Ben BascheNotes on Zoom, the AWS-Slack Parternship and Asymmetric CompetitionYesterday’s Slack and AWS partnership announcement feels very significant and raises some interesting questions. In short, Amazon employees…Jun 6, 2020Jun 6, 2020
Ben BascheMostly Harmless #2 — A bundle of bundlesIn this episode of Mostly Harmless, I talk to NBCUniversal’s Eric Young about streaming video and Apple’s content play. I also cover Snap’s…Jul 12, 2018Jul 12, 2018
Ben BascheSiri and all her friends: why it’s SiriOS or bust this WWDC“A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.” — GandalfMay 9, 20182May 9, 20182
Ben BascheinThe LayerThe Conversational Economy Part I: The Dawn of the Conversational EraJun 5, 20175Jun 5, 20175
Ben BascheBeen saying it for almost a year but here it is for posterity: Apple will acquire SnapchatThe endMay 6, 20171May 6, 20171
Ben BascheSnapchat Spacetime: together when we’re apartIt would seem to me that Snapchat’s core job to be done is allowing us to be together when we’re apart. This is consistent across both one…Nov 30, 20162Nov 30, 20162
Ben BascheGhost in the machine: Snapchat isn’t mobile-first — it’s something else entirely“Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark, I was born in it, molded by it.” — BaneJun 29, 201635Jun 29, 201635
Ben BascheinAdventures in Consumer TechnologyWhat do we mean when we say bots solve the discovery problem?Much of the early excitement around bots has been predicated not just upon the idea that developers and businesses have a problem reaching…Apr 19, 2016Apr 19, 2016
Ben BascheSharing my tribe: introducing flock for TwitterFind, follow and create playlists of awesome people on TwitterDec 22, 20152Dec 22, 20152