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Om Malik
Indian
Writer
Born:
Sep 29
,
1966
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Pokemon Go, which involves trying to 'catch' Pikachu or Squirtle or other creatures with your smartphone, is an inherently social experience. You need to be walking around - on the streets, in public places - to catch the Pokemon.
Om Malik
You
Experience
Other
Catch
Involves
Around
Go
Walking
Trying
Which
Places
Public
Social
Your
Inherently
Creatures
Streets
Need
By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data.
Om Malik
Every
Our
Data
Online
Ideally
Know
Learn
Artful
Move
Deployment
Customers
Now
Based
Services
Adapt
Compared to Apple, Internet companies like Google and Facebook don't have strong perspectives on the way they want the world to work.
Om Malik
Work
Facebook
World
Strong
Internet
Google
Way
Like
Want
Perspectives
Companies
Compared
Apple
Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched in 2007. Nokia thought that the iPhone used inferior technology; the camera makers thought that it took lousy pictures. Neither thought that they had anything to worry about.
Om Malik
Technology
Phone
Thought
Took
Worry
Neither
About
Had
Pictures
Like
Toy
Makers
Traditional
Camera
iPhone
Inferior
Lousy
Anything
Dismissed
Used
Manufacturers
Companies
Sure, Google's and Apple's ecosystems look a little different, but they are meant to do pretty much the same thing. For the two companies, innovation on mobile essentially means catching up to the other's growing list of features.
Om Malik
Innovation
Google
Same Thing
Other
Pretty
Features
Catching
Ecosystems
Look
Sure
Mobile
Up
Same
List
Essentially
Different
Little
Much
Means
Meant
Companies
Growing
Apple
Thing
Two
Apple continues to make ever-thinner devices with a superlative build and a luxurious feel. What the company has achieved beneath the surface is worth even more praise.
Om Malik
Worth
Build
Luxurious
Beneath
More
Feel
Devices
Make
Surface
Praise
Achieved
Company
Even
Apple
The battle between Google and Apple has shifted from devices, operating systems, and apps to a new, amorphous idea called 'contextual computing.' We have become data-spewing factories, and the only way to make sense of it all is through context.
Om Malik
Battle
Google
Become
Sense
Way
Apps
Systems
Only
Through
Factories
Computing
Idea
Between
New
Devices
Make
Operating
Operating Systems
Context
Shifted
Apple
Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.
Om Malik
Competition
Winner
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Toward
Heads
Most
Being
Now
While in the early days of networks, growth was limited by slowness and cost at numerous points - expensive telephone connections, computers that crashed, browsers that didn't work - the rise of the smartphone has essentially changed all that.
Om Malik
Work
Numerous
Changed
Telephone
Slowness
Cost
Rise
Networks
Points
Computers
Days
Limited
Essentially
Expensive
Crashed
While
Connections
Growth
Early
Early Days
Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.
Om Malik
Stress
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Feel
Most
Self-Inflicted
Here
Living a 24-hour news life has come at a personal cost. I still wake in middle of the night to check the stream to see if something is breaking, worrying whether I missed some news.
Om Malik
Life
News
Stream
Living
Worrying
See
Some
Cost
Something
Check
Missed
Come
Still
Wake
Personal
Middle
Whether
Breaking
Night
When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.
Om Malik
Ideology
Become
Kickstarter
See
More
Small
Small Businesses
Idea
Powerful
Name
Economy
Look
Industrial
Also
Acceleration
Maker
Verb
Shift
Been
Customers
Manufacturing
Businesses
Company
Away
For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race.
Om Malik
Society
Had
Mass
Mass Production
Industrial
Coming
End
Human
While
Race
Production
Theory
Human Race
Phase
Having followed the wireless industry long enough, I can tell you that building and supporting an application for different platforms is as tough as climbing a straight wall of rock.
Om Malik
You
Long
Tough
Building
Enough
Tell
Followed
Having
Wireless
Supporting
Industry
Rock
Climbing
Wall
Different
Straight
Platforms
Application
Everybody has a different interpretation of immigration problems, and it's a highly personal experience. If anyone tells you there is a uniform solution to it, there isn't. As far as I'm concerned, it worked for me. And I don't know how to fix the problem.
Om Malik
Me
You
Experience
Problem
Immigration
Problems
Interpretation
Everybody
Tells
Solution
Highly
Know
Concerned
How
Fix
Personal
Personal Experience
Different
As Far As
Anyone
Uniform
Far
Worked
There's only one way to succeed: Show up, work hard, and do everything right. Regardless of who you might be or what kind of job you may have.
Om Malik
Work
You
Work Hard
Job
Everything
Way
Kind
One-Way
Only
Only One Way
Up
May
Regardless
Succeed
Might
Hard
Show
Who
Right
On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network behaviors.
Om Malik
Unable
More
Network
New
Am
Still
Importantly
Surprised
New Media
End
Behaviors
Formats
Organizations
Many
Media
Adapt
Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?
Om Malik
Past
Everybody
Tools
Something
Network
New
Devices
Make
Repeat
Trying
Why
Why Not
Whether it is through stock-market trading or the sale of hotel rooms, the Internet has a way of bringing deflationary forces to all businesses that were hitherto inefficient and involved many middlemen.
Om Malik
Internet
Way
Through
Hotel
Hotel Rooms
Involved
Forces
Inefficient
Trading
Were
Sale
Hitherto
Whether
Rooms
Businesses
Many
Bringing
Internet, for all its faults, exposed me to a lot more music.
Om Malik
Music
Me
Internet
Faults
More
Lot
Exposed
The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.
Om Malik
Challenge
Society
Our
Philosophical
Both
Legislative
Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems.
Om Malik
Technology
Science
Problems
Focus
Solving
Instead
Real
Real Problems
Avoid
Spectacle
In the digital realm, companies are free from the friction of producing physical goods, and as a result, we see companies like Google go from zero dollars in revenues to billions at a much faster rate.
Om Malik
Result
Digital
Free
Google
Faster
Physical
See
Rate
Goods
Like
Revenues
Go
Dollars
Friction
Much
Realm
Producing
Companies
Billions
Zero
As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.
Om Malik
Day
You
Every Day
Every
Tell
Has-Been
One Thing
Follies
Someone
Wrong
Reminds
Sure
Hindsight
Been
Often
Your
Who
Thing
The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant.
Om Malik
Humble
Mood
Some
Cases
Network
Combined
Most
Alteration
Bulb
Itself
Being
Connection
Mechanism
Illuminating
Alarm
Technologies
Assistant
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