Latest from Bob Walsh

From Search to Story with Qwiki

Did you know that San Francisco had a population of 806,000 in 2008, but only covers 46.7 square miles giving it a density of 17,323 per square mile, the second most densely-populated city in the United States? I didn’t. But the alpha (request an invite) public version of Qwiki does, and after you see the ...

Putting the Kachingle into Micropayments

If you’re worried about an online future of constantly being nickeled, dimmed, dollared and euroed by content pay walls like what the New York Times hopes to put in place soon, Kachingle.com hope it has a nice disruptive micropayment model for you. Micro payments for at least a decade has been next year’s Big Thing. ...

How the Mac App Store Changes Software Economics

Lost in the online noise about Apple’s new Mac App Store (is it good or bad, will it work or not) is the reality behind Apple’s iPhone App Store in its first 27 months: From 500 apps to 300,000, From zero downloads to seven billion, Over a billion dollars paid out to iOS developers. The ...