Category: Technology

  • Netflix and creative destruction

    Creative destruction is a concept of capitalism, where the business innovations of today, destroy the innovations of yesterday.  Netflix is finding out that those red envelopes aren’t enough to keep the lights on forever and is investing heavily in video streaming technologies, lest they become like Kodak. Kodak just misjudged how fast consumers would give […]

  • Flipboard

    Flipboard is a damn, clever iPad app.  It takes streams of content such as Twitter, Facebook, various RSS news feeds and transforms the assortment of text, hypertext and pictures into an enjoyable experience.  Flipboard uses a newspaper-like metaphor for pulling content together and users swipe to flip pages.  Tweets are artfully rendered, and those that […]