Repost: “The four horseman”
I have been following a number of companies for a long time, among them the usual suspects: Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. I have been posting on them also numerous [...]
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03, 2015
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11, 2014
Snapcash: P2P payments with Snapchat app
Snapchat and Square recently announced “Snapcash”. This service enables to exchange money directly between two persons (so called P2P: person to person) right from the Snapchat app prompt line. At [...]
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06, 2014
A great talk on the development of the commercial internet
Various themes are combined by Maciej Ceglowski into a thoughtful, though bleak, talk on the development of the commercial internet: "The Internet with a human face" delivered at the Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference
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03, 2014
Why to worry even more about service throttling by Google then Facebook
Search is basic to the Internet and to be considered a utility function. Without „search” no find. "Degraded links" are hurting society as a whole and should be banned.
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03, 2014
„Has Google lowered my page rankings deliberately?”
What if companies like Google, or banks, start throttling their services and pricing dependent on if you are positive or negative about them or if you accept their latest offering?
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01, 2014
Why do we not stop Google while we still can?
(4 minutes reading time, Note by author: this is a highly opinionated post) Some weeks ago Google announced the acquisition of Nest. For those who do not know Nest and [...]
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01, 2014
What would be the contours of the ultimate electronic wallet?
(4 minutes reading time) Basically we only know a few things about Clinkle. Firstly it is a payments start-up based in San-Francisco promising “something that’s fundamentally different from everything else [...]
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01, 2014
Can development of photography teach us something more broadly?
"Light at the end of the tunnel, but what lays around the corner?" iPhone 5s (3 min. read) As many people I frequently visit a fair amount of [...]
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07, 2013
Interoperability is to tools as what collaborability is to humans (sort of)
Wikipedia: “Interoperability is the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate). While the term was initially defined for information technology or systems engineering services to allow for [...]
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06, 2013
Setting up Lightroom publishing service to Dropbox
Publishing from LR to Dropbox I happen to be a happy amateur photographer since my schooldays. A separate blog could be filled easily on this topic alone by me. I [...]
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05, 2013
Remember the days the mobile phone (let alone the smartphone) was not omnipresent?
I worked for a mobile telco in the days that mobile penetration was still measured in the low double digits. In only 3 years time penetration jumped over the 50% [...]
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05, 2013
Shocker: I Find Google Much More Interesting Then Apple!
Some of today's technological and economical trends culminate in the battle between Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Samsung and some of the other well known tech giants. I have been following [...]
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04, 2013
What is Digital Currency?
(This is part 2 of an article on crypto-currencies at Red Planet Dust. See for Part 1) Many call Bitcoin “digital money” but not all types of digital money are [...]
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03, 2013
Payments should be about democratisation not commercialisation of the internet
Payments are about the logistics to transfer money (value) from one to an other. Governments have long tried to control the mechanisms to pay as payments are an important part [...]
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03, 2013
Amazon Coins: Fun for Amazon, not for us.
We have a real digital currency like Bitcoins and we have seen the emergence of "pseudo money" like Amazon Coins, or Facebook Credits. These two are totally different and should [...]
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03, 2013
Strategy is about keeping your eyes open, not ceding to the fashion of the day.
In an earlier post I indicated to have been following the "clash of the tech-titans" for some time now. I do this with a mixture of personal interest - I [...]
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03, 2013
Not much data is needed to get profiled accurately
As Sharon Jayson of USA Today reports University of Cambridge researchers predicted race, age, IQ, sexuality, personality, substance use and political views using Likes alone using a dataset of more [...]
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03, 2013
The commercial Internet has far-reaching social consequences
(This post has been translated from Dutch original 29 Jan 2014, "Het commerciële internet heeft verstrekkende maatschappelijke consequenties" original text included below) Michael Fertik CEO of Reputation.com has written a [...]
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03, 2013
Conventional wisdom does not seem to apply to Apple
A number of contemporary technological and economic trends culminate in the fierce battle between Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung and a few other of these tech giants. I have been following [...]
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02, 2013
Mars’ Law: “Effective range of economic network doubles every two years”
[Transalation of original post] The possibilities available to the participants on the Internet are still increasing. These opportunities are increasingly easier to use and and made available to the participants. [...]