I - Heilmann vs. Flipboard on Canvas

Mobile-first Flipboard has made the move to the web this week and their engineering team revealed more details about their approach.

Christian Heilmann's response is the pick of the ripostes - making some great points while staying respectful of the Flipboard team.

I liked . . .

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This week the team was invited to present to a prospective customer. To impress the prospect we came up with a "wow-factor" feature and then jumped on building it.

Turns out the feature did the trick, impressing the prospect. In the office, there were high-fives all around. It's a small, but clear-cut win. It would be . . .

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I - Consuegra on "Materialising" Wunderlist

Material Design is gradually being adopted out there. Antonio Consuegra of 6Wunderkinder shared a deck on Wunderlist's progress on this front.

Even without the video, there are some handy patterns and code examples.

The key question for me remains the . . .

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Last Tuesday I gave a talk on Internet of Things Berlin Meetup 11 an event curated by Martin Spindler.

Matas Petrikas also spoke at the event, presenting a new connected toy project Vai Kai. It is still early days for Vai Kai, but the mission to build new generation of play experiences for children is exactly the kind of non-Spießer . . .

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I - Keen on Internet

DLD15 was pretty good, it seems. Last week it was Albert Wenger. This week, Andrew Keen utterly destroying Mike Butcher.

Perhaps that is not such a big feat. Regardless, Keen talks lot of sense, whether you want to hear it or not. "What about the Arab Spring?", indeed.

II - . . .

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I - Wenger and Zero Marginal Cost World

Always great to hear Albert Wenger speak. Many VCs love to do "trends talks", few do them with the same perspective, scope and ambition.

I am intrigued by the fact that Wenger is talking up Basic Income Guarantee. It's not a new concept, but it is an path worth . . .

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