As Linkedin goes public today I think about how valuable it’s been to my career and careers of others. The networking and job searching capabilities that it has create have become the standard in the world today. As think about that I reflect on how many people who have not been able to take advantage of the the features of Linkedin because they are not connected.  It just highlights another case where the disconnected are [...]

There has been a lot of chatter from groups like Public knowledge and freepress telling you to vote against the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. They say that the t-mobile customers will benefit from that company not being acquired and that it’s in their best interest. They use the  fear of losing current pricing as a way to create anxiety and sway opinion. But never really lay out the reality of what is going with [...]

I’ve said for some time now that people are missing the major benefit that will come out of the AT&T /T-mobile merger.  I’m happy to see more people coming to realization that the merger will accelerate this growth and the expansion of next generation wireless service for all of us. You can read more about it here. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/may/13/merger-could-hasten-closing-of-wireless-gaps/

There are alot of people that will tell you that the digital divide is over. That everyone has access to broadband and wireless and the playing field is equal.  I can tell you and show you data from multiple sources to prove that is not the case. Minorities have adopted and have access to the internet at much lower levels than our mainstream counterparts. As internet and wireless technology become bigger parts of mainstream society [...]

I talk alot about Internet Start-ups. Not just because they are cool and exciting in mainstream way due to the movie “The Social Network” but more because of the power of the process. Being able to create something and sometimes quickly be able to have it have an effect on people , in some cases thousands of  them. It’s an experience unlike any other. You learn more about yourself and what your capable of than [...]

Actually a recent study has shown that T-mobile is losing customers at an alarming rate. Merging with AT&T will give current T-mobile customer wider coverage and also give states that have weak overall coverage access across the state. For a lot of people access is the main obstructio­n, not costRead the Article at HuffingtonPost