A thoughtful restaurateur makes it clear that the network weather's blowing out there: "Whether or not your restaurant is an OpenTable customer, it’s impossible not to feel its impact."

The truly terrifying aspect of Fabien Brunsing's piece illustrating differential permissioning and the monetization of public space...is that you can bet someone somewhere's going to take it as a best practice.

FWIW, I feel precisely the same way: the colleagues I've worked with during my tenure at Nokia have been some of the most talented, open, insightful and friendly people I've ever met...and they've been undermined at every step by awful decision-making at higher echelons. Also see the comments on evangelism and hypocrisy.

This all sounds so very close to home. The only difference is that someone at Microsoft had the wisdom and perspective to kill a pointless, failing product/service line.

Present w/o further comment...except for a big fat "Sigh."

“Motorola did quite well by jumping on Android’s bandwagon." Some of us have been arguing this for awhile. A-HEM. (I still think Sanjay Jha is an idiot.)

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Predictive analytics. Oh joy.

"[T]he company routinely manages to frustrate the efforts of its visionary thinkers."

God, this all smells so depressingly familiar. A refreshingly skeptical - almost arch - tone in this business reporting from the Times, which refuses to take Stringer's bromides at face value.

Utterly fascinating, if you can get through the thicket of jargon and geekspeak: a vivid and pungent cautionary tale about the cloud.

More on the "Semco Way." Seems like just a little more than the usual business wankery.

Apologies for the Engadget link. See comments, though.

In order to know where the Kogi van is going to be today, you have to follow them on Twitter. Also: I could cry with frustration for how amazing Korean BBQ in a taco sounds from here in a Helsinki markedly deprived of both.

Fortune famously favoring the well-prepared, Zipcar and its business model seem to have "lucked out" in cash-strapped 2009.

Verrrrrry innnnnnteresting.

The Grey Lady discovers the world of third-party applications and services for mobile devices. One mobile player, in particular, is conspicuously absent. I wonder why. Sigh.

Depressing article on jetBlue's shift from a clearly-articulated brand strategy to beancounting me-tooism, *just* on the cusp of what should be their triumphal move into JFK's iconic Terminal 5. Looks like we'll be flying Virgin America from now on.

Touch is gesture writ small, of course.

GM's Volt, the "Barack Obama of cars."

"Ad nets, social nets, and minigames won't change the DNA of the economic system. Let me put it more sharply. I think we have two choices. Help fix things, and get rich, or just get blown up along with everyone else." Via migurski.

Getting senior management to Feel The Pain. I approve, both in principle and of the specific way it's executed here. Too bad it doesn't seem to be changing anything at US Airways.