Platformonomics TGIF #91: June 20, 2025 Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email News Socrates Says Writing Will Rot Your Brain Academics Say ChatGPT Will Rot Your…

Platformonomics TGIF #90: June 13, 2025 Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Oracle reported this week: still hyperbolic, not hypercloud. News Why Can't Oracle…

Platformonomics TGIF #89: June 6, 2025 Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email And we're back! A lot has happened in recent weeks while I was indisposed and/or…

Twenty Years of Platformonomics Tl;dr: Time’s arrow is unrelenting My first post here was June 6, 2005. At the time, we were testing the corporate blogging waters at Microsoft, watching communications and community evolve online. I was on team “let’s try it” and had helped formulate the company’s…

Platformonomics TGIF #88: May 9, 2025 Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email We're back, at least briefly. More regular weekly installments should resume May 30.…

When @charlesfitz.bsky.social called Oracle Cloud the “most bestest cloud” I reasonably misheard it as “asbestos cloud.”

Platformonomics TGIF #87: April 11, 2025 Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email -Onomics continues to dominant this week, but there is some tech insanity as well.…

A MUST read from @charlesfitz.bsky.social "APIs are a sacred covenant between platforms and developers, and should be neither casually offered nor casually embraced. Relying on an API is a high-trust decision in our increasingly low-trust world." platformonomics.com/2025/04/neve...

Never Take a Dependency on Elon Musk: Grok API Edition Previous companies built on the Twitter API (above) I’ve written before about why you should never take a dependency on Elon Musk for anything, but the introduction of an API for Grok AI compels me to further belabor this point. APIs are a…

Platformonomics TGIF #86: April 4, 2025 Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Leaning into the -onomics this week as platform antics seem so trivial right now.…

Platformonomics TGIF #85: March 28, 2025 Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Denial and delusion is our theme for the week. Data center demand. Google Cloud's…

Platformonomics TGIF #84: March 14, 2025 Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Lots of database vampire and antitrust incoherence this week. No missive next…

Platformonomics TGIF #83: March 7, 2025 Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. I made a third appearance on the Telco20 podcast to discuss 2024 hyperCAPEX numbers and contrast them with telco…

Another excellent edition of #Platformnomics newsletter from @charlesfitz.bsky.social platformonomics.com/2025/02/plat...

Platformonomics TGIF #82: February 28, 2025 Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Another week! CAPEX rules everything around me. Or maybe chaos. News CAPEX Clues: Microsoft's "Couple Hundred…

Meta, the runt of the hyperCAPEX litter, spent more on CAPEX in 2024 than outspoken nanocloud promoter Oracle has in its nearly 50 year history 🤡

It is time for our annual cloud and AI CAPEX analysis. Welcome to the four comma club. platformonomics.com/2025/02/foll...