http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-09T14:33:59-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/09/the_superbowls_most_important_ad.php The funniest Super Bowl ad was probably the FedEx bit with the caveman saying "it's not my problem" FedEx hadn't been invented and the other caveman's package got stomped by the dinosaur. (Although my 14 year old son howled at... 47943@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2006-02-09T14:33:59-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/20/angel_investors_in_america.php NOTE: I'm promoting this to the top today because of its comment thread. When I first interviewed Richard Wingard back in September, I thought little of it. He seemed to have a clever way to research basic research, using individual... 8939@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Investment 2006-01-20T12:56:53-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/18/the_video_fiction.php Video is NOT the future of the Web. (This picture, by the way, comes from a fine student project at the University of North Carolina on Webcasting rights. Go Tar Heels.) It’s part of the future, no doubt. It’s even... 46644@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-18T15:11:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/11/the_content_chimera.php The Media PC ain't gonna happen. The "walled gardens" of the cell companies are going to come down. The telcos' plans in cable are non-starters. All these huge corporations are subject to the Content Chimera, the idea that networks are... 46021@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2006-01-11T13:36:26-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/10/a_government_action_i_like.php Too bad it's not my government. The Korean government has jawboned an agreement from that nation's mobile operators to get rid of the walled gardens and make mobile Internet service, well, Internet service. Mike over at TechDirt picked up this... 45909@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2006-01-10T12:37:05-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/03/diminishing_returns_on_spectrum.php The U.S. government approved yet-another auction of spectrum last week. (The picture is of bids in an Australian spectrum auction.) But there's a problem. The big hoarders of spectrum -- phone companies -- are choking on what they already have.... 45296@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ 802.11 2006-01-03T10:26:26-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/28/om_mane_padme_wrong.php I always wanted to write that headline, and finally got the chance today. Om in this case is Om Malik, whose broadband blog has become one of my regular stops in daily newsgathering. Om's view? Speed doesn't matter. Who cares... 44980@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-28T09:58:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/21/web_bloatware.php One of my favorite Web bugaboos has always been bloatware. (This cute guy came up in a search for the term, but he's a blowfish, delicious batter-fried with tarter sauce. Like an aquatic drumstick.) My first run-in with this imperative... 44586@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-21T12:33:34-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/07/the_platform_challenge.php America's biggest tech companies are focused today on the problem of creating, not technologies, but platforms. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Intel and Microsoft and Cisco all rose to prominence with platforms. The first two had "WinTel," a... 39765@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2005-12-07T11:30:37-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/28/mapquest_going_down.php Mapquest, the AOL-owned first-mover in online mapping, is about to fall.(That's their map of Cancun to the right.) The Clue here is an AP story that looks like it was ordered-up by the AOL marketing department, but which can't resist... 38742@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-28T09:00:04-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/21/microsofts_latest_cable_play.php IPMediaMonitor is trumpeting Microsoft's latest agreement with CableLabs as the Next Big Thing. (Bigger than the Sony Rootkit fiasco? Yep.) The story, by Cynthia Brumfield, is that next year's version of the Media Center PC spec from Microsoft will support... 38372@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-11-21T10:55:06-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/12/stringers_choice.php There are two salient points about the Sony scandal you will only read at Mooreslore. (Or at least you'll read them here first.) The first point you've already gotten. Who's behind the scandal? It's not a Japanese. It's a U.S.-based... 37872@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-11-12T20:34:58-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/13/danas_answer_to_jakobs_quest.php One thing which unites the previous two stories here is that they are both about computer interfaces. (What is this? You'll learn after you click below.) The iPod is a computer interface, as much as Apple might protest this. The... 37033@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ computer interfaces 2005-10-13T14:12:15-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/13/wygiwys_what_you_get_is_what_you_see.php The Macintosh interface has been around, in one way or another, for 30 years. It has been the dominant computing interface for 15 years. Jakob Nielsen (left), the King of Internet Usability (my title for him), says it is time... 37032@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Moore's Lore 2005-10-13T13:02:51-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/13/whats_wrong_with_the_new_ipod.php Nothing, per se. Technically, it's fine. Strategically, it works in the Great Game against Microsoft. But it's not something I want. It breaks the first law of the original design. Quite simply it's an attention hog. The older iPod, with... 37027@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-10-13T11:50:56-05:00