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Technology insights and product management thoughts. An archive of articles on wearables, social networks, and software trends from a time when smartphones were still reshaping the world.
10 Things Hotel Chains Need to Do to Crush Airbnb
How technology can help reinvent the business hotel experience. Mobile check-in, smart rooms, and reimagining hospitality.
Le phénomène Firechat
Interview with Micha Benoliel on how the mesh networking app became a phenomenon during political protests in Hong Kong and Moscow.
Fire Phone: Amazon's Secret Plan to Burn the iPhone
Amazon's strategy with bundled Prime Data could pressure Apple and Google to intensify subscription-based value offerings.
Design + Cloud: The Winning Ingredients for Hardware
Hardware becomes the user interface of a continuously evolving end-to-end service. The rise of connected devices.
Speech Tech to Dominate Wearables in 2015
Why SIRI was just the first step towards the ultimate voice interface. The future of wearable computing.
2014 Will See the Rise of Instant Social Networking
Predictions on context-aware networks, neighborhood platforms like Nextdoor, and Google+ challenging Facebook.
Smart Wearable Devices Will Grow Ears in 2014
From smartwatches to Google Glass, how wearables are evolving with fashion-tech fusion and biometric sensors.
The Smartphone is the Computer
The smartphone emerges as the primary computing device, serving as the brain to which other peripherals connect wirelessly.
Software is Eating the World on a UNIX Plate
Marc Andreessen's thesis realized: software-defined technologies and the iPad eating dedicated devices.
5 Characteristics That Make Great Products
Ruthlessly simple, strong design, instant value, real value, and great packaging - the traits of successful products.
Can Dalton Caldwell Realize Jack Dorsey's Original Dream?
Twitter as an information network vs social media. Can App.net fulfill the original vision of a publish/subscribe system?
Twitter is Inside the Tornado
Analyzing Twitter's strategic evolution using Geoffrey Moore's framework. Why API restrictions and acquisitions are predictable.
This blog was originally published on GitBook from 2013-2015 and has been migrated here for preservation.