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Platformonomics TGIF #122: April 3, 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 I made another appearance on the Telco in 20 podcast, where we talked about hundreds of billions of HyperCAPEX spend and asked what ever happened to the…
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Mind the Bathwater
The unanimous Supreme Court ruling on Grokster bodes mighty poorly for companies whose primary purpose is to facilitate music piracy through peer-to-peer file sharing. My out-on-a-limb investment advice: this might not be the best place for your retirement nest egg. Getting paid to propagate spyware while encouraging people to pirate music never was a great…
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From Browse to Search to Subscribe
The grief for not having posted again has already come and gone, but I’m still well within my goal of not measuring posts on geologic time. There is an idea coming into focus for me that is kind of obvious when you look at the specific instances but I’m not sure the general impact…
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Taking the Plunge
To state the obvious, I am finally doing a blog. I’ve wanted to do it for a long time but have held off for fear that the intervals between posts would be measured in geologic time. Microsoft’s guidance on blogging is “don’t be stupid” but says nothing about frequency. Hopefully the pressure of having leapt…
