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Video & Slides of Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends Report

Video & Slides of Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends Report

Sorry about not being able to figure out how to get the sound from the internet up so that it was truly listenable today. It would be great if you could watch Mary Meeker’s talk from 9:13 to 17:02 on the above video. That corresponds to Slide 80 to Slide 150 on the deck  just […]

Class 2 – 9/11/19; “If Picasso had painted a round object..”

Class 2 – 9/11/19; “If Picasso had painted a round object..”

Video and slides above… Had to do a bit of surgery to get the slides below the upload limit. Nothing substantive was removed. Jon

EA’s Staggered Release Experiment

EA’s Staggered Release Experiment

I just stumbled across this article that discusses an interesting new strategy for increasing player engagement with games. The idea is to release games in smaller pieces over time. Traditionally, games are released in their entirety when they are complete. The supposed problem with this is that it makes games “disposable” and incentivizes “bingeing”, where […]

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Explained

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Explained

Hey guys, GDPR was something that was mentioned several times during the last week’s lecture so I looked it up. The 3-minute-long video below by WSJ explains the regulation in a really concise manner. Even if its headquarter is not located in a EU country, any organization that 1) carries on business in EU, 2) […]