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“Oh oh it's magic” – Part Deux

Sonos is remarkably well done. But in my mind it’s only the tip of the iceberg; Sonos is a very-specific audio implementation of the combination of three technologies:

WiFi as the new household remote control standard – replacing infrared, X.10, and other standards. For $50, a house can get a WiFi access point [...]

“Oh oh it’s magic”

Oh oh it’s magic When I’m with you (Oh-o, it’s magic)Oh oh it’s magic, just a little magic (gotta be magic)You know it’s true I got a hold on you

The Cars

 

I’ve got a lot of friends who have raved about Sonos for a long while. But because I’m a bit of a hack, I’ve [...]

The Economist: Best Books of 2009

The best economics and business books of the year, according to The Economist magazine:

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial Systems–and Themselves. By Andrew Ross Sorkin. Viking; 624 pages; $32.95. Allen Lane; £14.99
A riveting fly-on-the-wall account of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and what [...]

Microsoft caught acting like Microsoft, 2009 version (aka Silverlight)

TechCrunch has a nice post about the history and drivers of MS’s browser innovation (or lack thereof). Rather than playing nicely with the exciting development of HTML 5, MS instead is dragging its feet and trying to push people toward its latest trojan horse, which is called SilverLight.

I wonder if, in their strategic planning, [...]