Rewind: My favorite posts from 2012
I spent past few days digging through the archives of GigaOM and have come up with some of my favorite posts that I believe are worth re-reading as we turn the page on 2012. They give you a sense of what I think were big stories for past 2012 and will continue to impact technology ecosystem in 2013.
Essays
- Amplification and the changing role of media
- The Pinterestization of the e-commerce experience
- When it comes to startups, timing really is everything
Mobile
- What does iPhone have to do with Robots
- The slow rise of SoMoClo OS
- Apple vs. Samsung and the reality of Android ecosystem
- How France’s Free will reinvent mobile
Social
- A question Twitter needs to ask itself
- Twitter slowly unfolding its search ambitions
- Facebook giveth, Facebook taketh: a curious case of video apps
- Here is why Facebook bought Instagram
- You are what you curate: Why Pinterest is hawt
- In memoriam: Even in losing how Digg won
- What a Facebook IPO means for Silicon Valley
General/News
- Here is why Cisco bought Meraki for $1.2 billion
- Dell and HP together on a long road to nowhere
- Happy birthday Skype, in 9 years you changed the phone business
- Groupon isn’t a tech company, why was it valued as one?
- Google to launch Amazon, Microsoft cloud rival
- Google vs. everyone, an epic war on many fronts
- Kickstarted: My conversation with Kickstarter founder, Perry Chen
Startups to watch