The app economy shows that there are big opportunities in “digital pennies” and that the figures are beginning to match even the “analog dollars”. In fact, I suspect eventually digital pennies will dwarf analog dollars. The trouble is that these pennies will not be earned at the same control points. Bits are already big bucks. They’re just not the bits we are used to.
“Digital pennies”
Profile of SnapChat, and turning down billions
FORBES estimates that 50 million people currently use Snapchat. Median age: 18. Facebook, meanwhile, has admittedly has seen a decline among teenagers. Its average user is closer to 40. … “I can see why [SnapChat is] strategically valuable,” one leading venture capitalist tells FORBES. “But is it worth $3 billion? Not in any universe I’m aware of.
Profile of SnapChat, and turning down billions
Gartner's IT spending forecast
Investment is coming from exploiting analytics to make B2C processes more efficient and improve customer marketing efforts…. The focus is on enhancing the customer experience throughout the presales, sales and post sales processes.
Gartner’s IT spending forecast
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I’ve spent years puttering around at the “infrastructure layer” in IT: programming, systems management, cloud, all that gunk. From what I can tell much of the growth in IT is being driven by companies wanting to engage in “social” more. What is “social,” though? Indeed, that’s one of the things this podcast will try to figure out (hopefully with as much delightful rat-holing as Horace). Also, we’ll discuss my need for slippers that masquerade as socks so I can get them past my wife’s 2nd floor blockade.
Mostly though, it’s a McGuffin for getting to talk with Chris more.
On that note, here’s the video we recorded earlier. A podcast format with all the bells and whistles will follow.
We just having a working title now: Connected Culture and Obscure Stuff, which is much better than our original working title.
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The disruptive tech ecosystem, put briefly
The technology industry is in the business of creating products and services that either enable new activities or make existing activities less expensive. Venture capitalists are in the business of funding entrepreneurs who run experiments to try to create these new products and services. I believe the only way the technology industry can offer meaningfully improved financial services is by building new services that don’t depend on incumbent companies.
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I worry far less about accepting a group that does badly than I do about rejecting one that does well. One that does well, sufficiently well, would pay for hundreds of other start ups that return nothing.
Paul Graham
SDN adoption expected to be slow
[L]ess than 30 percent of the 321 IT professionals surveyed have deployed or plan to deploy SDN in the next year. Add on another 40 percent that have no plans to implement SDN at all.
SDN adoption expected to be slow
The year in 3D printing: lingerie models, jet engines and the twerking Einstein
The year in 3D printing: lingerie models, jet engines and the twerking Einstein
The year in 3D printing: lingerie models, jet engines and the twerking Einstein
The year in 3D printing: lingerie models, jet engines and the twerking Einstein
Digital hoarders
I’ve always been attached to the platonic idea of an attic, where traditional families who live in the same house for forever stick their prized possessions and junk, so that other family members can go up and trawl through it at watershed points in their lives to discover some curio that leads them to a cave under a seasonal restaurant that contains a fully intact 18th-century pirate ship.
Yeah, if you’ve seen my Flickr account, you know I’m one of them.