Author Archives: Jose Miguel Cansado

Why Google Acquires Widevine?

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

W3C’s HTML5 FAQ page might give some clues (see screenshot) about why Google buys Widevine, a DRM vendor that powers Netflix among others. What if Google adds DRM to HTML5 video? Google did something similar when they bought On2 and open-sourced … Continue reading →

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HTML5 and Netflix

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Netflix explains in this post how they use HTML5 for their UI frontend and logic HTML5 brings to the table, the freedom to create rich, dynamic and interactive experiences for any platform with a web browser. In fact, we’re also … Continue reading →

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The Netflix Storm

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Combine this chart with how Roku, AppleTV, GoogleTV will sell this Xmas, and you have a nightmare after Xmas for Pay-TV and cable operators in US. Comcast knows well. It is easy to see why they had some peering issues … Continue reading →

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Social Vs. Search

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Google should worry about this: More people are discovering content through social networks than through search. Anyone that had a website a few years ago knows well that most traffic use to come via Google. This has changed. As the chart … Continue reading →

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HTML5: The Future of the Web is Here

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The clip shows how close HTML5 performance is to that of a native iOS iPad app. Can you believe this is running on a browser? Disruption is not only about technology, it is also about business models. If the App … Continue reading →

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Mark Zuckerberg: Social is THE Feature

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, predicts that “social” will rethink industries such as TV, news, music and film. The clip is a bit long.This is my summary of his key points: Facebook started their photo product after big names like … Continue reading →

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Apple and 1984

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

The chart posted under the title Android Phones Will Sell Well This Holiday Season might have been done to show that consumers still buy more computers than iPads and more smatphones (non-iPhone) than iPhones. But think twice… Are you saying … Continue reading →

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Entrepreneurship 101

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Successful entrepreneurship 1 View more presentations from Steve Blank. A friend asked me about some book recommendations on start-ups, and I just happened to find this fantastic presentation in Steve Blank’s blog. It summarizes two excellent books in a few charts. Combine that … Continue reading →

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China’s Entrepreneurship Revolution

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

A clip from the new documentary film Win in China, by Robert Compton, shows how fast China is changing and how hundred of thousands of entrepreneurs are driving the growth of the second economy of the World. At the same … Continue reading →

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iPad Killed Wireless Unlimited Data Plans

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Jose Miguel Cansado

With the coming of the iPad, we started to hear about MiFi, tethering and mobile hotspots. The case for the MiFi is simple. You pay a single data plan for your MiFi (or your smartphone with tethering), and there you … Continue reading →

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