Showing posts with label John Battelle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Battelle. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

John Battelle Has Hit Oil

John Batelle hit oil. Data is the new oil. And every individual is sitting on their own personal oil well. Only right now The Big Four have it. That should shift to individuals. But oil is physical. Data is not. Data portability will cause the ownership shift without harming The Big Four. This oil well is big enough that it could fund the much touted Universal Basic Income.






Don’t Break Up The Tech Oligarchs. Force Them To Share Instead.
The idea is simply this: Require all companies who’ve reached a certain scale to build machine-readable data portability into their platforms. ....... that one rule, that one requirement: That every data service at scale had to stand up an API that allowed consumers to access their co-created data, download a copy of it (which I am calling a token), and make that copy available to any service they deemed worthy? ...... the example of a token that has all your Amazon purchases, which you then give to Walmart so it can do a historical price comparison and tell you how much money you would save if you shopped at its online service. ..... I mean, don’t we at least co-own the information about what we bought at Amazon? ...... Why can’t an ecosystem of agents, startups, and data brokers emerge, a new industry of information processing not seen since the rise of search optimization in the early aughts, leveraging and arbitraging consumer information to create entirely new kinds of businesses driven by insights currently buried in today’s data monopolies? ...... It’s be a lot like the Internet was once imagined to be. ...... it could dwarf our current Internet in terms of overall value created ..... tens of thousands of new companies would form, all of them feeding off the newly liberated oxygen of high quality, structured, machine readable data.

Data Could Drive a Small Business Renaissance. But First, We Have to Free It.
The intents, desires, and needs of tens of millions of consumers, who relentlessly poured their queries into Google’s placid and unblinking search box. ..... Adwords was a freaking revolution, but it ain’t nothing compared to what will happen if we unleash data tokens on the world. ...... what happens when local entrepreneurs have access to the information currently silo’d across thousands of walled garden services like Uber, LoopNet, Resy, and of course Facebook and Google ...... dry cleaners, hardware stores, bike shops — and this newly liberated class of information enables an explosion of efficiency, investment, and, well, flourishing in what has become, over the past four decades, a stagnant SMB environment. ..... this new competitive force will drive everyone to play at a higher level, focusing not on moats built on data silos, but instead on what really matters: A highly satisfied customer. That’s certainly Michelle’s goal, and the goal of every successful local business. Why shouldn’t it also be the goal of the data giants?



Friday, September 03, 2010

Is The Mobile Web In A Category Of Its Own?

Image representing John Battelle as depicted i...Image via CrunchBase
To me the answer is obvious. Of course the mobile web is a category of its own. Where have you been these past few years?

Twitter, FourSquare: Mobile Web Thingies

Fred Wilson responded to my blog post this morning. He declared we are in resonance.

Fred Wilson: Mobile First Web Second

John Battelle responded disagreeing with Fred.

John Battelle: It's All The Web

Of course it is all one web. But we are also all one humanity. Why do we talk of different cultures and heritages? Why do we talk of white and black and brown and yellow people? To acknowledge and respect and celebrate those various heritages is not to deny the wholeness of humanity.

I am in disbelief that John Battelle said what he said. Where has he been these past few years? The mobile web has so taken off. It is not possible he missed out on that.

The meme that the web is dead that has really taken off recently in some circles does not go well with me. I don't think iPhone apps are anywhere close to competing with the larger web. The iPhone apps enrichen the ecosystem, but they are a small subcategory.

Dead Web?

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Google New York















Google New York Jobs
Can Google Come Out to Play? - New York Times
Google's New York Office Is a Glorious Catalog of Dot-Com Clichés...
InformationWeek | Galleries: Googleplex East: Inside Google's New...
Google Has Kangaroo At New York Office (VIDEO)
Video: Google Brings Kangaroo To NY Office- Gothamist
"The Search" - John Battelle speaks at Google NYC
Google New York: Scooters, Slides, And Legos -- Oh My!
YouTube - Baby Kangaroo at the Google NY office
Office 2010: A Tale of Decadence and Hand-to-Hand Combat - Bits
Office Snapshots » Google NYC Office - Video Tour
New Google Cafeteria Crushes Competitors' Cafeterias -- Grub...
Lego in NY Google Office
This is an office? - NYPOST.com
After search, Google finds snake in NY office| Reuters
Google: The New Port Authority - Page 1 - News -New York...
Google hiring 100 engineers for NY office
Google Gobbles 57K More Feet in Taconic's 111 Eighth | The New...
Facebook's NY Rent: $29k/Month
Google Opens Block-Long Office in N.Y.- Real Geek
A Quick Tour of Google NY- John Battelle's Searchblog
Google opens block-long office in N.Y.- USATODAY.com
A three-foot python the subject of Google's latest search - Apr. 3...
Official Google Blog: Snakes in a plain... old...office building!
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