Why doesn’t he use capitals? His company has spent a future on building a brand and yet he doesn’t use it!
Yang’s latest internal memo: “We’re on the move”
I must be getting old.
TED
Enrollment for TED 2009 is open.
It’s quite humbling; I’m willing to spend 10% of my annual salary to go but the only person I ever spoken to who’s been is Loic Le Meur and that was to complain that David Weinberger had missed his speaking slot at LeWeb3.
I wonder is there is a way to buy references on eBay???
Competitive advantage…
I’ve bored most people that I know about this by now. If I haven’t, let John Robb do it for me…
“If we think in terms of how rewards/resources are allocated if the global economy operates as a single entity and not many loosely joined parts… then the vast majority of US workers will soon find their wages/salaries normalized to global standards (to those with similar skills etc.). The result will be that the US, as collection of citizens will get poorer (or at best tread water until everyone else keeps up)”.
John Robb’s Weblog: Differentiation and competitive advantage
This is the biggest political challenge of our time. Until everyone is on the same level playing field (and has earnings directly related to their skills and not their birth place, inheritance, color or sex) those of us in the developed world are going to feel the heat.
However, I don’t personally know why we shouldn’t feel the heat. Morally, how can I say that I should be protected because of my place of birth etc.? We’re all human and all deserve the same chance.
Programming when it isn’t needed…
I was interested by this…
Dave is looking for a script to move a podcast into iTunes and then put it in a playlist.
WHY?
There is a far easier way to get the this functionality. Subscribe the the podcast in iTunes, then create a playlist that only shows podcasts that have a play count of zero. You’re done!
The result is all the unlisted to podcasts in a single playlist and they’ll disappear when you’ve listen to them.
I must be missing something. Or it could be another case of this… YouTube – Wilkinson & Winer
Management vs. Design
“I think a lot of these MBA-type executives have no idea what good design really is.”
Actually, I know that they know what god design is and can even recognize it when they see it. However, the reflex responses of “that’s cool” and “that feels good” have been beaten out of them. The standard management approach to most issues is a functional list, a fit analysis and a market report. Watching the response to the iPhone in corporate world has been an education. I’ve seen tens of conversations that go…
“..but it’s not 3G”
“yeah, but it’s works…”
“…but it doesn’t connect to our email”
“yeah, but its just better”
Normally, both parties leave the room shaking their heads.The difference between the ones that “get it” and those that don’t? Those that get it have experience!
Yes, it’s true…
“In Paris you get 50 Mbps symmetrical for 30 EUR per month!”
Why the French are ahead in broadband; will free mobile calls for ads work | Rose Cantine
Actually it’s a bit more than the 50Mbps, mine’s running at in the early sixties and every few weeks it gets faster. There is 100Mbps in the building but I can’t be bothered going through the pain of changing.
Follow the link to the previous blog and there is a lovely comment about how sharing links means that they don’t need to dig the road up three times. Note that it’s more efficient and improves people’s lives but it cuts GDP by a third!
Google changes the game…
Google has announced that they now have a forms interface to the Google Spreadsheet application…
Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information
This is massive news. Google is building the next generation of office and the functionality set isn’t the same as our desktop applications.
They now have applications for collecting data, manipulating data, analyzing data. All they need is workflow applications and things will get very interesting.
Today’s quiz…
Who said this and what on earth was he talking about…
“This leads to AMAZING “lap feel.” The lap feel on this thing is off the charts.”
European OLPC Owners…
I hope that there are more of us than this…
Arrington works from home…
…so he’d know how many emails get printed.
“I don’t print emails (no one does, you idiots)”
Hey, You Condescending Jerk, No One Prints Emails Anyway
Er, except, I work in an office and sit next to a printer. Currently, there are over twenty emails that have been printed and are sitting there waiting to be picked up. The oldest was printed six days ago!
However, the general point is correct. It’s time to get rid of that line from the footer.