April 7, 2015 When might Google have its Microsoft moment? That is, when will it begin its inexorable decline – as most aging tech companies do when their growth stalls, and as Microsoft did – largely unbeknownst to (and even denied by) most observers? How might we know? I have a few things I look for when thinking about inflection points in aging technology companies. Not all of these conditions…
I’ve been messing about with our Raspberry Pi 2 here in recent weeks. My first project was an SSH honeypot, built around the open-source honeypot kippo . I’ll post something on it in the next week or so. It was … entertaining. The second, ongoing project is tracking and analyzing home broadband speed. I pay for Time Warner Ultimate Max XL Something Or Another, which is supposed to be 30 mbps down,…
What are we missing in all the chatter about fear of missing out (FOMO), scarcity, and the current technology bubble among late-stage private companies? I’ll posit a few things, some obvious, some less so, and a couple deranged and hypothetical: Lots of people took this 2001 bumper sticker very seriously: Knowing that most of the money is made by being early to prominent tech IPOs, they did the…
The following tweet after the Grammy music awards got me thinking: Granted, I know zero about music. And I know even less about the Grammys. But the idea that albums up for record of the year had such dramatic differences in the number of people behind them was striking. Leaving aside the sniping about whether larger producer/writing teams is somehow discrediting – some argued that Beck was a more…