Innovation Internet Retail Technology 
O'Reilly
APRIL 30, 2024
Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. It’s difficult to argue with David Collingridge’s influential thesis that attempting to predict the risks posed by new technologies is a fool’s errand. But not all rents are bad.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 11, 2015
Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.
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O'Reilly
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
Blockchains have a uniquely tumultuous early history for an enterprise technology—from a mysterious origin story, to a sensational first application in bitcoin, to a swift fall from a particularly frothy hype cycle. Blockchain technology provides the encrypted distributed ledger that made the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, possible.
All Things Distributed
JUNE 29, 2011
Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. Comments (). Recent Entries.
The Agile Manager
APRIL 30, 2020
Regardless how bad it gets, there is a candle of hope perpetually burning in the expectation is that free human societies are resilient and will respond and innovate in the face of challenge and will ultimately be more productive and more effective on the other side. Social media was just coming into its own.
The Agile Manager
JULY 31, 2019
By way of example, at the time the internet travel booking business had a take rate of somewhere between 5 and 10% of the value of the travel services they were selling; intermediaries had a take rate of a tiny fraction of a percent of the value of the product order they were submitting. They were in a state of mutually assured destruction.
Rigor
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications.
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