Unicorns in 2018

I looked at this graphic and thought…..how is Soundhound a unicorn??? As a long time user I cant even understand their business model.

More at

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-16/startup-bubble-derivative-stock-market-bubble

ICO article in the SMH

The problem with articles like this is it doesn’t actually make it any clearer on what the laws are around ICO’s in Australia…..or what makes a successful ICO (or clearly define that they are all shams….if that’s actually the case).

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/michael-clarke-s-coin-toss-falls-foul-of-asic-20181106-p50e9v.html? 

How are regular punters supposed to know when the MSM finance experts cant actually clear it up.

Thoughts?

Facebook political control.....of customers messages

Interesting post here about how Facebook deleted a page with 3m subscribers.....but 'after' the user had spent $300,000 on facebook ads.....


https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-19/facebook-sells-disabled-iraq-vet-300000-ads-then-deletes-his-influential-pages

Its an interesting issue, sure Facebook has the rights to control who is saying what on their site.....but should they be forced to refund the money they happily took from that customer who was building up this follower base?

Blockchain lettuce

So in other words..... a database.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/business/walmart-blockchain-lettuce.html


Should someone let the Walmart/IBM marketing departments know what a BlockChain/Distributed ledger actually means.....?

BlockChain scalability

ThankYou ++


Christopher Heine‏

"Helpful to understand current scaleability:
Bitcoin can process about 4-5 transactions per second.
Ethereum maxes out at about 25 transactions per second.

Visa can process over 24,000 transactions per second."

Re https://www.cbinsights.com/reports/CB-Insights_Blockchain-Explainer.pdf

Siri being used for Salesforce

Really interesting “branding move” by Apple to “license out” SIRI to Salesforce
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/24/apple-and-salesforce-are-teaming-up-to-launch-siri-into-enterprise.html


I think its probably going to be allowing Apple to “offset sunk costs” on SIRI development that can be spread out over other customers in completion with Amazon Alexa eg will we see a Samsung “SIRI enabled Microwave” next week?


Irony is NLVR as a technology has been available for years to perform the exact function they are already describing (even available as a service platform - eg. check out a 10 year old project I was putting together years ago around 2005 - http://www.cognation.net/asterisk/tellme )

SiliconDust - YACC

Ready this months edition of Multi-Channel and came across this article


- https://www.multichannel.com/news/silicondust-steps-into-skinny-bundle-fray

SiliconDust Steps Into Skinny-Bundle Fray
Pleasanton, Calif.-based, privately held technology company SiliconDust, maker of the HDHomeRun line of networked over-the-air tuners and DVRs, quietly rolled out its own virtual pay TV service, offering 45 channels for $35 a month.


In other words......YACC (Yet Another Cable Company).

Basically $35 a month means I may as well subscribe to a cable company and you aren't even offering me enough variance/content in order to differentiate yourself.

Its perplexing why these lemmings want to become YACC's.




Cheers,
Dean