My Two Cents
Opinions at the Intersection of Business and Technology
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Mark Zuckerberg To Make Case To Developers That Privacy Is A Good Thing
On a May morning, Mark Zuckerberg, weeks after an intense grilling by members of Congress, made what would be his first public address, telling a room full of developers: We have real challenges to address, but we have to keep [our optimism for the future] as well. And what I’ve learned this year is that…
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The Movement Aimed at Freeing Us From Digital Distractions and Reigniting Our Creativity
As I sit down to write this article, I’m immediately distracted by an explosive opinion piece that has crossed my desk, requiring me to tweet excerpts to my followers. I’m also uneasy about the music coming from my Sonos speaker so I’m also on my phone searching for the right genre so I can concentrate.…
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As AI Dominates More of Our Lives, How Design Can Mitigate Unethical Behavior
Last April, former President Barack Obama released a video warning us not to believe everything we see and hear on the internet, at least many thought it was from the ex-president. In actuality, it was produced by actor and director Jordan Peele using artificial intelligence (AI) and highlighted deepfakes. There are many examples of how…
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Google Summons the Power of YouTube and the Cloud in Bid to Shake up Gaming
At this year’s Game Developers Conference, Google introduced its game-streaming service called Stadia touted as an industry wake-up call and taking aim at not only incumbents Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft, but going after Amazon and its subsidiary Twitch. Perplexing name-aside, Stadia’s appeal may be its lack of hardware — Google is drawing from not only…
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The Secret to Innovation Rests With Knowing Thy Customers
As brands continue their quest to leverage the latest shiny object tech affords them, the question remains how adept companies are in really knowing how to best reach their customers. It turns out that less than half of all businesses are really mapping out their customer’s journey and understanding how to connect with them, but…
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LinkedIn Goes Live
If you looked at the video space earlier than 2017, LinkedIn would not have been associated with it. The Microsoft-owned professional social network hadn’t really dipped its toes into the media, essentially surrendering opportunities to the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and of course, YouTube. Fast-forward to today and LinkedIn is rolling out its latest feature…
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Facebook Going to Facebook
In the Aaron Sorkin-created show “The West Wing”, there’s an episode in which fictional President Jed Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen) argues with his Chief-of-Staff Leo McGarry (the late-John Spencer) about stances on political issues — the latter wished Bartlet would be more aggressive about his positions. Ultimately they reach the conclusion that it’s time…
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Salesforce’s $750 Million Bet to Reimagine Productivity in the Modern Workforce
Five years ago, it started off as something many people equated to being a Word processing app. Quip, started by former Facebook Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor and ex-Googler Kevin Gibbs, initially yet another standalone service that created documents in the cloud, joining a crowded marketplace filled with the likes of iA Writer, Google Docs,…
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‘Dear Founder’ Is the Business World’s ‘Dear Abby’ That Entrepreneurs Should Read
Whenever I’m motivated to take on a massive undertaking, be it a new adventure, traveling to another country, or anything work-related, I try not to take a half-ass approach to it, and this means educating myself on all possible avenues, obstacles, and angles. Whether talking to experts or extensively researching items online, I continue to…
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Joining Team Flipboard
I have a compulsion where I’d like to be one of the first to share the news with others, either as a writer or a curator. It’s what drew me to first blog here, for Bub.blicio.us (thanks to Brian Solis), then professionally for The Next Web and VentureBeat, along with joining social media and using…
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