Apple Never Invented Anything
mondaynote.comThe chef sniffs and walks away. I had been trying too hard…the rest was obvious: a thin trickle of oil, whisk calmly. Clearly, the episode left its mark, and it came back to mind when I first saw the iPad. For thirty years, the industry had tried to create a tablet, and it had tried too hard. The devices kept clotting, one after the other. Alan Kay’s Dynabook, Go, Eo, GridPad, various Microsoft-powered Tablet PCs, even Apple’s Newton in the early nineties….they didn’t congeal, nothing took.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
Transfer of Value
mondaynote.comHuffPo’s editors took no chance: the headline they picked is algorithm-designed to yield the best results in Google. The aggregator invested a lot in SEO tools: I was told that every headline is matched in realtime against Google most searched items right before being posted. If the editor’s choice scores low in SEO, the system suggests better terms
Estimated reading time: 6 min
2013: The Year Of…
mondaynote.comThere will be no keynote address from Ballmer or any other Microsoft representative at this year’s CES. The baton has indeed been passed, but to whom? The ascendancy will be decided in a fight between Google and Samsung — and that could turn out to be the most important 2013 development.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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Linking: Scraping vs. Copyright
mondaynote.comThe legal debate on linking as copyright infringement will soon be obsolete. The real question will emerge as a much more complex one: Should a news site protect itself from being “read” by a robot? The consequences for doing so are stark: except for a small cohort of loyal readers, the site would purely and simply vanish from cyberspace… Conversely, by staying open to searches, the site exposes itself to forms of automated and stealthy depletion that will be virtually impossible to combat. Is the situation binary — allowing “bots” or not — or is there middle ground?
Estimated reading time: 7 min
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The press, Google, its algorithm, their scale
mondaynote.comAside of this strategy of making Google the main — if only — entry point to the web, the search engine is working hard on its next transition: going from a search engine to a knowledge engine.
Estimated reading time: 8 min
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Minding The (Apple)Store
mondaynote.comHow can you spend North of $15M on such a strategically placed, symbolic store, complete with Italian stone hand-picked by Jobs himself…and give no consideration to the acoustics?
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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iTunes’ Windows Problem
mondaynote.comToday, the toxic waste of success cripples iTunes.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
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The Nokia Torture
mondaynote.comNokia, once the emperor of mobile phones, shipping more than 100 million devices per quarter, is now in a tailspin, probably irrecoverable, taking its employees into the ground.
Estimated reading time: 5 min
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Decoding Share Prices: Amazon, Apple and Facebook
mondaynote.comFascinating. The collective wisdom of Wall Street is that one of the most successful high-tech companies of all times, with three healthy product lines, strong management, generally happy customers and employees is not perceived to have sustainable growth.
Estimated reading time: 8 min
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