Finally, the mathematics behind Innovations.
Vittorio Loreto at Sapienza University Rome in Italy and his friends have created the first mathematical model that can accurately reproduce the patterns that innovations follow.
Minus Google+
I came across this 2015 article in Mashable by Seth Fiegerman on why and how Google jumped into the Social bandwagon, created a non starter and sort of Me-too product, copying Facebook and lost the plot. It is a back story of how Vic Gundotra, then close to Larry page, built up a threat frenzy within where apparently none existed (at this point FB was valued at 14B and Google 200Bn – not any more). Although the security lapses gave the immediate reason for Google to decide on shutting down G+ the broader issues, primarily of non adoption, and blowback for coercion ( remember when you had to have a G+ account to sign into other Google services?) hastened the end.
Ctrl+Alt+Del
David Bradley was the 12th member of the 12 member team in Project Acorn – the IBM race to build a PC in record times. It was the spring of 1981 and engineers were going crazy as the prototypes will crash regularly and the boot up will take for ever as every time it had to go through a series of memory tests. Bradley was entrusted with a way to trigger a reset without the memory tests.
There are 310 Unicorns around the world with a combined worth of $1,052B
CBInsights has put out another interesting infographic that lists all the 310 Unicorns around the world. They sort unicorns into 13 categories, from cyber security to Internet Software Services. The Other category includes companies within real estate, ed tech, renewable energy, aerospace, etc.
AI will make Humans more valuable. Sounds counterintuitive?
Kate Leggett, VP and Principal Analyst Forrester, has been looking at AI, Customer service, CRM and related areas for a long time. In her recent post she underlines 3 customer service mega trends. According to Kate, as AI eats predictable and repetitive jobs, SuperAgents will appear as Customer service becomes high touch. They will handle critical customer interactions that require deep subject matter knowledge or product ecosystem expertise.
