Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Google is stepping up its efforts to serve speedy content to mobile internet users with its Accelerated Mobile Pages, but the initiative is getting mixed reviews from publishers as some worry about its impact on their advertising revenue. Google unveiled AMP about a year ago and hundreds of companies are now publishing AMP versions of…
If there’s one macro trend with which almost every publisher is struggling, it’s the increasing distribution power of platforms like Facebook, and how that is continuing to disrupt traditional media business models. Where they once controlled the entire process from creation to consumption, media companies now see their power over almost all the elements of…
In my new book BOLD, one of the interviews that I’m most excited about is with my good friend Ray Kurzweil. Bill Gates calls Ray, “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence.” Ray is also amazing at predicting a lot more beyond just AI. This post looks at his very…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Days after Google reported a miss in its quarterly earnings on the back of declines in ad revenues, another development points to challenges being made on the search giant. Yahoo continues to inch up in search market share, at the expense of Google declining, with Google’s share of U.S. searches, excluding mobile,…
It’s been almost three months since Google lead a $542 million round of funding for the Magic Leap, an augmented reality project shrouded in mystery. Aside from vague claims about a “biomimetic Dynamic Digitized Lightfield Signal,” the CEO of Legendary Pictures calling it “jaw-dropping,” and Neal Stephenson becoming the project’s “Chief Futurist,” we still don’t…
Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock cache hit 822:single/related:68cbab3253debea7f4ee68a0b3ce6874 empty Google’s security researchers have published another pair of Windows security flaws that Microsoft hasn’t got a fix for, continuing the disagreement between the companies about when and how to disclose security bugs. The first bug affects Windows 7 only and results in minor information disclosure. Microsoft says,…
The Spiral 2 prototypeProject Ara, Google’s Google’s effort to bring to life a modular phone that you put together like Lego bricks, is coming to Puerto Rico in a pilot later this year.At its second Project Ara Developer Conference on Google’s campus in Mountain View today, Project Ara director Paul Eremenko discussed Google’s go-to-market plans. Instead of…