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Web 2.5: A Dangerous Crossroads

Web 2.5: A Dangerous Crossroads

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Web 3 is not about to take over any time soon, especially given the damage that FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried have done to reinforced the public’s view that crypto (an element of Web 3) is rife with fraud and no, we have idea why Bankman-Freed isn’t in prison (‘Why aren’t you in jail already?’ Internet erupts after Sam Bankman-Fried confirms participating in New York Times’ DealBook). Yet according to MSN, We’re Witnessing the End of Social Media, and while the Age of Social was supposedly about ‘connecting,’ it has mostly been responsible for the disconnections that have been going on between people and groups.

So, we seem to be in a strange tech stasis: a no man’s land between the last and the next phase of tech.

Even FAANG – Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google stocks – isn’t FAANG anymore

Now it’s MAMAA – Meta Platforms FB, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple – although we propose MAMMAA, and although not stock related, Musk definitely belongs in the cabal mix and make no mistake about it: The Web 2 cabal is still alive and kicking – and not about to surrender their lead positions to the so-called next iteration of tech and yet a new crop of tech wunderkinds any time soon. Read More...

Tech and Lessons from the Ukraine Invasion

Tech and Lessons from the Ukraine Invasion

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It’s been a stressful week in a stressful couple of years to the point where one barely knows where the road forward is anymore since the landscape is shifting so rapidly.

Given its global footprint, the tech sector is not immune from disruptive global events:

First, Mykhailo Fedorov, who is Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Urges Apple’s CEO to take action and stop selling products and services in the Russian Federation. Read More...

Basecamp: Corporate Responsibility’s New Normal?

Basecamp: Corporate Responsibility’s New Normal?

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Basecamp touched off a firestorm on social media and in the tech press recently when co-founder Jason Fried announced six “directional changes” to company policies, including “No more societal and political discussions on our company Basecamp account…People can take the conversations with willing co-workers to Signal, Whatsapp, or even a personal Basecamp account, but it can’t happen where the work happens anymore.”

According to The Verge, it all began due to a list of names. “Around 2009, Basecamp customer service representatives began keeping a list of names that they found funny… Many of the names were of American or European origin. But others were Asian, or African, and eventually the list — titled “Best Names Ever” — began to make people uncomfortable. What once had felt like an innocent way to blow off steam, amid the ongoing cultural reckoning over speech and corporate responsibility, increasingly looked inappropriate, and often racist.”

When Fried interceded with his announcement, the Twitterverse exploded, as did the online press (“Basecamp sees mass employee exodus after CEO bans political discussions,”said Tech Crunch), although Fried did not ban political discussions: he merely banned them at work. Read More...