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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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The Cloudless Cloud Company
So, “superclouds”, eh? The term seems to have been coined by SiliconAngle, almost as an aside, in a subtitle, accompanied by the briefest of definitions: A new cloud architecture takes shape: “superclouds” Today, any company can have a fully built-out platform in the cloud. Venture capitalist Jerry Chen of Greylock Partners calls this phenomenon “castles…
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Things I Don’t Understand: Pricey Metaverse Real Estate
Virtual real estate isn’t a new concept. Second Life has been selling virtual land for almost two decades. It is not a big business. And you may have forgotten that IBM really kicked off its 21st century pageant of overpromising and then utterly underdelivering (see SmartCloud, Watson, IBM Blockchain, IBM Cloud and seemingly now moving…
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Tweetstorm Digest: Reactions to Barron’s “IBM’s Reboot” Story
Some @charlesfitz reactions to Barron’s excitedly bullish cover story on IBM. I for one was excited they used “Lost Decade” on the cover! Twitter thread repeated here: Barron’s makes its semi-regular pitch for IBM’s imminent reincarnation in this week’s cover story 🧵 /1 Despite a lede calling Watson “one of the greatest coups in the…
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Let a Bot Run the Federal Reserve: 2021 Edition
Here is my quadrennial plea to put our monetary policy in the hands of a bot (and happy to call it a smart contract if that makes it more au courant). Despite my best efforts, Bernanke, Yellen, and Powell all got the nod over the bot. But the risks of human policy error have never…
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The Minesweeper Moment
Shortly after Windows 3.0 shipped, we rounded up and shipped some of the games floating around inside Microsoft, most of which were byproducts of developers teaching themselves to program Windows. Minesweeper was one of the games in the first Entertainment Pack for Windows (tagline: “It’s not just the most fun you can have with Windows,…