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Are we at Peak Telecom?

Goodness I hope so…

Martin Geddes says we’re at ‘Peak Telecom’ — the maximum point of expansion of telecom companies, just before the Internet gobbles them up and changes the economics drastically, commoditizing them into pipe:

Peak Telecoms by Martin Geddes

We’re at “Peak Telecoms”

The telco voice and…

Reblogged 3 months ago from emergentfutures

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That and People Hate Them

“The problem for the content industry is they just don’t know how to mobilize people,” said John P. Feehery, a former House Republican leadership aide who previously worked at the motion picture association. “They have a small group of content makers, a few unions, whereas the Internet world, the social media world especially, can reach people in ways we never dreamed of before.”

I’d say they know how to mobilize people - they (the MPAA, RIAA) can’t seem to figure out how to keep their potential customers from despising them.

(Source: The New York Times)

Posted 4 months ago

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I’m not known as a big Microsoft fan, but on a whim, I tried switching my new 4S to use Bing as the default search engine.

Google produced data that I found far more useful: the search result for which I was really looking - wikipedia - was first. Also, Google only included one layer of sponsored links, choosing instead to collapse the entries for the subcategories into a table. This was great and allowed me to get to my info much more quickly.

Bing’s results were much prettier, but they didn’t produce anything that I was looking for until 7 links down (counting the sponsored links and heading). I also noticed that, not surprisingly, Bing didn’t include any youtube results by default. The biggest plus was that Bing treated each selection as a link, rather than forcing me to click on the link title itself.

Sounds small, but it was definitely noticeable… I might give Bing a try for a couple more days.

Posted 7 months ago

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Branching Out. How Steve Jobs Extended Apple’s Influence Beyond Macs

The consumer-technology world that Steve Jobs is one in which dueling ecosystems - Google, Facebook, Amazon - fight to form their own consumer tribes, none more fiercely loyal than Apple’s.

Posted 8 months ago

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