The Golden Era of Tech Blogging is Over? Hogwash!
If you wait long enough, some topic will come along to reignite your muse and you’ll find you just have to write a blog post. It’s been a little while since I wrote about my Kindle Fire ups and downs. I’m still very happy with the little Fire, and was recently surprised to discover [...]
Why Microsoft Needs a Fighter Pilot Instead of a Moist N’ Easy Snack Cake Salesman
Wondering where that crazy title and the photo came from? First, check out Steve Ballmer’s early pre-Microsoft career. He was the Product Manager for Proctor & Gamble’s Moist N’ Easy Snack Cakes. No harm in that, in fact he apparently sat near Jeffrey Immelt, who would eventually rise to become one of GE’s celebrated CEO’s. [...]
Kindle Fire: WiFi Problems Fixed, Cool Device!
I wanted to follow up on my unhappy post about Kindle Fire. When I first got the device, I couldn’t do anything with it because I couldn’t connect to WiFi. As a quick aside, having had side-by-side 3G and WiFi on my iPad, I really like having the 3G and frequently turn WiFi off. I [...]
Wait Before Buying a Kindle Fire: WiFi Problems
Got my Kindle Fire a few days ago, eagerly anticipating a morning of shiny new object joy followed by a nice Thanksgiving dinner. No joy. My Kindle Fire will not connect to WiFi and it can’t do much of anything without it. This is rapidly becoming a known problem. The Amazon support boards are filled [...]
How Do You Market Cheap Socially?
Sameer Patel has an interesting post that got me to thinking: How do you market cheap socially? What got Sameer to post was the following (in his words): Social Times reports that the way to get more “Likes” on Facebook is to offer coupons to satiate the what’s-in-it-for-me hunger of an increasingly discriminating social networker. This might [...]
When Capital Isn’t Scarce
For a long time VC’s and other investors bemoaned SaaS. I head more than one say that nobody would ever be able to raise as much money as Salesforce did to IPO–$70M–so you just had to figure out how to do it much more cheaply than Salesforce had. This morning I read that Marketo has [...]
Flash: Misunderstood by Adobe, Apple, the Haters, and the Press
Seldom have I seen a technology so widely adopted yet so poorly understood, so polarized between haters and fanboys, and so indifferently managed by its owners. It may have many other problems, but Flash’s worst problem is how widely it is misunderstood by key parties. Flash is Misunderstood by Adobe Adobe misunderstands not just Flash, [...]
The CEO is the Most Confident Man in the Company
I heard somewhere that one definition the Navy has of a ship’s captain is that he is, “the most confident man on the ship.” A CEO could be similarly defined. Why confidence as the defining quality for these leadership roles? It’s because these roles will ultimately have to deal with leadership in the absence of [...]
Does Profit Motive Kill Companies?
There’s an interesting article out in Forbes that contains a couple of fascinating ideas well worth digging into. The first thing is their argument that Steve Jobs was able to eliminate Innovator’s Dilemma at Apple by getting rid of the profit motive. The same article also mentions a fascinating study by Deloitte called “The Shift [...]
New GMail Look Not So Helpful
Dang, I’ve got to be hatin’ on Google two posts in a row. Sorry about that, but things have to be said. The new GMail look and feel is not a step forward. I don’t know who did the graphical design, but they’ve significantly lowered the contrast making it harder to use. In a sea [...]
