The New York Times > Technology > Adobe to Buy Macromedia in $3.4 Billion Stock Deal

It will be interesting to watch this playout. Both companies are great innovators and create wonderful software. This could be create a software powerhouse which could yield great consumer and business software in the future.The New York Times > Technology > Adobe to Buy Macromedia in $3.4 Billion Stock Deal

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Geo-Greening by Example

It's a shame that Karl Rove and not Thomas Friedman is the primary policy wonk in the White House right now. The price our kids will pay...The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Geo-Greening by Example

The New York Times > Health > Huge Genome Project Is Proposed to Fight Cancer

Why should there be a struggle to find the money to find a nine year effort to create a database of cancer dna data for the purpose of gaining amazing insight for cancer researchers? Congress can make sure that Terri Schiavo has a bill to prolong her life, but can they help our researchers to eradicate cancer? The New York Times > Health > Huge Genome Project Is Proposed to Fight Cancer

The New York Times > Technology > A New Company to Focus on Artificial Intelligence

This guy founded Palm and Handspring and is supposedly a very smart guy. It will be very interesting to follow the progress of the business and to hear the Audible version of their book 'On Intelligence'. The New York Times > Technology > A New Company to Focus on Artificial Intelligence: "On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines"

These are way cool... Apple - Mac mini

I want one of these with a 40" flat panel LCD HDTV. The combo with cable DSL is the ultimate entertainment/PC setup. Apple - Mac mini

PC Mini

I really want to get a PC Mini, but they don't exist yet. This idea from Apple, the Mac Mini, is ahead of its time. The concept is a small pc that fits in your entertainment center. With this device hooked up to cable and a 30 LCD flatscreen you have the ultimate entertainment center. You can view you PC and HDTV simultaneously. You can stream bittorrent files and record TV. You can view digital photos and edit your videos. Hook up your wireless keyboard and you're doing it all from your bed... I'm definitely going to get a PC Mini and hopefully a 30" flat screen television in the near future.PC Mini

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail

This article and it's outlook is creating a fair amount of buzz. The premise is what I told Amazon when I interviewed there for position as the Sr. PM for Digital Music. They didn't believe that the market for indie was that promising... Wired 12.10: The Long Tail

BetterBadNews

This is entertaining...BetterBadNews

Google Print

Looks like Google is going head-on with Amazon with the Google Print Beta.Google Print

Scripting News: 3/3/2005: This is a great quote from someone who's been there and gets it.

Scripting News: 3/3/2005: "I've gotten a lot of email from reporters asking how I know that Mark Lucovsky, Microsoft's distinguished operating system architect, is now working at Google. Well, I have good sources. And you could always read his blog, about life at Google. He says: 'Microsoft used to know how to ship software, but the world has changed. The companies that 'know how to ship software' are the ones to watch. They have embraced the network, deeply understand the concept of 'software as a service,' and know how to deliver incredible value to their customers efficiently and quickly.'"

The genie is out of the bottle

This week's Newsweek cover has a "photo illustration" of Martha Stewart. This image is a composite of multiple images and is not called out as such. This is symbolic of the trend toward reality becoming far less real. In courts, business and the media the line between what is a real image and what is composed is now definitely obscured.MSNBC - Martha Breaks Out

From Scripting News: 3/2/2005

Scripting News: 3/2/2005: "Okay, we don't know for a fact that Google is working on an operating system, but the tea leaves are pretty damned clear. Why else would they have hired Microsoft's operating system architect, Mark Lucovsky? Surely not to write a spreadsheet or word processor."

This would make a lot of sense, since their current business model has holes in it. Yesterday the e-Retail analyst Carrie Johnson asked "How many of you have clicked on one of those right side bar ads?". That's a great question and one that I'm sure is being asked by a lot of the Google advertisers. With the brain trust at Google and the marketcap, they've got an opportunity which will be very interesting to watch.

Worthwhile: Prius -- The "Kleenex" of Green Car Brands

This is a great magazine, which I recently subscribed to (print edition) with a great article on celebrities arriving at the Academy Awards in their Prius... Right on, and now we just have to get political leadership to think the same way!Worthwhile: Prius -- The "Kleenex" of Green Car Brands

Creative Zen Micro: I've Got One Now

This weekend has been spent playing with my new Zen Micro. For the most part loading my entire music collection onto it, but also rocking out. It has the best sound quality of any portable electronics device I've ever heard and a lot of extra bells and whistles. Best of all it my Honda Element has a 7 speaker 240 watt stereo with a sub-woofer and an MP3 player jack... so ROCK ON. Creative Zen Micro review

Sonos Digital Music System to stream digital music wirelessly from PC to any speakers in your home

This is very similar to the first commercial product my company Thinkmedia worked on in 1989, called the Audio Navigator. It's amazing that only now is this kind of a 'smart home' music device reaching larger audiences. Sonos Digital Music System to stream digital music wirelessly from PC to any speakers in your home

The Debacle that is Iraq: NY TImes - Insurgents Wage Surgical Attacks on Baghdad Fuel

The New York Times > International > Middle East > Insurgents Wage Surgical Attacks on Baghdad Fuel

Advertising: Interactive Viral Campaigns Ask Consumers to Spread the Word

This is a growing niche in the business/technology world and one that I used to focus on as a Product Manager, unfortunately the business model was a little too early to market. The New York Times > Business > Media & Advertising > Advertising: Interactive Viral Campaigns Ask Consumers to Spread the Word

Don Park's Scary Proposal On Dealing With N. Korea

Don Park's Daily Habit: "# North Korea
North Korea announced that it has nuclear weapons. While this is hardly news, public announcement makes it important. As I mentioned in a Dave Winer's morning coffee podcast (can't find the link just now but, fyi, it was recorded during a NDA-covered event at Microsoft ;-p), I don't think North Korean regime has any intentions to give up it's nuclear weapons nor shutdown it's nuclear programs. I believe they see the six-nation talk only as a way to buy time and gain resources while the talk is going on.
Serious military and economic confrontations with China lie in the path to nuclear weapon free Korean peninsula. The biggest ball in those confrontations, economy, will also be the best card to play in a game of who has more to lose: China or US.
IMHO, the best strategy is for Bush to not only talk about possibility of direct military actions but also sharply escalate war talks, enough to make economic losses seem as real as the sunrise tommorrow. In simpler terms, Bush has to bluff seriously to force China to throw away the hand: North Korea. Then he has to blockade North Korea, with China's cooperation, until North Korea implodes. Lots of sacrifices will be needed, but I think this is the best although not the most wishful solution."

Don Park's Daily Habit - I think Don's perspective on Carly Fiorini is on the money.

Don Park's Daily Habit: "# Carly Fiorina
I am happy to see that HP board finally came to their senses and booted Carly. Every decisions she made seemed wrong to me, driving forward recklessly and leaving the company unprepared for what was to come. She wasn't happy driving a good old farm tractor so she smashed it against a rundown city bus and tried to drive what came of the mess like a K-mart sponsored race car."

Google Maps - Wow this is cool!

Google Maps