The spontaneous society

In school they teach you that one of the drivers of economic progress over the centuries has been society's increasingly accurate manage...

How to make a college basketball fan very, very happy

A year ago I wrote a frustrated critique of the CBS television network's online coverage of the US national college basketball tournamen...

Maybe it's possible to have too many developers

I never thought I'd say that, but Apple's making me wonder. Apple says 100,000 developers have already downloaded the iPhone SDK ( ...

The iPhone SDK: Apple gets it right

I have time tonight for only a quick note on Apple's iPhone software developer kit announcement. Overall, it is deeply impressive how m...

Nokia and Microsoft, sittin' in a tree...

There's so much hype in the mobile industry that I'm always reluctant to use a word like "shocking," but nothing else fits...

The three laws of technology strategy

The other day when I was writing about the fate of mobile apps ( http://profsmythe.blogspot.com /2008/02/mobile-applications-rip.html"...

Following up on "Mobile Applications, RIP"

I was very surprised by the volume of responses to last week's post on the decline of the mobile applications business. Many of the com...