Seth Godin shares his take on the rumoured GPhone:

My non-inside prediction of what the third-generation phone they ship will be like:

(Relatively) free
(Relatively) open
Ad supported

So, any carrier can offer it (hence the free part), any developer can easily modify it/enhance it, and the thing is paid for by location-aware permission marketing. Anticipated, personal and relevant ads [...]

Robert X. Cringely has written an interesting piece titled “The Final Days of Google: It is going to be an inside job” which looks at where the next Google killer will come from. He believes that by the way Google structures itself, with employees dedicating 20% of their time to their own projects they are [...]

Valleywag recently published a post “Is 30 too old to start a company?” which suggests that Silicon Valley’s current wisdom is: don’t fund anyone over 30. Ouch, that’s me scuppered then! They put together this table:

That shows some of the top technology startups. Their figures are based on a quick check on the great tech [...]

Hardly an new idea for a business but as spammers constantly evolve their techniques and the technology they use to get their spam into our email inboxes, onto our blogs, forums and guestbooks there will be a continued and growing demand for good spam filtering/blocking technologies.
We’ve put together a start at this – currently not much [...]