Michael Eisenberg

On the Future of Networks and Moving Data Centers

The bigger issue is the cost of power in California.

Book Market Enters Era of Ubiquity

I agree that this the main problem with the Kindle. you can not pass it on. but kindle is As good a reason as Any to buy AMZN Stock slate.com/id/2214243. AMZN the only book publisher in the world? love my kindle too.


On Mar 22 10:17 AM Joyful Alternative wrote:

> You pay what you would for a discounted trade paperback ($9.99),
> and when you're done reading it, you can't pass it on to a friend
> or sell it.
>
> Frankly, I don't see it.

Will Music Sales Be Profitable for Record Companies in Ten Years?

I encourage the music industry to read Chris Anderson because Music is going to be free and it will need to seek a different business model.

What's Ailing eBay and Yahoo?

i think you miss the salient difference:
Amazon, Google, Myspace are all run by their founders. Yahoo and ebay were run by hired hands.

Because of this they lost their product's initial elegance and the ability to innovate for users best interest (as opposed to commercial interests) around their core product's value proposition to customers.

12 Reasons for Amazon.com to Rise Substantially This Year

I have been pretty bearish on Amazon because I think it is fundamentally a retailer with an outsized multiple but I just saw two start ups making heavy use of Amazon's S3 and web services infrastrcuture and I am beginning to rethink my point of view on the company

Two Take-Aways from the eBay-Skype Deal (AMZN, EBAY, GOOG, TWX, YHOO)

In my mind, One of the key reasons for this acquisition is missing from many of the posts. A lot of commerce is still done on the telephone. Some small stores (of which there are many) do not feel comfortable on the web or are more user-friendly on the phone.

Additionally, Skype is a platform that is extensible with both more commerce and broader communications (see iskoot.com as an example). What if they added RSS feeds into the client so you would not need to use email or check your my ebay to find yoru deals.