Finally caught something that has me down for the count this weekend, so no new post. Instead, here are the three most-read pieces from Q4 2025:
Twilio and Bandwidth Deliver a Stellar Q3 2024
From 17 months ago, yes, but the real story was that RCS and branded communications had become investor-call topics. As we’re seeing a year and a half later, it’s still a topic and still not showing up in revenue.
https://tjthinakaran.blog/twilio-and-bandwidth-deliver-a-stellar-q3-2024/
RCS World New York: The End of the RCS Winter
My field report on the moment RCS in the US finally started to feel real, scalable, and commercially relevant. The latest I heard is that Google is finally dropping the RBM moniker and calling it all RCS. Keeping names simple is always a good idea.
https://tjthinakaran.blog/rcs-world-new-york-the-end-of-the-rcs-winter/
Why I Joined ID.me
A clearer explanation of why identity, not just messaging, has become the deeper problem worth solving. While I skipped Barcelona this year, what I’m hearing is that everyone is an identity company. So what better place to build the future than one of the earliest personal identity pioneers?
Back next week, I hope.