Dann Sheridan: "I attended a meeting not too long ago where one of my companies luminaries stood up and told a few hundred people that the refigerator would be the big home automation play because it is designed to run cold and 24x7."
11:15:59 PM  

Doc Searls: 'The Times will continue to suck on the Web if it can't stop thinking like a publisher of "content."'
11:13:19 PM  

Here is a link to some earlier analysis I did on the Microsoft Homestation which will pit them against Dell, Gateway, and Sony in PC hardware.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
8:40:07 PM  

Wired's story from November 2001, about Flextronics involvement in MS's Xbox project:

Just one problem: Who could make this thing?

"We talked to Michael Dell, and the guys at Gateway and Compaq," Allard remembers. "They said, 'Wait, you want to make 50 million of the same exact thing? That's not what I do.' Dell said, 'I don't want to be in the razor business if I can't get in on the blades. You're talking to the wrong guy.'"
8:13:23 PM  

Paul Boutin survived Windows XP.
12:55:19 AM