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Platformonomics TGIF #126: May 8, 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. The visit to Cleveland is happening. Reach out if you’re interested in joining to see what Seattle can learn from a city whose…
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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…
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A New Approach to Earnings Calls?
I find the things I’d most like to blog about I unfortunately really can’t blog about (you’ll have to wait for my book). So I have to take advantage of industry events in which I don’t have a stake. The Oracle-SAP super heavyweight bout falls into this category except it hasn’t really turned into a…
