Outside calls or cold calls will come with a “conversation request,” where the caller pitches the receiver on why he or she should answer and invest their time.
“Why Voice is the Next Big Wave” via GigaOM
Great article that talks about how and why voice is here to stay – and will become a primary way of interacting with technology in the next phase of wearable computing.
We have too much fear of Apple. The approval cycle alone stifles your creativity.
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2014/04/features/how-whatsapp-beat-facebook/viewall
Great article on WhatsApp and it’s refreshingly singular focus on a simple user experience, and how their entire development process is built to support it. It also talks about their complex relationship with Apple and shares how the inclusiveness of the App Store hurts their ability to innovate.
Goldman likes to call RelSci “the Death Star of business development.” … The model is apparently so enticing that Goldman won hundreds of clients and, the company says, nearly eight figures’ worth of business in 2013, which was RelSci’s first year since coming out of stealth mode.
“Relationship Science: Harnessing Big Data for Power Networking” via Inc Magazine.
I read about this fascinating company on the train this morning. RelSci is a hyper-exclusive social network that is trying to build a digital networking of relationships between the top 1% of people (power-wise) in the world.
Check out what their engineers have been doing for the last few years:
“This not only requires constantly scraping the Web for updates but also building rich profiles from tens of thousands of databases, ranging from SEC filings to paparazzi photos to tax records. These pieces have in turn been joined to link everyone through past and present employers, board memberships, investments, donations, politics, and even siblings, children, and spouses.”
Incredible stuff.
Google may be planning on building out its own wireless network.
I wonder who they’re going to buy bandwidth from.
Stream the sounds of a coffee shop at work! Coffitivity is the virtual tool to research showing moderate ambient noise helps enhance creative cognition!
Yes, I recognize the irony in listening to the sounds of a physical place that I can easily go to (and often do) while I work. But it’s still somehow cool.
It’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. It felt to me like a typewriter company running an ad talking about how computers were just a fad and might lose your information on a floppy disk.
“How You Know You’ve Got the Right Startup Model?” via Mark Suster at Both Sides of the Table
Good read by Mark that hits on the struggles that disruptors face when up against large, entrenched encumbants.
Sometimes the battles are funny (the Public Storage commercial) and sometimes they’re scary (what Seattle did to Uber and other ride sharing companies), but regardless they help prove that you’re scaring the crap out of folks who are currently making the $$ in that industry.
This will definitely help with the adoption of Android by the enterprise, similar to when iOS rolled out secure profiles, remote wipe, and other enterprise security requirements. Device fragmentation will continue to be an issue but according to a few reports that is slowly improving.
It’s the longer term view that is more worrying. Once a manufacturer is on board with an Android Wear device there is every chance they will be restricted to Android Wear for any ‘wearable’ that they release, or they lose Android support across the range – the same deal as the Open Handset Alliance with Google Play. That leaves Google in the driving seat for this new-found market.
“This Is How Google Can Dominate The Smartwatch Industry For Years To Come” via Forbes
Just like an new hardware platform, wearables will benefit from a decent level of hardware standardization to encourage early adopters (both consumers and developers).
What is clear is that the storm will intensify rapidly, so quickly, in fact, that it will likely undergo “bombogenesis,” which refers to a storm whose minimum atmospheric pressure reading drops by 24 millibars or more in 24 hours.
Best name for a weather situation. Ever.
Via Mashable at http://mashable.com/2014/03/21/spring-blizzard-may-hit-new-york-boston/
Great data in this report from Business Insider.
Some great stats in here:
#neato 