Mistakes are things you learn from, but they can also make your rivals catch up with you. Google fell victim to the last part of that sentence. Despite being a big cheese in the AI technology, Google has for more than a decade dragged its feet on launching an AI…

Google’s search upgrades, revealed in the Google I/O Conference, brought good news for SEO and blog owners. After ChatGPT launched last fall, there were uncertainties on whether or not it will mark the beginning of the end for Google and SEO. Personally I felt that if the chatbot can give…

One core feature all AIs share is learning with use. OpenAI, for example, collects data from ChatGPT users which they use to train the chatbot further. Google does the same with Bard. We marvel at the capacity of AI to learn, so much that we tend to forget that releasing…

I wanted to get firsthand knowledge of the lessons startup founders are taught, so I joined Y-Combinator’s Startup School, though I had no startup idea. This was in 2020. The lessons touched on a variety of areas, but what stood out for me was learning that the ideas investors buy…

This year's buzz about AI is everything, even more, compared to the metaverse frenzy of 2022. Last year we saw companies pump billions into the metaverse. We weren't even sure of its utility, yet investment reached $120b by the first half of 2022. …

My last regular job was at a paint dealer back in 2013. My initial attempts to go into business failed. I started with drone photography, but it failed, and so also did my attempts at dropshipping and retail. I reluctantly dabbled into freelance writing, but that didn’t fail. I saw…

As an architecture student, I was lectured on what’s called "selective borrowing." The ancient Romans borrowed the Greek Orders of architecture and ended up earning a place in classical architecture’s hall of fame. So when the news came that Facebook’s parent company Meta, will now charge users for the blue…

2021/2022, if you didn't hear about NFTs, then you're either from Mars or from 1985. It was the ultimate money-spinner. All you needed was to get in early, buy cheap, or create your own NFT, and you’ll most likely sell at so high a price that others can’t compare. The…

You’d be forgiven for thinking that all the news about celebrities leaving Twitter after Elon Musk’s acquisition will kill the platform. The latest data, it turns out, tells a different story. From an increase in global reach and website referral originating from social media, to an increase in ads revenue…