Miko Matsumura Platform Software Executive Technologist

Links for Social Media Week

Hello everyone: Here's a list of references for my keynote at Social Media Week SF. 1. The greatest failing of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY 2. At $400 billion, Apple is worth more than Greece http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/19/technology/apple_market_cap/index.htm 3. Cooperative binding of hemoglobin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXOBJEXxNEo 4. The growth of...

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The computer that launched a billion chips

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The Apple Guru Steve Jobs Passes Away

I feel sad today hearing this. My first computer was an Atari (thank you Nolan Bushnell), but many of my friends had the venerable Apple II. I bought Apple Stock right out of college. The company was struggling and I felt that it had a great brand, a great history and great potential. Steve Jobs was in exile and did not work there. Everyone knows that during his return to Apple, the company obtained more cash than the US...

HP’s Strategy Tagcloud Buzzword Bingo Vortex of Doom

Theory #1: HP Strategy was written by Charlie Sheen on Twitter It is possible that HP's strategy was written by the Internet's favorite High Priest Vatican assassin warlock? HP is bayonets, baby--HP is an F18 fighter jet, ready to blow you out of the sky or deploy  ordinance to the ground. Having both Windows and WebOS on a single PC is not bipolar, it's bi-winning, you win here, and you win there. HP is on a drug called WebOS. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off...

Unboxing and new laptop batteries

Hi folks, A bit off topic, but there seems to be a bit of debate out there about what to do with a new laptop or netbook. For techies, the impulse is to unbox and get hands-on as quickly as possible. This impulse comes from deep within what Sigmund Freud identified as the Id, anatomically associated with the brain stem and the thalamus, the brain's primitive center of sex and aggression. Here is an example of the appropriate emotions that technology nerds experience when they hear the...

Disruption in Data?

Philip Howard’s piece titled Merchant relational databases: over-engineered and out-of-date? is a fascinating look at some emerging trends in Database technology. The research piece references a recently published paper by Michael Stonebraker et al. It states: We conclude that the current RDBMS code lines, while attempting to be a “one size fits all” solution, in fact, excel at nothing. Hence, they are 25 year old legacy code lines that should be retired in favor of a collection...

microsoft yahoo: news analysis

Game on microsoft! Conference Call Details Here Microsoft’s PowerPoint preso about it is here The four themes are: Expanded R&D capacity Emerging User Experiences Scale Economics and Operational Efficiencies I’ll talk most about Emerging User Experiences, especially in Mobile Microsoft takes the fight to google with unsolicited 45 billion dollar acquisition offer. 62pct premium over street price. Damn! Henry Blodget has the financials. Unsolicited offer–the...

microsoft yahoo: news analysis

Game on microsoft! Microsoft takes the fight to google with unsolicited 45 billion dollar acquisition offer. 60pct premium over street price. Damn! Big implications for the consumerization of the enterprise and of course the future of the compute...