5/6— Friday Fun Reading — Six Links Worthy of your Attention
- We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far beyond their original product lines into all sorts of hardware, software, and services that overlap and compete with one another. But their revenues and profits still depend heavily on external technologies that are outside of their control
We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and…medium.com
2. Bot Mania, Conversational UI — whats all the fuss about ? Dang Grover from WeChat has this detailed blog on this paradigm shift. If you are interested in the impact of messaging apps and how WeChat has built its apps within an apps ecosystem — this is a must read.
Lately, everyone's talking about "conversational UI." It's the next big thing. But the more articles I read on the…dangrover.com
3. A long but fascinating read on how Uber conquered London. Where a lot of startsup and sharing economy companies have failed — Uber has mastered how to expand product offerings in new markets.
Every week in London, 30,000 people download Uber to their phones and order a car for the first time. The technology…www.theguardian.com
4. Read how Foursquare data drove a remarkably accurate prediction on Chipotle sales. Social media + Data Analytics + smart phone usage everything coming together to predict earnings. Imagine what Wall St. analysts might pay Foursquare for that data
When Chipotle came on the scene, the chain earned lots of fans for its approach to “food with integrity,” including…medium.com
5. Leaders have well-formed opinions that go against the grain, the temerity to sell their vision to skeptics, the tenacity to stick to their ideas when they are inevitably criticized, the resiliency to wake every day when they’re being kicked by everybody for their beliefs but also the willingness to look at data and re-chart their course when they got it wrong.
6. How many hours a day do you spend thinking ? Maybe its time to rethink (no pun intended)?
