A quarter century after ‘don't be evil’ a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
Read MoreEmail newsletters unlocked a new way to pay for content, but is this a tool or a network? You can write all you like, but how do you get readers? And is the take rate 10% or 90%?
Read MoreAmazon has scaled indefinitely by treating every product as an interchangeable packet, and by not caring what they are, only what they weigh. At a fundamental level, it doesn’t know what it sells. What would happen if it could change that?
Read MoreWhat happens when rent, returns and advertising blur into one? What would it mean to do ecommerce that doesn’t scale?
Read MoreComputer vision turns imaging into a universal input - it lets computers see. So what kinds of things will become vision problems, and how does that change Google or Instagram?
Read MoreMachine learning means every image ever taken can be searched or analyzed and insight extracted, at massive scale. Every glossy magazine archive is now structured data, and so is every video feed. How does this change retail?
Read MoreEverything bad and complicated that the internet did to media is going to happen to retail. As, just as Facebook shapes so much of what we read online, what channels will shape and reshape what we buy?
Read MoreAll curation grows until it requires search, and all search grows until it requires curation. So how does curation scale to the internet? Does it need to?
Read MoreIt's never been easier to write or harder to get read. Thoughts on blogging, distribution, platforms and ad-tech
Read MoreThe internet makes it possible to get anything you've ever heard of but also makes it definitively impossible to have heard of everything. It allows anyone to be heard, but how do people hear of you?
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