The world’s largest social media companies could evolve into super apps over the next few years. They will be able to facilitate a greater number of online activities. Although they were initially created to keep friends and family in touch or entertain, social media networks like Facebook, Snap, TikTok and others will be increasingly important...
Category: Technology
So Meta it hurts? Putting Facebook’s Metaverse in perspective
No article on the metaverse would be complete without a mention of the 1992 novel Snow Crash, in which Neal Stephenson coined the term. Stephenson’s novel is a prophetic work, written before the rise of the modern social web and coming to many of the same conclusions as Silicon Valley’s current generation of techno-utopians. Snow...
The Data Business of App Stores – Discover how to benefit from Zero Install Apps
How would you call somebody the controls your access to customers and asks a commission between 15 and 30% for your paid services? Yes, you would call this person an App Store. App stores have been an astonishing success for Apple and Google which went from being a means for distribution of a handfull of...
UBS Future of Finance Challenge 2021
Last week, at the UBS Future of Finance Challenge finals, we were happy to present our Zero Install App platform. Out of 475 submissions, we were among the 10 finalist in the App Store and platforms category. We believe it was a great success for our Zero Install App platform and being in the finals...
What are WeChat Mini Apps?
Simply speaking, a WeChat Mini App is an App within an App. Mini Apps lets users open an app page within WeChat, instead of downloading an app. The Chinese have been accustomed to using WeChat to do everything – from ordering food to booking a doctor to paying their bills – since its launch in...
What is Web 3.0?
The internet is undoubtedly the most significant technological revolution in human history. Despite the fact that the industry has seen significant growth since its inception it’s still infancy and needs major improvements. Tim Berners Lee’s internet was meant to be “a collaborative media, a place [could] all gather and read and/or write.” AOL, Compuserve and...
Moxie Marlinspike NFT Joke
Moxie Marlinspike is the founder of Signal, a secure messaging service and has now released an NFT. But, it is not all as it seems. The NFT entitled “At my whim” will have a different appearance depending on which platform it is viewed. It is currently available for purchase on Opensea or Rarible. Both sites...
Facebook’s Outage shows how Businesses depend on it
Tomiwa Ibukunle is a 21-year old entrepreneur from Lagos, Nigeria. She started her clothing and accessories company two months ago. Her WhatsApp account is used to promote her products and receive orders from customers. She typically receives 20 orders per day. When WhatsApp experienced an outage globally for eight hours on October 5th, her orders...
Amazon’s Ambient Computing Platform
In 2017 Walt Mossberg predicted that technology would disappear into the background and that “ambient computing would become universal.” We are on the right track four years later, but it is still unclear what that term means for computers and how they will live. While many companies are working towards ambient computing visions, Amazon’s head...
How Amazon plans for Astro to become a Family Member
Amazon introduced a new product at the end of September: Astro, a household robot. Amazon’s video introducing the robot promises it can do a variety of tasks, including supervising a household and holding spontaneous dance parties. Astro is basically an Alexa on wheels that watches everything you do. Why should anyone be happy to own...
