Super Bowl Commercials as a Leading Indicator?
Can super bowl commercials predict bubbles? I don’t know. Here are the commercials from the past 13 years: http://superbowl-ads.com if you want to find out. We did seem to have a myrid of dot.com related commercials prior to that implosion. Signs of bubbles from this year? Perhaps deal-of-the-day sites.
What Market Share Matters?
Both Lessien and John Gruber take on the topic of market share and I think they miss some of the nuances. Lessien applies the basic business school approach: Large market share attracted developers who built software exclusively for the dominant platform. That software, in turn, created further lock-in as users grew accustomed to the workflows and proprietary data formats […]