Category: Found
Links, news articles, clippings, etc. – classic blog-style.
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Why it’s so different now
Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1 hours / day. There are 138 million smart phones in the US alone and … wait … 99 million tablets. Insane. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. 2013 = $25 billion…
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Who’s collecting Android profits?
As you have probably guessed, the one making the most profit from Android is market leader Samsung, but the actual figure may come as a surprise, as it’s said to have taken almost 95 percent of the global profits earned from the mobile OS during the first quarter of 2013. Analysts broke it down like…
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Netscape finally wins
Chrome is doing its job: Google’s signals sit on top of an increasing number of PCs, slowly making the underlying OS irrelevant. –more…
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How’s VCE been doin’?
$1B annual run rate, 1,000+ vBlocks sold (cumulative?), with $1.3B investment, founded 2011. More: How’s VCE been doin’?
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Yahoo! ‘won’t screw Tumblr’? Then Tumblr will screw its balance sheet
It’s all true, and yet it seems like a good idea still. More: Yahoo! ‘won’t screw Tumblr’? Then Tumblr will screw its balance sheet
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The beast known as Samsung
If there was a common thread among everyone The Verge spoke with for this story, it was Samsung’s brutal dominance: the Korean giant’s own-sourced display and processor combined with an enormous marketing war chest make competing in Android extraordinarily difficult. —The beast known as Samsung
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Yahoo gives Flickr a new face, a new app, and a new business model | Ars Technica
I love it when companies let you pay to stop showing ads: it gives you a good sense for how much each customer (each pair of "eyeballs") is worth. Here, $50/year. More: Yahoo gives Flickr a new face, a new app, and a new business model | Ars Technica
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QLIK Rising: As DATA Soars, BMO Cheers New Analytics Approach
Watch over the next 2 years as the Big 4 of BI (IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Microstragy) battle distuption from well funded upstarts. Folks like SAS snd Terradata will have to pick sides. More: QLIK Rising: As DATA Soars, BMO Cheers New Analytics Approach
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Tableau IPO’ing – Big DATA
It’s expected to have a valuation of $1.4B. I love it when pure play software company IPO’s because you get a peak at their financials and how they’re run for a specific type of software. More: Tableau IPO’ing – Big DATA
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PoS Disruption
Local business owners take as a given that they need an ugly, slow, expensive and complicated point of sale system cluttering their counter. –Square unveils new iPad stand dubbed Square Stand The spread of iOS into retail/PoS is a great disruption story playing out right in front of us. The fact that they’re called PoS’s…
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Google pools cloud storage
It’s a slow race to capture the white-collar worker segment. More: Google pools cloud storage
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SAP Takes It All to the Cloud
“We will do cloud-based ERP on a massive scale,” said Vishal Sikka, a member of SAP’s executive board and one of the people who oversaw the project. Of SAP’s regular product, he said, “At some point in the future, complex implementations should go away. All of our products are moving to HANA.” —SAP Takes It…
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EMC World: Pivotal boss Paul Maritz talks up plans for new firm
EMC believes that the third era will be one of mobile devices, cloud computing and big data…. "We don’t want you to build an app in Amazon’s cloud and have to pay Amazon a tax for the rest of its lifecycle." —EMC World: Pivotal boss Paul Maritz talks up plans for new firm
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Bowl Cherries, circa long ago
Was the Renaissance something that you put on and took off like a diadem, or was it something you did even while you slept? —Bowl Cherries, circa long ago
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The Money Shot
At Stanford, Systrom opted to go abroad to Florence, Italy, for the winter term of his junior year, where he focused on photography. A teacher there persuaded him to switch from his Nikon to a plastic Holga that took square photos, a choice that would be echoed later at Instagram. —The Money Shot
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You go to war with the knowledge you have
“Managing the incompleteness of communications” is core to mastering agile software development. —Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition) I recall reading the first edition of this book years ago. Man, that was fun.
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The trouble with our increasing clock speed
Through it all, we don’t have to become hermits. But we must not allow ourselves to continue being junkies. —The trouble with our increasing clock speed
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The Intel Opportunity
Massive demand, limited suppliers, huge barriers to entry. It’s a good time to be a manufacturing company. It is, potentially, a good time to be Intel. After all, of those four companies, the most advanced, by a significant margin, is Intel. The only problem is that Intel sees themselves as a design company, come hell…
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How would you define work in a networked world?
Most of these dynamics predate the internet, but digital technologies are magnifying their salience. People keep returning to the mantra of “work-life balance” as a model for thinking about their lives, even as it’s hard to distinguish between what constitutes work and what constitutes life, which is presumably non-work. But this binary makes little sense…
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That nasty tasting black stuff…that I’m drinking right now
The flavour might best be described as being a cross between medicine, crushed plants, and bitter mud. … The drink’s numerous medicinal claims came in handy during the American prohibition; as a medicine, Fernet Branca was still legal. –Fernet Branca
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