Mary Meeker shared her 2017 internet trends report this week. It’s super long, but we broke it down to the good stuff. We also talk about the future of AI and how it’ll get smarter in a beyond-exponential way. The rest of the stories are below.
245: Elon Musk Plays Basketball, His Tech Trends Will Bring a Tear to Your Eye
We try every week to bring basketball into the discussion, and this week Wired helps us (despite their AdBlocker policy) with a look a the latest tech trends in the NBA. It was also the week of the Code Conference with plenty of interviews to talk about… Mostly Elon Musk’s philosophical thoughts. See all the show notes below.
192: The Birth of a New Episode
James celebrates the birth of his new daughter: Elinor. Thankfully she manages to be quiet the entire episode. Speaking of this episode, we talk about:
Vox buying Re/Code, Jony Ives moving up the ladder and doing less, Minecraft’s massive size, Google I/O: Photos, Pay, M, Now on Tap, Brillo/Weave, Jacquard, Soli, Ara, and Vault. We also talk about Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report, Snapchat’s something or other, and Facebook becoming a bank.
140: Sound Driverless Cars
Sound Drivers + Driverless Cars. I believe that’s called a concatenation.
Apple buys Beats, Quirky builds Aros using a community, Mary Meeker shares her 2014 Internet Trend Report, Dick Costolo tells us how to pronounce Twitter handles, Google shows off their self-driving cars, Simple shows us how unsecured email is, SpaceX reveals Dragon V2, and Valve postpones their Steam Machines.
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- An air conditioner, powered by fans. How Quirky’s 800k members help newbie inventors get to market
- Why The Apple/Beats Deal May Be Dead
- Google’s New Self-Driving Car Ditches the Steering Wheel
- The first driverless cars will be electric, thanks to Google & Tesla, and that’s important
- Google’s self-driving pods might be great, but we need to calm down on predicting the distant future
- Apple Bought A Pair Of Beats
- Apple. Eats. Beats.
- The Beats go on at HP (at least until 2015)
- 2014 Internet Trends Report
- Meeker: As Internet User Growth Slows, the Real Driver Is Mobile Usage
- Mary Meeker Tamps Down All That Bubble Talk
- The video of her presentation
- How Twitter handles are pronounced
- Behind Simple CEO’s email snafu is a larger problem with web security: email
- The Reading Rainbow Gets A Kickstart
- SpaceX Announces The Dragon 2
- Valve To Delay Their Steam Machine Till 2015
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88d: Yahoo wants to sell you based on data
In order to get data, they need to have services. Hence the buying spree.
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88: The Unbearable Lightness of Advertising
We managed to almost completely ignore D11 this week. Though, we did stick in a couple stores about Apple and Mary Meeker.
We also talked about light canceling fiber optics, the 49er’s new stadium, HTC’s advertising problem, Yahoo’s strategy of buying a ton of companies, Freescale’s ant-sized SoC, Apple’s new iPod Touch, Sony’s electronic loses, the Sun-Times photographer firing, and Intel’s new Haswell chips.
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- Sony loses money on electronics
- Noise Canceling fiber optics
- HTC can’t win, even with the best phone
- Why Yahoo! is becoming an internet portal again
- Ant-Sized Computers
- Mary Meeker Peers Into the Future of Mobile, Wearables and Facebook
- The unbearable lightness of what Tim Cook says
- Fewer people pirating Arrested Development
- Apple Launched the Cameraless iPod Touch
- New, high-tech stadium for the San Francisco 49ers will be ‘software-driven’
- Intel Launches Haswell Processor
- Bad News for Peter Parker: Chicago Sun fires Photo Staff
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An Asset Heavy Episode
Episode 63! Google has a sense of humor, Instagram disables inline tweets while Twitter’s making photo filters, Apple wants to bring Macs to America, Mary Meeker shares the state of the web, Android take off in China, Microsoft shares Windows Phone 8 keyboard secrets, and Time Warner Cable claims there’s no demand for 1gbs Internet.
We also discuss Free-to-Play games, solar cells in a thread, Matthew’s iPhone, and his new deck of cards.
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- The Daily Is Dead
- Mary Meeker’s Latest Must-Read Presentation On The State Of The Web
- Instagram disables your ability to tweet your photos
- Free-to-Play: The Lost Generation
- Bringing the Mac back to America
- The Ultimate Computer Factory… in 1990
- Android takes off in China but leaves Google behind
- The secrets of the Windows Phone 8 keyboard
- Time Warner Cable: If there was demand for 1gps, we’d offer it. There just isn’t
- It would cost an estimated $140b to bring Google Fiber to the rest of the US
- Solar cells in a thread
- Twitter Aims to Release Photo Filters in Time for the Holidays
- Funny Google Flights Messages
- Misc, Goods Co. Card deck
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