Ben Thompson 
From CNBC: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief of the social media company, effective immediately. Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief technology officer, will take over the helm, the company said Monday. Shares of Twitter closed down 2.74% on … Read more
It’s certainly the question of the season: what is the Metaverse? I detailed the origin of the term in August; that, though, was about Neal Stephenson’s vision and how it might apply to the future. For the purpose of this … Read more
The obvious analogy to Facebook’s announcement that it is renaming itself Meta and re-organizing its financials to separate “Family of Apps” — Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp — from “Facebook Reality Labs” is Google’s 2015 reorganization to Alphabet, which separated “Google”, … Read more
This interview was conducted on Tuesday, two days before the Facebook Connect keynote where Zuckerberg unveiled his vision for the metaverse, and announced his company’s new name: Meta. There were no limitations on the interview; it was my choice to … Read more
Two weeks ago, in The Death and Birth of Technological Revolutions,Jerry Neumann’s overview of Perez’s theory.” rel=”footnote”>1 I puzzled about exactly where we were in the Age of Information and Telecommunications: were we still in the turning point, as Carlota … Read more
From Protocol: Cloudflare is ready to launch a new cloud object storage service that promises to be cheaper than the established alternatives, a step the company believes will catapult it into direct competition with AWS and other cloud providers. The … Read more
It was in August 2009, two months after the release of the iPhone 3GS, that the barbarians crashed the gates; from The Online Photographer: The leading photo sharing site, flickr.com, charts the popularity of the cameras used by its membership. … Read more
From Ian Sherr, writing about last week’s Windows 11 announcement for CNET: When you choose a computer or smartphone to buy these days, you have to pick between several factions. There’s Apple world, which includes the Mac computer, iPhones and … Read more
Matthew Prince, at the end of his prepared remarks after Cloudflare’s recent earnings report, related a story from the company’s earliest days: Back in 2010, right before Cloudflare’s first Board meeting and our launch, I got some advice from one … Read more
In July 2014 Taylor Swift wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal entitled, For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story: There are many (many) people who predict the downfall of music sales and the irrelevancy … Read more