Twitter shop

Today I realized you can shop in Twitter: There are 2 main time lines right now in Twitter: The shop is offered when you look for something and there are products offered. Let’s see how these products are shown in other sides of Twitter. More than probably the shopping options will be offered in the … Read more

Twitter’s API restricted

Other move of Twitter related to content & access restriction: the APIs. Popular 3rd party Twitter clients (i.e.: Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Echofon…) stopped working on January 12 Many questions around this move Popular third-party Twitter clients such as Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Echofon, AltTextUtil and AltTxtReminder stopped working at around 11 PM ET on Thursday, January 12. Updated Wardley map The different … Read more

Exploring outside the Wardley Map space

Background and purpose The space of a Wardley Map is the competitive market. Simon divides this space in 4 stages, and he always comment how the definition took him around 6 months of work and thousand of data points. When Simon is asked about what is outside of a Wardley Map he just says there … Read more

Web versions

This post is a set of notes where I add information about the different versions of the web: Web 1.0, Web 2.0… Table for different versions This is not too much creative as there are many tables as the one I have created below, but this one summarizes the main concepts. Wardley map of versions … Read more

Conversation about CBDC Vs Bitcoin

Today I was reviewing the maps of CBDC competitive analysis and specially the one where bitcoin was added with Gerard and Pablo. We were discussing about the main components, their positions and we added some other ones. This is the updated map: Digital currency in China: project e-CNY Vs Bitcoin Main discussion comes from: Some … Read more

Central Bank Digital Currency competitive analysis

This post starts being a pre-mortem analysis of what’s happening at the end of 2022 with the CBDC of the main economies: China, US and Europe. This map comes from conversations about Twitter and the need to skip the 30% fee imposed by Apple and Google on their App-Stores. The relative position of the components … Read more

Twitter and the common problem of the 30%

In October 2020 I wrote about the payment war in the mobile app ecosystem, where basically a set of companies were fighting against the 2 giants (Apple and Google) about the payments to be done for every payments done from applications managed by their store. Now in 2022, Twitter creates a “check” with an initial … Read more

Virtual mapping conversation about Twitter

John Grant challenge the Wardley Map community to use an architecture diagram shared by E. Musk. The challenge was to Map Twitter’s architecture diagram from different perspectives. To me this is the second time I stop to think about this. In April, when rumors about the Twitter acquisition were spreading through the news, I did … Read more

Ethical level of gameplays

In Simon Wardley’s book there are different tables of gameplays. Some of them contains these colors depending on how ethical they are: The origin: The alignment of Dungeons & Dragons In the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, alignment is a categorization of the ethical and moral perspective of player characters, non-player characters, and … Read more