New devices? OK, Apple’s iPod and iPhone. How about eee PC from Asus in Taiwan? Surface in Redmond?

Web? With the Chinese Internet now already at the same size as the US (and having room to grow several times larger), and other markets such as Japan, Russia, Europe, the US market is just a significant *niche* of the world market.

Most of the web is about people and culture, not about “hard” technology. However, Americans have difficulty adapting to other cultures. In the last couple of weeks, we have discussed here Facebook’s inability to adapt for Japan and Germany, mobile phones in Japan… People born in the US typically speak only 1 language and — at best — have seen foreign countries on trips like “see all of Europe in 5 days”. They don’t understand other value systems (see the absolutely ridiculous treatment of China in US MSM and blogs). And the first generation immigrants in the US are typically under so much pressure to assimilate that they don’t contribute their own multicultural knowledge.

So: I don’t drink Jason Kincaid’s kool aid.

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I like your coverage of iPhone 3G.

Can you format your blog so that it will be easier to read on iPhone?

Thanks
Alon

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I can agree that if a company provides financial incentive for an ex-employee not to work for a competitor for a period of time but most non-compete agreement goes by default without paying employees after the job engagement.

unfortunately non competes are enforced quite a bit in MA. Actually it’s enforced the most.

check out the stats here:
http://opencomp...hat-truly-bind/

as a VC in MA, I will tell you it comes up a lot. entrepreneurs can’t hire or recruit with the same ease as their SV counterparts. or many entrepreneurs simply aren’t willing to take the risk of litigation.

if you don’t believe it, let’s do a poll of “web 2.0″ and see just how many developers are in San Fransisco (or even in California for that matter)…

The “valley” is almost a metaphor anymore. It’s very much not 1980… applications come from all over the globe and those that do come from the U.S. are not even dominated by the Valley. The biggest and oldest (one latter paves way for the former) are in the Valley, but that is simply a product of history… most of the new companies coming up are nowhere near Silicon Valley (physically speaking).

Soon, the people who think it’s all about “The Valley” will be akin to those who insist AOL is the harbinger of innovation and web-coolness. Gary K. loves AOL… neener neener.

A company could expand their territory of what types of areas could be covered – and the employee would have less and less options

It will always be home to other forms of technology, just not web.

[& Danny McCoy is the Joshn Duhamel character on Vegas (high tech quality input to this conversation I know....)]