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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
Udemy is one of the spammiest services I have ever come across. Despite, hitting unsubscribe and going through the motions over 10 times, emailing them half a dozen times and finally deleting my account - I still get spammed. Udemy is the b
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
The main feudal lords map to the Four internet giants - Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. Each has a dislocated jaw and a growing appetite to consume entire industries. As they grow, our implicit trust in our Feudal lords, without any kin
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
Issue with disrupting existing payment modalities is that you need scale, which is really hard to do when you are a startup and there is not much differentiating you from the rest. Ubiquity trumps novelty. Every single time.
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
This comment reflects a lack of understanding of how non-IT folks deal with passwords. As the number of services we consume on the web have exponentially increased, the difficulty in remembering all those passwords have led the majority of
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
Great news for Google, except the hardware quality doth suffer. I had to RMA my first one, as the audio jack was spotty and only outputted one channel. The second one arrived with exactly the same issue and a screen that wobbled. RMA'd that
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Let's talk about fraud & mobile wallets(decisionanalyticsblog.experian.com)
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
Over a year ago, I wrote up an early product requirements doc for how law enforcement investigations will function if investigators could follow cases, evidence, firearms, events, suspects, persons of interest, locations similar to how we f
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
Your preferred credit card issuer already knows this - if you have a propensity to eat out during the week. It can look at where you are eating most of the days during the week, aggregated over time, to guess which part of town do you work,
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
Remember Circuit City? They were the biggest victim that fell to the same Amazon practice.
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
You already let the Barrista tag your coffee with your name at Starbucks. Its only natural that now you get to pay for coffee with your name.
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
Online fraud is expected to grow substantially in the near future, as e-commerce and CNP (card not present) transactions are expected to grow exponentially in relation to offline (or Card present). With card issuers planning to issue Chip c
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
Building both sides of a network, as GoPago or LevelUp attempts to do, is very hard to accomplish - as merchants have to shift away from their current PoS and trust the newcomer enough to embrace them. Further, you will most probably keep b
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
It's not that it is missing the Secure Element. Simply that Google does not have access to the Master Keys for that Secure Element.
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Men Walk On Moon - July 20th 1969(nytimes.com)
155 points by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago|88 comments
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
I can relate. I posted a story about Apple's disruption at the POS talking of how the new retail App allows for purchases in store without ever having to contract a store rep. I posted that alongside why I believe this is important consider
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by Cherian_Abraham 14y ago
Umm.. The author is not objective. He (Norman Matloff) had long since been spouting off on H1-B and why its bad. He also found a way to work it in to the article, in the same way that he had used in the past so effectively, to scare the cur
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Why mobile is what decides whether Google will live or die(pandodaily.com)
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
Sorta duplicitous to be against walled gardens, when ur lack of visibility in to them prevents you frm makin more money. Now, I am not saying that walled gardens aren't bad. But if you are against Facebook, then you should be against its r
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
You know its pretty easy to install the GoogleWallet.apk file on it, and be up and running with GW in under five minutes?
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
I write fairly well, and I doubt if I could say the same about on stage. I have to have aids to sum up my thoughts beforehand, and even then I tend to ramble. When I write, I almost always have a clear train of thought much ahead, that I ta
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Founding engg, Rob von Behren & Jonathan Wall have left GoogleWallet Team(nfctimes.com)
2 points by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago|0 comments
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IPhone 5, NFC and iWallet - Pick Any Two(mobilepaymentstoday.com)
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The Wallet that almost was - How Citi, a Google partner crippled Google Wallet(droplabs.co)
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
I follow mobile wallets very closely, and the Carriers closing ranks is a real issue. Google's hands are not clean either. Case in point: Google has not enabled the API to access the secure element on the Google Nexus One (the only phone th
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Trouble brewing for Google Wallet(mobilepaymentstoday.com)
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that man set foot on the Moon but that they set eye on the earth. — Norman Cousins, Cosmic Search magazine, volume 1, number 1, January 1979.
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Automating a bad process doesn’t make it better(genehughson.wordpress.com)
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Apple's next move, courtesy of Siri(droplabs.co)
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
I love Square, and they are a classic disruptor. They started slow, at the low end, and created their own blue ocean before starting to chew at the heels of the entrenched incumbents in the payment ecosystem. That being said, the payment ec
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
Being disruptive does not mean that you do everything on day one. This is how you start.

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