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Acquisitions are about enabling growth in a hot new market, and not about sustaining revenue in a mature one.

ars technica on why Apple won't buy AMD

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And how cool is it that Penguin has a Flickr account?) (Via The Book Design Review.

john gruber findet es toll, das penguin flickr / web 2.0 nutzt.

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Scoble concurred. "The world has taught me, if you have an audience, a business model will show up. Google demonstrated that. It was in business for four years before it found a business model," and now it's a multibillion-dollar company.

The model could be advertising, it could be selling Twitter as a service to companies, and it could find something else entirely.

Welches business-modell könnte sich für twitter entwickeln.

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Here’s the simple truth: Enterprise hates surprises. It’s not what they want. Enterprise wants predictability. They want to know when, what, how much, and that it will be all new and cool, yet change nothing. (Yes that’s contradictory. Have you ever tried to use “Enterprise Software?” Winning usability awards is so not happening there.) And they want to know everything in detail a year ahead of time. Can anyone seriously imagine how long Apple would survive under that model? Right, not long.

enterprises mögen keine neuen ideen. daher wird sich twitter hier nur langsam durchsetzen.

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As I remind my teammates, "I swear because I care"--and I care a lot, at high volume. 

john nack on his managing of photoshop

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But the non-profit decision was important because it provided clarity of purpose – first, a head of state will talk to you because it’s about children and learning and not profit and, secondly, the best people will work for you for zero salary.

Negroponte on why being a non-profit was the right decision.

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Torque for the iPhone is licensed on a per title basis. For specific pricing and licensing information, please contact garagegames.

Torque game engine for the iPhone. Licensing seems to be designed as a money-making machine. Apart from that, this will like totally flood the iPhone game market with junk.

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Just remember 5 days isn’t a long time in this type of technology area, in the corporate world fat grumpy middle-managers and overpaid PMs would be just about ready to think about scheduling a “kick off meeting” in their outlook calendars, or in some less crufty organizations the first milestone of “open the iPhone box” would have been more or less completed

that's the difference between loving work and having to do work. it's what sets corporations apart (there are corporations that just work in this meme)

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What I didn't expect was that Apple would blow away the others on the interface, and I tip my hat to them in this regard.

From all the iPhone naysayers, here's one of the few who actually understood by now why the iPhone was pinned for success.

via www.360desktop.com/

360desktop transforms your desktop into a panoramic workspace - with more space for everything.

Watch the Video. What a piece of junk. Whoever (angel?) funded this has obviously no idea of current technological advancements and usability.

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I tried to log in to Apple Developer Connection this morning to find out that my password had been changed and the email associated with my account was now a yahoo.com address that wasn't mine. Luckily, my "security question" was still the same, so I was able to reset the password and email address back.

Based on the emails that have appeared in my .Mac mailbox, this was accomplished by sending this classy one-liner to Apple:

am forget my password of mac,did you give me password on new email marko.[redacted]@yahoo.com

this is a PR catastrophy for sure. I'd guess this will turn into a fire on the net within 48 hours.

via www.economist.com/

In essence, these are bets on which way the oil price will move. Since the real currency of such contracts is cash, rather than barrels of crude, there is no limit to the number of bets that can be made. And since no oil is ever held back from the market, these bets do not affect the price of oil any more than bets on a football match affect the result.

The going after oil speculators resambles just how inoperative the government really is, regarding high oil prices.

via wine-econ.org/

The story is told of a sales call that Ernest Gallo made to a New York customer in the dark days of the depression. He offered sample glasses of two red wines - one costing five cents per bottle and the other ten cents. The buyer tasted both and pronounced, “I’ll take the ten-cent one.” The wine in the two glasses was exactly the same. Clearly, the customer wanted to buy an identity - the image of someone who wouldn’t drink that five-cent rotgut- even if he couldn’t actually taste the difference.

I love this story. It is in many ways verified but also superseeded by newer psychological findings. However, this quote, in a way explains a lot about the 'why' of people acting. Try to transfer this image of buying an identity onto other social acts, and you'll see, there's (still) much, oh so much, to harness.

via www.bigcontrarian.com/

In my industry, web design, I’ve quickly realized that the fastest way to an unhappy client is an unhappy team member. Morale is far more important than most managers I know realize.

So True

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Apple is a marvellous company, but it is a boutique. We are a giant conglomerate.

Weird understanding of inhowfar Sony is better than Apple

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From their board minutes: "Let's make a Linux OS! No, wait, let's buy BeOS and use that! Great, it works, now let's not ship any products that run it! Now let's announce another Linux OS! Now let's announce an UMPC with a different, incompatible Linux OS than the first one - I mean, second one. Now on shipping day, let's cancel the UMPC and "commit" to the first Linux OS! Let's write an emulator that runs on another company's tablet, and give it away for free - but not ship a product of our own that runs it! And in the meantime, to keep our customers entertained, let's keep selling the Palm name to ourselves over and over again!"

Didn't these guys used to run Atari?

Recapitulating the history of the last 6 years of Palm in 5 lines.