How much value is there in the concept of long tail economics?
The Silicon Valley Watcher today has an interesting article on long tail economics, asking whether the concept is “bonanza or bogus.” The New York Times reports that “[a]n agreement in the stalled Doha round of World Trade Organization talks may be near, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , and the European Commission said on Wednesday. Negotiations have stalled over demands by developing countries for an end to agricultural subsidies in rich nations. For their part, the rich nations [...]
Innovation Takes a Bazaar and a Cathedral
Over at the Open Source Blog, IBM's Savio Rodriguez discusses a presentation by Spring Source's Rod Johnson at EclipseCON. Rod and Savio come to the same conclusion that we at ACT has been discussing for years: Innovation takes a Bazaar and a Cathedral. As Savio writes: Rod challenged the notion that the Bazaar model is the best or only way forward. Rod claimed (near quotes): "The bazaar model encourages competition in implementation, but may not produce innovation..... The cathedral model [...]
We like FINSA (as long as it’s not used to justify continuous review and revision of the CFIUS process)!
On February 26, the Politico published an article entitled "Realtors urge lifting Freddie, Fannie caps" which contained a reference to our paper "Encouraging Foreign Investment by Limiting Political Influences." Unfortunately, the article misrepresented our views regarding reform of the CFIUS process. […]
Green Light for GooClick; Privacy Advocates Still Calling for Yellow
Yesterday, the European Commission gave Google the green light to purchase DoubleClick despite the complaints of competitors like Microsoft, Yahoo! and AT&T and privacy advocates like the Center for Digital Democracy(CDD) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The Commission dismissed the competitive concerns of Microsoft et al, saying: The Commission’s in-depth investigation, opened in November 2007 concluded that the transaction would be unlikely to have harmful effects on consumers, either in ad serving or in intermediation in online advertising markets. [...]
ACT Responds to EC Approval of GooClick
ID Theft Legislation Should Protect Consumers, Not Create Another Victim ACT Testifies Before Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight House Committee on Small Business Today, the European Commission approved the proposed acquisition of DoubleClick by Google. Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology, said: "Today the European Commission approved a groundbreaking merger between Google and DoubleClick. The merger will undoubtedly change the competitive landscape of our industry and fuel the evolution of internet advertising. It demonstrates both the [...]
Apple licenses Active Sync from Microsoft – World continues to spin safely
As someone who forks over real cash each year for an Apple developer license, I am pretty pleased with today’s Apple iPhone SDK announcement. Without question, the iPhone has moved the state of the art, and the SDK will make others work even harder to catch up. We’ve known the SDK announcement has been coming for months, so the real news for me was Apple’s decision to license Active Sync from Microsoft. […]