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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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Whither the New York Times?
Marc Andreessen just initiated a deathwatch on the New York Times and it is unfortunately hard to disagree. As much as I enjoy the New York Times, on the web, through the very cool Times Reader and in finger-smudging print, the last time I dug into the numbers for the flagship New York Times newspaper…
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The End of an Era
(For me anyway). Today was my last day at Microsoft. I’m going to see if there is life beyond the 98052 zip code and make sure I avoid any future tolls on the 520 bridge. Microsoft was a phenomenal experience and I had the opportunity to work with an amazing array of people. The company…
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OpenSocial: Reality Sets In
A little over a month ago OpenSocial was hailed as “checkmate” and mesmerized the blogosphere. Now, the chorus of Kumbaya has been replaced by the cacophony of competition. As I argued earlier, OpenSocial was a game plan we’ve seen before, just not a particularly successful one. It transpires that:The OpenSocial spec remains incomplete and has…
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SOS
The Explorer went down Friday off the South Shetland Islands. The ship had a double bottom but not a double hull and evidently the side was punctured by ice. A “fist-sized hole” resulted in it slowly taking on water and losing power which disabled the pumps. They abandoned ship after several hours and the passengers and crew…
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Blue Haze
IBM announced something today they called the “Blue Cloud” initiative that is a “game-changing model for Internet-scale computing”. Some thoughts and questions: This is a seriously half-baked announcement. The press release rambles on and on yet says very little. This “next major advance in computing” merits a single page on IBM’s web site with two paragraphs of text and a stock photo. IBM…