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Friend or Bot? Phony Gamers Leave Players Feeling Betrayed – WSJ
xxx It turns out that seven of the 10 most-played mobile games employ bots, according to app-analytics firm Sensor Tower Inc. At the start of 2016, it was one out of 10, the firm said. “Words with Friends” draws a particularly social crowd, and many players felt betrayed after learning they have been spending their […]
Netflix Explores a Version With Ads as Subscriber Base Shrinks – WSJ
xxx The company blamed password sharing among its members and increased streaming competition for pressuring revenue growth. Netflix estimated that besides its almost 222 million paying households, the service is being shared with an additional 100 million homes including 30 million in the U.S. and Canada. From Netflix Explores a Version With Ads as Subscriber […]
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Speaking at the recent FS Club seminar on “Authorised Push Payment Fraud Inoculation – The Curious Resistance To Confirmation Of Payee With The Curious Example Of The UK”, John Bertrand (who has 30 years experience in banking and technology at Citibank, FIS Global and SAP) went into the catastrophic rise on instant payments fraud in the UK […]
Identity is (still) the new money
Something interesting popped up on LinkedIn recently after I’d mentioned that I was experimenting with a newsletter. I called the newsletter “Identity is the New Money” after my book of the same name. (I probably should have called the newsletter “Identity is still the New Money” to reflect the passage of time, although I am […]
International Identity Day optimism
Another September 16th, another International Identity Day (IID) is upon us and nothing has changed. We still waste billions of man hours navigating ridiculous identity roadblocks while the criminals skip over the sleeping policemen to loot with impunity. Well, maybe something has changed. While we may be no nearer calculating the costs of having a digital identity […]
Me on Identity
I was asked for a few links about identity that serve to outline my thinking on the fascinating subject of digital identity, so I put together this shortlist. I hope you find it useful. Thinking about credentials and entitlement [Forbes]. Banks and identity if you like podcasts and not reading [Financial Brand]. This is from […]
City-centric identities
I thoroughly enjoyed the May 2020 FS Club discussion with eminent futurologists looking back on their predictions from the year 2000 (and learning from them where they were wrong) and looking forward to 2040. I especially enjoyed it because one of the speakers was Gill Ringland. Gill is now a Director of Ethical Reading, set up […]
What’s in the Book?
Identity is the New Money was published six years ago, but people still buy it! Here’s what is inside, in case you are interested in joining them… Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Identity is broken Chapter 3: A New Identity for a New World Chapter 4: Imagine There’s no Money Chapter 5: Future and Consequences,