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4 lessons from my first 9 months as CEO
In this slightly up close and personal post, I outline 4 things I’ve learned with a major work and life change. This post is aimed to...
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SlashData Team
Feb 3, 20222 min read
Introducing SlashData’s new CEO
SlashData has come a long way, as has its DNA. It has pivoted and transformed itself several times. It has moved from a tiny consulting...
SlashData Team
Jan 21, 20194 min read
The largest developer community: a critical view
When developers evaluate new technologies, one of the elements they often look at is the size and strength of the community surrounding...
SlashData Team
Jan 11, 20196 min read
Virtual reality: Where did it all go wrong?
In this article, I’m going to talk about how I perceive the mainstream consumer audience to have rejected virtual reality, and suggest...
SlashData Team
Sep 7, 20182 min read
Developer Marketing Leaders Are Back for the Future Developer Summit 2018
Future Developer Summit is back September 13, Menlo Park, CA, bringing together 60+ VP & director-level champions of developer marketing...
SlashData Team
Jul 10, 20173 min read
Welcome to SlashData: the next 10 years.
We‘ve come a long way since VisionMobile was founded in 2005. I founded the company just after I had left Orange (the telco) as a means...
SlashData Team
Jul 1, 20163 min read
What gets desktop developers out of bed in the morning?
Despite all the hype around the death of the PC and the enormous amount of media attention focused on mobile, cloud and IoT, the humble...
SlashData Team
Jun 23, 20162 min read
A proven model for targeting IoT developers
Not all developers are the same, and their needs vary wildly, so any attempt to effectively address them all with a single messaging and...
SlashData Team
Jun 21, 20163 min read
1000 skills: Amazon Alexa as a metaphor for the IoT developer community
But today, I want to talk not so much about Alexa’s merits as such, but use it as a metaphor for the IoT developer community. IoT...
SlashData Team
Jun 16, 20164 min read
Google’s Instant Apps is the power grab that ActiveX couldn’t make
At this year’s Google I/O conference the search giant announced Instant Apps – Android applications dynamically downloaded, installed,...
SlashData Team
Jun 2, 20166 min read
Developer Personas as a Revenue Growth Tool
Nike, Adidas and Under Armour have digitally opened up their fitness and athletics products. McCormick Foods and Campbells Soup have...
SlashData Team
May 19, 20165 min read
Beyond the ‘chatbot’ – The messaging quadrant
These days everyone and their uncle is talking about chatbots as the next thing after apps. But ‘Chatbot’ is a rather poor name for...
SlashData Team
Apr 19, 20164 min read
The Rise of APIs for Non Developers
Or why the new API evangelists might not even need to code Some years ago APIs were clearly built and branded for developers. The...
SlashData Team
Apr 8, 20164 min read
Messenger vs Skype vs Slack vs Telegram: How to spot the winners
What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of Messenger vs Skype vs Slack vs Telegram? Conversational UI and messaging bots are...
SlashData Team
Mar 9, 20161 min read
Cloud & Desktop Developer Landscape
How are desktop and cloud development evolving? We’ve prepared an infographic with some key insights that can help you better understand...
SlashData Team
Feb 29, 20164 min read
Netscape’s dreams are finally becoming reality
Back in the 1990’s, during the first great browser war, we were assured that our web browser would soon be the only platform we would...
SlashData Team
Jan 25, 20164 min read
Facebook Messenger: All your numbers are belong to us
Facebook started 2016 with the bold claim that it intends to eradicate phone numbers and replace web browsing, but the Social Network has...
SlashData Team
Dec 14, 20153 min read
Developers trust their peers more than their partners
Developers certainly use developer programs from the platform vendors, almost half of them dropping by daily, but when they’ve got...
SlashData Team
Dec 9, 20153 min read
The Internet of Things is about to reshape e-commerce
E-commerce as we know it is about to be fundamentally reshaped, as every connected object in the future becomes a potential commerce...
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Oct 22, 20153 min read
What we've learned by designing 10 developer surveys
The question in question is the question of questions This week we launched our tenth biannual developer survey – asking thousands of...
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