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Why the SaaSpocalypse is over blown
Predictions state AI will replace SaaS platforms with custom software. This resembles the open source movement. Building custom tools creates costs for security, maintenance, and integration. Established providers offer compliance and scalability. Focus on your core business. Use AI to enhance your tools instead of replacing them. Always stay practical.
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Unlocking Cursor: Features and Workflow Tips
Want to get a little more out of Cursor, the AI development environment? I walk through the major components with hints and tips on how to get the most out of vibe engineering with rules and agent modes.
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Future of AI is not public
If all you can do is to refresh the Status Page, then you are not in control. Relying on public AI SaaS providers is not a long term future play. You have to take control if AI is integrated to everything you do.
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Amazon buys Whole Foods $13.4B
Okay so this caught most of the industry off their feet, with Amazon announcing they are getting into bricks’n’mortar business big time by buying a Whole Foods, the horrendously expensive supermarket.
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Email still the king of social networks
Around 40% of your emails are being tracked for marketing purposes.
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FaunaDB – Pay-as-you-Store/Query database
FaunaDB, from the technical team that led the Twitter database team, have come out and announced their offering of a new style of database aimed at the serverless model.
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Those blue signs are cheaper than you think
Not nearly as expensive as you would think to rent space on this most valuable of places on the highway.
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Verizon * (Yahoo + AOL) = Oath
Verizon has completed its long awaited purchase of Yahoo, for only $4.48B – cheap for what was one of the Internet’s cornerstone properties. Mayer, is out, but she can take some consolation with her $23M package.
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Tesla to charge cars exclusively from the sun
Elon Musk has thrown down the nay-sayers and stated that all supercharger stations will eventually be off-the-grid. Given their recent acquisition of Solar City this was always on the cards.
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What Ello/Theranos can teach – HBR
Good article from Harvard Business Review on the hubris of courting too much media attention too early on in a startup.
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Tim Armstrong on being a CEO
30 min interview with Tim on how he stepped up to the challenge of taking over as CEO of AOL.
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Get Android on Windows 10
Digital Trends has a comprehensive guide on the various emulators and distributions that will let you run Android Apps on your Windows desktop, including playing nice with Windows Apps.
the legend that is, Alan Williamson
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