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The new unified messaging app by Google: Hangouts (Copyright The Verge) The Google I/O keynote has just ended and although the Verge’s verdict is “The moonshots, it seems, will have to wait“, I think they’ve presented some great new and updated products. Even though they left Gmail
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The more I hear the expression the less appropriate the term “post-PC” seems to me. Post-PC only makes sense in a historical view in which the Personal Computer (PC – and here including Macs) is defined as the computer as we know it: our desktop computer or laptop of choice. “Personal”
Recently the FT took a critical look at what apparently is being derided as “innovation tourism”: these organized tours of company executives spending a week in Silicon Valley and hoping to bring something useful back home. I plead guilty: Working for a media company mostly stuck in the analog world?
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
About the term “curation”: when I talk to journalists I always have to be like, ‘Actually, curation – it’s really what you guys have always done.’ It’s taking a lot of information, pulling out the relevant parts of it, giving context, and telling a story. About how traditional media
Change is neither bad or good. It just is.
The normal distribution – beautiful curve and rules statistics and data Big data, small data, personal data, data infrastructure, data here, data there: I generally hate buzz word bingo. But for a change, I actually believe in the impact of data and clearly we have more data at our disposal than
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On march 2nd 2013 Evernote was the victim of a security breach on their servers. For a service that holds so much private information about its users, actually also about me, this could be life-threatening incident. As such many a company would prefer to not talk about it. Especially if,
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Facebook HQ – Bike repair shop in the biggest kindergarden in the world In my recent visit to the Silicon Valley we visited some of the best known internet brands. Before heading over to the West Coast, I was obviously excited about visiting the Twitters and Facebooks of this world. In
So I arrived to San Francisco on Sunday after a seemingly never ending flight. After the welcome dinner we now get into the real deal. Here you find the schedule for the week. Monday, March 18th 2013 First Day of the Silicon Valley Study Tour already full with highlights: Swissnex
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Software is the new hardware: companies we would have never thought they’d be into software are releasing smartphone and tablet apps or even APIs so that developers can program against their platform: * It looks like Nike is not releasing one piece of kit that is not in some way
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Everybody knows these mobile phone shops: rows and rows of shiny new gadgets attached to some security device that beeps horribly if you pull a bit too harshly on the string attached to the phone you want to try out. How on earth have these shops and their terrible user