソシエーテッド・コンテントの買収により、AOLやディマンド・メディアと同じ道をたどることになりそうだ。この商談の詳細は開…

Happy Loser Tim Armstrong Made $15 Million Cash Yesterday (May. 19, 2010, 9:52 AM Nicholas Carlson) AOLのCEOティム・アームストロングは昨年秋AOLにアソシエーテッド・コンテントを買収するよう要請したが、当時AOLの親会社であったタイム・ワーナー…

Apple Building Facebook Into iPhone OS (May. 12, 2010, 3:28 PM Dan Frommer) We also anticipate -- but don't know -- that Apple may build some sort of Facebook messaging features into the iPhone. Perhaps you'll be able to send Facebook mess…

Social Luxury is Personal - The Steve Rubel Stream (10 May 2010 Steve Rubel) Where once a single TV show or a celebrity could define luxury, that's no longer the case. The media environment is too fragmented today and it's increasingly per…

Confusing *a* public with *the* public « BuzzMachine (May 8th, 2010 at 3:13 pm Jeff Jervis) People accuse Zuckerberg of killing privacy and of wanting it dead. I think that’s likely unfair. I think instead he does see a profound cultural s…

Confusing *a* public with *the* public « BuzzMachine (May 8th, 2010 at 3:13 pm Jeff Jervis) フェースブックとマーク・ズッカーバーグはどうやら、いったんそれがパブリックとなったら、ずっとパブリックであると決め付けているようだ。共有することと…

The Market Plunge (May 7, 2010 Fred Wilson) I'm more optimistic about institutions turning to the private markets where capital is still traded by humans. I believe the secondary market where institutional private capital comes into the ca…

Is Facebook the new internet and how soon before Microsoft tries to buy it ? « blog maverick (Apr 22nd 2010 9:41AM Mark Cuban) It wasnt all that long ago that the concept of Apple excluding Flash from its mobile platform would have been la…

AOL seeks to fill need for local news with online news site Patch (May 3, 2010 Norman Gomlak) John Morton, a newspaper analyst based in Silver Spring, said it's unclear whether local online news ventures can succeed financially. He said on…

Asian stocks drop as China raises bank reserves - Yahoo! Finance (May 3, 2010, 5:05 am Alex Kennedy) After surging last year, Asian stock markets will likely trade sideways for the next few months as traders monitor whether economic growth…

How to Prevent Another Global Bubble | Market Features | Financial Articles & Investing News | TheStreet.com (05/01/10 - 08:49 AM EDT John Authers) I anxiously checked the Bloomberg terminal. One screen showed minute-by-minute action that …