John Battelle’s 2009 predictions.

The new patent era.

 Will the web ever go 3D?

The secret of Apple’s success? Actively kill off the old products.

The Guardian has a list of the top 100 websites for the coming year.

Paul Graham is arguing that big companies are obsolete and small companies are the future. Seems bloody unlikely to me. Rather, there will be a place for both, as there always has been.

Here’s a good post from Paul Graham on the often ignored fact that it costs real money to set up procurement controls in business or government.