During our interview, I asked Weiner about near-term drivers of the Internet economy.
Paul Sagan has ridden hard over the wildest extremes of the Internet economy.
In an unprecedented move for a major Internet economy, the government of Egypt appears to have cut off web access for most of its citizens.
If America is to remain the global leader of the Internet economy, then it will need a wireless network that is up to the challenge.
Critics fear the over-regulation of the industry and say it will stifle innovation in the Internet economy, which depends on personal data as its currency.
"During the research we discovered very quickly that there is no approved way of measuring the internet economy, " says David Dean, a managing director at BCG.
Even though history--and even Forrester itself--says that predicting e-commerce growth is a dicey proposition, UPS has already made itself a vital part of the Internet economy.
Some new cloud-based solutions act as payment processors, as well as offering back-end customer relations management systems and the ability to accept mobile payments in the growing Internet economy.
The ethos of the internet economy also discouraged planning.
Each decision in its own way reflected the fierce determination of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and his two Democratic colleagues to recast the agency whenever possible for a starring role in the Internet economy.
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The Internet Economy is big and getting bigger.
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Both the actual data roaming and net neutrality orders are being challenged, by the way, on the sensible and likely successful legal theory that the FCC was never given authority from Congress to sink its teeth so deeply into the Internet economy.
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Joel Kotkin of Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, author of a forthcoming book on the geography of the information age, sees the favourite cities of the Internet economy, such as San Francisco and Seattle, as boutiques for the young, single and rich.
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Ellison knew when he acquired Sun that the explosion of the global Internet economy, the customer-engagement economy, the real-time-and-always-on economy, the Big Data economy, or the whatever-you-want-to-call-it economy, would trigger analytical and transactional workloads for Oracle customers that would crush traditional, non-optimized hardware and software combinations.
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Son, the 41-year-old founder and president of Softbank Corp. of Japan, is not as famous as his pals Bill Gates of Microsoft or Jerry Yang of Yahoo, but he has carved out a larger chunk of the Internet economy than either of them--larger than anyone else on the planet, he claims.
They believe that, given the demands of a globalised, Internet-speed economy, container ships might soon be whizzing like speedboats.
But this is also one reason Groupon is an especially fascinating company to watch in the evolution of a new Internet-based economy.
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British Conservative MEP Sajjad Karim warned that there needed to be a greater understanding of intellectual property, pointing out that the internet-based economy was worth almost 10% of a country's GDP.
By boosting productivity, the Internet can lift the economy's safe speed limit before inflation starts to rise.
In the 1990s it was the internet that drove the economy, and we all know what happened after that.
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Even in a crappy economy, Internet mobility will be a big growth market, so keep your eye on it.
Multinational corporations are using the Internet to create a borderless economy, to operate unhindered by national frontiers.
Leading the way is the powerhouse of the German online economy, Rocket Internet.
This includes building new infrastructure, from high-speed trains to high-speed Internet, so that our economy can run faster and smarter.
And that was in the U.S., the convenience economy where the Internet is supposed to have entrenched itself into the consumer mindset.
It's the kind of stuff that is sucking a significant segment of the economy onto the Internet, even if profits remain elusive.
As the presidential candidates face off in their first debate, we need them to address the substantial changes technology and the Internet are bringing to our economy.
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The U.S. is also well ahead of most other countries in moving both its security apparatus and commercial economy onto the Internet, which was not designed with security in mind.
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