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- Dec 19, 201918 min
Thu. 12/19 - What If Apple Owned James Bond?
That big NYTimes piece about location data, is Facebook taking another run at creating its own OS, is Apple considering buying James Bond, is Spotify building a social graph, and do e-athletes need gaming socks? Sponsors: TinyCapital.com Rhone.com/ridehome Links: Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy (NYTimes) Facebook will bar posts, ads that spread disinformation about the U.S. Census (Washington Post) To Control Its Destiny, Facebook Bets Big on Hardware (The Information) Apple Held Preliminary Talks With Pac-12 Conference, MGM (WSJ) Spotify prototypes Tastebuds to revive social music discovery (TechCrunch) A milestone: Earthquake early warning system sends first public alert to smartphones in California (Los Angeles Times) TiVo to Merge With Entertainment-Tech Firm Xperi in $3 Billion Deal (Variety) Puma’s first ‘active gaming footwear’ is a sock (Engadget)
- Dec 18, 201919 min
Wed. 12/18 - Did Google Almost Ghost the Cloud?
Everyone comes together to create a smart-home standard, did Google consider walking away from its cloud business, the last holdout comes to streaming, Gary Larson stops holding out on the web and the math behind that gift-wrapping video. Sponsors: Tiny Capital Aircall.io/ride Links: Apple, Google and Amazon are cooperating to make your home gadgets talk to each other (CNBC) We Tested Ring’s Security. It’s Awful (Motherboard) Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud (The Information) Cord cutters, you can finally stream your PBS stations online – on YouTube TV (USA Today) Virtual product placement is coming for TV and movies and Ryff has raised cash to put it there (TechCrunch) Far Side creator Gary Larson launches website with promise of new work (The Guardian) A Letter From Gary Larson (TheFarSide.com) The Internet Is Losing Its Mind Over This Gift-Wrapping Trick. Here's the Secret. (Popular Mechanics) The Gift Wrapping Video
- Dec 17, 201918 min
Tue. 12/17 - Alexa Is A Hit, But Is It A Business?
More reported casualties in the Google Civil War, more strife between Amazon and FedEx, can Amazon turn Alexa into a healthy ecosystem, developers: get busy on Edge extensions, and the top apps of the decade have one big thing in common. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com GiveWell.org/ridehome Links: Google accused of firing another worker in union-busting drive (Engadget) Amazon Blocks Sellers From Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments (WSJ) Amazon Learns a New Skill: Making Money From Alexa (The Information) Amazon Brings in $1.4 Million in 2019 of Alexa Skill Revenue So Far — Well Short of the $5.5 Million Target According to The Information (Voicebot.ai) Microsoft Opens Edge Addons Store for Submissions (Winbuzzer) A Look Back At the Top Apps & Games of the Decade (App Annie) Controversial sale of .org domain manager faces review at ICANN (Ars Technica) Chess champion Magnus Carlsen moves to top of world fantasy football rankings (The Guardian)
- Dec 17, 201918 min
Tue. 12/17 - Alexa Is A Hit, But Is It A Business?
More reported casualties in the Google Civil War, more strife between Amazon and FedEx, can Amazon turn Alexa into a healthy ecosystem, developers: get busy on Edge extensions, and the top apps of the decade have one big thing in common. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com GiveWell.org/ridehome Links: Google accused of firing another worker in union-busting drive (Engadget) Amazon Blocks Sellers From Using FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments (WSJ) Amazon Learns a New Skill: Making Money From Alexa (The Information) Amazon Brings in $1.4 Million in 2019 of Alexa Skill Revenue So Far — Well Short of the $5.5 Million Target According to The Information (Voicebot.ai) Microsoft Opens Edge Addons Store for Submissions (Winbuzzer) A Look Back At the Top Apps & Games of the Decade (App Annie) Controversial sale of .org domain manager faces review at ICANN (Ars Technica) Chess champion Magnus Carlsen moves to top of world fantasy football rankings (The Guardian)
- Dec 16, 201923 min
Mon. 12/16 - Give Us A Name For $100MM AAR Startups!
Chrome 79 is wiping data from some apps, Amazon is about to deliver more than FedEx or UPS all by its lonesome, Argo plans to charge by the mile, smart TV’s make margin by watching you, does music lack pricing power and help me find a name for $100 million-dollar annual recurring revenue startups. Sponsors: TinyCapital.com DollarShaveClub.com/ride Links: Google pauses Chrome 79 rollout on Android after bug wipes data in some apps (Android Police) Watch out, UPS. Morgan Stanley estimates Amazon is already delivering half of its packages (CNBC) Self-Driving Mercedes Will Be Programmed To Sacrifice Pedestrians To Save The Driver (Fast Company) Argo takes different road to skirt self-driving challenges (Reuters) The falling price of a TV set is the story of the American economy (The Outline) The newest members of the $100M ARR club (TechCrunch) Zero-to-100 Million in 3 Years (Lemonade Blog) Why Do We Still Pay Only $10 a Month for Music? (Rolling Stone)
- Dec 14, 201929 min
Year-End Checkin On Crypto With Brady Dale of @coindesk
For the final weekend bonus episode of the year, I wanted to check in with Crypto. What a year for the space! Seemingly dead at the beginning of the year. But then the Crypto Spring™ happened. And then Libra happened. And so… where are we? No one better than CoinDesk’s Brady Dale to catch us up… Sponsors: PixelUnion.net Mealime Sofi.com/ride
- Dec 13, 201919 min
Fri. 12/13 - The Next-Gen Xbox
Details about the next-gen Xbox, Apple makes an interesting acquisition around photography, Lyft will rent you a car, why I find Roku so interesting, and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Today In Digital Marketing Podcast PixelUnion.net aircall.io/ride Links: Microsoft’s next Xbox is Xbox Series X, coming holiday 2020 (The Verge) Apple Buys U.K. Startup to Improve iPhone Picture Taking (Bloomberg) Lyft launches a car rental service with no mileage limit (The Verge) Google Maps has now photographed 10 million miles in Street View (CNET) Roku Built the Dominant Streaming Box. Now It’s Under Siege (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: THE AGE OF INSTAGRAM FACE (New Yorker) The Influencer and the Hit Man (OneZero) Silicon Valley’s psychedelic wonder drug is almost here (Fast Company) How Zoom Became the Best Web-Conferencing Product in the World in Less Than 10 Years (FYI) “Link In Bio” is a slow knife (Anil Dash) THE VERGE’S GADGETS OF THE DECADE (The Verge)
- Dec 12, 201921 min
Thu. 12/12 - Maybe Just Throw A Dart, Seed Investors…
Google releases all the things at once, everyone is mulling over Jack’s decentralized Twitter idea, one last tech IPO of the year, should seed investors just say yes to every deal, why you should know the Canva story, and why Cousin Greg playing Adam Neumann is my Christmas dream come true. Sponsors: PixelUnion.net GiveWell.org/ridehome Links: FTC Weighs Seeking Injunction Against Facebook Over How Its Apps Interact (WSJ) Google is bringing spam detection and verified business messaging to Messages (The Verge) Interpreter, Google's real-time translator, comes to mobile (TechCrunch) Bill.com’s Stock Takes Off On IPO Day (Forbes) AI R&D is booming, but general intelligence is still out of reach (The Verge) Startup Growth and Venture Returns: What We Found When We Analyzed Thousands of VC Deals (AngelList Blog) Bluesky early thoughts (Sriramk.com) Hey @Jack Dorsey, decentralizing Twitter won’t solve hate speech problems (Digital Trends) Inside the Podcast that Hacks Ring Camera Owners Live on Air (Motherboard) Canva Uncovered: How A Young Australian Kitesurfer Built A $3.2 Billion (Profitable!) Startup Phenom (Forbes)
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