I like the new Swarm update. Thanks Denis Crowley.
Turns out I've been to 9 countries since I started using Foursquare/Swarm. I wonder how many cities.
I think there's still a big opportunity around visualIzing all of the metadata we've collected about ourselves from wearables and social over the years.
Now I just wish I could have more friends on Swarm. 1000 friend limit is too few.
Wow this news of Disney pulling movies from Netflix is huge. It was inevitable though. As Netflix started becoming more of a vertically integrated media company rather than just a 'window' (industry jargon for distributor of content) then it was going to start scaring other studios/ecosystem players off. They also validated the model which inspires others to try their hand at doing the same thing and cut out the middleman.
Disney, on the other hand, has much of the best content being produced in the Hollywood system so they were either going to buy Netflix or build their own.
So what's the future? We're going to have to pay/subscribe to each of these point services (CBS All Access, Disney Stream, Netflix, Hulu, HBO etc).
In that world, the aggregation will happen at the Device/OS level. This is good news for Android TV and Apple TV.
CollegeHumor’s video: Facebook Isn’t Free
This is a clever way to tell the story - but I feel like everyone figured this out in the last 5-10 years and is willing to make the trade.
The Birth And Death of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images
Is privacy a modern anomaly? Interesting look at the history of privacy here.
It reminds me of the Web 2.0 and early Social Media era where I argued that mass media was an anomaly and that we, as a society, are much more comfortable telling each-other stories around the "campfire".
No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was Getting Dangerously Smart
Truth versus facts in journalism
Push! Kiss your browser goodbye: The radical future of media beyond the Web
This is amazing! I remember these apps and this article from way back in the day. In many ways it actually came true on Mobile. Native apps have replaced open web in many cases. Desktop - not so much.
Just one of the fundamental problems in our cities that on-demand cars will fix
Inspiring
Wow huge room with great gender balance and fancy production values for a huge SE Asia tech conference.
(360° image can be found on Facebook)
Amazing speakers (duh)
Amazing speakers & influencers only track
Walk on/off music
Amazing space and with clear sound
Accommodation attached/very close to the amazing space
Make sure the talks are short and packed with info
A separate and sound isolated lobby to allow people to mingle without disturbing the talks
(Key) Hard core investment In filming and streaming - treat it like a TV production with the attendees as simply a studio audience
Nikhil Goel: Really excited to release our latest video for Uber Elevate at Oshkosh AirVenture this week, and even more fortunate to welcome my good friend Wyatt Smith to the team at the same time.
Limo -> Taxi -> Personal Vehicles -> Pool
Drivers -> Autonomous
Ground -> +Air
Moving People -> Moving everything (Inc food)
Last mile -> +Backhaul
Local -> Global
Urban -> +Suburban
Low density -> High density network effects
Simple marketplace -> Smart supply/demand mgmt
Do the math.
What It’s Like to Be a Woman at a Tech Conference
I love this on so many levels. Turning a disadvantage into an advantage, the light and humorous tone, the forgiving and collegial spirit and the fact that it's my buddy Chloe who wrote it. Also the pictures are amazing!
Fascinating. Increasing urban density (due to population growth and young people moving to cities), on-demand economy and lifestyle optimization is leading to a very different (hopefully better) future
The other day I was hanging out with some people at Dragon Forum and we ended up doing an impromptu thought experiment:
Finish the sentence "Our kids will say 'I can't believe your generation used to..."
My answer was "I can't believe your generation used to... manually map metadata to the real-world by looking down at a phone and up at the world over and over"
And now this: Link
cc: Robert Scoble h/t Mark Lamb
A lifetime ago (2006-2008) I worked on an "Attention Management Platform" that would determine your interests and give you a Feed of news and notifications that looks almost exactly like how the Twitter desktop and mobile clients eventually came to look. We were called crazy because "no one would read news in a Feed".
Later, I also wrote a piece about what Google should do with Google+. I included pulling the "Feed" out of the social network and baking it into core Google products to drive maximum distribution. I also suggested seeding with "stories" from core Google products. I was told at the time that it was circulated widely within Google.
A surprising number or my suggestions have come partially true (see original post: http://chrissaad.com/…/my-suggestions-for-googles-social-pr…}.
And now this... Google's brave new friendless feed
Was a fantastic time!
