Excellent piece. Too bad my folks didn’t get around to writing it first, but at least now it doesn’t need to be written.
The insights in developer relations are great.
At a meta-level:
It’d be interesting to “crowd source” analyst research agendas by just bundling up pieces like this and original work and having that be your “corpus” of research. It’s what Techmeme does for news (no original content though). That’s kind of what InfoQ does for appdev and I think it works kind of well there (I find video a bit too oblique, but you could do 500-1,000 word summaries a a la Blinkist on all the conference talk videos InfoQ has - that’d be a good premium service). Probably a good business too. I suppose it’s the infamous HuffPo and Forbes model, but applies to IT industry analysis.
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