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David Sims was the editorial director of O'Reilly Network.

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Commerce Weekly: Bump taps mobile payments, April 12 2012
Commerce Weekly: The do's and don'ts of geo marketing, April 05 2012
Commerce Weekly: Google Wallet vs Isis is coming soon, March 29 2012
Why StreetEasy rolled its own maps, March 19 2012
Commerce Weekly: PayPal's Here service takes on Square, March 15 2012
Understanding place and space in a decreasingly English world, March 12 2012
Commerce Weekly: An app to end tab walkouts, March 08 2012
Why Uber's data fascinates a neuroscientist, March 06 2012
Commerce Weekly: Small banks lagging in mobile, March 01 2012
Commerce Weekly: The mobile payment system that's ready now, February 23 2012
Commerce Weekly: Google defends its Wallet, February 16 2012
Commerce Weekly: Facebook finds a mobile commerce partner, February 10 2012
Commerce Weekly: The return of iPhone NFC rumors, February 02 2012
Commerce Weekly: Target doesn't want to be the showroom for online retailers, January 26 2012
Commerce Weekly: Slow in-app purchasers are worth the wait, January 19 2012
Commerce Weekly: Report criticizes "feeble" mobile strategies of posh retailers, January 12 2012
Commerce Weekly: Yahoo's new CEO has data focus, January 06 2012
Commerce Weekly: Verizon drops Google Wallet, December 08 2011
Commerce Week: Cyber Monday lives up to hype, December 01 2011
Commerce Weekly: Bring your mobile to Black Friday, November 17 2011
Commerce Weekly: Chasing down abandoned shopping carts, November 10 2011
Commerce Weekly: Chasing down abandoned shopping carts, November 10 2011
Commerce Weekly: Square upgrades Card Case with geofences, November 03 2011
Commerce Weekly: Groupon's long and winding road to an IPO, October 27 2011
Commerce Weekly: Google juices its Wallet, October 20 2011
Commerce Weekly: PayPal wants to "one click" across the web, October 14 2011
Commerce Weekly: How Steve Jobs changed the way we buy, October 06 2011
ePayments Week: Will NFC add value?, September 29 2011
ePayments Week: Google Wallet debuts, September 22 2011
ePayments Week: Financial Times bets on its web app, September 01 2011
ePayments Week: The rise of location-triggered offers, August 25 2011
ePayments Week: The economics of in-app purchases, August 18 2011
ePayments Week: Who do you trust for mobile payments?, August 11 2011
ePayments Week: Customers still wary of mobile payments, August 04 2011
ePayments Week: Freemium is fruitful for mobile games, July 28 2011
ePayments Week: Is "0000" your passcode?, July 21 2011
ePayments Week: Contactless payment (and zombie survival tactics), July 14 2011
ePayments Week: AliPay gets physical, July 07 2011
ePayments Week: Growing demand for connected health services, June 30 2011
ePayments Week: eBay's ecommerce platform, June 09 2011
ePayments Week: Google debuts coupon service, June 02 2011
ePayments Week: Mobile payments target the point-of-sale, May 26 2011
ePayments Week: Who will deliver swipe-and-pay first?, May 19 2011
ePayments Week: Can check-in services prove their value?, May 12 2011
ePayments Week: Report says developers chill on Android, May 05 2011
ePayments Week: What does the attention around tracking mean?, April 28 2011
ePayments Week: Where adds context to PayPal, April 21 2011
ePayments Week: Android's predicted ascendance, April 14 2011
ePayments Week: Tapping our hunger for Facebook Credits, April 07 2011
ePayments Week: PayPal in brick-and-mortar territory, March 31 2011
ePayments Week: Visa moves into PayPal territory, March 24 2011
ePayments Week: Is iTunes the fifth most populous country?, March 03 2011
ePayments Week: More Androids banking, February 24 2011
The tricky mix of payment, identity and trust, February 17 2011
ePayments Week: Does Apple deserve a bigger bite?, February 17 2011
3 mobile payment products hint at the future, February 10 2011
ePayments Week: How to steal coffee from your friends, February 10 2011
Big data thwarts fraud, February 08 2011
ePayments Week: How big a bite will Apple take?, February 03 2011
ePayments Week: Facebook's focus on mobile, January 27 2011
The "dying craft" of data on discs, January 27 2011
3 skills a data scientist needs, January 25 2011
ePayments Week: Starbucks mainstreams mobile payment, January 20 2011
ePayments Week: Square rounds up, January 13 2011
Backtype: Using big data to make sense of social media, January 11 2011
ePayments Week: McAfee worries about mobile security, January 07 2011
Big data faster: A conversation with Bradford Stephens, January 06 2011
ePayments Week: Google goes patent shopping, December 17 2010
Big data, but with a familiar face, December 14 2010
Closing the gap between big data and people who need It, December 10 2010

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Editors' Picks: The Best of 2001
Publish Date: Dec. 21, 2001O'Reilly's online editors pick their favorite articles from 2001, including reviews, tutorials, interviews, performance tests, and a few pranks. Microsoft Plans Shared Source .NET
Publish Date: Jun. 27, 2001Microsoft has announced its first foray into the waters of publicly shared source. Tim O'Reilly talks to Microsoft program manager (and FreeBSD sympathizer) Dave Stutz about Redmond's plans to release shared-source code of parts of the .NET framework. Is Indrema Just a Dream?
Publish Date: Apr. 6, 2001John Gildred dreamed of a way to lower the barrier for game developers to create entertainment that would run not just on PCs, but in the much wider universe of gaming consoles. The idea: build a Linux-based gaming console that open source hackers can develop for. But can a startup get a foothold on a market dominated by Nintendo, Sony, and (soon) Microsoft? The Biggest Lie I Heard at CES
Publish Date: Jan. 8, 2001The slogan under Microsoft's logo says that home systems will "Simplify Your Life." Dave Sims doesn't believe it in his report from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. A Directory of Peer-to-Peer Projects
Publish Date: Oct. 20, 2000Suddenly, all manner of companies are declaring themselves P2P. So what exactly is P2P? This directory of P2P companies reveals that the P2P space is poorly defined, constantly shifting, and terribly interesting. Start Coding: An Introduction to WML
Publish Date: Jul. 28, 2000The coming generation of WAP phones will read web content only if it's formatted in the wireless markup language. Here's a primer to get you started. Highlights From the WWW9 Conference
Publish Date: May. 26, 2000Dave Sims reports highlights from the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference in Amsterdam. Why is the Jini Bottled Up?
Publish Date: Mar. 29, 2000Is the big problem with Jini Sun's community license? A report from the Third Jini Community Meeting. Standards Update: The Voice Browser
Publish Date: Mar. 22, 2000Five new markup languages aim to let us speak to the Web and retrieve information from online databases.

Mozilla Interview: Brendan Eich and Mitchell Baker
Publish Date: Mar. 14, 2000When's it coming and what does it mean for Open Source?

An Interview with Tim O'Reilly & Eric Raymond
Publish Date: Feb. 18, 2000O'Reilly Network talks with two open source leaders on how corporate America is embracing open source technologies and methodologies.

Interview: Mendel Rosenblum of VMware
Publish Date: Feb. 18, 2000VMWare's Chief Scientist explains the virtual machine that runs multiple operating systems on your desktop.

Europe's PDAs: Giga Analyst Carl Zetti on the Symbian Alliance
Publish Date: Feb. 9, 2000Europe's device makers are flirting with the Palm OS, but Giga analyst Carl Zetti says their Symbian alliance remains strong.

Opening Zope: An Interview with Paul Everitt
Publish Date: Feb. 1, 2000When does it make sense to give away the source code to your most valuable product?

Will Money Spoil Open Source?
Publish Date: Jan. 31, 2000A Discussion with Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann.

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