Americans Held Hostage …
… to the carriers There is a free hotspot almost everywhere you need one (In Helsinki). It’s fast enough to allow video calling and HD streaming. And it doesn’t require a reading of lengthy terms and...
View ArticleApple Music Inspired By The 70s – In A Good Way
The show’s music will reportedly not be based on the genre or market research that rules the majority of radio today, but instead rely on the DJ’s taste, a throwback to the heyday of the 70s when FM...
View ArticleMedium Sized Letters ?
Letters have the potential to provide what blogs used to through RSS subscriptions. … a spin … on a pivot … on a turn on a ….. I like what Medium does – but it seems to be having a hard time getting...
View ArticleThe Future of Work Needs To Be About People
I believe in the newly emerging Future of Work – but I believe it should be right for the people. Uber – and others – seem to be manipulating loopholes and law to suit their purposes. They fit into the...
View ArticleCh Ch Ch Changes In Publishing
A couple of months ago I wrote an extension to a piece by Ben Thompson at Stratchery. The original article clearly positions ‘content delivery’ at the low end of the value curve. Moreover, it is clear...
View ArticleFor Whom The Bell Tolls
True mastery, that’s what we’ve lost. No, we haven’t lost it: we threw it away. if you believe what Bob Cringely writes – and I have a hard time finding a flaw in his logic – my god what an indictment...
View ArticleRock Stars Days Are Numbered
The sad thing is that I can see a few companies that fit this model … IBM and HP to name a couple … but there is another that has recently hove into my particular orbit that is going to hit this wall...
View ArticleLevel The Playing Field
The Parisian taxi drivers are partly protesting against economic regulations in cities where taxi drivers have to pay for expensive medallions while Uber drivers do not. But, in a larger sense, they’re...
View ArticleSuccess Silos Just Do Not Work
If you track my thoughts, you will know that I am a big believer in ‘breaking down the silos’. I mean REALLY break – not pay lip service to it – through the introduction of ‘account managers, single...
View ArticlePrice and Value
Spot On. I have long argued that the idea of charging cost plus margin, by the hour/day is for the birds. Value is where it is at. The challenge is having enough belief in yourself that you consider...
View ArticleHelping Lenders Discriminate
This just in … – well not ‘just’ – it was last week – but I wanted to share a paragraph from the patent … In a fourth embodiment of the invention, the service provider is a lender. When an individual...
View ArticleWhy Streaming Is Detrimental To An Artist’s Health
Lets say a person listens to music 24 hours a day, 7 days a week between the age of 10 and 70. That’s for 60 years. Total hours = 60 * 52 * 7 * 24 = 524,160 hours Imagine that a typical track lasts 5...
View ArticleCapgemini On VRM
A new category of tools and services for empowering independent customers is starting to emerge. We call that category VRM, for Vendor Delighted to see that the big boys are sitting up and starting to...
View ArticleAirbnb and the Internet Revolution
Hmm – they aren’t as bad as Uber in their flaunting of the law – but the longer they do it the less taxes arrive to support a city/county/state the more drain on those same services the less rooms and...
View ArticleBig Brother Is Watching You
Doc Searl’s long – but well worth reading – take on the state of online advertising. Absolutely mind boggling how many trackers are sitting on sites – watching us – to mine us for an extra couple of...
View ArticleIf It’s Customer Loyalty You Want …
If loyalty systems are left entirely up to the sellers of the world, we’ll have as many different systems as we have sellers. Which, of course, is what we already have, and it’s a royal mess. Agreed –...
View ArticleDon’t Let The Law Get In The Way Of A Good Business Idea
Someone wrote in an email that I received over the weekend that : The real genius of Uber is turning a commodity product (taxi) that one simply consumes into a status product that one ‘displays’. You...
View ArticleWe Do Not Accept Apple Pay
Interesting. There are plenty of places that do not accept Apple Pay – including Apple’s own iTunes store. But – the fact that you feel it necessary to put up a sign to say that you don’t accept Apple...
View ArticleThe Google Rant
I was reminded of this post found here – but detailed in full below – in case the source is ever taken down. Like the original was. Came to mind while thinking about this … and then this. Meanwhile – I...
View ArticleClick Fraud In Streaming Music
All a fraudster has to do is set up a fake artist account with fake music, and then they can use bots to generate clicks for their pretend artist. If each stream is worth $0.007 a click, the fraudster...
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