Google has raised its flag (spotlit too) over its newish Santa Monica offices. (Yes, everyone hears the siren call and comes to LA and Hollywood eventually) But think about Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, maybe Skype. Has there ever been faster worldwide acceptance of new brands and companies than right now?

Chowhound has always been an indispensable chaotic guide to what was good to eat and where to find it in big city America. Run totally by consumer contributions, the good was sorted from the bad by the wisdom of crowds idea, reputation of posters, and constant testing of theories and posts by the range of readership. CNet [...]

The demand to provide faster broadband is going to explode off the charts pretty soon. The moment you commit to a fast/faster DSL/wireless/cable service is the moment you know you need even faster. We're now at Verizon's 3000 kbps download speed. (way past the T1 line level) Were at 1500kbps. Before that 780kbps. Dialup once. [...]

Computers are boring. The Windows environment is crushingly dull. Most of us use the Microsoft Intel Computer environment unthinkingly. Bill Gates and IBM set up a paradigm we basically all live by today. Yes, its breaking down. Seeping to other environments, like phone. But slowly. So what if you approached work computing a different way? The Brain showed [...]

Talk to anyone. We're all under siege from the number of emails we get every day. Time dealing with them is the killer. Hundreds pour into everyone's Outlook through a variety of addresses. From a hundred different spots. We need to cut back. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />  A Microsoft senior guy works on his email mountain for one [...]

Why don't airlines blog? They're in the customer service business. They transport hundreds of thousands of people every hour, every day. They have an urgent need to communicate. But, they don't. Either communicate. Or blog.  In fact, most airlines attitudes rival the Kremlin under Stalin.(that often includes their flight attendants, but that's a different story) Enter [...]