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Mark Sigal

Biography

Mark Sigal is a seven-time entrepreneur who has spent the better part of the past 17 years seeding new ventures in the networked device, device management, and consumer internet spaces. His focus these days is on digital media services; namely the re-envisioning of traditional video, audio, and advertising channels in a mobile broadband-enabled world, with three primary projects: vSocial, a video clip sharing community; Me.com, a master planned online “community of communities”; and Insider Engine, a stock investing service. He also maintains a blog called The Network Garden.

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Surplus, Scarcity and the iPhone App Store

December 17 2008

George Gilder once pointed out that when the availability of a given resource shifts from scarcity to surplus, a lot of wealth is created. In the technology realm, one can think of processing power, storage and bandwidth as the great “wealth exponential-izers” of first the PC era, then the Internet… read more

What it Means to be a "Social" Media Center: Boxee, Apple TV and Square Connect

December 05 2008

I keep waiting for the magical convergence box in my living room. You know the one; it’s the Web TV that actually works. In Boxee (social media center), Apple TV (iTunes in my living room) and Square Connect (iPhone/iPod touch based Universal Remote), I finally see the framing for a… read more

Wall Widgets: Fixed Wireless at Home

May 22 2008

Electricity flows. So does information. This is an attempt, to describe a metaphorical 'socket,' light bulb and currency flow by connecting the dots between three potent technology trends: Widget-ization of the web. Ascendance of mobile platforms, like the iPhone. Ascendance of mobility platforms, like the iPod touch. Imagine a device… read more

Mobility 2.0 and the iPhone SDK

March 04 2008

I am going to propose a vocabulary for thinking about the building blocks of mobility applications in the iPhone/iPod touch universe, a vocabulary based largely on an analysis of the composite set of existing functions already supported in these devices. My goal is two-fold. One is to attempt to connect… read more

iPod touch: the first mainstream Wi-Fi mobile platform?

January 28 2008

Is the iPod touch destined to be the first mainstream Wi-Fi mobile platform, as Apple management is starting to chat up? Or just the Newton revisited? This article ponders the possibilities. read more

Flash! Structured Wikis, Customizable Widgets and Social Computing

July 05 2006

As everybody knows, the promise of Java was that functionality written once could run unmodified on different machines, different types of devices and different types of runtime spaces (e.g., server-side, client-side or browser-based). But this isn't a commentary about Java,... read more

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