Author Archive: Peter S Magnusson
iPhone sales disappoint – now don’t forget the Mac!
After the most highly anticipated consumer product roll-out in recent memory, I suspect I had a lot of company dialing into Apple’s earnings call today. A lot of speculation about iPhone sales figures would finally meet up with some real data – at least that’s what we hoped. And we did get some data. The …
Business 2.0 and Christian Science Monitor picked up my iPhone piece
Well I’m humbled and proud that both Biz 2.0 and CSM picked up on my iPhone blog; two of my favorite publications. Biz 2.0’s editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt found my post ‘long and thoughtful’. (Yes, finally when I write columns I have all the space I want!) And the Christian Science Monitor invited me to write …
7/7/7 and why media needs crowdsourcing
A (now increasingly rare) return to network news reminds me of a key driver for crowdsourcing in news: quality. What on earth makes Katie Couric think that the best authority to interview on the significance of the number “7” (apropos the 7/7/7 date) is a “numerologist”? Why not a historian, or an astronomer, or a …
iPhone’s missing killer app: social networking
The reviews are in, hundreds of thousands of proud iPhone owners are playing with their brand new toys over the July 4th weekend. The hype has been (very) high, but the wonderful internet resources of today – digg.com, google, mac forums, youtube, etc – have responded with expediency in weighing the pros and cons of …
iPhone day
Yeah, it’s sad, but I’ve actually allocated the day to get myself an iPhone. I’m also running the twitter channel for SF Bay iPhone “line tracking”. If you’re bay area and want updates, sign up to twitter and then send “follow ipSFBay” to 40404. See you in line! Oh, yeah, I might actually even write …
A $50,000 Virtual Wedding Ring?
Well it has been an excellent day, I’ve really enjoyed the panels, and the organizers did an excellent job in getting key people to participate. It’s always nice to attend “early day” summits before 75% of the participants are there to learn the basics (e.g. Web 2.0 this year) as opposed to being actual movers …
Virtual Goods Summit 2007
Hanging out at Virtual Goods Summit 2007 at Stanford. I’ve been working on a HUGE posting about virtual worlds – with an emphasis on World of Warcraft, so sitting in the audience with a wifi connection should prod me to make some progress on that! Virtual Goods is, of course, all about the brilliant notion …
The New Era of Scaling
Intel seems back in form over the past year or so. The Core 2 Duo systems (in particular the MacBook Pro I’m writing this on) is incredible and not matched by AMD; and Intel is continuing to rediscover the fact that the x86 instruction set (IA) pays all the bills at Intel so perhaps shouldn’t be treated with total disregard. Many of the announcements from IDF in Beijing last month were reinforced in various Intel talks here at MPF today.
Microprocessor Forum 2007
Just uploaded my draft of a morning posting on my In Progress page. Fun stuff in the pipe from Intel.
Web 2.0 could be a little more Web 2.0
Last month was Web 2.0 expo, and I recently got the “give us feedback” email. So I thought I’d give some feedback, and shoot a pointer to this posting over to O’Reilly. [UPDATE: never heard back from them.] The Web 2.0 expo was intense and rewarding, so let me start by saying that I really …
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