Regulation

Clubhouse and AirPods; Twitter, Meerkat, and Clubhouse; Clubhouse Monetization

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

More on Clubhouse, including the importance of AirPods, why it is different than Meerkat, conflict between privacy and competition, and monetization options.

Mistakes, Memes, and Foreign Ground; Coronavirus Context; The New York Times and the China Model

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Considering a world of memes is uncomfortable, and perhaps explains why journalists want a world of information control. The problem is that we will never be better at this than China.

Clubhouse is a Unicorn(?); Clubhouse Versus Podcasts; Monetization, Moderation, and Monopoly

Monday, January 25, 2021

Clubhouse is (reportedly) a unicorn; where it sits as an audio app is as interesting as its status as a social network.

New Defaults

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

The pandemic and vaccine rollout have highlighted where the West has lost its way; we need new defaults about information, change, and speed.

Google Sued by States, Ranking the Cases, Fantasy Basketball and Silver Linings

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Google’s many antitrust cases, ranked! Plus, one small way that COVID is pushing one group of friends into the future.

Facebook Sued by FTC and States, The FTC’s Case, Antitrust and Politics

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Facebook clearly tried to eliminate competition by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp, but it’s not clear they were successful, which is the question that matters in a case that is ultimately about politics and power.

Zuckerberg and Dorsey in Congress, Again; Apple Reduces App Store Fees for Small Developers; Apple’s Aggregation Politics

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey were in front of Congress again, while Apple reduced its App Store take for small developers.

NAW and CJ and CA CAWWWWW, DEFCON 2 for Jokic and the Nuggets, Notes on OKC, Toronto, and VJ Edgecombe

New Defaults

More on Visa-Plaid, European Commission v. Amazon, Spotify Updates

Justice Department Sues to Block Visa Plaid Acquisition, Plaid’s Potential, Scalability and Antitrust

NAW and CJ and CA CAWWWWW, DEFCON 2 for Jokic and the Nuggets, Notes on OKC, Toronto, and VJ Edgecombe

How Tim Cook Changed Apple

(Preview) Xi Wants the Strait of Hormuz Re-Opened; Cakes and An E-Commerce Crackdown; The Next Stage of Decoupling; The MATCH Act in Congress

An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment

John Ternus and Apple’s Hardware-Defined Future, SpaceXAI and Cursor

TSMC Earnings, New N3 Fabs, The Nvidia Ramp

NAW and CJ and CA CAWWWWW, DEFCON 2 for Jokic and the Nuggets, Notes on OKC, Toronto, and VJ Edgecombe

How Tim Cook Changed Apple

(Preview) Xi Wants the Strait of Hormuz Re-Opened; Cakes and An E-Commerce Crackdown; The Next Stage of Decoupling; The MATCH Act in Congress

An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment

An Interview with F1 Driver and Venture Capitalist Nico Rosberg About the Drive to Win

An Interview with Asymco’s Horace Dediu About Apple at 50