The future of the web

IP — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:53:29 +0000

First there was Chris Anderson’s and Michael Wolff’s “The web is dead, long live the Internet” piece on Wired, in September. It pointed out that we’re spending increasing amounts of time on the Internet, but not on the Web – we’re “app-izing” our experiences via Facebook and mobile apps – and played an interesting “blame game”. Then an article on the New York Times called “Night of the living tech” (and countless others in blogs) argued that it was the natural evolution of the Web in light of how other media evolved. Now none other than Tim Berners-Lee is worried about the Web as we know it, and his article “Long live the Web” in this month’s Scientific American argues that we should protect the web’s open standards and neutrality. Since much of the move seems to be consumer-led, we’re not sure how much choice there is left.

Netflix doing the right things at the right time

Gustavo Ballvé — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:26:54 +0000

Netflix is one of the most admirable cases around on corporate strategy AND execution. Their products are not exactly cutting edge, but their strategy, execution and specifically data use is out of this world. It shows how you can make billions out of simple things. That said, other than the data culture (a huge missed opportunity by Blockbuster in terms of the head start it could have had), they have to kill a lion a year to stay ahead. Investment-wise, we never got to the point where we felt we knew enough to invest in them – and don’t regret not doing it.

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The future of the web

Netflix doing the right things at the right time