Archive for the ‘New Economy’ Category

The new generations do not see a moral issue with file-sharing

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

An eye-opening article in New York Times about the generational divide on copyright morality, by David Pogue. Compared to a few years back, the new generation of teenagers do not find any moral concern about copying and sharing copyrighted material, as the experiment from David Pogue shows. I wondered whether my 8 months ...

Entrepreneurship 2.0

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Thanks to Internet, entrepreneurship is getting much easier and less risky than ever. In the past, to create a start-up, the first steps were to put the team together, gather an initial investment, work on a prototype, test the market, and sell your vision to seed or venture capital, to fund your growth. Now, more entrepreneurs ...

Net Neutrality debate renewed

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

In US these days there has been a lot of renewed debate on Net Neutrality. See video below from Sen. Ted Kennedy for those not familiar with the issue The fact that Comcast was throttling BitTorrent P2P traffic, triggered the debate whether Net Neutrality regulations would force the Service Provider not ...