It’s All Coming Together… In Your Living Room
You can get a great media center for about 20 dollars. Sure, it’s ‘illegal,’ but not in the way you might think. I’m talking about modding an old XBOX, and loading it up with XBOX Media Center (XBMC)....
View ArticleIf Google ran the world
The folks at the Prometheus Institute* recently ran a great post on “if the US Government were run by Apple…” It’s pretty humorous (and either slightly sad given what doesn’t happen despite the...
View ArticleBuyer Beware: What’s “New” May be Old
The same problems that plagued 1.0 resources like phone books and encyclopedias still plague even the best of their 2.0 successors. These legacy issues mainly regard reliability as it pertains to...
View ArticleMusic Goes 2.0 — Sorry Paul Anka, You’re Not Invited
As popular as wikis have become, they aren’t yet in use across all mediums. Case in point: music. However, a company called Sonoma Wire Works appears to have solved this problem. Sonoma Wire Works has...
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The Future of Mobile…Is Disposable???
What do you think of when you think BIC? Ballpoint pens? Single-use razors? Well, if BIC’s leadership has anything to say about it, that is soon going to change. Recently, BIC launched a mobile phone...
View ArticleGiving Up Control with Software as a Service: Reliability Concerns?
On September 8th, the London Stock Exchange suffered its second black eye in eight years, as a network glitch caused trading to grind to a halt. The system went down about one hour into the trading...
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XKCD, YouTube, and the Emerging Personalities of Applications and Companies
Every so often, Randall Munroe, author of the XKCD webcomic, gets it right — really, really right. A while ago, Munroe had this to say about comments on YouTube, something I tend to agree with most of...
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They don’t call them Smartphones for nothing
Praised for their use of social networking throughout the presidential campaign the Obama team has added yet another social media weapon to its arsenal. The following blog post caught my attention...
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The netGuide to Virtual Shopping
They always say, don’t judge a book by it’s cover. But you do anyways. As humans, it’s difficult to separate what we see from what we think – it’s in our nature to use every incoming stimulus to...
View ArticleTuesday Morning Laugh: The MacBook Wheel
Since I was converted to the dark side and became a mac user, I’ve tried as best as I can to avoid becoming one of those annoying mac fans, but when I saw this report from the good folks at the Onion...
View ArticleDoing more with our phones
The iPhone is an amazing peice of technology, to put it simply. Its applications range from the relatively useless (this Light Saber application), to the border-line illegal (card counting applications...
View ArticleTIME tells newspaper industry how to save itself
Here’s an “in case you missed it” story. I was reading the newspaper recently and came across a reference to Walter Isaacson article “How to Save Your Newspaper.” Ironic that I came across this quite...
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Creating the eight year old brand evangelist
I recently stumbled upon a series of training workshops, for which I would have been very eager to sign up, only to find out that I was some 20 years too old to register. Widely recognized for creating...
View ArticleTV ads for iPhone Apps
Have you ever seen a TV commercial for a free mobile phone application? I hadn’t until just last night when I happened to see this while watching prime time TV: The idea that a company would use costly...
View ArticleA Brief History of OSes
Last month I read Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. It’s one of those books that throws your ideas about the nature of the world up in the air, leaving them differently-arranged when they land. If you’re...
View ArticleApple and the Rise of Competitive Business Platforms – What Other Companies...
Last Friday, the Apple rumor mill went into overdrive. Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster and All Things Digital’s ardent Apple follower of Boomtown fame, Kara Swisher, openly discussed the long-rumored...
View ArticleOnline gaming more than just fun
As I discussed a few weeks ago, the U.S. ranks 19th in the world when it comes to Internet download speed. The fastest country is South Korea. We need to do better. The Obama administration’s...
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Employee Computing and Your Vendor Relationships
In a past post I wrote about Web 2.0 policies and some of the findings from our recently published study entitled Redefining Employee Computing. Another area we studied as part of that project was how...
View Article12 Critical Success Factors for Business Platforms
In 2004, Walt DuLaney and I conducted a longitudinal examination of business growth and cumulative revenue performance. Among the success factors, we found that companies with powerful business...
View ArticleApple vs. Google – Who will own the “third screen”?
Over the weekend Twitter exploded with tweets about the new Google smartphone, rumored to be launched in January 2010 and named the Nexus One. With the iPhone still dominating the market, what does...
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