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Google Fucktardery
The always awesome Aaron Wall lets loose with another blistering rebuke of Google’s regular business practices. When Google complains about censorship, they are not really complaining about what may...
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Microsoft. Saves You Time
I’d love that as a new tagline. I’ve really enjoyed reading some of the analysis of Satya’s memo. In addition to the ones I mentioned in my earlier post, I’ve found these to be particularly...
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Startup Reviews
I’m thinking of starting a new tech blog called Startup Reviews*, where I review every single new startup that I hear about. Without exception I’ll predict they will fail, and I’ll further predict they...
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Too much to ask
Reply from Malcolm Gladwell when asked about a child’s birth month being an advantage (emphasis mine): Question: In Outliers, you discuss why a hugely disproportionate number of professional hockey and...
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Innovation: Idea versus Execution
When it comes to understanding innovation, it’s easy to fixate on the idea, and neglect the execution. It’s why for example when Apple announced that their new iPhone 6 devices had NFC chips to...
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Frankly Speaking Podcast 100
Yay, the Frank Arrigo episode finally makes it to our ears. Although it is way too short… it feels as though Frank is just getting started and then the episode is over. Andrew Coates and Michael...
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Office for iOS Goodness
Really cool to see that the Microsoft Office team are essentially making Office free for everyone to use on iOS (and soon Android). I really like this approach (as I’ve mentioned previously). And this...
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Well played Twitter, well played
Twitter’s ‘strategy statement’ update last week really got the twitterverse going apeshit. But I suspect it was all a cleverly concocted distraction to divert journalists away from the much more...
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More on that Google Peaking idea
Another excellent post (long, but worth the read) from Aaron Wall, discussing the ever-growing impact of Google on businesses – no matter how big or small – that markets themselves online (ie just...
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Long Term Instacart
I’m fascinated that services like Instacart can command multi-billion dollar valuations. Sure, the sharing economy is in full swing, and making your pitch ‘the Uber of grocery deliveries’ is nice, but...
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iOS8 Storage Class Action Hokum
More silly lawyer-wealth-building coming up, in a new class action against Apple: Apple has touted iOS 8 as the “biggest iOS 8 release ever,” a tagline plaintiffs lawyers tried to spin to their...
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Rental economy
From Fred Wilson’s post reflecting on 2014: 3/ the “sharing economy” was outed as the “rental economy.” nobody is sharing anything. people are making money, plain and simple. technology has made...
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PewResearch findings indicate 46% of bosses block access to some web sites
There’s no real surprises in the overall findings in PewResearch’s latest study on the impact of technology on workers: email and internet are very important, office landline phones are important, cell...
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Remote and Great Programmers
From Matt Mullenweg, responding to Paul Graham’s post: If 95% of great programmers aren’t in the US, and an even higher percentage not in the Bay Area, set up your company to take advantage of that...
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I’d buy an iPhone 6 Mini
If the rumours turn out to be true and Apple does release an iPhone 6 Mini I’ll likely buy it. I got my iPhone 6 at the start of November and switched to it from my iPhone 5s. But two weeks later I...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Year of Books
From Mark Zuckerberg’s status update: My challenge for 2015 is to read a new book every other week — with an emphasis on learning about different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies. It’s a...
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Robots are starting to break the law
As part of an art exhibition in Zurich, an automated online shopping bot is tasked with buying a random item each week on the deep web to the value of $100 in bitcoins. Along the way it purchases...
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Dan Lyons Bloody Predictions
Hindsight is always easy, which makes the first part of this post pretty lame. But the forward-looking predictions are pretty spot on I think. The closing remarks about the impending crash are what...
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Thinking of the customer
When running a business there’s always tension between what’s best for your business versus what’s best for your customer. Dan Counsell’s post on providing access to Mac Apps outside the App Store is a...
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Apple Software Quality
Marco’s post is getting a lot of attention at the moment, and for good reason – it eloquently summarises the frustration a lot of Apple users are currently experiencing: We now need to treat Apple’s OS...
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