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Platformonomics TGIF #137: August 7, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Summer is flying by… News Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Oracle We’ve written at length about the financial risks of Oracle’s Hail Mary scramble…
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Good for the Goose
Clusterstock goes one better than my totally whacky suggestion of holding Congress accountable for their actions and to the same standards they require from others through explicit fiduciary responsibility: Should we consider imprisoning Congressman who vote the wrong way on such laws as Glass Steagal repealmant. Not reining in Fannie and Freddie. Letting banks keep…
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Back(b)log
A few things I’ve been meaning to blog about: Firefox has become a buggy, bloated piece of code rivaling IE. It now crashes daily. Is there correlation or causation with Mozilla’s increased EU lobbying efforts? Both Firefox and IE disproportionately take the blame for the collection of bugs that is the Flash runtime, which in…
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When is a Netbook Not a Netbook?
Microsoft’s netbook pricing dilemma continues. It is tough to optimize for both unit share and revenue, but my former colleagues in Redmond remain undaunted. In our last installment, I suggested: Starter Edition seems to be dead on arrival (in fact, to go back to a stock soundbite, you can’t spell Starter Edition without the letters…
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More SORE
Larry Ellison is banging the drum about how Soracle is serious about keeping Sun’s hardware business. What should we conclude from this? That Oracle desperately wants to get rid of Sun’s hardware business…
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Is Twitter the Next Second Life?
The Christian Science Monitor puts this link-baiting headline (ok, it worked) on a story about Twitter’s retention rate. They don’t answer the question (or even mention Second Life) in the story , but if you want an answer there is a clear tell here: IBM. In the absence of announcements about making Twitter run on…