🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2024-09-29
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📈 Markets Monday for 2024-09-23
Reading Recommendation
The software development and DevX market can be hard to keep up with and if you aren’t reading Coté's Wunderkammer, you should be. As for why, the writer behind Coté's Wunderkammer is Michael Coté .
Quick Recap
For Market Monday, I look at the same key indicator that I take from a simple Yahoo Finance webpage each week. It’s how I look at things at the closing bell on Monday.
Previously, I decided on a view from Yahoo Finance. For example, this was a view of intraday in Technology which usually gets around a dozen or so interesting companies.
If you are using Yahoo Applied Filters for Stocks screener you can bookmark your own heat map view.
% Change in Price (Intraday):greater than 4
Region: United States
Market Cap (Intraday): Mid Cap and Large Cap and Mega Cap
Price (Intraday):greater than or equal 5
Volume:greater than 15000
Sector: Technology
Industry: Software—Infrastructure and Information Technology Services and Computer Hardware and Software—Application and Communication Equipment and Electronics & Computer Distribution and Consumer Electronics and Electronic Components and Scientific & Technical Instruments and Semiconductor Equipment & Materials and Semiconductors
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-09-24
The numbers and stories caught my eye were global.
https://www.techmeme.com/240923/p17#a240923p17
💰 + 🇮🇱 $9B makes sense if you consider deal flow and technology are global and not exclusively about the US market as well as the long running cybersecurity track record of Israel.
https://www.techmeme.com/240920/p20#a240920p20
💰 + 🇫🇷 Speaking of outside the US markets, the rendering of actuarial insights technologies are going to be changing with these AI times and few countries offer the uniquely simplified intellectual property protections of France.
https://www.techmeme.com/240919/p40#a240919p40
💰 + 🇺🇸 It is fascinating to see a large raise for a nonprofits enablement platform in the United States that isn’t (yet?) owned by Blackbaud.
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2024-09-25
Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.
I then select the most interesting shared links.
This will always be a safe for work list. 🙈
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/lab-grown-diamonds/
https://www.foodandwine.com/nippon-caffeinated-ramen-noodles-8687399
https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month
https://grist.org/transportation/barcelona-is-turning-subway-trains-into-power-stations/
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-09-26
In these modern times of $1000+ smart phones, it is interesting to look back 15 years to when an iPhone 3GS sold 1M units in a weekend.
It was also just 15 years ago that you could get a Palm Pre which sold… only 0.1M units in an entire week.
The Palm Pre ran webOS. Today, webOS is running on 150M+ devices that are much larger than a phone.
The iPhone 3GS ran iOS. By comparison, iOS is now running on 2B+ devices ranging from the size of a phone to the size of a tablet… but tvOS is probably running on less than ~100M devices connected to flat panel TV screens.
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-09-27
As of this update, I am still wrapping up publishing my AI Field Day 5 delegate notes on Keysight, Integrail, Cisco, VMware, Elastic, Arista, and Enfabrica.
Once again, I am thankful for new and ongoing client work and catching up with past co-workers. Weather this week meant more indoors time for digging into my non-technology projects.
The biggest stories this week that caught me eye:
The market for selling $1 for $0.74 is massive.
More companies will be compelled to tell you that you own nothing.
Open source can take steps forward in dramatic and different ways.
https://www.techmeme.com/240927/p23#a240927p23
https://www.techmeme.com/240926/p24#a240926p24
https://www.techmeme.com/240923/p13#a240923p13
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-09-28
By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/240927/p6#a240927p6
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/240927/p24#a240927p24
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/240927/p16#a240927p16
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/240927/p27#a240927p27
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
https://www.techmeme.com/240927/p5#a240927p5
