Tag: disruptive

Fleep is the word … it’s got groove, it’s got meaning…

I’ve just read about, then immediately joined, then immediately fallen in love with…  Fleep.

In common with many others, I have hated email for years; such a clunky old tool, used, because of its ubiquity and peerless network advantage, for everything – even though 90% of the use cases are horribly inappropriate (can you imagine the nightmares engendered by a 4 year old ‘reply all’ email used for arranging an annual street party?).

I have used many other things – google groups, wikis, chat, groupware, application-specific commenting tools – some of which were rather better, some of which were rather worse than email – but each of them not email, and sometimes that was good enough.

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Change is afoot…

One week’s posting on one tech-news site only (zdnet), brings forth three pieces from different authors that illustrate the extreme fluidity which increasingly characterises things digital:

Why I’ve all but given up on Windows…

How I switched from gmail…

Low-end laptops – the rise of the Chromebook

Without expressing any opinion on any of these in themselves, the wider point is that on many fronts – OS, hardware, services – there is potential for radical shifts on a timespan of a couple of years, even for things that have been so ubiquitous as to have brands among the most recognised worldwide.

Disruption is the name of the game for ambitious startups, so turbulent times should be good news – statistically, at least – for startups.