Virality vs popularity, and the demise of reliable stats
From the Garbage Day newsletter, some reflections on the connection between virality and popularity (highlights mine): The conclusion I’ve come to this summer — one I’m still not…
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Understanding the Connected Home: Framing the Debate
Understanding the Connected Home is an ongoing series that explores the questions, challenges and opportunities around increasingly connected homes. (Show all posts on this blog.). Update: As of…
I’m becoming an e-citizen of Estonia
I had been vaguely aware of Estonia’s initiative e-Estonia, in which people from around the world could sign up for a sort of e-citizenship for this most technologically…
Visiting Casa Jasmina
We lived in the open source connected home of the future. And survived. When I learned about Casa Jasmina (CJ), a connected open source home of the future…
Letter to the next resident of Casa Jasmina
Dear next guest of Casa Jasmina, Welcome to your new temporary home. Please note: This is a cross-post from the GitHub repo for letters from one resident of…
Growth through Asymmetric Business Models
The other day I sat down with Andreas Constantinou, founder of analytics company VisionMobile and adjunct professor at Lund University. He researches business models, particularly around developer ecosystems.…
Questioning the Euro tech narratives
There’s a been a lot (a lot!) of talk about Europe’s, and particularly Germany’s, take on digitization and tech innovation. Sometimes using the Industry 4.0 terminology (connected factories…