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I hate being put in a position to defend Microsoft, but history demands it.
Have you forgotten the viral Project Origami video from back in the day? Just look at it:
http://youtu.be/xXHKCS28z1s
What MS promised, it couldn't fulfill. But Apple has -- and also gone beyond it with that iPad Retina Display.
Welcome to the Post PC Era
What was Microsoft's original mission? In 1975, Gates and Allen form a partnership called Microsoft. Like most startups, Microsoft begins small, but has a huge vision – a computer on every desktop and in every home. The existential crisis facing Microsoft is that they achieved their missi...
Thank you for this. For near two years I've seen an increasing deterioration in the usefulness of Google results and thought that was what was happening to the web in general ("blogging is dead," for example). The few times I used another search engine, the results were better and that confused me, given my past experience with how good Google once was. At least now I know it's not the web in general and it's not been my imagination: It's been Google.
Trouble In the House of Google
Let's look at where stackoverflow.com traffic came from for the year of 2010. When 88.2% of all traffic for your website comes from a single source, criticizing that single source feels … risky. And perhaps a bit churlish, like looking a gift horse in the mouth, or saying something derogato...
Welcome to 2009:
Smart Digital Books Metadata Notes #6
http://ebooktest.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/smart-digital-books-metadata-notes-6/
The End of Ebooks
The most inspiring session I attended at last week's Tools of Change conference was by Bob Pritchett, President/CEO of Logos. What was so special about Bob's presentation, "Network Effects Promote Premium Pricing"? Two words: content and value. It's causing me to stop looking at individual eb...
>>>Funny though - does it really mean that the only people who can actually profit from ideas are entrepreneurs?
Well, no. Writers aren't employees and many are not businesspeople, but they can make profits.
And these days, there's a LOT of business talent out there that's unemployed. This is an opportunity to hook up with those people and form a partnership. You do the code, they do the business end. Just have a good lawyer for the contract, however.
Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas
How much is a good idea worth? According to Derek Sivers, not much: It's so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. (People who want me to sign an NDA to tell me the simplest idea.) To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth m...
>>>That's a nice way to say that people can't remember their fucking password.
Jesus Christ. It's about time SOMEONE said this. I've been screaming it for over a year to every little twat who wants me to fucking reg just to leave a COMMENT.
YOU have Twitter signin here and that let me leave this.
I don't understand why you leave Twitter out of the ID game, though. I'm one of many people who can't stand Facebook but do use Twitter.
However, it really was a masterstroke for you to include iTunes. I never made that connection before and it is really, really, REALLY foresight on your part. It now makes me rethink *why* Steve Jobs mentioned holding 125 MILLION credit card accounts. I could see him stating that from a money/power angle -- but as a Universal Payment ID system too? Wow. That is just MASSIVE.
And it also paves the way for Apple doing what I insist they will do: make iTunes a *platform*.
The Apple Merchant Platform. And you just put in that missing link: *one iTunes ID to use ANY store on that platform.*
Brilliant!
Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015)
I'm on a redeye to NYC, supposed to be working on a presentation i'm giving in a few hours... but fuck it, i can't get this outta my head, so here we go. (note: extremely raw, uneven, long, 1st draft publish & shoot; will revise l8r) ASSERTION #1: The default startup business model from 2000-...
*snort* You were born too late. You have youth, but have to wallow in the crap TV has become.
Upping the gain in commercials began in the 1970s. Whoever thought it up must rot in a special Hell just for them.
TV used to be limited in the number of commercial breaks. Yes, there really were *only* FIVE MINUTES of breaks (which included NETWORK PROMOS) per half hour back then. Because the FCC *mandated* that. As cable TV came along, with more ads per hour, the Big 3 networks (there were still just three then) cried to the FCC about how it was all UNFAIR they couldn't cheat their viewers like cable TV. Now you have *eight* minutes per half hour -- which makes anything other than a sitcom in a half-hour slot a waste of time (oh there used to be MANY half-hour DRAMAS in the 60s!) -- that extra three minutes, when credits are added, is too little time for daram to build up. But there seem to be *more* breaks per half hour than the 1960s had.
And, sorry to break it to you, but TV *is* now about the ads, not the programs, despite what little you find to actually watch.
A FRIDAY MANIFESTO: PLEASE SHUT UP AND STAY STILL
The new TV season has begun, but as usual there's just one thing that's ruining it all. I'm not looking for comments about how you never watch TV and how cool you think you are because you barely watch it because it's full of trash and ooze and you just catch shows on DVD or whatever. Fine. Go...
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