Forbes — Disney World Could Have Gone Nuclear - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/02/21/disney-world-could-have-gone-nuclear/

Citrix To Be Acquired, Taken Private And Merged With Tibco In $16.5B Deal - https://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/citrix-to-be-acquired-taken-private-and-merged-with-tibco-in-16-5-billion-deal

Weighted ACV as more useful SaaS metric - https://whoisnnamdi.com/weighted-acv/

Intel plans - https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/18/intel_gelsinger_plan/

Intel — Powering the Metaverse- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/opinion/powering-metaverse.html

Salesforce Establishes Sustainability as a Core Company Value; Launches Net Zero Cloud 2.0 Globally- https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/sustainability-core-value/

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Dominic, Lilac, and Zack chat to Jon Collins of Gigaom about whether "cloud" is still a useful category, who buys enterprise IT these days, and what that means for land & expand strategies. 

Find Jon Collins on Twitter: @jonno 

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Amazon Q4: AWS’ Annualized Revenue Run Rate Hits $71B

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/amazon-q4-aws-annualized-revenue-run-rate-hits-71b

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1488233622934933504

https://twitter.com/cloudpundit/status/1488248066389983232

https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1489350978642100230

⬆️ 20B Jeff Bezos

⬇️ 30B Mark Zuckerberg

Alphabet Q4 Earnings: Google Cloud Revenue Jumps 45 Percent

https://www.crn.com/alphabet-q4-earnings-google-cloud-revenue-jumps-45-percent

https://twitter.com/munster_gene/status/1488646948835905536

https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021_Q4_Earnings_Transcript.pdf (page 15)

The Apple effect. Is Facebook/Meta in trouble?

AI Insurance Company Faces Class Action for Use of Biometric Data

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ai-insurance-company-faces-class-action-7991163/

Recommendations

Dominic

Vinegar - Tube Cleaner

https://apps.apple.com/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229

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Microsoft beats on earnings and revenue, though Azure growth moderates

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/25/microsoft-msft-earnings-q2-2022.html

Nvidia preparing to walk away from Arm acquisition

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-preparing-abandon-acquisition-arm-bloomberg-news-2022-01-25/

Google Cloud is hiring a legion of blockchain experts to expand its business

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/27/google-cloud-blockchain-team-to-seek-new-business.html

Calendly discourse

https://twitter.com/lessin/status/1486477359717187589

https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1486747239544459265

https://twitter.com/calendly/status/1486780920048672772

Peloton to halt production of its Bikes, treadmills as demand wanes

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/peloton-to-pause-production-of-its-bikes-treadmills-as-demand-wanes.html

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Microsoft buys Activision for $69B (nice)

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/18/microsoft-to-buy-activision.html

Microsoft is buying one of the biggest names in games — if Washington lets it 

https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/1/18/22889342/microsoft-activision-antitrust-games-streaming-gamepass 

3 billion gamers — sure, if you count Candy Crush etc, but how many of those are playing Call of Duty?

Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the metaverse

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/16/walmart-is-quietly-preparing-to-enter-the-metaverse.html

But the video everyone has seen is old:

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2022/1/5/22868323/walmart-metaverse-shopping-video-viral-old

Is Google taking another run at AR, not quite a decade after Google Glass?

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/20/22892152/google-project-iris-ar-headset-2024 

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US airports block rollout of 5G, one day before launch

AT&T and Verizon limit 5G service near US airports after carriers’ outcry

https://www.ft.com/content/e1f1d59f-2e9f-4f23-a80a-25dcc0274513 

Only happening in US because of different frequencies and higher power levels

But why did the issue come to light so late?

Opinion | The FAA’s 5G freakout raises a big red flag — about its competence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/18/faa-5g-wireless-freakout-raises-red-flag/

Boeing Takes Hit as Its 777, 787 Planes Appear Susceptible to 5G Network

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/boeing-takes-hit-as-its-777-787-planes-appear-susceptible-to-5g-network/ar-AASW0GM

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Quick News

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The FCC proposes new data breach rules for phone companies

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/13/22882281/fcc-telecom-data-breach-notification-rules-proposal-commission-seats

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Italians continue to prefer real coffee

https://www.italy24news.com/local/347225.html

Lol: Starbucks closes two locations in Milan because they were so unprofitable. Six locations remain.

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Lilac and Dominic talk to Doug Johnson about the problem of data and what to do with it.

https://www.protocol.com/open-source-security-white-house-2656216576

https://www.theverge.com/platform/2022/1/13/22882176/google-government-action-protect-open-source-software-funding-security

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/

Doug is a 25-year veteran building teams and technology products. His experiences span startups as well over 15 years in enterprise product management with 17 years in the low code tooling space. Doug is a musician, having toured as a section violinist with artists like Sarah Brightman (“Phantom of the Opera”), Diana Ross, Moody Blues, and Ray Charles. 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasjohnson/

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2022 predictions (textual podcast): https://findthethread.postach.io/post/2022-predictions

Employment changes, new wave of freelancing

Fractional CTOs: https://dashwire.com/whats-a-fractional-cto-and-why-does-your-business-need-one

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Part-Time-CTO-Salary vs https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Chief-Technology-Officer-Salary

Healthcare impacts

More Americans are taking jobs without employer benefits like health care or paid vacation: https://www.vox.com/recode/22651953/americans-gig-independent-workers-benefits-vacation-health-care-inequality

Amazon considers changing how it distributes employee stock options to stem exodus of top talent: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-stock-compensation-monthly-vesting-l7-top-employees-2022-1

Season 2 Episode 3: We Get A Klue : https://anchor.fm/roll-for-enterprise/episodes/Season-2-Episode-3-We-Get-A-Klue-ep331n

Low-code/no-code Report

Electric Capital Developer Report (2021)

https://medium.com/electric-capital/electric-capital-developer-report-2021-f37874efea6d

https://twitter.com/avichal/status/1478776674648944641?s=20

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Themes of the year that was:

- Semiconductor shortages and architecture turnover

- Outages and incidents

- Security in general (attacks, ransomware, etc)

- No-code/Low-Code and the shifting definition of architects

- Mental health and the change in employment landscapes

- The Great Resignation

- The year the employees took the power back

The book Dominic referred to is “Feersum Endjinn” by Iain M Banks, first published in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feersum_Endjinn

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Patch fixing critical log4j 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s being exploited

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/patch-fixing-critical-log4j-0-day-has-its-own-vulnerability-thats-under-exploit/

List of software impacted by log4j

https://github.com/cisagov/log4j-affected-db/blob/develop/README.md

The internet runs on free open-source software. Who pays to fix it?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/17/1042692/log4j-internet-open-source-hacking/

Another AWS Outage

This time it’s not us-east-1!

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/amazon-owned-twitch-down-many-users-2021-12-15/

Benedict Evans’ year-end presentation

https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations

Our takeaways:

Dominic was thinking of Mary Meeker’s monster “Internet Trends” presentations; we look forward to being completely intimidated by the scale of the 2021 edition when it drops

Recommendations

Dominic

Loïc Suberville’s “Universal Language” shorts: https://youtube.com/channel/UCywGsTdh_qqZUYmA2Gro2CA

Lilac

Askamanager.org

Mike

How to Resolve Duplicate Outlook for iOS Contacts

https://office365itpros.com/2020/11/05/resolve-duplicate-outlook-ios-contacts/

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AWS us-east-1 outage (again)

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/how-the-aws-outage-wreaked-havoc-across-the-us.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-12-08/aws-resolved-its-outage-what-happens-now

https://deadline.com/2021/12/amazon-web-services-outage-unplugs-netflix-disney-and-many-websites-in-parts-of-u-s-1234886348/

AWS post-mortem: https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/

Quill shutdown

https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/07/twitter-acquires-quill-a-would-be-slack-rival-team-will-work-on-dms-as-quill-shuts-down/

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/twitter-quill-acquisition

https://twitter.com/sdw/status/1468289633964290049

Slack investor Index Ventures backs Slack competitor Quill

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/slack-investor-index-ventures-backs-slack-competitor-quill/

Swiss suicide pod: https://nypost.com/2021/12/07/controversial-suicide-pod-that-kills-peacefully-gets-go-ahead-in-switzerland/

Quick News

Touch Bar post mortem review

Recommendations

Dominic

Vinegar https://apps.apple.com/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229 Un-break YouTube

Also! Merry Mixmas http://www.djriko.com

Zack

Govee Flow Pro LED Smart Light Bars

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KXPRJ5D?maas=maas_adg_2148198443AE66955CA03BDDC20F78D0_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas

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