Facts about GDPR & Instagram’s Data Downloads

The specter of general data protection regime aka GDPR (learn more about it here) looms large for American companies and many of them are working hard to comply with the letter of the law, if not i… | Continue reading


@om.co | 6 years ago

Facebook is Exxon of the Internet

“…the utopian view of social networking connecting everyone for good is coming to end across the political spectrum. Now it’s seen less as a hopeful tool and more as a weapon that everyone thinks i… | Continue reading


@om.co | 6 years ago

The Web of Mosaic

Twenty-five years ago, on April 22, 1993, University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) released Mosaic 1.0, a web browser that was somewhat mainstream was re… | Continue reading


@om.co | 6 years ago

Apple’s TV Plans and & List of Shows

Apple is competing with Netflix, Amazon, Disney, and Hulu to become a streaming entertainment company. Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht, former Sony bosses head up Apple’s TV efforts. The team is … | Continue reading


@om.co | 6 years ago

Allo & Goodbye

The standout part of this article is that the latest Google attempt to enter the messaging market, Allo, is dead. Despite being a Google product with full access to the Play store, it got mere 50 m… | Continue reading


@om.co | 6 years ago

Is this the future of retail?

The other big Seattle retailer, Nordstrom, that is, doesn’t think that retail is doomed. Instead, what it needs is a reinvention. And they are willing to spend tens of millions to create a store th… | Continue reading


@om.co | 6 years ago

Are Uber drivers entrepreneurs?

Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley has been at the eye of the storm called Uber, that included cutting the cord with its lightning rod CEO Travis Kalanick, in a public manner. He also has been the ser… | Continue reading


@om.co | 6 years ago

Who am I buying this for?

The brands themselves aren’t the problem, though: we all need some stuff, so we rely on brands to create the things we need. The problem arises when we feel external pressure to acquire as if new t… | Continue reading


@om.co | 6 years ago

What to read this weekend?

The Facebook Hearings have kept me distracted, and I wasn’t doing much other than keeping up with the torrent of news and hot takes. Not much was said, not much was done. No surprise, as I have wri… | Continue reading


@om.co | 6 years ago