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Yesterday, Google killed Stadia, their game streaming project. A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategyWe’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.GooglePhil Harrison The idea of game streaming is neat. In principle, with a fast-enough internet connection, you don'
Toolbox
One innovation tool we often use is the "canary in the coal mine." I've been illustrating and writing about quite a few in different contexts these last few years but never really explained the tool and how to use it. So, here goes...
Weak Signals
In 2018, a 5th grader mathematics problem given in a school in China took some part of the internet by storm. The problem was as follows: If a ship had 26 sheep and 10 goats onboard, how old is the ship's captain? You might want to pause on
Strategy
For years, Apple has been vastly underrated in many sectors, such as mobile or games, and now as an ad or financial service company. Mostly the reason is that Apple until it's late in the game, doesn't game a significant market share. Their focus is never
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Last July, Siemens unveiled their new business accelerator dedicated to the metaverse. And before you start running away, thinking they are selling snake oil – as everyone pretty much when using the M word – think again. While Siemens CEO Roland Busch half-heartedly evokes the consumer metaverse "revolution," he then
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Most of the tech and digital news this year has been depressing, if you ask me. Between Andreessen Horowitz investing upward of $350 million in the new Adam Neumann grift or Marc Zuckerberg gambling the future of Meta on us wearing cumbersome 3D helmets, the little world of digital tech
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To end the week, I'd like to share an interesting find about a legacy technology that still survives against all odds. The mighty floppy disk! As much as I would like to think it's now a kind of exotic oddity used by hobbyists and retrogamers, it&
Strategy
We talked many times over about network effects and their indisputable power. The question today is: Is there a self-defense manual against them? Or "How to kill a Facebook"?
Fascinating tweet from Johannes Wachs a few days ago: Preprint day: I measure developer brain drain from Russia since the invasion. Comparing @github data Feb21vsJun22 I find many RU devs are abroad (8.6%) or obscure their loc (11.3%). Leavers were more active and central in the collabnet. Feedback
Historically, I have been doubtful of reproducing innovation models imported from other cultures and ecosystems – I've been very polite. In my experience, the main fallacy is that such things as "Silicon Valley" are a model to start with. If anything, they are a complex construct that
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The Verge is among the most famous consumer electronics and technology news websites. As of yesterday, they entirely redesigned their website and, more importantly, changed how they feed their audience news. Let's see why this might be big news. The Verge was launched in 2011 and is owned
![🟢 [ Looking back at ] 15 years of mentoring](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1612993232871-47e86e7de1f9?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwxMTc3M3wwfDF8c2VhcmNofDV8fHBlYWt8ZW58MHx8fHwxNjYyNzkzNzE2&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=600)
Mentoring is now a wide-spread practice that is more or less loosely understood, but that is always of great promise. After working on this subject for about 15 years and obtaining a PhD on the very subject in 2012, I thought it would interesting to look back and reflect.