Goodbye Geocities! Yahoo has just announced that it is shutting down Geocities. I wanted to say goodbye. We (Intel Capital) made an early investment in Geocities (maybe 1997). I remember the meeting where I first learned about it. One of the people in my organization invited me to a meeting to discuss Geocities with the … Continue reading
Category Archives: about business
Digital Equipment Movie about the Professional Computer Series, 1983
In 1979, my wife and I decided to leave Israel where we had been living for five years with our three children. My specialty was computer in medicine (in particular at that time, the use of computers in Cardiology). I felt very confined professionally and felt that I should either focus on medicine (either research … Continue reading
Apple the Singapore of technology
was once quoted by USA Today calling Apple the Singapore of Technology. I like Singapore actually. It is very clean, very planed and very safe and very controlled. But I would never want to live there. Continue reading
12 step program to go from Microsoft to Apple
I am on step 11. Step 1: Buy vista an become convinced that not only will things not get better but they will only get worse. Step 2: Stop thinking that your Mac friends are delusional and imagine that they might be on to something Step 3: Stop thinking about all the problems you might … Continue reading
Is the phone the new typewriter?
Yesterday, my wife and I were talking from Sonoma to friends of ours, a couple in NYC. We were using ichat on my wife’s Mac. Their kids, four and two came in and started talking with us. Of course we could also all see each other via the cameras on each computer. The kids were … Continue reading
One computer down, seven more to go
When I was a young teen (in reality because I am still a young teen in my mind), the number of keys you had said something about your status. Because of that, we kids wore big key chains with all kinds of keys. I think for many of us and certainly for me, the keys … Continue reading
You know you are old when your greatest contribution to the future is documenting the past
While I am still very much interested in the future, I have come to realize that I know a lot more about the past particularly with respect to technology. After all I was working with computer before most of the people that use them were born. For the last few years I have been working … Continue reading
Happy Birthday CD
Twenty five years ago, the CD was born and the digital world of consumer media was born. Wow so much has happened since then. And the poor CD has seen better days. Happy birthday CD! Continue reading
Social Network becomes Social Net WORK
Being the curious guy that I am, I tend to sign up on a lot of web sites which I rarely use. I f course I tried out the social networking when the first came out. For instance, I jump on Friendster as soon as it launched since my friend, Ram was an investors. … Continue reading
Video and me
In 1966, when I was working on bio feedback (brain waves), my friend and colleague, Peter Harris, and I got the idea (actually I think it was Peter that had the idea) to see if we could put up letters on a screen. At that time we use an ASR-33 teletype as are main input … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 