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It's just unusual if you think about it. It helps to have been alive in a time before the web was significant. Think of all the companies you give personal information to. Think of…

who was it who said: "it's a fine line between clever and stupid."

the title should be: would the world would be better off with fewer patent trolls?

yes. this is exactly the issue. in fact there are some patent owning institutions who have mandates that prevent them from licensing their patents unless the licensee promises to d…

Sell it as a portable display not a laptop. Give it connectivity via a variety of connectors (not just HDMI). It would be far more useful than an iPad. Keep dreaming, right?

"Dumb fucks" - Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook users You can trust Facebook. Why wouldn't you? Facebook is lovely.

2. Things like Adwords have allowed businesses to exist... What sort of businesses? SEO? You fail to to recognise that business directories aka the yellow pages in some countries w…

so you can see why choice of venue is so important. if this were tried outside of "the valley" you would not get people like this on the jury. your comment about anchoring is spot …

Depends what you're aiming to get out of it.

Not sure how much it relates to the article, but I enjoyed the war story. Good stuff. There's a lot of garabge in online HBR in recent years, mainly on their blogs, as they grovel …

When consumers realise they are paying too much (i.e. people in Asia will be paying less for the "same" phones), then things will get more interesting. Apple's patent suits will en…

If search engines starting charging I'd teach people to scrape and if necessary to crawl, for free. Others would too. The web is about sharing knowledge. I dare any search engine t…

Advertising is now an art form. But not the ads you see on the web. Leave ads to the print, radio and TV folks.