The Rise of Digital Platforms
Great short-ish summary of the rise of aggregating platforms like Google, Facebook and Amazon from the ever-insightful Ben Thompson: https://youtu.be/KE2w4lO9jSs
Month: April 2018
Creating better software with agile, devops, etc
There’s loads of great digital transformation nuggets in here, from Coté. https://speakerdeck.com/cote/digital-transformation-just-means-creating-better-software
LINK: “Chat is Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess”
A top-tier Android phone can cost upwards of a thousand dollars, and for that money, you’ll get some amazing features. It will have a stellar screen, top-flight camera, gobs of storage, and an absolutely atrocious texting experience. Original: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/4/19/17252486/google-android-messages-chat-rcs-anil-sabharwal-imessage-texting?__twitter_impression=true
LINK: “The Right Way to Build an Online Community”
These products have come to be called ‘social media,’ but that’s not what Flickr was. Flickr was an online community. The reason they started calling it social media is because you can sell media. You can sell column inches, you can sell broadcast hours, you can advertise against it. But Flickr was not social media. … Keep reading
LINK: “Smart London Camp 2018”
Yesterday [Rob Miller] joined a large group of people whose idea of the best way to spend a beautiful sunny Saturday was to gather together in London’s City Hall and discuss ideas for ways that London can get the most out of the opportunities that ‘smart city’ developments offer. Original: https://bytherye.com/smart-london-camp-2018-f8c9084aeea1