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Platformonomics TGIF #120: March 13, 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 No newsletter next week. Try to amuse yourselves. News Oracle “Beats”: Q3 FY26 Oracle “beat” the number this quarter and Wall Street sent the stock upwards almost…
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This is a Healthy Business?
IBM is out touting their profit growth prospects (perhaps in response to having been eclipsed by HP in both performance and absolute size?). They are outlining their potential earnings growth by 2010 on moderate expected revenue growth. Today’s WSJ reports: “Of the roughly $5 increase in earnings per share that IBM says is possible by 2010, 75 cents…
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What Transpired with Wired?
Two posts in one week and both about the same issue of Wired no less. Yesterday’s kerfuffle in which Wired is “shocked, shocked” to learn there is a PR industry has been all over the blogosphere. Microsoft screwed up by accidentally sending Fred Vogelstein of Wired the internal briefing document written for the folks he was interviewing. …
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Uninspired by Wired
The April issue has an article entitled “Desktop R.I.P.” that enthuses breathlessly about “computing moving off your machine and into the cloud”. I talked to the reporter, Jason Tanz, for this article a couple months ago (real-time Wired isn’t). Tanz, whose byline suggests his most eminent qualification to do the story was writing a book about Hip-Hop in…
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Great Headline
“Struck by virus, Ellison a no-show at RSA” In some future career I want to be a headline writer.
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Do You?
The blogosphere was atwitter this weekend about Time magazine declaring “You” as their Person of the Year, essentially for all of your generous user-generated content contributions. Atwitter yet skeptical, branding it a sign of a bubble top, demolishing Time’s breathless explanation that “this time it is different”, invoking the lesser-known Time equivalent of the Sports Illustrated cover jinx…
