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Endeavour Partners · 11M ago

Monetizing mobile on Android – and HTML5

Future:Mobile 2011 – the Rutberg event at the St Regis in San Francisco opened with an interesting discussion amongst Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype and Groupon. For me, the key point of the discussion was an observation about one of the key differences between the iOS and Android business ecosystems – mo
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Endeavour Partners · 11M ago

In a post-PC era, HTML5 wins even on the PC

In a post late last night on Ars Technica, which focuses primarily on the impact on Windows developer, there’s a critical kernel: Microsoft Vice President Julie Larson-Green, in charge of the Windows Experience, briefly describes a new immersive application—a weather application—and says, specifical
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Endeavour Partners · 11M ago

Entrepreneur: noun – antonym: French Government

From dictionary.com: en·tre·pre·neur: noun a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk [emphasis added] From the theatre of the absurd: A year ago, the Elysée had published a summary (. pdf) on the creation of investment fun
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Endeavour Partners · 12M ago

Netflix’s dirty secret – the content sucks!

Although Netfliix’s Instant Streaming Service is now available on a bewildering variety of devices, has grown explosively and drives an impressive valuation on the stock market, here’s the dirty secret… …the content sucks, despite Netflix’s claims: We have thousands of movies & TV episodes available
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Endeavour Partners · 1Y ago

Keep taking the tablets

This is the first in what will likely be a long series of related posts, highlighting leaders in denial, triggered by something Bill Gates said recently: Sackur’s final questioning was around the post PC era and whether the age of the PC is coming to and end. ”The PC is the tablet, all these digital
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Endeavour Partners · 1Y ago

A picture is worth a thousand words

An insightful piece in Washington Monthly about Edward Tufte triggered reflection on graphical communications and what we think of as information design. I’ve been beating people up with Tufte’s book(s) for more than twenty years, and we tagged his appointment to work with the government a year ago.
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Endeavour Partners · 1Y ago

Digital natives and digital immigrants

This afternoon, I got a telephone call from a market researcher. I was minded to decline, as I usually do, but something serendipitous made me hang in there and I was intrigued by the thrust of the questions, which were about Internet use and social networks and smartphones and privacy; all topics t
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Endeavour Partners · 1Y ago

Intel is dead

The work of one of my SDM thesis students, Swope Fleming, has focused on the challenges facing Intel, and the threat posed to it by ARM and its ecosystem. We concluded that Intel is doomed, and in this context I find a few recent rumours particularly interesting. We already know that Microsoft is go
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Endeavour Partners · 1Y ago

Apple is a software company

A point well-made that’s worth reiterating: Apple is a software company. Apple executives [said] that Apple “generally views product cycles as software driven,” It shouldn’t be “inside” information that: Since Apple sees itself as software focused, major feature updates in iOS 5 and Mac OS X 10.7 Li
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Endeavour Partners · 1Y ago

Game on!

Three major trends converged this morning: the battle to capture the value being created in ‘platform’ or ‘‘two-sided markets‘ businesses being built on app phones, tablets, mobile broadand and cloud services the challenges around app discovery, app stores, curation and how consumers make choices am
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