Deal Radar 2008: Kayak Consolidates Travel

As we have discussed, Online Travel is a large category, and active in entrepreneurship. Web 1.0 produced giant companies (Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, Priceline), and in Web 2.0 we have a couple of vertical search engines that are pulling ahead. Kayak, the world’s largest travel search engine, receives more than 6 million unique visitors per month.

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Trend Radar 2008: Device Usability

Legend has it that John Rubinstein, father of the iPod, left Apple last year because he and Steve Jobs could not agree on one fundamental usability element for the iPhone. Rubinstein wanted the iPhone to have a keyboard. Jobs didn’t. While the iPhone has broken many records in achieving better usability, the lack of a

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Microsoft, The Sleeping Giant

In 2008, I hope Microsoft wakes up. With Google and Apple going gangbusters, Microsoft has threats coming at it from every direction. As we discussed earlier, Microsoft earned revenues of $13.76 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, a 27% increase over the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and

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Deal Radar 2008: MyStrands is MyChoice

Given how much you heard me talk about personalization being an open opportunity, I would like to start my Deal Radar 2008 series with MyStrands, a company that has taken the personalization opportunity seriously. Founded in 2003, by Dr. Francisco J. Martin, MyStrands has developed a social recommender engine designed to provide personalized recommendations of

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Trend Radar 2008: The Convergence Device Movement

I have tried to consistently synthesize trends that I see in the technology industry for my readers. In this new series, I will take a look at where these trends are going in 2008. The Convergence Device movement is in full swing, and as you have heard me say time and again, this is one

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The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje

And here’s a new year’s gift from my Renaissance Mind to yours, The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje.

The Journey Into “You”

Here’s an excerpt from Eckart Tolle’s Power of Now on how to get Beyond Mind through Meditation, and find the authentic self: (Read this v…e…r…y……..s…l…o…w…l…y) “The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind. This is the only true liberation. You can take the first step right now.

Happy New Year

Let me say it with 3 Steve Jobs quotes: “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you

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