In May of 2007 I sent an email to a business partner telling her "You need to get off MySpace and get on Facebook.com. MySpace is so 8-track."

She wrote me back saying "Never heard of Facebook."

Bet she has now.

In those four years Facebook has garnered over 600...

The top 100 documentaries produced over the last few year all made over $1 million. Yet, if the IRS accepts a judge's ruling in an Arizona tax case, documentaries would be classified as a "hobby" and therefore treated as a not-for-profit venture, meaning you would not be able to deduct...

Last summer I wrote a post entitled "Will Verizon Get The iPhone?" in which I argued the point that at some point in 2010 the iPhone will make its way onto the Verizon network.

After using the new Motorola Droid on the Verizon network for a couple of weeks, the...

The Huffpo's lead today is about the Lou Dobbs "birther" controversy, and there are no less than 5 other headlines on the front page regarding the matter.

Having had some experience with Mr. Dobbs, I thought I might add some context to the matter. By the way, I have no...

In today's media world, little things mean a lot because of the speed that information can be disseminated in cyberspace. Take the case of Horizon Realty and Amanda Bonnen.

Amanda Bonnen tweeted to a friend in May, "Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon Realty...

It cannot have escaped Verizon's notice that AT&T proclaimed in a widely circulated memo that the recent launch of the iPhone 3GS was the "largest order day in att.com history" and the "best ever sales day in our retail stores." AT&T sold a million of the new iPhones in 3...

Golf is seen by many as a sport for entitled Caucasians, older folks, or simply people with too much time on their hands. But what golf has historically been is a game for gentlefolk, where one self-polices rules violations and generally behaves in a civilized manner, and expects his or...

I gave a speech at a healthcare association last week, and the main topic of questions directed to me concerned the announcement that Wal-Mart will be selling an Electronic Health Records (EHR) software package to physicians at Sam's Club. Priced at $25,000 the EHR system is priced at half the...

This week Geoff Gilmore, the longtime director of the Sundance Film Festival took another job in film in New York. This presents an opportune moment for the powers that be at Sundance to take a look at itself within the context of other film festivals, and other conferences in general.

UN Office of Drugs and Crime director Antonio Costa told the Austrian weekly Profil this week that the world illicit drug trade is "the most important of all agricultural markets," with drug transactions totalling $320 billion.

For comparison's sake $320 billion is slightly more than the revenues of BP, and...

The national employment report issued last Wednesday showed that the private sector shed 522,000 jobs last December. This is out of a total workforce of around 140 million. Circuit City is gone. Macy's is laying off. Home Depot is laying off. Microsoft is, Google is, Harley Davidson is. So are...

Barak Obama had a fine day on his Inauguration Day. The British economy? Not so much.

CNBC was focused on U.S. banks stocks today, and rightly so. Citicorp dropped below $3. JP Morgan was down 21% and Bank of America down 29%. It was a bloodbath.

But in Britain it...

A Reuters headline proclaims today that

New Yahoo CEO lacks Web and deal-making chops." The story then goes on to note in paragraph 5 that "(Carol Bartz) is credited with increasing Autodesk's revenue from $285 million to $1.5 billion during her 14-year tenure, as well as diversifying its business. Bartz,...

Bloomberg published the following tidbit today about Motorola:

Motorola is improperly trying to prevent RIM (Blackberry) entities from hiring any Motorola employees, including the thousands of employees Motorola has already fired or will fire," Research In Motion said in a complaint.

Nice. Not only does Motorola make cellphones no one...

This weekend a Dell VP named Bob Pearson attempted to call out Apple on it's green cred. One thinks that Dell might focus instead on making products consumers actually want to buy, but I suppose that's beside the point. Here are Mr. Pearson's thoughts on the Dell blog:

"Companies who...

In the same 24-hour period as SAG held a large town hall meeting to discuss a strike authorization vote, Jeff Zucker announced a potential cutback in their primetime schedule. Then news leaked out that NBC was giving Jay Leno a 5 night per week slot at 10pm.

Are the events...

18 months ago in a USA Today interview, Steve Ballmer, head of Microsoft, proclaimed the following when asked about the iPhone: "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of...

As noted on the HuffPo, Carl Cameron of Fox News gave a breathless report on some staffers on the McCain campaign who are now taking cheap shots at Sarah Palin. Having defended Wal-Mart, Alec Baldwin and Ann Coulter on the HuffPo, I'd like to now offer some thoughts...

In the card game Magic: The Gathering, the largest card in the game was a creature called Leviathan. Apple's earnings call yesterday proved that in the realm of handheld devices, the iPhone is the largest card in that game, and in fact, it is the Leviathan of its product line.

It looks increasingly likely that not only will Obama will become president, but that the Democrats will attain a veto-proof majority in Congress, allowing the left to implement its wish list. Concurrent to this has been the startling decline in the stock market, which has variously been blamed on FNMA,...