About Spytap Industries

Spytap Industries is was (see update here) a company founded and run by Barrett Garese to execute all the crazy little ideas shooting around inside his head. As this page will likely not be updated all that often from now on, feel free to follow Barrett’s personal feeds on Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook.

    The modern economy runs primarily on information, and the Internet is by orders of magnitude the greatest information mechanism ever invented. In a few years, we’ll look back in amazement that in 2011 we still used brokers to help us find houses, that doctors kept records scribbled on notepads, that government information was carefully spoon-fed to a compliant press corps, and that scarcity of information and tools was a primary inhibitor to education.
» Apple will remove home button on next iPad and iPhone; Photo Booth and iLife coming? | BGR

Steve Jobs may finally get his wish of an iPhone without buttons.

It’ll be interesting to see how they will handle the basic navigation and multitasking (I’m sure more than a few cues will be taken from their Magic Trackpad experiment.) Either way, this should signal a significant change for iOS 4.3.

    I don’t mean to come off as some starry eyed huckster but, from my vantage point, we’re living in a very exciting time. If ever there were an opportunity to think big and attack large markets with incumbent players, its now. I’m a believer that in the next 5 years we’re going to see every major industry reinvented in ways we didn’t see coming.
» Mobile Broadband Users Hit 1 Billion in 2011

You wanna know the future of the internet? Here it is.

» JWT: 100 Things to Watch in 2011

While a few of their “past things we got right” selections were as difficult as calling that tonight it’s gonna get dark, some of the 2011 predictions are safe, some are eye raising, and some are just wild. Definitely worth the look if you haven’t checked it out yet.

» Lessons that 2010 taught the entertainment industry

This was a year of hard lessons. Movie attendance and ticket sales fell. Television shows struggled and died. Book publishers faced an electronic future. And through it all, some great works of the imagination thrived. What did 2010 teach us?

» Essay: 2000 Words On “Derivative Bullshit,” “WebTV,” and “Online Content”
» Essay: What is a book?
» Scarcity: Additional Content, Blog Edition
» Essay: Scarcity, Experience, And A New Seat At An Old Table
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