Rose Cantine

I just posted my true feelings about San Francisco’s citywide Wi-Fi plans on Muniwireless.com. Here’s an excerpt:
The ink is barely dry on the contract between EarthLink and San Francisco, but the factions have already lined up on either side of the debate. In other cities it’s been the pro-muni broadband activists against the anti-muni broadband [...]

Barack Obama, who wants to be the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, has set up a Presidential Exploratory Committee to come up with proposals on how to make meaningful changes in the political system itself. He says:
The decisions that have been made in Washington these past six years, and the problems that have been [...]

I recommend watching Fred Wilson’s keynote at the Information Industry Summit. Fred Wilson is a partner in Union Square Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund in New York City. They focus on IT-enabled services in the media and marketing, financial services, healthcare and telecom verticals.
Fred says answers the frequently asked questions: If content is [...]

John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends: people are getting tired of the hype of technology. Mossberg said in the panel yesterday that a lot of things promised have not happened. People still do straight line extrapolation. The future is created by a collusion of many forces that interplay and these help shape the other forces. It’s [...]

The DLD website has videos of all presentations. My favorites are Hackers Inc., Disruptive Connections and Where are the Editors. You can find the videos here: http://videos.dld-conference.com/
The best moment in Hackers, Inc. is when Pablos Holman shows how he hacked into Jeff Pulver’s voice mail. He had Jeff stand up and identify himself to the [...]

Here’s a photo of me with Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, at the Burda DLD conference in Munich (January 21-23, 2007). I am a big fan of Flickr and I post all of my photos there. DLD was a terrific event in an excellent location (the HVB Forum). With venues such as HVB, it’s impossible [...]

Esther Dyson led the panel with Carlos Bhola (Celsius Capital), Rainer Hillebrand (Otto GmbH), Marissa Mayer (Google), Paul-Bernhard Kallen (Burda).
Carlos Bhola: in some sectors, innovation will not come from the US. China has faster, better, cheap infrastructure because they laid it at a later date. In mobile apps, China will leap ahead of the US. [...]