Search

Archive for the 'business' Category

Hey Bill, thanks but no thanks

Posted by admin on February 2nd, 2008

Mr Gates,
first, thanks for Vista. I am singularly unimpressed and should have known better. Which brings me to my much larger point.
Please stop trying to squash the Open Source Software movement with your economic clout. You produce software like the government produces corruption; there is a lot of it, it all looks [...]

BofA transaction hopefully will lead to more

Posted by admin on January 11th, 2008

Banking behemoth BofA purchased Countrywide financial for 4 billion and some change.
Ok, so what?  Well, I actually think it is a very positive thing and a sign of hopefully more to come.
First, Countrywide apparently held nearly one in every six mortgages in America at one time.  That seems high to me, so feel free to [...]

they lost the battle, but will win the war

Posted by admin on December 31st, 2007

Netscrape vs Internet Exploder. That was how aficionado’s of their various browser’s disparagingly referred to their competitors product in the mid to late 90’s. It was a heady time, evidenced by the hugely successful IPO of Netscape Corporation in 1995.
I recall when I first moved to Silicon Valley, working for a semiconductor fabricator [...]

I blog, therefore I am

Posted by admin on December 29th, 2007

Ok, hardly worthy of Cartesian logic, but there is something to be said for the concept. If you are not creating content, and blogging is perhaps the best way to do so - as we have repeatedly stated on this site, then as far as the online world is concerned, you do not exist.
One of [...]

the blame game, lets get REAL

Posted by admin on December 21st, 2007

While I work within the ‘traditional’ real estate structure, I am certainly not an apologist for the real estate industry or REALTORS® in particular, nor for the mortgage industry or any other sector of the broader whole. When I hear that the real estate industry is under assault from the media, I try to [...]

Congress will consider legislation shortly to create a national ‘Do Not Track’ registry. I just wanted to remind them, if this goes forward, to call Al Gore and remind him to turn off his internet, and be sure to shut down the dot servers on the way out the door.
Seriously.
As usual, when I start [...]

walk to work or work to walk?

Posted by admin on October 27th, 2007

About 25 years ago I joked to some friends that human bipedal locomotion - walking, was nearly a thing of the past. I went so far as to suggest that legs could largely become vestigial appendages. Now I was 12 at the time, so very few of my friends knew what an appendage [...]

MLS agnostic, unless…

Posted by admin on October 12th, 2007

I have made my rounds at the conferences advocating MLS agnostic technology. I still do. I firmly believe that the future will see more and more tools, widgets and technologies developed that interface with MLS(s) but are not dependent on or tied to a particular MLS… they are MLS Agnostic. The [...]

So your newish neighber sleeps all day and makes noise at absurd hours in the am. Of course you have shared your frustration with your family and friends, but that still leaves you feeling frustrated and needing some kind of closure. A quick search reveals that there is a user-contributed content website (lets [...]

Central vs Distributed, a familiar cycle

Posted by admin on October 1st, 2007

During my ‘digital life’ as I have worked and grown with technology I have seen a number of interesting things happen, ‘quantum leaps’ in thought and implementation. Yet certain puzzles within technology, certain ‘debates’ still rage and always will. My personal favorite is local vs central, or thick vs thin client, or centralized [...]