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    Should I do this deal ?

    This showed up in my email inbox today. It was so interesting and consise an offering I just had to share it with everyone and get your thoughts ! Mark, Please review the following opportunity. This may help you in your purchase with the Rangers. I know you dont need the help. Please keep in [...]

    The End of Location Based Applications ?

    I just invested in a company that takes video of an area and can tell you exactly how many people are in the capture area at any given time.  Its great for traffic patterns, security, and much more.  We are posting cameras in certain environments where anonymity is required, and we dont and wont capture [...]

    So Where is Lebron Going ?

    I have no idea.  To his credit, this has been the best kept secret since the formula for Coca Cola.  Talking to owners, GM, players, friends of Lebrons , no one knows. So let me you give you my guess. This afternoon I heard that a PR firm was telling some media outlets that Lebron [...]

    Some Notes to Congress on the Economy

    Why not put my 2 cents in ? Here are a few notes that hopefully a couple politicians will take note of: 1. Carried Interest Taxes Of course it should be taxed at normal income rates because that is what it is.  But the bigger issue is the misrepresentation that it will negatively impact investment. [...]

    What Newspapers Can Learn From Facebook and Mobile, how Google was the big loser in the FB Privacy Debate

    Ive written multiple times about the value of independence from Google to Newspapers. Of course, each generated responses from many who disagreed with me.   I just wanted to point out that Facebook, arguably  the largest and most important website in the world has most of its content walled off from Google. In fact, the [...]

    Netflix and the Future of the Entertainment Business

    Im a big fan of Reed Hastings. Not just of his vision, but his honesty as well.   Reed posted his strategy deck on Slideshare.com . While we agree and disagree on a few items here and there, he does a great job identifying the risks created by Cable/satellite/telco (CST) .  The key quote on this [...]

    The Future of Google TV is..

    Google TV is going to be very interesting. It is far  from a certainty that it will be more than Apple TV in terms of consumer sales.   From a first glance the Marketplace is the most important and interesting element of the announcement.  As a development platform, Android creates the potential for untold  unique [...]

    Facebook Privacy ? Who Cares?

    if you are in the media enough, you recognize that the media lives for the next headline. Facebook Privacy ? What a great headline.  We all care about privacy, right ? Wrong.  Privacy is a boogie man for the media to play with. Unless you are in the internet business in some manner, where discussing [...]