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  • Mitch Kapor: From Lotus 1-2-3 to Second Life

    In this Super Techies video interview, Mitch Kapor discusses his career as a tech entrepreneur. He discusses his early experiences working on the first PC spreadsheet, Visicalc, and his subsequent...

    Blog posts | February 12, 2008 5:59am PST

  • Mitch Kapor: Software tales from Lotus 1-2-3 to 'Second Life'

    In this Super Techies interview, software veteran Mitch Kapor talks with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a tech entrepreneur. Kapor discusses his early work at Lotus...

    Videos | February 11, 2008 8:56am PST

  • Mitch Kapor: Microsoft+Yahoo, major integration challenge

    Watch the video Veteran of software wars Mitch Kapor shared his views on the cultural challenges facing Microsoft in its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo with me. Mitch, a founder of Lotus as well as...

    Blog posts | February 5, 2008 5:32pm PST

  • Mitch Kapor: Does Microsoft-Yahoo make sense?

    Mitch Kapor, president of Kapor Enterprises, shares his views on the cultural challenges facing Microsoft in its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. He also discusses Google's involvement in the proposed...

    Videos | February 5, 2008 2:53pm PST

  • Here's how Linux gets to the desktop

    While the new open source frontier moves toward the front lines of the enterprise, desktop Linux lags behind. Open Source Application Foundation guru Mitch Kapor gives his report card on the state...

    News items | July 11, 2003 12:00am PDT

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  • The twin evils of IT gridlock and denial

    Gridlock and denial, both related to lack of consensus among team members, are among the most significant and common problems on many IT projects.

    Blog posts | March 1, 2010 5:17am PST

  • Happy New Year and Adieu, dear readers

    I've been writing for Ziff-Davis, ZD Net and their many facets for almost two decades. It is just a few months short of 19th anniversary of the first time my byline appeared in MacWEEK, in fact,...

    Blog posts | December 27, 2009 7:47pm PST

  • Updating Kindles sold estimate: 1.49 million

    Based on the ever-vague guidance provided by Amazon.com in the form of obscure comments from CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos and fluffy PR releases, such as today's holiday sales update, I'm continuing...

    Blog posts | December 26, 2009 9:02pm PST

  • Zombie Alert: CrunchPad rises from grave

    Last week, Mike Arrington announced the death of CrunchPad, his mythical $250 tablet for surfing the Web. This week, Arrington's former partner in the project, Fusion Garage, announced it will...

    Blog posts | December 7, 2009 5:20pm PST

  • CrunchPad illusion after all

    Mike Arrington has announced his CrunchPad web tablet, covered here, is "dead", blaming his manufacturing partner for cutting him out of the deal. In the frothy market that is media tablets, just...

    Blog posts | November 30, 2009 9:15pm PST

  • Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure

    The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices...

    Blog posts | November 2, 2009 4:31pm PST

  • Kindle books come to the PC -- a Nook counterpunch

    Platform expansion is the logical counter to new competition at the device level. Amazon, facing the introduction of BN.com's Nook and other e-readers this week, has announced it will support...

    Blog posts | October 22, 2009 12:50pm PDT

  • Nook Clarified: Really solid progress for e-readers

    Yesterday, I posted a long analysis of what I thought was right and strangely wrong about the Barnes & Noble Nook. Matt Miller today got a clarification about my main concern, which was that...

    Blog posts | October 21, 2009 3:29pm PDT

  • B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary

    In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was...

    Blog posts | October 20, 2009 3:05pm PDT

  • AT&T's "problem" customers get the blame

    Fortune Magazine swallows the AT&T pitch hook, line and sinker in a story titled "Bandwidth hogs — iPhones and other smartphones." Writer Jon Fortt dishes up a steaming dish of bull shoveled...

    Blog posts | September 2, 2009 2:12pm PDT

  • Don't take my Moleskine notebook and Rotring pen

    What's the technology I'd least like to lose, the thing you'd have to pry from my cold dead fingers? Well, you will have to pry a Moleskine notebook and pen from my hands when I am dead. The...

    Blog posts | July 24, 2009 3:23pm PDT

  • Why is Facebook whoring me out?

    I've been pondering this note, sent to me by a friend on Facebook last week: Facebook needs to recode their ads... It's one thing when the ad for singles waiting for me is accompanied by a...

    Blog posts | July 14, 2009 5:24pm PDT

  • The future of the book, expanding

    I've posted a couple excerpts from the book I am working on, about the future of books and reading. It's a different topic than Rational Rants' mandate, and with so much news and opinion every day...

    Blog posts | June 15, 2009 3:38pm PDT

  • Bad Idea Dept.: AT&T's Ed Whitacre to run General Motors

    Ed Whitacre, who built SBC, one of the babies Bell, back into "The New AT&T" has been tapped by the Obama Administration's auto task force to be chairman of the "reinvented General Motors."...

    Blog posts | June 9, 2009 10:46pm PDT

  • Google begins its rumble with Amazon

    Amazon has some new competition for the hearts and minds of book publishers and readers, which is a very good thing. But the news that Google is poised to enter the downloadable bookselling market...

    Blog posts | June 2, 2009 11:57am PDT

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