Software Needs a Bigger Appetite
Software should be doing more. It’s now been a full 4 years of software gluttony, and indeed we’ve seen software play an important part in everything from taxis to restaurants to healthcare. There’...
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Technology for Play More than for Work
I came across this article on Vox which makes an astute point on technological productivity, or the lack thereof. He notes that automation has not increased efficiency in the same amounts as in the past:...
Can Free Mobile Content Survive?
Facebook Instant Articles. Apple News powered by iAds. These are the ways that tech companies are telling us that the web is not good enough for text and images anymore, and that full native is...
The Complexity of Mobile Software
Like most folks who work in technology, I get roped into helping non-technical friends and family out with their software woes. Though once in a while this would be a legitimately technical task (e.g., trying to remove spyware from my parents’ PCs), more often than not it's really just teaching them how...
The Unique Properties of Photos
Another month, another great photos service. Google Photos is the latest service to one-up its competition, and there’s a lot to like about it: both the effectively unlimited storage[1] and the machine-intelligent search...
Google and the Currency of Data
As usual, the a16z podcast is full of interesting insights and commentary: For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy Benedict Evans makes the point, over and over again, that Google has...