Fidelity mining Crypto as well

Would be good to know how much in cpu time/costs did 200,000 satoshis actually cost Fidelity?

What happened to basic journalism??

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/28/fidelity-ceo-abigail-johnson-says-the-company-is-mining-cryptocurrencies

Cool story though.

CBS Browser mining

Whoops

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/25/showtime_hit_with_coinmining_script/?mt=1506379755407


Wonder if this hack will spin cable revs in a new direction when they realise it actually works.




Cheers
Dean

Remember when your "gym membership id card" was just a piece of plastic.....

Instead of an opportunity to sell data about you....?
https://digiday.com/marketing/equinox-using-mobile-app-data-strategy/

Nordstrom "fitting room"

Very interested to see how Nordstrom experiment goes.



Hopefully very well, i mean lets face it when was the last time you purchased clothes and needed "to wear them within 24 hours/out of the store with you?"


- https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/future-retail-experiences-juice-bars/539751

Amazon Lumberyard ?

Just stumbled across Amazon Lumberyard - https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/details/

Wondering about thoughts on this platform and its cost effectiveness to build a gaming business?

 

Considering the “out of the box pre-built functionality” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJiG2HAkUw0 there seems to be a heck of a lot of potential for a number of companies to consider this a no brainer out of the box so I’m looking for the gotcha’s?

Bad app design when losing WAN connectivity

Not sure how many people reading this were affected with yesterdays Time Warner sabotage in Brooklyn – https://www.facebook.com/LivePoliticalChat/posts/1667552873315820 

 

But just saw the daily email router graphs on my home network for Fridays 24 hour period and thought it might be a nice reminder of why we as app designers need to prepare and accept that connectivity will be lost from time to time……and retrying endlessly to phone home is bad design…..

I didn’t dig into the weeds to find which apps/devices but a 15 second overview was a good reminder (eg there are multiple phones/appliances/pc’s/servers accessing the Wan so could have been any of them not accepting a downed connection).

Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings?

Was watching CNBC this morning where they were talking about Hedosophia going public on Thursday with their “blank check” IPO
- https://seekingalpha.com/article/4103619-social-capital-hedosophia-holdings-files-500-million-blank-check-ipo


Who is Chamath Palihapitiya? And has he really “added enough value” at Facebook to be given $500,000,000 ??

Who is Ian Osbourne…..?
- https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=535225771


  Any thoughts on blank check companies going IPO on Day 1?