The electronic version of my new book Technology and Inequality: Concentrated Wealth in a Digital World, published by Palgrave Macmillan, is now available. The hardback should be available in late July 2017 on Amazon and…
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Here’s some exciting news: I’ve joined the advisory board of high-flying cloud networking startup Pertino (a company worthy of ‘betting your career on’ according to one source). Why am I so excited about working with…
I love searching online for travel deals. But what if the biggest travel sites have become so powerful they can force hotels never to sell their inventory to competitors at a lower cost? Then online…
Wait…don’t we already know everything about Enterprise Systems adoption? Why would I want to submit a paper by March 1st, 2012 to the Enterprise Systems Adoption and Business Models track (Call for Papers here) at…
I recently joined the International Journal of Electronic Commerce as an editorial board member, and its new web editor. Which is cool, because IJEC is still the #1 rated e-commerce journal in the universe. But…
The Steve Jobs story has something for everyone. He was a revolutionary who embodied the American Dream; design was his weapon. He was a self-made man whose success came from building products, not by gaming…
Compared to old school Yellow Pages and newspaper ads, local businesses are facing a confusing new world of marketing across Google, Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, Groupon, email, and tons of other online services. I gave a…
Why is everyone in the tech industry claiming they are ‘open’, and their competitors aren’t? Is this merely a war of buzzwords and PR? Or is building proprietary products on top of open technology, while…
I’m happy and honored to be joining the editorial board of the Journal of Information Technology, starting this month. Not only is JIT one of the top journals in Information Systems, according to the AIS…
I’ll be presenting my short paper on “Three Strategies for Open Source Deployment: Substitution, Innovation, and Knowledge Reuse” at the Open Source Systems 2010 conference this May. I wrote the paper because I see a…