Category: Gilbane events (Page 3 of 44)

Internet, social, device growth flat in U.S.

Certainly not news to suppliers of these technologies and services, and unsurprising to others. But this is just the kind of trend that is so obvious the reach of the repercussions can easily be overlooked. Any business that, even indirectly, depends on these products for growth, needs to assess how the saturation effects their product and market strategies. Read More

The myth of the infrastructure phase

A common narrative in the Web 3.0 community is that we are in an infrastructure phase and the right thing to be working on right now is building out that infrastructure… in fact, the history of new technologies shows that apps beget infrastructure, not the other way around. Read More

The battle for the home

We don’t usually include articles behind paywalls in this newsletter, but Ben Thompson often publishes free articles, and this free product / business / competitive overview Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple home products is an excellent read. It is also an example of high quality content marketing for a subscription-funded publication. Read More

Challenges in using blockchains to build trust in digital archiving

Public digital archives seem like a critical, and relatively straightforward, application for blockchains. Open Data Institute researchers have been investigating, and share their findings so far, and next steps. The author is a technical researcher but this is a very readable post suitable for anyone interested in digital archiving or potential blockchain applications. Read More

Mark your calendar: Gilbane’s DX conference

Gilbane’s Digital Experience conference focuses on DX strategies, technologies, and practices for marketing and the workplace.

Learn more

Also…

• ICYMI, something to cheer for… One Small Step for the Web… via Tim Berners-Lee
• Creatives too!… Now every marketer is an app developer — even if they don’t know it via chiefmartec.com
• As technical as it sounds, but if you track NLP check it out… BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding via arXiv.org
• Yes, this is an enterprise search company… Elastic closed 94% up in first day of trading on NYSE, raised $252M at a $2.5B valuation via TechCrunch

The Gilbane Advisor curates content for content, computing, and digital experience professionals. We focus on strategic technologies. We publish more or less twice a month except for August and December. See all issues

The paradox of intelligent assistants

Nielsen Norman tries to reconcile the poor usability of voice assistants with their high adoption rate. TL;DR users stick with the simple. Read More

22 blockchain-based martech companies you should know

Obviously this is an early market, though with lots of activity. This article provides some good advice and a useful look at some of the early use cases for marketers and the vendors involved in each. Read More

The “developer experience” bait-and-switch

JavaScript is the web’s CO2. We need some of it, but too much puts the entire ecosystem at risk. Those who emit the most are furthest from suffering the consequences — until the ecosystem collapses. The web will not succeed in the markets and form-factors where computing is headed unless we get JS emissions under control. … Against this grim backdrop, there’s something peculiar about conversations regarding the costs of JS-oriented development: a rhetorical substitution of developer value for user value. Read More

Innovation, software, and disruption

The actual title of Benedict Evans’ post is “Tesla, software and disruption”. But, as Evans suggests, the piece can be read as a valuable, and especially interesting, case study that is broadly applicable to many industries and markets. The more complex the product, the more hardware and software components to integrate, or replace. Disruptions happen up and down supply chains, and across supplier business models, and are not necessarily easy to predict. Read More

Call for Speakers: Gilbane’s DX conference 2019

Gilbane’s Digital Experience conference focuses on DX strategies, technologies, and practices for marketing and the workplace. We are especially interested in speakers from organizations that have implemented, or are planning on adopting, new technologies or practices for digital experience / transformation initiatives.

The deadline for proposals is
October 12, 2018

Submit your speaking proposal

Also…

• Impressive!… Training an MT model without access to any translation resources at training time via code.fb.com
• Lot’s of great stuff in this non-commercial annual survey and three reports… The CMO Survey via cmosurvey.org​
• Cost is not an issue, everyone can do it… Three years later, Let’s Encrypt has issued over 380 million HTTPS certificates via TechCrunch
• Hmmm… Why I’m done with Chrome via cryptographyengineering.com

The Gilbane Advisor curates content for content, computing, and digital experience professionals. We focus on strategic technologies. We publish more or less twice a month except for August and December. See all issues