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"SNS' Earth II is to World Wind as Aristarchus' heliocentricity is to Copernican modern acceptance: Somebody had to map it out first! Many thanks to Mark for doing so. The connection to his ability to predict future technology seems historic to me! Before it happens, and when it happens." - Patrick Hogan, Project Manager, World Wind, NASA.

And thank you to Patrick for his invitation to appear next month at the NASA World Wind Euro-Challenge Conference in Como, Italy, for another stage in realizing the project.

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Online Business Models

There is a new verb in the English language, which no doubt haunts the memories of both Facebook IPO participants: "You have just been Zucked." The pain of this investing debacle has spread to essentially all social networking valuations, and not for bad reasons: the emperor had no clothes. The business model had more dreams than revenues.

We have moved from "If you build it, they will come" (a movie reference that never made any real sense) to "If you build it, they will run."

At the same time, there appears to be a dearth of real business models available on the Net, with the unhappy result that everyone wants to be in everyone else's business. Microsoft wants to be Google, Google wants to be Apple, Apple wants to be Sony crossed with Viacom and Amazon, Amazon wants to be Apple, and so on.

What gives? This kind of convergence is not so obvious in the world of bricks and mortar. Is there only one business model available, ultimately, online?

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