Christensen’s Cup of Tea »

4 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Clayton Christensen is the author of the celebrated book The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997), where he explains why companies fail rather than succeed—his theory is that the threats from competitors’ cheap... »

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Information wants to be free »

2 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

“Information wants to be free” was the famous maxim of the early days of the web, back in the Nineties. It is an actual quote, by Silicon Valley visionary and entrepreneur Stewart Brand, first articul... »

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A boy and his atom »

1 July 2013 | Per Strömbäck

The world’s smallest movie is A Boy and His Atom, made by IBM Research to showcase their mad skillz. It’s animated short about a boy playing with an atom, but the twist is that it is made with actual ... »

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If You’re not Paying for a Service, You’re not the Consumer, You’re the Product Being Sold »

28 June 2013 | Per Strömbäck

If you’re not paying for a service, you’re not the consumer, you're the product being sold This is a classic quote by Andrew Lewis, online better known as blue_beetle. It’s worth thinking about in ... »

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Reding on Prism »

27 June 2013 | Per Strömbäck

While the world holds its breath and follows the man-hunt for Edward Snowden (surely Hollywood blockbuster material at some point down the line), the main diplomatic aspects are not about extradition ... »

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Great tech (in theory) »

26 June 2013 | Per Strömbäck

My car has a spectacular feature: it parallel parks automatically. Just cruise along parked cars, push the button and when there’s a big enough spot, the car parks. All I have to do is press the brake... »

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Is social media eating its (ad)tail? »

25 June 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Advertising is the business that fuels free, no doubt. It is the be all and end all answer to the online economy. As long as there is traffic, there is always the opportunity for ads, which, in turn, ... »

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Get over it »

24 June 2013 | Per Strömbäck

In 1999, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy famously commented “Get over it” to consumer privacy online. Ten years later, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says to CNBC, "If you have something that you don’t wa... »

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Sorrell: Media Companies Masquerading as Tech Companies »

21 June 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Plenty has already been said about #prismgate, but this conversation will go on for a long time. Netopia welcomes it, as it is very much to the core of the question of the online society so I can assu... »

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French Sci-Fi Novelist Robida Rediscovered »

20 June 2013 | Per Strömbäck

Art and literature often predicts and inspires innovation: da Vinci’s helicopter, Jules Verne’s submarine, Arthur C Clarke’s communication satellites, and William Gibson’s virtual worlds to name but a... »

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