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Weekly issues

Gilbane Advisor 11-20-24 — AI “supercycle”, old typefaces, Typst

Gilbane Advisor 11-6-24 — Undead agents, Breaking web

Gilbane Advisor 10-30-24 — LLM reasoning, alien thinking

Gilbane Advisor 10-9-24 — ChatGPT Canvas, Agent tooling

Gilbane Advisor 10-2-24 — Content presentation, Medium & ScyllaDB

Gilbane Advisor 9-25-24 — CORE-Bench, dynamic knowledge graphs

Gilbane Advisor 9-18-24 — o1 paradigm?, abductive reasoning

Gilbane Advisor 9-11-24 — LLM Agents & Architectures, Reckoning…

Gilbane Advisor 7-31-24 — Markdown utility, How to AI

Gilbane Advisor 7-17-24 — GenAI Squared, Math limits & AGI

Gilbane Advisor 7-3-24 — AI scaling myths, multilinguality curse

Gilbane Advisor 6-26-24 — Building LLMs, Apple PCC architecture

Gilbane Advisor 6-12-24 — AI autonomy, Apple Intelligence

Gilbane Advisor 6-5-24 — AGI hype, AI hype, opportunity & utility

Gilbane Advisor 5-22-24 — Text + KG embeddings, floppies!

Gilbane Advisor 5-15-24 — Agentic UX, Meta vs OpenAI

Gilbane Advisor 5-1-24 — Next token predictors, AI product fit

Gilbane Advisor 4-24-24 — GenAI Compass, continuous knowledge graphs

Gilbane Advisor 4-17-24 — KG LLM symbiosis, UX-design tools

Gilbane Advisor 4-10-24 — KGs, RDBs & LLMs, AI & search

Gilbane Advisor 4-3-24 — Bluesky best?, decentralized social

Gilbane Advisor 3-27-24 — GenAI product cycle, TCO focus

Gilbane Advisor 3-20-24 — Semantic hierarchy, DBOS

Gilbane Advisor 3-13-24 — Humanoids coming, metadata for ML

Gilbane Advisor 3-6-24 — AI & theocracies, AI design patterns

Gilbane Advisor 2-28-24 — Doctor chatbot, GenAI bubble

Gilbane Advisor 2-21-24 — Common Crawl, data for what

Gilbane Advisor 2-14-24 — Analyst quadrants, Wardley maps

Gilbane Advisor 2-7-24 — RAG recursive retrieval, AI for 3D rendering

Gilbane Advisor 1-31-24 — Modern AI stacks, output similarity fix?

Gilbane Advisor 1-24-24 — AI fact checking, copyright complexity

Gilbane Advisor 1-17-24 — Knowledge editing, Bayesian inference

Gilbane Advisor 1-10-24 — Complex docs and LLMs, data funnel costs

Gilbane Advisor 11-29-23 — LLM overkill, knowledge graph not

Gilbane Advisor 11-15-23 — CMSs & ESUS, creative remixing

Gilbane Advisor 11-8-23 — OpenAI dashboard, knowledge graph representations

Gilbane Advisor 11-1-23 — RAG challenges, computation rules

Gilbane Advisor 10-25-23 — Semantic Scholar, AI storytelling

Gilbane Advisor 10-18-23 — UI models, GenAI use cases

Gilbane Advisor 10-11-23 — Future data stacks, GRAGs, knowledge graphs

Gilbane Advisor 10-4-23 — GenAI and knowledge workers, entity resolution

Gilbane Advisor 9-27-23 — Information foraging, multilingual datasets

Gilbane Advisor 9-20-23 — Software complexity, facial blurring

Gilbane Advisor 9-13-23 — Text-to-CAD, magic & zero knowledge proofs

Gilbane Advisor 9-6-23 — AI disorders, knowledge graph paths

Gilbane Advisor 7-19-23 — LLM recursion subversion, truthy tech

Gilbane Advisor 7-12-23 — AI Metaphors, intranet design

Gilbane Advisor 6-28-23 — LLM KG roadmap, AI2 public service

Gilbane Advisor 6-21-23 — Conversational programming, usability

Gilbane Advisor 6-14-23 — GPT-2030, knowledge extraction

Gilbane Advisor 6-7-23 — Moats, text-to-SQL, semantic search

Gilbane Advisor 5-31-23 — Gen AI gradient, massive multilingualism

Gilbane Advisor 5-24-23 — Fine-tuning LLMs, implementing Live Activities

Gilbane Advisor 5-17-23 — LLMs KGs & DBs, chatbot UIs

Gilbane Advisor 4-26-23 — Software², martech futures

Gilbane Advisor 4-19-23 — Objaverse, ChatGPTing with large docs

Gilbane Advisor 4-12-23 — Future data stacks, digital twin KGs

Gilbane Advisor 3-29-23 — ChatGPT plugins, knowledge graph tricks

Gilbane Advisor 3-15-23 — Building ChatGPT, Data-Centric AI

Gilbane Advisor 3-8-23 — LLMs, KBs & LlamaIndex, BigQuery + Search Console

Gilbane Advisor 3-1-23 — Emergent properties in ML, RDF modeling

Gilbane Advisor 2-22-23 — ChatGPT, semantic grammar, hashtags

Gilbane Advisor 2-15-23 — Blurry JPEGS, Meta pixels, ontologies

Gilbane Advisor 2-8-23 — machine translation, contextual computing

Gilbane Advisor 2-1-23 — Medium and ML, generative AI moola

Gilbane Advisor 1-25-23 — Synthetic data, cybernetics & product design

Gilbane Advisor 1-18-23 — practical decentralization, knowledge graph funding

Gilbane Advisor 1-11-23 — Mobile UX, connected catalogs

Gilbane Advisor 1-4-23 — Semantic file systems, agent models, blockchain apps

Gilbane Advisor 11-30-22 —  DIY knowledge graph, KM modeling, fediverse

Gilbane Advisor 11-16-22 — Future browsers, federated future

Gilbane Advisor 11-9-22 — Leaving the cloud, what metaverse?

Gilbane Advisor 11-2-22 — Innovation graph, collabverse, APIs

Gilbane Advisor 10-26-22 — CMS dev, Choice Architecture, AT Protocol

Gilbane Advisor 10-19-22 — WebAssembly, open-source indexes

Gilbane Advisor 10-12-22 — GraphQL, XR glasses

Gilbane Advisor 10-5-22 — structured content, zero knowledge, search

Gilbane Advisor 9-28-22 — MLOps or no, Tabu search, practical NLP

Gilbane Advisor 9-21-22 — Emergence in LLMs, SVG

Gilbane Advisor 9-14-22 — The Merge, Internet Archive, PyTorch

Gilbane Advisor 9-7-22 — Knowledge portals, Stable Diffusion, AR glasses

Gilbane Advisor 7-27-22 — Databricks vs. Snowflake, Apple futures

Gilbane Advisor 7-20-22 — BERTopic, Python NLP libraries

Gilbane Advisor 7-13-22 — The Datasaurus, harmful enough?

Gilbane Advisor 6-29-22 — invisible XML, invisible misinformation

Gilbane Advisor 6-22-22 — Relational KGs, performance reasoning

Gilbane Advisor 6-15-22 — LinkBERT, VALHALLA, text networks

Gilbane Advisor 6-8-22 — knowledge graphs and graphics, CSS 2022

Gilbane Advisor 6-1-22 — Markup, data mesh, n-grams

Gilbane Advisor 5-25-22 — ML model risks, time series databases

Gilbane Advisor 5-18-22 — fediverse, web apps, languages

Gilbane Advisor 5-11-22 — relational KGs, feature importance

Gilbane Advisor 5-4-22 — web renaissance, MDS ecosystem

Gilbane Advisor 4-27-22 — SQL limits, Wasm opps

Gilbane Advisor 4-20-22 — Future Twitter, secure blockchains

Gilbane Advisor 4-13-22 — Linked data, prediction machines

Gilbane Advisor 3-30-22 — neurosymbolic hybrid, content understanding

Gilbane Advisor 3-23-22 — hypergrowth myth, operationalizing privacy

Gilbane Advisor 3-16-22 — Words matter, hydrating tweets

Gilbane Advisor 3-9-22 — Browser teamwork, beyond web

Gilbane Advisor 2-23-22 — Brains and EKGs, scalable analytics

Gilbane Advisor 2-16-22 — data mesh, EKGs, topic models

Gilbane Advisor 2-9-22 — MLOps, lock-in and multi-cloud

Gilbane Advisor 2-2-22 — Block protocol, structured data, NLP, KGs

Gilbane Advisor 1-26-22 — DAM, knowledge graphs, AR, Fuchsia

Gilbane Advisor 1-19-22 — Privacy, chatbots, data stacks, feature stores

Gilbane Advisor 1-12-22 — Web3, blockchain, causal confusion

Gilbane Advisor 1-5-22 — Web3, SCWP, CDPs, Meta, Office

Gilbane Advisor 1-3-22 — Most read articles and issues in 2021

Gilbane Advisor 12-15-21 — Friending ML, CDP vs. CDW

Gilbane Advisor 12-8-21 — analytics blues, future cloud

Gilbane Advisor 12-1-21 — blockchain, performance + brand

Gilbane Advisor 11-23-21 — Turkeys 🦃, smooshing, and e.coli

Gilbane Advisor 11-17-21 — Digital humans, relative units

Gilbane Advisor 11-10-21 — Content, commerce and martech, Metabrand

Gilbane Advisor 11-3-21 — past metaverses, future web design

Gilbane Advisor 10-27-21 — Gilbane Advisor 10-27-21 — Taxonomies rule, localization for all

Gilbane Advisor 10-20-21 — Learn like a human, enterprise software futures

Gilbane Advisor 10-13-21 — NLP ≠ NLU, zombie subscribers

Gilbane Advisor 9-29-21 — data repatriation, legacy scaling

Gilbane Advisor 9-22-21 — No-code, data stacks, OpenMetadata

Gilbane Advisor 9-15-21 — bio neurons, neural nets, GraphQL over SPARQL

Gilbane Advisor 9-1-21 — Privacy-what to do? ML explained

Gilbane Advisor 8-25-21 — Bluesky, big data, graphs and hypergraphs

Gilbane Advisor 8-18-21 — Graph thinking, machine learning ops

Gilbane Advisor 8-11-21 — Standardized internet, Facebook & FTC

Gilbane Advisor 8-4-21 — metaverses, DYI scrape and clean data

Gilbane Advisor 7-21-21 — DAM scaling, quantum computing

Gilbane Advisor 7-14-21 — big data to big metadata

Gilbane Advisor 7-7-21 — cloud vs edge, data science to knowledge science

Gilbane Advisor 6-30-21 — whose sandbox?, cloud paradox, CMOs CDOs, news

Gilbane Advisor 6-23-21 — Fluid, Apple vs open web, data stacks, news

Gilbane Advisor 6-16-21 — Ontology, KGs, NLU, no open rates, news

Gilbane Advisor 6-9-21 — stacks & aggregation, JavaScript for data, news

Gilbane Advisor 6-2-21 — cookiepocalypse, query understanding, news

Monthly issues

Gilbane Advisor 5-25-21 — Twitter, Teams, Slack, blockchain, BI & AI

Gilbane Advisor 4-27-21 — EKGs on HOGs, CDWs, docs vs cats, blockchain

Gilbane Advisor 3-29-21 — low-code, data catalogs, platforms, search, AI

Gilbane Advisor 2-18-21 — graphs, stacks, apps, meshes, privacy

Gilbane Advisor 1-19-21 — TSDBs, platishers, AI ethics, facets

Gilbane Advisor 11-11-20 — web fix, ad bubble, dev exp, cloud myths

Gilbane Advisor 10-7-20 — GPT-3, Qubits, AGI, Wayback

Gilbane Advisor 9-9-20 — schema.org, AI ops, IT arch, NLP

Gilbane Advisor 7-14-20 — perceiving, DSM, web 3.0, microservices

Gilbane Advisor 6-3-20 — AMP life, what VR, platforms, skills

Gilbane Advisor 5-5-20 — no proof, medium hard, build it, pod-mail?

Gilbane Advisor 4-3-20 — WFH, content technology, AGI not

Gilbane Advisor 3-4-20 — IKEA, T5, AI

Gilbane Advisor 2-11-20 — future fingers, collaboration, taxonomy, adtech

Gilbane Advisor 1-14-20 — chatbots, pages that last, replacing martech

Gilbane Advisor 11-20-19 — content value, enterprise search, EU, GOOG, FB

Gilbane Advisor 10-22-19 — Interoperability, ambient computing, CCPA

Gilbane Advisor 9-18-19 — Good/bad Google, multi-purpose content, face recognition & DBs

Gilbane Advisor 7-29-19 — Enterprise ML risk, web contract, web 3.0, news & scale

Gilbane Advisor 6-26-19 — Deepnews.ai, iPadOS, open AI, agile vs waterfall

Gilbane Advisor 6-4-19 — Martech metrics, B2C AR, B2B AR, machine talking

Gilbane Advisor 4-16-19 — Rules & data, ad blocking, use metadata, journey mapping

Gilbane Advisor 3-19-19 — Federated ML, ephemeral messaging, search for humans

Gilbane Advisor 2-27-19 — Language models, dev workflow, integration and DX

Gilbane Advisor 1-30-19 — Structured content & robots, website first, AR & Blockchain almost

Gilbane Advisor 1-7-19 — Open gov data, AGI, analog revolution, future book

Gilbane Advisor 11-15-18 — Design value, pencil vs mouse, mobile apps future

Gilbane Advisor 10-25-18 — flat world, infrastructure app cycle, digital archives

Gilbane Advisor 9-26-18 — voice assistant use, blockchain martech, JS as CO2, disruption

Gilbane Advisor 7-11-18 — No-hype blockchain, ML, mobile dev, publishing

Gilbane Advisor 6-12-18 — CMS & CRM, pipes vs brands, AI & work, contextual up

Gilbane Advisor 5-25-18 — GDPR, GDPR & ML, GDPR & adtech, Martech paradox

Gilbane Advisor 5-9-18 — Ad cost, engagement, consent, speech

Gilbane Advisor 4-25-18 — deep learning value, martech size, no-click searches

Gilbane Advisor 4-13-18 — GDPR, AI and content management, Chrome referrals

Gilbane Advisor 3-26-18 — Facebook (duh!), Google & news, personal data, IAB & GDPR

Gilbane Advisor 3-6-18 — What’s open, why decentralization, blockchain for publishing, breakthroughs

Gilbane Advisor 2-16-18 — Marketing & AI, publishing & AR, blockchain & media, IoT

Gilbane Advisor 1-30-18 — Molecular content, beyond bitcoin, ML data value, Facebook “platform”

Gilbane Advisor 1-16-18 — Open Web, Mobile Mesh, Machine Learning, AR

Gilbane Advisor 11-15-17 — news value, implausible AI, software & CMS 2.0

Gilbane Advisor 10-23-17 — martec orgs, aligning vectors, emotion AI, search

Gilbane Advisor 9-27-17 — Killing keyboards, conquering healthcare, framework churn, GDPR

Gilbane Advisor 8-23-17 — Health data computing, PWAs, blockchain & syndication, don’t “get started”

Gilbane Advisor 7-26-17 — What AI can do, glass 2.0, content not king, execs on social

Gilbane Advisor 6-9-17 — news bundles, product managers, bad ads, kill AMP?

Gilbane Advisor 5-19-17 — e-commerce, meta-platform, summarization and ML, design

Gilbane Advisor 5-3-17 — SaaS era, Watson vs Einstein, e-commerce AI, FB monopoly

Gilbane Advisor 4-18-17 — chatbots, nextgen IT, AR, marketing data, CX and distribution

Gilbane Advisor 3-28-17 – customer experience, millenials, ad agencies, software complexity

Gilbane Advisor 3-14-17 — voice, wearable machine learning, chinese CX, blockchain

Gilbane Advisor 2-28-17 — digital twin, IoT, wearables, product-market fit, CX

Gilbane Advisor 2-15-17 — Apple and Web Standards, Gen Z, AMP links, Cognitive Overhead

Gilbane Advisor 1-27-17 — Apple Facebook dance, platform battles

Gilbane Advisor 1-5-17 – Bots, Deep Learning, Mobile Marketing

Gilbane Advisor 11-4-16 – mobile / desktop evolution, enterprise software, attribution

Gilbane Advisor 10-13-16 – Hive, WeChat, enterprise social, open images, marketing stacks

Gilbane Advisor 9-14-16 – Next computing platform, FB, Google, and Daily Beast

Gilbane Advisor 7-26-16 – Bots, apps, stickers, video, web, product placement

Gilbane Advisor 5-30-16 — Content, Commerce and Deep Links

Gilbane Advisor 4-28-16 — Bots vs apps, content management news, media, more

Gilbane Advisor 3-30-16 — Hierarchy of Engagement, Medium, Open Web, Blendle…

Gilbane Advisor 2–29–16 — Google, Facebook, and the open web

Gilbane Advisor 1-7-16 — 16 Mobile Theses

Gilbane Advisor 10-27-15 – Platforms, apps, web, neutrality

Gilbane Advisor 9-30-15 – Mobile web 2X app traffic

Gilbane Advisor 8-26-15 – Gilbane Program and ad-blocking update

Gilbane Advisor 7-21-15 – Why desktop apps are making a comeback

Gilbane Advisor 6.3.15 – The future is mobile and apps, except that it isn’t

Gilbane Advisor 5.12.15 – The Omni Channel Paradox

Gilbane Advisor 4.16.15 and The Apple Watch’s Raison D’être

Gilbane Advisor 3.31.15 – Is a Mobile Deep Linking Standard Necessary?

Gilbane Advisor 3.10.15 – We Need to Break the Mobile Duopoly. We Need a 3rd Mobile OS

Gilbane Advisor 2.2.15 – Groundhog Day Edition! The Sharing Economy isn’t About Sharing at All

Gilbane Advisor 1.20.15 – Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time

Gilbane Advisor 12.18.14 and The Group That Rules the Web

Gilbane Advisor 11.12.14 – The CEM Imperative

Gilbane Advisor 10.1.14

Gilbane Advisor 8.20.14

Gilbane Advisor 7.21.14