A bunch of folks have asked me about the recent keynote I gave at the 2009 eComm Conference in San Francisco. Below is a transcript -- definitely take a look at the conference website -- Lee Dryburgh has done a fantastic job of making information available quite widely. *** Sascha: I'm going to do a...

It's snowing in Boston and my American flight has been cancelled but Virgin America claims their 8:35am flight is going to leave on time.  So here I am in the Virgin gate area.  Wish me luck. At this point there are a ton of people I'm hoping to hook up with at eComm 2009.  The agenda looks reall...

What would the lesson for mobile operators be if the world around us collapses economically. What lessons can be learned from other markets? How will users react? What and how should you prepare? I read yet another piece this morning (Jim Kunstler’s Forecast 2009) that captures an outlook simi...

We hosted Lee Dryburgh, the organizer of eComm, on the January 26th SquawkBox conference call.  A wide ranging and well attended conference call, we discussed the origins of the eComm Conference, what to expect from this year’s conference, and highlights of previous years. Along the way, we also ...

I recently had a wide-ranging conversation/interview with Lee Dryburgh, who puts on the the yearly eComm conference (this year's will take place March 3-5 in San Francisco). It's a fun read of what I've been thinking about at the dawn of the Obama administration: Sascha Meinrath on Spectrum 2.0, Bat...

The Ontario Legislature yesterday passed Bill 37, the Child Pornography Reporting Act, 2008. The bill was somewhat amended in Committee, notably to tie the definition of child pornography more closely to the Criminal Code definition (though it’s still not identical). You can see the amendments her...

What’s with this collective blogging thing that now starts before conferences? I’m being rhetorical. Conferences that survive today become living events. They also have the opportunity to provide many more options for attendees to connect and explore before, during and after the conferen...

One of the things that surprised me at eComm was the audience reaction to hearing that most cell sites have only one, or perhaps two, T1 or E1 links going to them.  eComm was a sophisticated audience but they weren't familiar with this kind of operational detail. Of course, I've seen a lot of d...

Blaine Cook Lead Architect at Twitter. This is a talk about “YOU”. 140 characters.. keeps things constrained. It’s usable and fun because it has a simple interface. Nice fun slides. API traffic is 3 to 4 times larger than page views. Irv Shapiro “IfByPhone” - Phone Mash...

In preparation for both eComm and the launch of the iPhone SDK on March 6th I spent some time on Sunday hacking my iPhone. I’d had it just one week. I’d killed my T-Mobile account to move to AT&T, so my initial activation was all official. Then I kept reading about more.. all the nea...