Hi, I’m Craig Bailey and this is my personal blog where I write about technology, business systems, HubSpot and general life experiences. You can read my posts here.
(If you are looking for the Content is King post by Bill Gates it is here)
I’m involved with three agencies in Sydney:
I also co-host HubShots, the podcast and YouTube show focussed on getting the most out of HubSpot. We are the creators of the HubShots Framework.
Hindsight is always easy, which makes the first part of this post pretty lame. But the forward-looking predictions are pretty spot on I think. The closing remarks about the impending crash are what resonate most though: And now the stock market is hitting all-time highs, and Facebook is trading at 72 times earnings, and Twitter has a $20 billion market cap even though it is losing huge amounts...
As part of an art exhibition in Zurich, an automated online shopping bot is tasked with buying a random item each week on the deep web to the value of $100 in bitcoins. Along the way it purchases ecstasy pills and a fake passport. If this bot was shipping to the U.S., asks Forbes contributor and University of Washington law professor contributor Ryan Calo, who would be legally responsible for...
From Mark Zuckerberg’s status update: My challenge for 2015 is to read a new book every other week — with an emphasis on learning about different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies. It’s a good challenge, and he has started a page for it here. I’ve joined but I’ve set myself a much more appropriate target – I’m aiming to read one book from his...
If the rumours turn out to be true and Apple does release an iPhone 6 Mini I’ll likely buy it. I got my iPhone 6 at the start of November and switched to it from my iPhone 5s. But two weeks later I switched back to my 5s. Just this week I’m having another go at trying the 6, but I’m probably going back to the 5s again next week. The main reason is the form factor. Everything...
From Matt Mullenweg, responding to Paul Graham’s post: If 95% of great programmers aren’t in the US, and an even higher percentage not in the Bay Area, set up your company to take advantage of that fact as a strength, not a weakness. It’s always easy to oversimplify this issue, but there’s good points on both sides here, plus the Hacker News discussion is useful reading...
There’s no real surprises in the overall findings in PewResearch’s latest study on the impact of technology on workers: email and internet are very important, office landline phones are important, cell phones not so important. But in the remarks down the page there is a finding related to website access that I found surprising: Just under half of those surveyed say their employer...
From Fred Wilson’s post reflecting on 2014: 3/ the “sharing economy†was outed as the “rental economy.†nobody is sharing anything. people are making money, plain and simple. technology has made renting things (even in real time) as simple as it made buying things a decade ago. Uber and Airbnb are the big winners in this category but there are and will be others. See also Steve...
More silly lawyer-wealth-building coming up, in a new class action against Apple: Apple has touted iOS 8 as the “biggest iOS 8 release ever,†a tagline plaintiffs lawyers tried to spin to their advantage in the complaint, arguing that few users understood just how much space the software would take up. They claim Apple exploits the space constraints by peddling iCloud subscriptions when users...
I’m fascinated that services like Instacart can command multi-billion dollar valuations. Sure, the sharing economy is in full swing, and making your pitch ‘the Uber of grocery deliveries’ is nice, but I’m intrigued how they are going to make much profit long term. Revenues might have increased 10X over the past year, but I’d love to know how much (if any) is profit...
Another excellent post (long, but worth the read) from Aaron Wall, discussing the ever-growing impact of Google on businesses – no matter how big or small – that markets themselves online (ie just about every business). Scary times.
Not that this is new of course.