The sheer volume of articles I consume every day should make it easy for me to find gems to share with you. Unfortunately, not many pass the must-read-share test and thus get sent to the bin of forgotten. But the ones that do make it to the top are worth sharing and most importantly reading. Here are my recent picks.
It has been a rather crazy and hectic week. I have struggled to find time to read. Usually I distill about 100 articles to roughly 10 — but this week, half my Pocket went unread. I hope to be more efficient next week. In the interim, enjoy these gems. Have a great weekend everyone! Continue reading “What to read this weekend”
London is the grandfather of economic excess and perhaps an appropriate role model for New York and San Francisco, the new Babylons of the post-millennial world. It is hard to escape the presence of money — fancy super cars, fancier homes and fancy financiers — where the stench of excess is masked by the sweet scent … Continue reading Day traders, angels and venture capital: The internet changes everything, including money
Just as movies were different from Broadway and television shows were different from feature films, every form of online media is also different. Network speeds and availability of the network along with the size of the screen define story telling and viewing experience. Continue reading at GigaOm. Continue reading Vine-tastic
Whatever happened to the ringtone? Good question. What’s a $4,000 suit worth? The Google Map of 1917. What a delightful little story about technology and maps. How common place books were like Tumblr and Pinterest. A look back at early days of book publishing. A nation of wimps? Continue reading What I am reading today
Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mahler—they all loved taking long walks. So did Steve Jobs. So does Jack Dorsey. In other words, walking is good for you. The ultimate marriage – technology and craftsmanship. Here are six examples. It is time to reinvent the personal computer. Michael Mace, argues why. Digital mess demands a spring scrub. In other … Continue reading What I am reading today
In the summer of 2008, when my friend Pip Coburn (a former tech strategist for UBS who runs an investment advisory firm) came to visit, we ended up talking about two things we both saw coming: the inevitability of the Internet and how tomorrow’s leaders will amount to zilch if they are not technology natives. … Continue reading The inevitability of the Internet
Due to a super hectic travel schedule and spotty Internet access, there has been no time for me to do any real reading. As a result the Om Says will not be published this weekend. I will return with more fun readings next Saturday! Continue reading No Om Says this weekend
My latest on GigaOM: Why Facebook has won the mobile photo war With its own Camera app and, now, Instagram too, Facebook essentially controls both the public and private social graphs for mobile photo sharing. And, given how much we love taking and sharing pictures, that means Facebook has huge commercial opportunities in this space. Continue reading Facebook & its mobile photo domination
