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For cloud, the best is yet to come
My latest column in FastCompany: If the growth so far is astonishing, the big boom is yet to come and the next evolution of cloud will be driven by connected devices and growing presence of sensors in our world. (My complete column archive is available here.)
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Bombay the Hard Way
As part of my post Roadmap chillout weekend efforts, I went to meet a friend at Terroir, a wonderful, quirky and charming wine bar in Soma district of San Francisco. They were playing a record that sounded vaguely familiar — it was potent blend of Bollywood, electronic dance music and trip hop. I thought it was Dj Shadow or Dj Cam — but instead it turned out to be Dan the Automator. And the album was called, Bombay The Hard Way – Guns, Cars & Sitars.
The cover art on this album is perfect example of 1970s Bollywood kitsch. The music of my childhood, remixed into the music of my youth — it was such a wonderful journey down the memory lane. I remember watching the movies, the songs and the dialogues. I even remember most of the scenes too. Funny how mind remembers so many things you think
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Aereo, Fab, kaput!
Aereo! Fab! Just like that over $400 million in investor money seems to have gone kaput, just like that. When I read the news of Aereo’s bankruptcy and Fab’s rumored sale, two things stood out for me:
It doesn’t matter how much money you have in the bank, or how wonderfully designed your service is — in the end execution is what matters. The non-technical risks are actually much higher in today’s highly networked society.Fab, in its second incarnation as an elitist and design driven commerce curator was an interesting proposition. It served a real purpose but in the end like most companies of its ilk (Groupon, LivingSocial), i.e., companies that expect you to keep buying stuff face the reality that there is only so much you can buy and so often you can buy. The volumes and margins, despite all the talk of technical efficiencies, run smack into the
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