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Profitably Exploiting Near-Earth Object Resources (ISDC 05)

May 21, 2005

This afternoon, I spoke about the business case for mining near-Earth objects at the International Space Development Conference. My conference paper for his session can be found here (PDF) and the presentation can be found here (PPT) and here (PDF). ). A complete transcript of the presentation follows. I look forward to any feedback that [...]

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Successful Space Entrepreneuring (ISDC 05)

May 20, 2005

This was another great International Space Development Conference plenary session. The panelists were excellent, and the presentations and discussion were really top-knotch and informative. The moderator and panelists were the following:

Armand Musey, President, Near Earth LLC
David Gump, CEO, Transformational Space LLC
Jim Maser, President and [...]

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Building an Open Source Space Program (ISDC 05)

May 20, 2005

This afternoon at the International Space Development Conference, I made a presentation entitled “Building an Open Source Space Program.” The conference paper for his session can be found here (PDF) and the presentation can be found here (PPT) and here (PDF). I have provided a transcript of my discussion below. Your comments and feedback are [...]

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New Entrepreneurs (ISDC 05)

May 19, 2005

Esther Dyson moderated a great panel discussion with a good cross-section of the new space entrepreneurs. The discussion introduced many of the themes that would be heard again and again over the course of the conference. Some of these themes include the parallels between the early days of the PC revolution and the current commercial [...]

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Have Mobile Carriers Become Too Dominant?

March 15, 2005

The Motorola-iTunes mess (Motorola was set to unveil its new handset with an integrated Apple iPod music player at CeBit but was forced to cancel due to the fact that its mobile carrier partner evidently was not ready or got cold feet) has gotten Om Malik to thinking some more about whether the mobile carriers [...]

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New York Times on the Future of Free Online Access to Newspaper Content

March 14, 2005

There is quite a lot of discussion around the web this morning of Katherine Seelye’s article in The New York Times (which, ironically, will disappear behind NYT’s firewall sometime soon) about the future of free online access to newspapers. I agree with Techdirt that making people pay for online access is a really dumb idea. [...]

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Millipede Prototype Shown at CeBIT

March 13, 2005

IBM has for the first time shown a prototype of its Millipede nanomechanical data storage device at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany. Using nanotechnology, scientists at IBM Zurich Reserach Laboratory have achieved data storage densities of more than one terabit per square inch, equivalent to storing the content of 25 DVDs on an [...]

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Chicago to Explore City-Wide Wi-Fi Network

March 9, 2005

There is a possibility that Chicago may build a city-wide municipal wireless network, reports
Chicago Indymedia. Yesterday, a joint session of the Chicago City Council’s Finance and Economic and Capital & Technology Development Committees passed a resolution to conduct a study on deployment of a city-wide high-speed wireless network based on Wi-Fi. Chicago CIO Chris O’Brien [...]

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Telco Core Competence

March 9, 2005

With his usual brilliance, Martin Geddes identifies the true core competence of the typical incumbent telco. Discussing the role of network effects in the growth of media businesses like satellite radio, he notes that the relevant network effects may be external to the product itself and may not be obvious:
Every successful media company is based [...]

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Peerio and P2P Internet Telephony Hit the Mainstream

March 8, 2005

When Business Week starts covering it, you can bet it has hit the mainstream.
So, after a series of interesting deals with Asian manufacturers and a lot of discussion in the telco blogosphere, Olga Kharif writes in a fact-filled article about Popular Telephony and Peerio in this week’s Business Week that “Popular Telephony may well possess [...]

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