Data vs. Pokemons, ad bubble, COP21 and more in the Programmable Edition #37
COP21 starts in Paris this Monday, gathering global key stakeholders around the huge question of climate change. If part of the solution is surely political and legislative, we strongly believe that the tech / start-up ecosystem has a critical role to play in the upcoming challenges stressed out by the conference. We, the tech community, are accountable for creating a better future (and maybe admitting we often focus on the wrong issues), where technology and new usages make life better while protecting our environment. Our advice to the leaders of the free world would be to look back at the past and massively invest in technology as a mean to bring concrete answers to climate change.
Have a nice week,
Thomas
Google’s quest for its future model
Search, which has been at the heart of Google’s model for the past 10 years is now being strongly hit by us, users, adopting new ways of accessing information. Google is then massively investing key technologies that will power solutions that stick to new usages, while pushing forward its search capabilities, particularly inside mobile apps.
Facebook’s M amazing drawings and future model
Buzzfeed reporter Alex Kantrowitz has had access to M for a month now, and relates his experience of Facebook’s assistant baked in Messenger, asking it, beside other amazing things, to draw people. He also explores the “multibillion-dollars area” created by the technology behind assistive intelligence.
TV, mobile and the living room
Big internet guys have been trying for a decade to get their tech to the TV: Chromecast, Apple TV, Xbox, all these products were launched to control what has been the main consumer technology endpoint for about 50 years. Today, the war for the living room might not be as relevant as before as attention and usage slowly shift away from the big screen to the mobile.
A dramatic vision of the end of adtech
If the adtech industry has become incredibly complex with time, its underlying economical mechanisms remain pretty simple: money in comes from consumers and investors, money out goes to big internet companies and investors. There is not much milk left in that cow, letting us envision a cataclysmic collapse of adtech if basic consumer consideration does not comes in the equation.
Disney launches its streaming service
Disney launched DisneyLife in the UK, a streaming service available on Apple and Android devices, as well as on the Apple TV. DisneyLife differentiates from traditional movie streaming services by proposing additional content such as songs, e-books and TV series.
Why Rdio failed
Pandora bought all Rdio’s IP last month for a crust of bread. Once one of the most well-designed streaming music product, Rdio made lots of big mistakes, from product design, to business model to marketing.
Pokemon or big data?
Akiban: Pokemon or big data?
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