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Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • Facebook and Twitter, the AOL and CompuServe of Today

    Good piece from Matthew Ingram. I like to compare Facebook and Twitter to AOL and CompuServe of the old internet days… and wonder when the open social network will come around, like “the internet” came around to save us from the other guys’ closed ecosystems? This week marks the 21st anniversary of the world’s first…

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  • Two-Step Verification Dances Around the Issue

    Given this problem… Even with two factor authentication, you need a mechanism to reset if you forget your password and/or lose your second factor (whatever that is). …the guys at CryptoPhoto came up with a neat idea: have another factor authenticate you in case you lose access to one of your first two. Kinda like…

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  • The Trap of Marginal Thinking

    Interesting and motivational. Go read it. Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time. via Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”.

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  • Five different kinds of business intelligence

    Monash’s five kinds of BI: Real-time BI (preferably with a modifier such as “quasi” or “human”) Tactical BI (or task-oriented/-centric) Investigative BI (or exploratory) Traditional BI (which is lame) Third-party BI via Five different kinds of business intelligence.

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  • App.net and Status.net

    What about identi.ca / status.net? Sounds like pretty much the same thing if you ask me… except that the other guys were 4 years earlier. Maybe somebody can enlighten me as to why app.net shouldn’t just bundle forces with status.net! Much of the coverage of App.net — the ambitious project from entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell that…

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  • Stick a Fork In It: Dell Is Done

    If you agree that the PC category should include tablets, then it doesn’t look good for Dell. And Dell? What’s Dell’s plan to survive the radical transformation of the PC industry? “We have a roadmap for tablets that we haven’t announced yet,” its chief sales officer said earlier this year. OK then — guess they’re…

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  • Epic Hacking

    Why can’t I get rid of the nagging feeling that this guy asked the hacker himself to do it, to get a great story into Wired and everywhere? Staged like this, the story is much better than if he simply reported that it was theoretically possible to remote wipe somebody’s iDevices just by abusing Amazon’s…

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  • Data Collective

    Data Collective, a single-minded VC firm: We invest in entrepreneurs building big data companies. With a new VC model, as Sarah Lacy explains. They got a point – you do need deep know-how to find the right early-stage Big Data startup needing seed funding!

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  • Steam wants to be the Cross-Platform Desktop App Store

    Steam wants to be the cross-platform desktop app store: Windows, Mac, and Linux. That’s the real reason they’re working on Steam for Linux – it’s not (only) about the games, it’s about the apps. They’re not saying that just yet, though, but I think it’s a smart move! Because they need a USP. If they…

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  • Irreducible

    Some good thoughts, and a nice quote: The future is in apps you don’t open via Irreducible. My primary example for this is always that in the future, the computer (whatever it’s going to be called) will know what you want before you know, and will have delivered it. There will no longer be such…

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