Robert pretty skeptical about the Palm Pre. It's no Blackberry: millions of entrenched users. And Palm already lost to Apple ages ago. So what's the decisive advantage of the Pre?
Robert amazed that Fox News has zero coverage of events in Iran, considering that they spent the past seven years braying incessantly about spreading democracy in the middle east. Oh right, these guys don't actually operate a news service. They have to wait for tomorrow's talking points fax so they can be on-message with their "coverage".
Robert pay attention to Iran right now. Twittersphere is lighting up with commentary: mainstream TV coverage has been shut down by Iranian authorities. See #CNNFail#FoxFail#Iranelection. Social media now routes around Iranian government supression: great use of the web, big changes 20 years after Tiannanmen Square. Real time demonstration of how...
Robert is American Airlines is enforcing the carryon luggage rules rather aggressively this morning. Several checkpoints. Like an extra security screen, but for profit.
Robert final impression of D7 conference in Carlsbad is that there are way too many venture capitalists with way too much time on their hands at the moment. Today's theme was that there is nothing new happening on the Internet. So the speakers rehashed the same comments from previous years and recycled some old chestnuts. It was like an alumni...
Robert is at D7 watching Mossberg and John Malone discuss the unbundling of TV channels akin to unbundling of the music album, due to digital tech. Jeff Zucker up later.
Robert is fascinated by Martha Stewart's real time Twitter updates from the floor of D7. Is she really here? or is she delegating to one of her minions? .