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Thank god 2007 is over…
Record Industry Goes After Personal Use!!!
They have to be joking; this is madness. They’re just killing off their own business…
Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use – washingtonpost.com
Fon Fails!
It sucks!
First Fon sent an email offering three Fon routers as Christmas presents! Fantastic idea and I ordered within hours. I started planning who were going to get them; in fact, they were going to three different countries (Holland, the USA and France).
But they didn’t arrive. No word from Fon about if they were shipped. I sent an email to their support but didn’t get a reply. I’m now missing three routers; do I have to pay the 100€ to get them?
This really sucks because I have no idea about what to do now!
Why?
Fortune, has a list out of the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. At number eight is the story about a video of Rats in Fast Food joints…
101 Dumbest Moments in Business – KFC/Taco Bell (8)
Why is the video a dumb moment in business?
The moment that they stopped the quality control of franchises; dumb! The moment that the guy stopped cleaning his resturant; dumb. But why is the video a dumb moment in business? Because they got caught?
When you don’t know your subject; write professionally.
blog.pmarca.com: When non-technologists write about technology
This post reminds me of something that my Dad used to say; “I’ve never read an article about a subject that I know well that was correct”. It always made me wonder but I’ve spent years since reading articles about subjects I know looking for the exception; I’ve not found it.
The Economist is an extreme of this, I read it for over a decade and was subscribed for years. Then I realized that all articles about technology, the UK and France annoyed me because of their gross oversimplification and constant application of “Economist hope” over experience. However, the rest of the paper made sense.
Then I got thinking…
If that’s the case, does it mean that the worst written articles were always on the subjects that I knew best, or simply that I agreed with the other articles because I didn’t understand the situation and the Economist was over simplifying it?
In the end I unsubscribed and read more blogs instead!
LeWeb3 07 Looking Back
Jort is a collegue from Accenture in Amsterdam who I met for the first time at LeWeb3. I learnt a lot from sitting next to him for a couple of days. His notes are here…
Accenture BlogPodium /entrepreneurial-marketing/jortpossel/le-web-3-07-looking-back/
Of course, he’s missing the photo of himself…
Beta Engineering
There has been a bit of fuss on the blogs because it seems that Tesla is going to be shipping with a “beta” version of their transmission that they’ll have to replace within the year.
Tesla’s Chairman and New CEO Talk Transmission Snags and Raising Another $40M « Earth2Tech
It raises the obvious question “how many other cars have shipped with beta components”. Here’s my experience…
Many years ago I bought a Smart. At the time the initial wave of optimism (mainly pre-launch) had worn off and the company looked in trouble. In the empty showroom near the Eiffel Tower (actually in the 16th) they tried to give the impression that they were going places but it was obvious that the business plan was in trouble.
The result was that they offered us an amazing deal to lease the car and not buy it; we had the cash but they wanted to sell zero percent credit at all costs!
About two months later we took the car back for a service. It took two days for them to replace the tyres, shock absorbers, reprogram the engine management system, replace the wind screen wipers and, interestingly, replace part of the gearbox!
This must be a common practice in the industry to get the cars out the door.
The importance of context in profiles…
The Google Operating System blog has a good list of Google type of predictions for 2008.
However, in point one ther’s this…
“If Google doesn’t understand that your Gmail contacts aren’t necessarily your friends, we’ll see a huge privacy backslash.”
How difficult can this be to understand? And why hasn’t Facebook realised it already? I want to present different views of myself to different populations; it’s not rocket science.
The first network that gets this right will have a massive advantage over the others.
27% of Amazon Xmas Sales were Wiis!
If this is true it’s amazing. 27% of sales being the Wii. I suppose if you add iPods in that must be 80% of their business. Does that make all books “the long tail”?