Tag: hermione way

The Kool-Aid of the valley doesn’t agree with one Brit

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Hermione Way: Groupon clone after Groupon clone, yawn… yet another social media dashboard, a cloud-based enterprise solution or, worse still, another photo sharing app; I’ve heard pitch after pitch of the same technology and keep wondering why all these highly intelligent, well educated youngsters, many of whom have been educated in the best universities in the world (Stanford, Yale and Harvard) are not putting their brains to good use by solving real-world problems. Instead they’re building technology to solve trivial issues – like apps that show where to spot your nearest tofu cupcake and share it with your friends.

The Next Web meets Eurovision

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Many years ago, Terry Wogan was forced to make the only official apology he ever made for a Eurovision commentary line. 2001, in Denmark, he referred to the hosts as “Dr Death and the Tooth Fairy.” Fair play to him though, it was the most accurate observation he had made in years. And when I saw the pictures from this morning’s sessions at The Next Web’s Amsterdam conference, with Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Hermione Way on stage, I thought I recognised that look. So did Jon Jacobs on Twitter. That’s when it hit me. I’m away to lie down