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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. Who will sell the advertising space in our brains?

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

User Growth Snap’s user growth came to a near stop after Instagram launched a direct clone called Stories in September of 2016: Snap’s daily active users grew just 3% in Q4 2016. To be clear, I can’t forecast the details of how an augmented reality OS should work. 2016/2017 Spectacles — capture video on the glasses.

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Why Your Company NEEDS to Start Playing Pokémon Go

crowdSPRING Blog

Obviously, there’s going to be some drop-off when it comes to daily spend as the hype wears out, but Pokémon has a number of benefits that could add to its stickiness, including a beloved IP and ample avenues to expand its content offerings in order to keep users coming back. Gabby ‘Yug’ Boreland (@YugSTAR) July 10, 2016. .