unbundling
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- You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms … One example or reference I keep coming back to just because of my age is the introduction of local loop unbundling in Europe and the UK, which eventually …
- Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur Cory Doctorow, and an ending that surprised even me … and local loop unbundling in Europe were the expected neoliberal "figure out ways for the market to figure it out and then get out of the way" approaches …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … kind of all good? More choice! Also, the systematic unbundling of One Size Fits All social networks, kind of by affinity/interest but also, I guess, by vibe …
- Conan, What Is Worst In Life, And Why? … In the U.S., where there hasn't been telco unbundling and there are regional monopolies on telco services, you don't have choice, so Comcast doesn't …
- News and Religion … I think that the internet additionally broke news - outside of distribution - by disaggregating and unbundling in a really fundamental way. Before the internet, before distribution costs hit where …
- Random Walk; Black Design … These UI/discovery problems *aren't new* and I wonder what a sort of legislative/regulatory unbundling requirement around content might look like. Like: what does the media …
- The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy … And maybe you can through the unbundling metaphor to look at what Slack is doing too: we experience email-as-conversation, when it happens to be the medium …
- Here In My Car … Until local-loop unbundling was introduced across Europe, you had to wait for the incumbent telco to install DSLAMs in your local exchange if you wanted broadband internet …
- To Serve; Odds … like it's moving toward un-trialling the Comcast Internet+HBO bundle and unbundling for everyone. Already, talk of Uber and its ilk "winning", states purchasing mass-transit …
- A Continued Error; Nadella; Hypermedia … I guess this is the unbundling that everyone's talking about. The more expensive(ish) multi-purpose device that does everything that all your other stuff used to …