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Jack Dorsey’s Square

If you haven’t seen a demo of Jack Dorsey’s Square yet, take a look at this video. The Square could revolutionise retail point of sale, making it a) radically cheaper to implement systems and b) much easier to introduce new ideas, like voucher redemption.

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‘Less than free’ as a business – is it time to be afraid of Google?

I’m back from holiday today (Majorca, very nice, thank you…) and have been enjoying catching up on reading and looking forward to getting back into the routine of posting every workday. Perusing my usual sources for inspiration (amongst which Viewsflow is becoming increasingly important) I hit on this wonderful post from Bill Gurley about [...]

Open versus closed and the iPhone app store

I am a big believer that in the long run open always wins out over closed, and that is an argument which at the theoretical level that rarely gets much pushback these days. At the practical level it is often different though, and Mike Masnick has a good post up on Techdirt that goes [...]