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Platformonomics TGIF #141: October 2, 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’ve been pacing my output here (for the good of humanity naturally), but am now back in the saddle. Consider yourselves warned. My Writing BREAKING: Meta Announces…
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There is No Free Lunch (Especially in France)
The BBC reports the French security service has told French government officials not to use Blackberries because their data is stored in foreign countries and could be susceptible to prying eyes.Expect many more such awakenings going forward to the tradeoffs to putting data in the cloud. Not just national security concerns, but trade secrets, privacy…
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Hubris Alert?
Historically, the wheels have come off the bus in spectacular fashion shortly after companies make big, bold revenue forecasts in the high tens of billions of dollars. If my memory serves, Compaq, Dell and IBM all hit the wall after stating ambitions of $50 billion, $60 billion and $100 billion respectively. If you have time to talk about…
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Book Review: The Black Swan
The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is sort of a follow-up to his earlier Fooled By the Randomness, which dealt with why people are poorly suited to decision-making in the face of uncertainty. The Black Swan deals with the “impact of the highly improbable” and argues that these events, dubbed Black Swans, are far…
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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. …