Get Out Of My .Biz

The cries from the media blaming Apple for the conditions at Foxconn are getting out of hand. Blaming Apple solely for the problems at the factory is like blaming one car-maker for greenhouse gasses. It doesn’t make sense. There are many companies and many factors that make Foxconn what it is. Does Apple have a responsibility to the workers are Foxconn? Absolutely. However, I believe that Apple is doing more than any other company out there. They publish reports of audits and also detail things like what it’s doing to rid its products of dangerous chemicals. What are the other companies doing that even compares to Apple’s progress? We don’t really know, because nobody bothers to find out.

A much narrower lesson of Kodak’s bankruptcy: that the tech industry and Wall Street’s infatuation with companies’ patent portfolios might finally be coming back to earth. It’s not that intellectual property no longer matters, or won’t continue to factor into companies’ strategies for product development or mergers and acquisitions. But the gold rush is over.

The IPO market is dying,” he said. “You see companies achieving robust valuations on the private market but being treated poorly when they go public. Often there are factors like the credit crisis or the situation in Europe affecting the markets. It’s the reasons entrepreneurs like myself never want to go public.

I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.

I feel that way too. More than most, probably. I’m forever wanting something new. Something I’ve never seen before, that no one else has. Something that will be both an extension and expression of my person. Something that will take me away from the world I actually live in and let me immerse myself in another. Something that will let me see more details, take better pictures, do more at once, work smarter, run faster, live longer. Maybe I’ve even made you feel that way too. A sad cavalcade of fat men with roll-aboard luggage rushes past, looking at their phones as they walk, blocking my way.

While most startups are focused on allowing users to share information as frictionless as possible, Neko.io is taking the opposite approach. The new service by Meontrust Inc. allows users to post on their friends’ walls, blogs, and anywhere else in a scrambled web link. To be able to read the link, you need to be “friends” with the Neko.io user who originally posted the link, and have a Neko.io account of your own. Clicking on the link takes you to the Neko.io website where it unscrambles the link— allowing you to communicate with your friends in a public forum, but still limit your privacy to a much smaller audience. In this sense, it’s a much more “frictional” way of sharing, but allows you to still use the services where your friends are already present.