Tuesday, March 01, 2022

Early Indications February 2022: Passing the Baton?

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For several years, I’ve been concerned about the pace of innovation in the tech sector. There are many ways to measure this, of course, but ...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Early Indications January 2022: Bowling in Atlanta?

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*In 2000, the Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam expanded a 1995 essay into a book entitled Bowling Alone . In it he contended that p...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Early Indications December 2021: Platform Proliferation

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Two quick notes:  1) November's newsletter was reprinted in edited form in the Boston Sunday Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Early Indications November 2021: Metaverses for good

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By now everyone has seen multiple reactions to Mark Zuckerberg’s vision/rebranding announcement that posits that vast numbers of us will pre...
Tuesday, November 09, 2021

Early Indications September 2021: What’s ahead for the big Internet platforms?

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In 2005, the World Wide Web turned 15, and both Facebook and YouTube launched us into the age of the platform. In 2020, Facebook and YouTube...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Early Indications August 2021: What comes after maturity?

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Back in the early 2000s when I attended a lot of tech conferences, there was a common and usually regretful discussion: is tech now a mature...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Early Indications July 2021: Amazon Effects

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As so often happens, three disconnected observations turned out to have a common theme. In order, I’ll connect the Twitch game-streaming pla...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Early Indications June 2021: Making sense of short-form online video

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As I edit what started as a book about YouTube into a book about online video more broadly, I join many others in trying to figure out TikTo...