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- IBM buys Ustream: is it a workforce communication play?
Friday - 01/22/2016 - 11:04 AMIBM has added Ustream to a long list of video technology company acquisitions in the recent past — like Clearleap acquired last month — buying the streaming video vendor for around $130 million (according to Fortune).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Business on Display: Making a Statement with Digital Signage
Thursday - 01/14/2016 - 01:00 PMThe digital signage market is projected to be worth $22 billion by 2020.
Join us for our first of four webinars powered by Samsung as we discuss the evolution of digital signage from simple graphics to the dynamic smart platforms they are today.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - I have seen the future, and it doesn’t mention Uber
Thursday - 01/07/2016 - 06:31 AMAs we all know, some of the best ideas come when they are least expected. For me, the epiphany came just as I turned into my driveway; how fortunate that I was moving very slowly at that point, as it was a bobby dazzler of a thought.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Why we should think differently about digital signage (draft)
Wednesday - 01/06/2016 - 04:53 AMThis post is sponsored by Samsung. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why the future of payments may lie deep in the past
Monday - 01/04/2016 - 10:38 AMThis post is sponsored by Samsung. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
It’s that time of year when we take stock, review where we are and try to work out where we are going.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Twitter flip-flops on Politwoops (again)
Thursday - 12/31/2015 - 12:08 PMTwitter has reversed its decision to bar Politwoops, a service which collects and preserves deleted tweets from public officials, from using the public Twitter API.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What to expect from social companies in 2016
Wednesday - 12/30/2015 - 09:00 AMSocial networks are in a time of upheaval. Established players are experimenting with new services to maintain their relevance, upstart messaging companies are doing their damnedest to knock incumbents off their thrones, and people have more options than ever before when it comes to connecting with other humans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A new retail model for a new class of devices
Tuesday - 12/29/2015 - 09:00 AMHeading into CES I’ve been thinking about all of the connected consumer devices flooding the market, some of them from established manufacturers like Whirlpool, many more crowd funded experiments in hardware design.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Facebook’s Internet.org stumbles in India
Wednesday - 12/23/2015 - 11:43 AMFacebook’s attempt to provide free access to some Internet services has hit a roadblock: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has told the company’s wireless partner, Reliance Communications, to halt its support of the program.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The future of the sensor market
Monday - 12/21/2015 - 02:07 PMI’ve written previously about how declining sensor costs are a key facet of IoT. Along with cheaper compute costs, better (and also cheaper) cloud integration and improved mobile broadband, sensors round out the keys not just to a networked physical world but a world of intelligent machines and machine learning.
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- Zappos sees more staff departures, but is Holacracy to blame?
Monday - 01/18/2016 - 09:40 AMMore departures at Zappos leads commentators to question if Holacracy is the culprit. Recalll that Tony Hsieh offered employees a big payout if they decided to quit during the transition to Holacracy.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Is the PC going extinct?
Wednesday - 01/13/2016 - 08:36 AMNew numbers tell a dark story for PC manufacturers, except perhaps Apple. New Gartner stats are unequivocal: worldwide sales are down 8.3%.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Shape of Shopping in 2016: Holiday Shopping Trends Inform the Coming Year
Wednesday - 01/06/2016 - 10:32 AMThis post is sponsored by Samsung. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The web economy will chopshop the car industry
Tuesday - 01/05/2016 - 09:49 AMA few news stories make it clear that the venerable automobile industry is going to wind up sliced, diced, and consumed by the new economics and technologies of the web, and in short order.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The headset cometh: A virtual reality content primer
Thursday - 12/31/2015 - 04:47 PMWhen we talk about VR, we tend to talk in broad strokes. “Experiences,” we call them, as if that term is somehow covers and conveys the depth and disparity that exists between gaming, watching, and interacting with VR content.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Facebook’s free Internet service stumbles in Egypt
Wednesday - 12/30/2015 - 02:20 PMFacebook just can’t give the Internet away.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Indoor farming: Good for cannabis, not so good for food
Tuesday - 12/29/2015 - 11:06 AMMarijuana is a natural candidate for experimentation — and not just the kind that leaves New York Times columnists in hallucinatory states for eight hours. Because it’s often grown indoors, and growing it legally is just becoming legal in a few states around the country, the plant is almost begging to be messed with.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Amazon makes empty boasts about another holiday season
Monday - 12/28/2015 - 01:01 PMAmazon is making it seem like consumers signing up for its Prime service just in time to take advantage of free two-day shipping on last-minute gifts is a victory. But, much like its celebration of a record-breaking holiday shopping weekend in November, the company hasn’t offered many details about its boastful posturing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ello, the startup formerly known as the anti-Facebook, grows up
Tuesday - 12/22/2015 - 01:11 PMRemember Ello, the social network that was first portrayed as the anti-Facebook well over a year ago? Well, it’s still around, but the anti-Facebook framing is something it never should have been billed as, according to the founders.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Are microservices just SOA redux?
Monday - 12/21/2015 - 01:00 PMSinclair is CEO and cofounder of Apprenda, a leader in enterprise Platform as a Service.
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- Work chat Fleep’s slash commands and email integration
Monday - 01/18/2016 - 04:49 PMI’ve been closely watching the development of work chat vendor Fleep, and since I reviewed the product in August (see Work chat tool Fleep has native task management: Is that a key feature, or just nice to have?) the company has addressed so many areas I won’t try to cover them all, I’ll let them do that for you.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Is Twitter going past the 140 character limit?
Thursday - 01/07/2016 - 10:40 AMYesterday, Jack Dorsey hinted at relaxing the 140 character limit on Twitter:
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— Jack (@jack) January 5, 2016
I wonder if that’s a reponse to users concerns, like mine: - Sortd and the trajectory of the email inbox
Wednesday - 01/06/2016 - 12:57 PMEmail is often characterized as hellish: at best a necessary evil and at worst a monstrous time sink.
Email has evolved into a weird medium of communication where the best thing you can do is destroy it quickly, as if every email were a rabid bat attacking your face. — Paul Ford
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Gift Card Sector Comes of Age. Part 3 of 5: Changing Consumer Sentiment– Moving Beyond Physical Gift Cards to E-Gifting, P2P
Monday - 01/04/2016 - 03:43 PMIn part 2 of this look at the gift card sector, we examined some of the business, technology and consumer behavior trends leading to the increased acceptance of gift cards and accompanying growing adoption of pre-paid cards as gifts.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Gift Card Sector Comes of Age (Series). Part 1 of 5: Gift Cards are Cool Again (and Everyone Wants In)
Thursday - 12/31/2015 - 10:33 PMThe gift card sector is sizzling these days – more so than they’ve ever been. In the past four years, there has been a significant uptick in new technology and new business models in the sector.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Blah blah blah: We’re going to be talking a lot in 2016
Wednesday - 12/30/2015 - 01:45 PMI’ve been slowly digesting Talk to Me, the collection of essays edited by Paola Antonelli (of MoMA) over the holidays. As she says in the preface,
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Twitter continues anti-abuse campaign with updated rules
Tuesday - 12/29/2015 - 04:19 PMTwitter has made changes to the “Twitter Rules” that dictate how people are allowed to use its service as part of its efforts to curb abuse on the platform.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This was the year social networks turned into news organizations
Monday - 12/28/2015 - 01:12 PMSocial networks are the overworked writer’s best friend. It’s easy to observe the latest outrage on Twitter, grab a few good jokes from Reddit, or screen cap the ridiculous things people write on Facebook and turn them into blog posts.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Google’s working on a chatbot-filled messaging service
Wednesday - 12/23/2015 - 10:58 AMGoogle isn’t content to let Facebook dominate the messaging market in the West. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company is working on a platform that will allow consumers to message assistive “chatbots” as well as real-live humans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Blockchain, its new rival, and their future in the enterprise
Monday - 12/21/2015 - 11:06 AMBitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are already starting to shake up the financial services industry. They have also got entrepreneurs thinking about other applications for the blockchain technology that underlies them, including ones that address various processes inside non-financial companies such as contracts, audits and shipping.
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