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<description>Links relating to Loosely Coupled topics of interest, such as on-demand, Web 2.0, SOA and stories about better ways of achieving productive business automation</description>
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<title>Tesla's New Strategy Is Over 100 Years Old</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/teslas-new-strategy-is-over-100-years-old</link>
<description>Tesla's flashy electric cars are positioned as but one component in the energy system of the future.  To stretch an analogy, the cars are the iPod -- and iOS, iCloud, and additional devices are still in the works.</description>
<category>tesla</category>
<category>network</category>
<category>energy</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Cortana for all: Microsoft's plan to put voice recognition behind anything</title>
<link>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/cortana-for-all-microsofts-plan-to-put-voice-recognition-behind-anything/</link>
<description>The APIs make it possible to add image and speech processing to just about any application, often by using just a single Web request</description>
<category>intelligence</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>How Nike thinks about app development: Lots of micro services</title>
<link>http://www.zdnet.com/how-nike-thinks-about-app-development-lots-of-micro-services-7000035797/</link>
<description>By building composite apps on Amazon Web Services, Robey says Nike can iterate faster. Nike also adopted Netflix's operations support systems (OSS) stack as an architecture and deployment model.</description>
<category>amazon</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Why Amazon Has No Profits (And Why It Works)</title>
<link>http://a16z.com/2014/09/05/why-amazon-has-no-profits-and-why-it-works/</link>
<description>Jeff Bezos's view is pretty clear: keep investing, because to take profit out of the business would be to waste the opportunity. He seems very happy to keep seizing new opportunities, creating new businesses, and using every last penny to do it.</description>
<category>economics</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/technology/in-the-sharing-economy-workers-find-both-freedom-and-uncertainty.html?_r=3&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter</link>
<description>Looking at this as a new paradigm of employment ... the question is, What are you giving up?</description>
<category>aggregation</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>How Airbnb Solved The Mystery Of Predictive Pricing</title>
<link>http://www.fastcompany.com/3026550/lessons-learned/how-airbnb-solved-the-mystery-of-predictive-pricing</link>
<description>The user's not knowing what they should charge signals the change that Airbnb represents ... Rather than force users to summon their inner real estate agent, Airbnb set to crafting an algorithm.</description>
<category>algorithm</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Marc Andreessen and the Inevitability of Catastrophic Ideas</title>
<link>http://www.theawl.com/2014/06/marc-andreessen-and-the-inevitability-of-catastrophic-ideas</link>
<description>It's not false to say that some crumbs perforce will fall from the tables of the rich onto those of the poor. It in no way follows, however, that that is the way bread should be shared.</description>
<category>economics</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Everything Is Broken</title>
<link>https://medium.com/message/81e5f33a24e1</link>
<description>all computers are reliably this bad: the ones in hospitals and governments and banks, the ones in your phone, the ones that control light switches and smart meters and air traffic control systems. Industrial computers that maintain infrastructure and manufacturing are even worse. </description>
<category>cloud</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>As IT's industrial age ends, the humanist era begins</title>
<link>http://www.zdnet.com/as-its-industrial-age-ends-the-humanist-era-begins-7000029750/</link>
<description>modern business needs IT to be something much different ... The new IT problems involve people, emotions, and other less-than-static, logical or perfect resources.</description>
<category>development</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Don't Diss Cheap Smartphones. They're About to Change Everything</title>
<link>http://www.wired.com/2014/05/cheap-smartphones/</link>
<description>Put Internet-connected, app-capable smartphones running the same major operating systems the rest of us use and there will be all sorts of unforeseen ripple effects on us that we can't even anticipate.</description>
<category>smart</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>How Airbnb and Lyft Finally Got Americans to Trust Each Other</title>
<link>http://www.wired.com/2014/04/trust-in-the-share-economy/</link>
<description>the problem with institutionalized trust is that it can be, in tech industry parlance, a high-friction affair. eBay couldn't require everyone with a few extra Beanie Babies to go through the regulatory rigmarole of establishing themselves as a licensed shopkeeper. So over several years, Chesnut's team built its own trust infrastructure. It began monitoring the activity across the eBay marketplace, flagging potentially problematic sellers or buyers, providing its own payment options, and eventually guaranteeing every purchase. In so doing, eBay evolved from a passive host to an active participant in every transaction. Like the explosion of institutional banking and insurance in the early 20th century, this new system acted as a trust proxy; it didn't require people to trust one another, because they could rely on a centralized system to protect their interests.</description>
<category>economy</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Larry Page: The Untold Story</title>
<link>http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-the-untold-story-2014-4?op=1</link>
<description>Page is envisioning a world where everything we touch is connected with and understood by an artificially intelligent computer that can discern patterns from our activity and learn to anticipate our needs before we even know we have them. Someday, Page has said several times, this AI will be hooked directly to our brains -- perhaps through an implant.</description>
<category>devices</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>How GE Plans to Act Like a Startup and Crowdsource Breakthrough Ideas</title>
<link>http://www.wired.com/2014/04/how-ge-plans-to-act-like-a-startup-and-crowdsource-great-ideas/</link>
<description>a triumph of crowdsourcing--for a nominal price, GE used the knowledge of someone they would have never otherwise met to innovate its way out a design problem</description>
<category>innovation</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Surveillance is the Business Model of the Internet: Bruce Schneier</title>
<link>http://www.securityweek.com/surveillance-business-model-internet-bruce-schneier</link>
<description>We build systems that spy on people in exchange for services. Corporations call it marketing ... Fundamentally, we have reached the golden age of surveillance because we are all being surveilled ubiquitously.</description>
<category>privacy</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Fifth Protocol</title>
<link>http://startupboy.com/2014/04/01/the-fifth-protocol/</link>
<description>Where's the protocol layer for exchanging value, not just data? Where's the distributed, anonymous, permission-less system for chatty machines to allocate their scarce resources? Where is the 'virtual money' to create this 'virtual economy?'</description>
<category>aggregation</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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