Larry is furious about this Mark Hurd thing

12.08.2010 - 23:15
Honestly, he won’t let it go. He’s calling me over and over saying, Wait until you hear the latest, you won’t believe what they’re saying now! As if I care. Jesus. I put my iPhone 4 down on the desk and let him rant for a few minutes while I do some work, then I (...)Related [...]

Truly,we have changed the world

12.08.2010 - 22:55
And change is good. Isn’t it' This is a song from a Rocky movie, played entirely on iPads. I’ll be honest. It’s not exactly what we envisioned when we first set out to create this history-making device. But it does inspire awe. Will we someday have entire orchestras playing iPads' [...]

Someone is trying to throw me under a bus

15.07.2010 - 23:19
Suddenly now it’s all my fault that the iPhone 4 has antenna problems, which first of all, it doesn’t, and second of all, I’m not. But someone inside is leaking shit to the press and spinning the story to make it seem like the engineers wanted to do the right thing but kept getting [...]

Behold the awesome power of our brand

13.07.2010 - 16:33
Consumer Reports calls our product defective and says they can’t recommend it. And what happens' Some hack at Business Insider actually sides with us, and says Consumer Reports is just trying to pull a publicity stunt, bashing Apple to drive traffic to its Web site. Friends, the power of our b [...]

Consumer Reports are lying liars who lie

12.07.2010 - 20:58
First they said the iPhone reception thing was no big deal, and we linked to this on our official in-house fanboy blog. But then CR had problems, and now they say they can’t recommend the phone. Are you friggin kidding me' First you liked it, now you don’t' And you expect people to liste [...]

I am so glad we’ve fixed this reception non-issue

03.07.2010 - 00:06
So one of our young PR guys, whose name escapes me because I never actually learned it, was just in a meeting flipping out because he’s been reading comments on all the tech blogs all day and they’re pretty much all really nasty and negative and hating on us. Meanwhile Katie and I are ju [...]

We’re not going to give out free bumpers,so let’s all just move along

28.06.2010 - 22:26
Gizmodo has started a petition demanding free bumpers. I will feel so much better when those guys are all in prison, honestly. Related posts:The Free Software Foundation wants my head in a jester’s capYou see, we give it away free, but make up for it in volumeJaysus the freetards are going aft [...]

Would someone please send me an email about this Exchange non-issue so that I can send out a terse,cryptic response'

28.06.2010 - 22:04
Hot on the heels of the yellow dot non-issue and the antenna death grip non-issue comes a new non-issue about Exchange not working right. Apparently some nerds at MIT experienced difficulties with iOS 4 and Microsoft Exchange. Now the story is just starting to gain some traction on sites like ZDNet. [...]

There is no spoon

27.06.2010 - 19:57
It’s a pretty safe assumption that if you’re reading this blog, you’ve seen “The Matrix.” And you may or may not remember the scene where a kid explains to Neo that the trick to bending a spoon with your mind is simply to remember that, “There is no spoon.”S [...]

That big bold media disruption:an update

16.06.2010 - 21:33
Recently I got some heat when I said that I don’t want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers. I was called clueless because hey, blogs are the future, right' These bloggers are the bright shiny new media barons who are going to take over the world and kill the New York Times, (...)Relate [...]

"Think of your VCs as produce suppliers”

07.06.2010 - 17:12
Seriously, that’s what some dipshit VC says on Alley Insider. Which I guess is accurate if you believe in a world where your produce supplier is secretly plotting to catch you off guard and ass-rape you in your own kitchen, then steal your restaurant from you. Yeah, in that case, I can see the [...]

Foxconn worker dies after 34-hour shift,but while his death is tragic,this is still well below the China average

07.06.2010 - 03:25
A 27-year-old kid foolishly worked for 34 hours straight and ended up dying of exhaustion. Cult of Mac has the story here. Obviously we feel terrible about this but it’s important to keep things like this in perspective. Foxconn has restaurants and swimming pools. It’s a pretty nice plac [...]

Gruber has gone dark

07.06.2010 - 02:56
Seriously, check out Daring Fireball. Its the night before WWDC, and he’s got nothing. Why the silence' Katie says his sources have dried up because they’re all scared shitless after the Gizmodo crackdown. I doubt that. My guess is he knows exactly what we’re going to announce but [...]

Holiday Mosspuppet

31.05.2010 - 17:02
Happy Memorial Day.Related posts:Too much holiday cheer for MosspuppetA special Valentine from MosspuppetA holiday season noteRelated posts:Too much holiday cheer for MosspuppetA special Valentine from MosspuppetA holiday season note

Latest Foxconn jumper violated his no-jump contract

27.05.2010 - 15:45
So we’ve had another goddamn jumper. Luckily, this guy had signed the no-jump contract, meaning we can press charges against him for destruction of Apple property. We’ve already had Shenzhen police break down the little flap door to his sleeping cell and confiscate all of his property. W [...]

"Twitter track on steroids” announced by TweetMeme founder

12.08.2010 - 17:44
If you follow Steve Gillmor you know he loved a feature that used to be in Twitter, that he called Track. It let you ask Twitter to shove you real-time info. It was turned off as Twitter tried to deal with its scale problem.But now Twitter is bringing back real-time streams. I’m using a pre-re [...]

Tour of SimpleGeo reveals why location services can’t get along

11.08.2010 - 08:36
Last week I finally got to visit one of the companies that’s getting a lot of attention inside the location-based service world. No, it’s not Foursquare or Gowalla. It’s SimpleGeo, headquartered in Boulder, CO.But one thing I’m interested in is why all these services don̵ [...]

This startup wants you to play with its balls

11.08.2010 - 08:14
Last week in Boulder, Colorado, we saw a ton of cool startups but many of them didn’t make products consumers can go into a store and buy. GearBox, though, is selling robotic balls that will cost about $50.Now, what’s cool about a robotic ball beyond their opening pitch of “play wi [...]

Behind the endless iPad photo book:Fotopedia Heritage

11.08.2010 - 07:54
I love getting an in-depth look at cool new technology, but even better I love getting to know some of the great technologists that have done amazing things in the industry.This video has a little bit of both. Jean-Marie Hullot worked for years for Steve Jobs as CTO at NeXT and at Apple. He’s [...]

Map Wars (visiting Bing’s imaging center)

10.08.2010 - 19:26
Everytime I fly I look at who is sitting next to me and wonder “I wonder what he/she does'”Last week on the way to Boulder a guy was sitting next to me and he had a Dell laptop with Windows 7 loaded, and was doing Outlook email. I thought to myself “I bet he works (...)

Promiscuous Adoption:A tale of two companies

10.08.2010 - 18:08
By now you know that Flipboard is one of my favorite new companies of 2010 and, while they’ve pretty much caught up to the initial demands on their servers, spent two weeks just getting slammed with new adopters. Mike McCue, the CEO there who has seen great Silicon Valley success (he sold Tell [...]

The story behind the 2010 startup success:Siri (why it’s so important to Apple’s future)

10.08.2010 - 16:57
You know Siri. Back in February I said that if you miss Siri you’ll miss the future of the Web. Apple didn’t miss it. Just a few days after that blog ran Apple bought Siri for somewhere around $200 million.It is the 2010 startup success of the year.But here’s the first part of the [...]

Idiocy and brilliance of American policy toward entrepreneurs

30.07.2010 - 12:13
Listen to the story of Aye Moah. She grew up in one of the poorest countries on earth. She shouldn’t have many opportunities. Yet here she was, talking with me at a Silicon Valley party after the Always On conference. The route she took' She went to MIT. How did she get in' Was one (...)

Does adding Twitter to a brand make it cooler'

26.07.2010 - 20:35
Jorge Lorenzo is on top of the world right now. He’s a 23-year-old motorbike racer from Mallorca in Spain and is atop the standings in the MotoGP circuit (he won yesterday’s race in Laguna Seca by several seconds, too). But he has a problem. Teammate Valentino Rossi has a better brand. M [...]

Flipboard:A startup’s first bad day or success'

22.07.2010 - 18:01
I’m seeing lots of tweets saying I caused Flipboard to have a bad first day. Why' Because its servers were overwhelmed and it wasn’t letting new users sign up properly and even existing users, like me, were having trouble getting to the service and getting utility out of it.Is that my fa [...]

What’s more productive' A stream or a page' A debate

21.07.2010 - 10:05
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Exclusive first look at "revolutionary” social news iPad app:Flipboard

21.07.2010 - 06:00
You’ve seen Twitter clients like TweetDeck or Seesmic, but you’ve never seen one like this.You’ve seen news readers like NewsGator, Google Reader, or, even, newer ones for iPad like Pulse, but you’ve never seen one like this.You’ve seen news aggregators like Techmeme, G [...]

Rackspace ends cloud lock-in

19.07.2010 - 06:01
I hate lock in. It’s one reason why I have used Wordpress for so many years. With it I can move my blog between hosts and, even, can export my blog to a database and import it into another tool. Dave Winer (the developer behind many of the technologies that run underneath blogs) and Matt (...)

Could Luxor-hotel light deliver more bandwidth than fiber optic'

19.07.2010 - 05:30
Last night I met an interesting inventor. He’s been involved in the invention of WiMAX, among many other things and is the founder and chief technical officer of CeLight.But last night he showed me a laser system that could provide a community with much more bandwidth than even a fibre optic l [...]

Arrogance or Artistry at Apple' My audio thoughts on antennagate

18.07.2010 - 05:00
Dave Winer just tweeted that Apple is too arrogant to admit its iPhone 4 has a flaw.That got me wound up. So, I used my iPhone 4 to call into Cinchcast from along the Snake River in Wyoming, you can listen into my call. The mosquitos were biting me and were making me downright ornery.But (...)

Apple is green

03.09.2010 - 20:50
The launch of Ping, following the mis-handling of Antennagate, show that Apple isn't ready for the success they've already achieved. The problems with the iPhone 4 antenna were easily handled, with an apology and a little grace. Show some concern for customers and the investment they make in these p [...]

Pre-Earl bike ride

03.09.2010 - 18:50
Whatever Earl turns into as it brushes by the east coast, it's starting to be here in NYC. A few drizzles. A bit of wind. And a general semi-stormy atmosphere. Then the power went out in my apartment, unrelated to the weather (construction in the building) so that was my cue to get the fuck out of t [...]

RSS to Twitter'

03.09.2010 - 16:52
I'm going to put a couple of hours into trying to resurrect FriendsOfDave. I miss it too much. I want to know what Om and Matt and Bijan and Fred and Sylvia et al are posting to their blogs. So here's the deal. Are there any services that watch an RSS feed and post to a Twitter account when a new it [...]

Instant Outlining update

03.09.2010 - 16:06
If you want an idea of what the Instant Outliner is, check out this excellent survey by Hutch Carpenter. Very quietly, and I mean very quietly I've been working on rounding out the features of the latest OPML Editor-based implementation of Instant Outlining. This one is a keeper, I think -- more so [...]

Twitter + OAuth update

03.09.2010 - 14:59
A fascinating post on Ars Technica on the Twtiter implementation of OAuth.It confirms a concern I had. Since the OPML Editor is open source, and it supports Twitter's implementation of OAuth, I didn't see what good it did to pass around "secrets" in the source code. But I did what I was asked to do. [...]

Test post

03.09.2010 - 08:27
Another in an endless series of test posts.

They're dead now

03.09.2010 - 04:12
Yesterday I reported that the apps that I thought would drown in the Oauthpocalypse were still alive. I don't usually like the death metaphor when it comes to software, but -- these guys are now really, officially, seriously and permanently dead.

Mid-day heat-wave ride

02.09.2010 - 20:17
You know it's not so bad riding mid-day in the middle of a heat wave. For one thing, most people stay indoors, so the path isn't crowded.The first half of the trip is great cause there's a powerful tail wind. I fly!The return ride is a great workout cause there's a huge head wind. I crawl. My legs b [...]

scripting.com:It's even worse than it appears

02.09.2010 - 17:10
We lost two-plus hours this morning as I scrambled to rebuild the scripting.com server.A mysterious outage. I tried to reboot the server over and over, and it wouldn't come back. So I created another instance, but kept making mistakes with AWS. Then after fretting and thinking of a million other way [...]

Ping:It's even worse than it appeared

02.09.2010 - 14:15
Further examination of Apple's new social network reveals more problems.To review from last night's post:1. It's awkward, at least, that it runs in iTunes and not a web browser. There's no Back button, no way to copy the address of a page and share it outside of iTunes. Also if it were just a websit [...]

Ping first use

02.09.2010 - 04:32
I've got iTunes 10 installed, and have signed up on Ping.My handle is "scriptingnews." You're welcome to follow me.To be clear, they didn't give me a choice of name. That's the name I chose when I got my first iPod or whatever got me logged into their store the first time. (I don't remember.) I neve [...]

OAuthcalypse didn't kill my apps

02.09.2010 - 00:42
This is really puzzling.The OAuthcalypse came and went, and the apps that it should have killed, the ones that use basic authentication, are still running. Two examples: dwcodeupdates and friendsofdave.The only explanation I've been able to come up with is that they made exceptions for these two acc [...]

A social network for music called Ping

01.09.2010 - 20:29
Ping is Apple's big announcement today. The one that they'll be adding new stuff onto for years and years. The other announcements are just continuations of threads they started long ago. This is a new thread. They call it a social network "for music." But it won't be "for music" for very long, if i [...]

Are you tuned into Apple TV'

01.09.2010 - 18:51
I can't imagine there are many people who read this blog who are not tuned in, with Safari running on a Mac or iPhone or iPad, wondering what Uncle Steve is going to pull out of his hat. http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1009qpeijrfn/event

What's produced at hackathons'

01.09.2010 - 18:14
I've never participated in a hackathon, so I can't tell whether they produce anything or not. I'm assuming that at least some of the readers of this blog have been to one or more. What's it like' What kind of software is produced'Is any of it useful'Were any commercial products hatched at hackathons [...]

Better than nothing (is harder than you think)

Launching the ShipIt Workbook

Responsibility and authority

Just launched:Linchpin on the Vook on the iPad

The corporate conscience

Just launched:Linchpin on the Vook on the iPad

The corporate conscience

Professionals,amateurs and the great unwashed

Don't forget about color

The blizzard of noise (and the good news)

Sell the problem

Little lies and small promises

The secret of the Roush effect

The secret of the Roush effect

Moving on

It's The People,Stupid

What SXSW Taught Me About Social Systems & Business

Social Media Is Dead:Long Live Common Sense

Despite Lackluster Content,I'll Be At SXSW In 2011

Edelman Digital:When Is Your Website A Community'

Four Ways of Looking at Twitter - Research - Harvard Business Review [del.icio.us]

What SXSW Taught Me About Social Systems & Business

Social Media Is Dead:Long Live Common Sense

Despite Lackluster Content,I'll Be At SXSW In 2011

Edelman Digital:When Is Your Website A Community'

We're turning comments off for a bit - Engadget [del.icio.us]

Random Thoughts

Pepsi Refresh Project [del.icio.us]

Random Thoughts

Catching Up

How to tell if your Company is Advanced:10 Criteria Of Social Business Maturity

02.09.2010 - 15:53
Lately, we’ve been interviewing the most sophisticated brands in the world when it comes to social business for our upcoming report on “Enterprise Social Strategists Role”.  We’ve come to learn which companies are advanced and why.  Secondly, I meet a variety of companies w [...]

CMO Matrix:How Social Technology Must Integrate with Traditional Marketing,a Horizontal Approach

30.08.2010 - 15:16
CMOs must approach social technologies in an integration fashionAlthough social technologies have been capturing marketers time for over four+ years in corporate, they’ve often been operated in a silo as experimental, or a separate deployment from traditional marketing. Yet the savvy marketing [...]

Altimeter’s One Year Anniversary:A Thank You To Our Clients

28.08.2010 - 20:12
Jeremiah: The following is a cross posting of our Founder’s blog post on the Altimeter’s blog.  I shared her sentiments completely, and am not sure if I could add anything, so I felt it was just best to repost here.  Later, at another time, I’ll discuss the learnings from startin [...]

People on the Move in the Social Business Industry:August 25,2010

25.08.2010 - 15:56
Both the submissions on this job announcement board, as well as available social media positions at corporations continue to pour in. In fact, this is the second time this month I’m posting this “On The Move” post due to submission volume. Clearly, there is more activity happening [...]

Audio:Opportunities with Social Media and Tourism

24.08.2010 - 17:10
Left: The crew at Hawaii Public Radio, Oahu.  Left to Right: Ryan Ozawa (@hawaii),  David Lau (@synwpn), Kara Imai (@hawaiikara), Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang), and Burt Lum (@bytemarks)How to hotels, restaurants, attractions, airlines, entertainers and cruise ships use social media to connect with t [...]

Video:Kit Kat’s Risky Word of Mouth Marketing Campaign

24.08.2010 - 06:40
Kit Kat got a lot of flack from the Greenpeace brandjacking, yet, I wanted to point out a marketing campaign where they leveraged popular news mentions. What was interesting is they used a simple email and some doctored photos, on Good Friday in the Netherlands (a country in which 45% are not religi [...]

Data:Trusted Sources

23.08.2010 - 16:52
Data is important. It helps us to guide our decisions based on facts –not just gut instinct. Lately, this data from eMarketer (thanks Scott Monty) has been floating around the web, and I want to add my own thoughts. Having conducted similar trust research, or seen the data from others, much of [...]

People on the Move in the Social Business Industry:August 4,2010

04.08.2010 - 18:43
In this continued digest of job changes, I like to salute those that continue to join the industry in roles focused on social media, see the archives, which go back a few years.People on the Move in the Social Business IndustryVanessaSain-Dieguez joins Hilton as WorldwideSocial Media Strategist. She [...]

Facebook Research: Brands Lean on Interactive Marketing -Yet Lack Social Marketing Skills

02.08.2010 - 18:19
This is followup data from the Altimeter Report: The 8 Success Criteria For Facebook Page Marketing, you should read this first.Thanks to your help, Altimeter Group’s latest research on Facebook Marketing Best Practices, which now has over 17,000 views, and over 1,900 downloads (see slideshar [...]

Altimeter Report:The 8 Success Criteria For Facebook Page Marketing

27.07.2010 - 21:07
Report Snapshot (full report embedded below)Altimeter Group conducted research, and gleaned input from 34 vendors, agencies, and experts, to determine success criteria and develop a roadmap for Facebook page best practices. We found Eight Success Criteria for Facebook page marketing, and then tested [...]

Webinar Recording: Impact of Social Technologies to the Analyst Industry

24.07.2010 - 17:06
Earlier this week, we hosted a joint webinar with Barbara French of Tekrati, Jonny Bentwood Edelman AR practice, and Carter Lusher of Sagecicle (Carter and Barbara were able to make it to The Hangar, see pic).  The topic'  To explore how social technologies impact the industry analyst space.The Im [...]

First Take Analysis:Jive Fills Warchest,Ready to Battle Enterprise Software Giants,IPO

22.07.2010 - 12:22
By Industry Analysts, R "Ray” Wang (Enterprise Strategy) and Jeremiah Owyang, (Customer Strategy) both founding partners at Altimeter GroupCommunity Platforms Evolve to Social Business CategoryHaving tracked the social business category for some years now, and have been watching the category grow, [...]

Forbes:Greenpeace Vs. Brands:Social Media Attacks To Continue

20.07.2010 - 03:45
After the recent social media brandjackings by Greenpeace of Nestle’ I was able to clinch an interview with Greenpeace to learn how they’re structuring their programs.  Interestingly, I believe they are more organized and sophisticated than the average brand -giving them the opportunity [...]

People on the Move in the Social Business Industry:July 16,2010

17.07.2010 - 08:33
It’s only been a week but there’s been quite a few changes, so I wanted to post this before the list became too long. Some big moves, esp Frank at Comcast joining Citi and Dell winning community expert Bill Johnston. I’ve been tracking new hires in this space since 2007, see the ar [...]

Forbes:How To Create A Customer Advocacy Program

13.07.2010 - 15:27
Social media doesn’t scale.  That’s right, social media doesn’t scale.  Consumers will only increase their adoption of social technologies, most social networking data shows this is going ‘up and to the right’.  You can never hire enough community managers to manage [...]

Wilshire & Washington:The Politics of Health Reform,the Big Gay Rights March,and What’s Joy Behar’s Deal Anyway'

Wilshire & Washington:FISA,Rape Apology and WaPo’s Next Great Pundit

Wilshire & Washington:Values Voters & Documentary Films

Wilshire & Washington:Capitalism,an overexposed Prez,and the dumb “You Lie” distraction

Wilshire & Washington:Government 2.0 Edition

Wilshire & Washington:The Conservatives Strike Back,Twitter Edition

Houston Schools Ban “Sexting”

It’s Time For Across The Board Reconciliation

Unpacking Kourtney Kardashian’s Statement on Carrying Her Unplanned Pregnancy to Term

Wilshire & Washington:Post-Health Care Politics with ABC News’ Rick Klein

Sense of Entitlement was to Blame in George Sodini’s Hate Crime

Wilshire & Washington:From Campaigns to Governance

Wilshire & Washington:Skip Gates,the NAACP and Obama’s “Blackness Backlash”

This Girl ROCKED Jesus of Suburbia

Update on the Nose:Traumatic Septal Deviation (a.k.a. I need Surgery)

Yojimbo!

03.09.2010 - 19:54
If you know anyone quixotic it is your Giri to have them signup for this newsletter: www.jasonnation.com Yojimbo! (or "Your Circle of Friends vs. Your Social Graph”) Two warring clans, Google and Facebook, have been posturing for the future of the web, but a new player emerged yesterday: Yojimbo. [...]

Just shipped two pounds of coffee to our troops thanks to coffee bean and tea leaf! Rad!

Yojimbo severed arm

02.09.2010 - 19:10
I think I've just completed the most epic email newsletter of my life…. interested to see what you guys think! Three editors are cleaning it up and it should go out at noon today. It revolves around Steve Jobs and this severed arm from the film Yojimbo.  If you want to get this piece yo [...]

Leapfrog toys seem really well designed!

Netflix on iPhone 4 is amazing — Richard Pryor live on the sunset strip

One more!

Happy Sunday from our backyard to your’s!!!!

Beach in the backyard… Your daily London!

WANT! Deuter Kid Comfort Backpack Child Carrier… I need this!

25.08.2010 - 22:31
OMG this is soooo rad. London and I need this bad for the big Tahoe trip! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G9QHAG/

please vote for this SXSW panel I’ve been asked to be on…

25.08.2010 - 19:32
Jason Calacanis and Dave McClure http://zk.vc/1C

Congrats to @kevinpollak and the #KPCS team on iTunes feature! http://jc.is/bR9GAD

24.08.2010 - 20:33
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kevin-pollaks-chat-show/id309229491

BREAKING IMAGES:apple imac with touch and flex base!!! #patents #apple

24.08.2010 - 03:01
this is sick!!  http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/08/the-mother-lode-welcome-to-the-imac-touch.html 

Me an my manbag… Thanks peeps at brenthaven! (Indy had a manbag!)

24.08.2010 - 02:59
Thanks brenthaven

If I had a gay BFF with great hair it would be Neil Patrick Harris @ActuallyNPH (sorry @andersoncooper)

23.08.2010 - 17:54
After watching Neil Patrick Harris on Kevin Pollak's Chat Show I think I've got a series mancrunch on the thespian… Well worth a watch:  http://thisweekin.com/kevin-pollaks-chat-show/kpcs-60-with-neil-patrick-harris/ 

This Week in Mad Men featured in iTunes (audio podcasts)!

23.08.2010 - 17:44
Well done to the team! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewGrouping'id=25306&subMediaType=Audio http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-mad-men-audio/id384928704

A Day In Our Lives At TechCrunch

06.01.2010 - 10:06
Sometimes we get into it a little bit on our Yammer account at TechCrunch. It’s usually me and MG, and every once in a while I like to post the exchanges. See this one for example. Tonights fabulous discussion – embargoes and the frustration they cause.

Choosing between Buddy and a buddy.

15.11.2009 - 20:54
A couple of weeks ago Loren Feldmen put on the Audience Conference in New York. We supported the conferece, first announcing it and then writing more posts and tweets to help with ticket sales. I also committed to speaking at the event. About a week before the event I was asked if I could foster (.. [...]

A Day In Our Lives At TechCrunch

06.01.2010 - 10:06
Sometimes we get into it a little bit on our Yammer account at TechCrunch. It’s usually me and MG, and every once in a while I like to post the exchanges. See this one for example. Tonights fabulous discussion – embargoes and the frustration they cause.

Choosing between Buddy and a buddy.

15.11.2009 - 20:54
A couple of weeks ago Loren Feldmen put on the Audience Conference in New York. We supported the conferece, first announcing it and then writing more posts and tweets to help with ticket sales. I also committed to speaking at the event. About a week before the event I was asked if I could foster (.. [...]

Foo Camp 2009

31.08.2009 - 13:23
Just back from Foo Camp 2009. You don’t see a ton of stuff on the Internet about Foo because it’s mostly off record. Here are my notes From Foo Camp 2008. This year I decided to do something a little different and created an Animoto show with their new video product. Cool stuff.CrunchBas [...]

Paul Carr:An open letter to Sam Sethi,on the occasion of him completely losing his mind

05.08.2009 - 19:26
If you’ve been following the whole Sam Sethi/TechCrunch lawsuit debacle (see here and here and here), you’ll want to read this post by Paul Carr as well, where he prints emails from Sethi sent on record.I’m also reprinting below, these things have a tendency to disappear when lawsu [...]

Enterprise Hacks Opining On The Law,And Other Blogging Tragedies

04.08.2009 - 10:04
Ok, the reasoned low key approach didn’t work. Now it’s time for some more truth.The ridiculous Sam Sethi dispute has gone on for far too long, and far too many have continued to be sucked into his web of confidence only to be spit back out the other end angry, bitter or worse. The compl [...]

Update On Sam Sethi Litigation:We Decline To Participate

03.08.2009 - 11:58
Update to our June post on the…absurd…Sam Sethi litigation. Our lawyers sent a letter letting them know that we have no intention of submitting the the jurisdiction of the UK courts, although we’d be happy to litigate his claims here in California. Sethi obtained a default judgment [...]

Sam Sethi:The Lawsuit

01.07.2009 - 02:21
Many of you know all about Sam Sethi, the former TechCrunch writer who left after a disagreement and then went on to create BlogNation. Two days ago Sethi filed a lawsuit against us for libel and other issues. As we always do, we’re posting the litigation threats and will continue to fight the [...]

ETA Bombs Spanish Newspaper

10.06.2008 - 12:30
The ETA may or may not have a legitimate goal in demanding Basque independence, but bombing a building full of journalists is no way to win karma points or influence people.

Sarah Lacy Book Tour - I’m In

07.06.2008 - 23:35
Sarah Lacy, the author of the book "Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good,” is thinking of doing a book tour. Start things off here in Atherton, Sarah. I’ll do the first one at my house.See my interview with Sarah on the new book here.

We Don’t Do Reprints

I’m going with what Mathew Said

08.03.2008 - 21:47
I already picked one blog fight today. So on the other issue, I’m going with what Mathew Ingram said.

Dare Obasanjo Quits Blogging

05.03.2008 - 20:44
As much as it pissed me off when Microsoft’s Dare Obasanjo defaced my wikipedia page to prove some point (what he was really doing was hitting me back for criticizing Microsoft the day before), I’m sad to see him leave blogging. When he wasn’t being a total asshole he had some smar [...]

Foo Camp 2009

31.08.2009 - 13:23
Just back from Foo Camp 2009. You don’t see a ton of stuff on the Internet about Foo because it’s mostly off record. Here are my notes From Foo Camp 2008. This year I decided to do something a little different and created an Animoto show with their new video product. Cool stuff.CrunchBas [...]

Free Empowered Webinar September 10 - how HEROes will transform your business

30.08.2010 - 16:55
We'd like to come to where you work and talk to you about Empowered. All of you. All on the same day, Friday September 10, at 12:00 eastern time. Feel free to bring your lunch. We want you to embrace...

Brian Solis' Engage and how to use it

21.08.2010 - 01:49
by Josh Bernoff Here's what I think about Brian Solis' book Engage. You should buy it. And you shouldn't necessarily read it start to finish. But you'll find yourself diving in again and again when you need help with ....

Meet us in San Francisco,Boston,London,and New York

18.08.2010 - 18:55
The Empowered book tour is beginning. Here's where you can meet us -- and we'll be adding more events around the ones in these cities as we get closer to the dates: Josh, San Francisco/San Jose, August 23-27. Josh will...

How to win the Forrester Groundswell Awards

12.08.2010 - 23:13
by Josh Bernoff The Forrester Groundswell Awards entry deadline is in two weeks, on August 27. As usual, most of you have waited until the last two weeks to enter. If you haven't entered yet but plan to, this advice...

How Are You Using iPad For Business'

09.08.2010 - 20:00
by Ted Schadler (Cross-posted from Ted's blog) We are getting many requests for help on iPad strategies for the enterprise. It's clear why. iPads are a tremendously empowering technology that any employee can buy. My colleague Andy Jaquith has a...

Great new goodies for Empowered readers

06.08.2010 - 17:52
by Josh Bernoff Maybe you've noticed that our Web site has become Empowered. This is in preparation for our book launch on September 14, and it means a lot more than little lightning bolts in the graphic design. We have...

Speeches that will make your people feel empowered

29.07.2010 - 17:22
by Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler Is this you' You run an annual event for the public, and you want to expose them to new ideas. For example, ways to run a business and empower workers. Or, how technology changes...

HIRPS:A new model for PR and influencers

09.07.2010 - 17:42
by Josh Bernoff Here's the problem. "Influencers" -- that's reporters, analysts, bloggers, anyone with an audience -- are targets. PR people are the ones who want to influence them. The PR folks subscribe to databases from companies like Cision and...

Empowered Customers Need Empowered Employees Need Empowered IT

25.06.2010 - 22:19
(Originally published on Ted Schadler’s Blog for Information & Knowledge Management Professionals.) by Ted Schadler Groundswell technology comes to consumers first. At home, we get social, mobile, video, and cloud services pitched to us 24x7. Facebook, Android, iPad, Foursquare, Google,...

Empowered in the Harvard Business Review

23.06.2010 - 08:00
Something very cool has happened. The folks at Harvard Business Review have accepted and published our article about the concepts in Empowered. This article is a great introduction to the ideas in Empowered. It talks about how empowered customers place...

Social maturity

16.06.2010 - 18:08
It used to be that just launching a social application made you a marketing leader. Now everybody's doing it. Some people just run campaigns. Doritos' Super Bowl ads are a great example. So are little applications like Mad Men Yourself,...

What you can learn from PTC's long journey to community

08.06.2010 - 15:30
by Josh Bernoff PTC is a company with 5,000 employees and 25,000 customers. It makes CAD (computer aided design) and PLM (product lifecycle management) software. The story of what it took for PTC to create a customer community is instructive,...

Now accepting entries for the 2010 Forrester Groundswell Awards

07.06.2010 - 15:51
We first started the Forrester Groundswell awards in 2007. What a great run! We've seen applications like the one that the amazing Pete Williams used to raise a million dollars for recovery from Australian brush fires and the one that...

If you screw up,they will trash you. There is no PR fix.

03.06.2010 - 19:13
by Josh Bernoff A Twitter account called @BPGlobalPR has been trashing and mocking BP for a while now. The new development is that he's blogging about what he's doing and why. What should BP do about this' Nothing. BP's first...

Who cares about Facebook privacy' Not who you think.

28.05.2010 - 16:26
by Josh Bernoff Go ahead. Name me one company of a significant size whose business suffered due to its treatment of people's private data. Unless I'm missing something, you can't. TJX put 45 million credit cards at risk. Do you...

trying something

06.08.2010 - 22:57
For everything else, there is…

Data is Power(ful):Body Knowledge

26.07.2010 - 04:39
If I knew the effects of that poutine I had at 3 am a couple of weeks ago were in real time, I would probably watch what I put in my body. But right now it's invisible and even though I kind of get the effects of my personal abuse, I keep abusing.

Understanding the customer is not the same as educating the customer

10.07.2010 - 03:16
People aren't lazy or stupid, but we ARE busy and will find anything to simplify our lives so we have more times for the things that really matter. Understand that and win.

What Came First…

09.07.2010 - 21:55
I know that I shouldn't be needy, but I don't want to be 100% independent either. And I think we give people (men AND women) the wrong messages growing up about this stuff. We aren't rocks. We aren't islands. We *do* need other people.

Mystery and the Modern Woman

05.07.2010 - 02:05
A woman who exhibits a keen desire to share knowledge (for instance, to talk about data, the future of economics and the changing socio-cultural climate) is emasculating at best. Get used to it.

Get the Heck Out of Here!

27.06.2010 - 03:24
It's time for me to get out and try new things. Consequently, it's also a good practice to create more 'lucky' opportunities for anyone.

Call me crazy

24.06.2010 - 23:05
Alright. So just in the past couple of years, we’ve seen two HUGE disasters that negatively affected hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of people (livelihood AND health-wise) emerge because of deregulation, yet there are people who would still support it' I’m confused. Am I missin [...]

Right,Wrong and Everything in Between

24.06.2010 - 15:34
"How have we convinced ourselves that every opinion has to count' " Sam Harris TED2010

There has GOT to be a Better Way

22.06.2010 - 19:06
Another post coming from that place of un-ending optimism. Thanks to Maureen Johnson for being so damned inspirational.

Rethinking Love vs. Greatness

02.06.2010 - 19:06
Throughout time artists, philosophers, poets and everyone else who has ever published anything about human relationships has come to the conclusion that the very fundamental drive in our lives is love. We do it all for love...greatness included.

Getting Back in Shape

04.05.2010 - 19:52
Ever since I moved to Montreal, I've been talking about getting back into that routine, but between travel and all the exhaustion that comes with it, that routine has been a big #FAIL. No longer. :)

Some Quick Tips for Trips to Tokyo

14.04.2010 - 10:13
I heart Tokyo and I was only there for a few days. Start where I left off and see where it takes you!

Where are you from'

13.04.2010 - 17:29
When someone asks me where am I from, this is a harder and harder question to answer

Why (and what) Do You Share' (survey)

30.03.2010 - 05:55
I needed to get some solid numbers and stories to clarify some assumptions I had on why and what people share as well as how they felt about the consequences of sharing. Boy did I get it!

Reciprocity + Obligation ≠ Whuffie

27.03.2010 - 18:14
Great generosity with people will be recognized and, when it is needed, reciprocity will be voluntary and bountiful. Anything bound by obligation is best left to bullies, cartels and gangs.

Blog relocation

08.05.2008 - 23:19
Starting today, this blog is moving to http://dilbert.com/blog/. There you will be able to vote on comments, and the best ones will float to the top. Scott

The Economics Party

08.05.2008 - 09:33
My jaw dropped when I heard that presidential candidate Clinton dismissed the unified opinion of every economist on the planet and supported the gas tax rebate. The rebate is John McCain’s proposal. I think that proves both of them are...

Why Your House Isn’t Energy Efficient

06.05.2008 - 16:34
I ran into a friend the other day who is a home builder. He had been planning to build several homes that would be extra-green, both because he wants to help the environment, and because he figured buyers would want...

Youth in Asia

06.05.2008 - 05:33
Yesterday I was updating my retirement plan through age 110 and wondered if it was long enough. It seems to me that medical science is progressing so quickly I have a good shot at reaching 140. This got me thinking....

Gravity Battery

05.05.2008 - 10:48
In yesterday’s post I mentioned two Israeli companies that allegedly made big breakthroughs with solar power. Many of you noted that solar power is limited if you can’t store the energy in a cost-effective way for night use. I did...

How Much Water?

05.05.2008 - 10:48
Regarding my previous post, how much water would a typical home have to pump into its own virtual dam in order to provide energy during a typical night while the water flows back out and through a generator? Are we...

Israel Defeats the Entire Middle East

01.05.2008 - 15:04
Yesterday I had one of those oh-my-God moments, the kind where I thought I could see the future. It started by reading some articles about the lack of a serious energy policy in the United States. The problem is that...

Evolution DMD

30.04.2008 - 16:33
Let’s stipulate for this conversation that everything the experts say about evolution is true. Creatures that are the most successful at reproducing pass their traits to the next generation, and so on. But I have another hypothesis that I think...

President McCain

29.04.2008 - 17:23
Last night I saw some pundits on the news discussing the results of a poll. When Americans were asked if they would vote for an African-American for president, more than 9 out of 10 people said yes. But when asked...

America’s Favorite Pastime

28.04.2008 - 16:18
Yesterday I went to a Giants baseball game. It was Little League Day, so there were about ten thousand young boys running wild in the stands. It was also free bat day, courtesy Bank of America. I will pause while...

Dilbert.com Redesign

25.04.2008 - 14:18
Recently we redesigned the Dilbert.com web site and added a ton of features, such as animation, deeper archives, mash ups, and more. The reaction from readers has been fascinating. www.dilbert.com Let me get this out of the way: I realize...

Penis Thefts

24.04.2008 - 16:03
In Congo there is a wave of penis thefts. http://au.news.yahoo.com/080422/15/16ktt.html Well, add that to the list of reasons for not visiting Congo. My first reaction to the story was to dismiss it as a bunch of superstitious simpletons caught in...

Gone With the Wind

23.04.2008 - 16:03
Did you hear about the priest who tried to set a record for balloon powered flight? This might come as a huge surprise to you: He’s missing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7360416.stm When I first heard about the incident I figured it was some...

New Movie Reviews

22.04.2008 - 16:02
Recently I got tricked into seeing a movie that won the Oscar for Best Picture. It left me feeling confused, anxious, and pissed off. By the closing credits I hated everyone involved with it. I actually paid good money for...

APR for Houses

21.04.2008 - 17:03
One of the great banking laws in this country is the mandatory APR for loans. That’s a calculation that allows consumers to easily compare loans that have different fees, terms, and rates, making it all apples to apples. We need...

A Cluetrain talk turns 10

03.09.2010 - 20:41
Ten years ago this month, I gave the opening keynote for the International Retail Conference of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Instutut, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The venue was the amazing Culture and Congress Centre, which had opened just two years earlier. Designed by the architect Jean Nouvel and esteeme [...]

CRM+VRM 2010 Follow-up

03.09.2010 - 18:18
It’s been a week since VRM+CRM 2010, and there have been many conversations on private channels (emails, face-to-face, phone-to-phone, face-to-faces), all “processing,” as they say. Meanwhile we also have some very interesting postings to chew on. First, Bill Wendell‘s RealE [...]

Beyond caveat emptor

30.08.2010 - 14:56
First, three posts by JP Rangaswami: Does the Web make experts dumb' Does the Web make esperts dumb, Part 2: who is the teacher' Does the Web make experts dumb, Part 3: the issues His bottom line in the last of those: “… people are saying the web dumbs us down. This is wrong. The (...)

An oracle looks at Oracle

25.08.2010 - 04:32
Stephen Jannise has put together an informal but well-thought-out poll on Oracle’s next take-over target. Dig it here. My own off-the-wall bet was on Akamai, which Stephen was kind enough to include in his report. Even if you don’t follow Oracle or the other companies listed, it’s [...]

For your soul’s bibliography

23.08.2010 - 16:39
I’ve been so heads-down working on a book, and prepping  for this this week’s workshop, that I haven’t blogged anything in a while. Normally blogging is a steam valve for my work, but tweeting does more of that now. (Which is too bad, because tweets are snow on the water. Or at le [...]

Bomb sights

12.08.2010 - 05:59
Last week I flew back and forth from Boston to Reno by way of Phoenix. Both PHX-RNO legs took me past parts of Nevada I hadn’t had a good look at before. One item stood out: a dry lake that looked, literally, like a town had been built on it and blown up. In fact, (...)

On being wrong

08.08.2010 - 00:54
I recently realized that the line “Markets are conversations” (familiar as the first thesis in The Cluetrain Manifesto) was born at least partly from my experience as a resident of many forums on Compuserve, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was on Compuserve that I learned the diffe [...]

Second Waves

05.08.2010 - 00:09
Here’s a theory: others can make better things with Google Wave’s parts than Google made with Wave itself, the death of which Google announced today. Sez that post, The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-dr [...]

Not a great way to run an airport

03.08.2010 - 12:19
It’s bad enough that signage toward Boston Logan’s economy parking lot has never been ideal. It’s a lot worse now that they’ve killed off that lot, changed almost none of the original signage, and opened a new lot that’s actually more convenient, but there’s no wa [...]

The Data Bubble

31.07.2010 - 20:23
The tide turned today. Mark it: 31 July 2010. That’s when The Wall Street Journal published The Web’s Gold Mine: Your Secrets, subtitled A Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet is the business of spying on consumers. First in a series. It [...]

Opening new common ground

31.07.2010 - 17:19
So that’s the logo for the first VRM+CRM workshop, which will happen on 26-27 August, at Harvard Law School. It’s free. You can register here. ProjectVRM, which I’ve been running as a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center has been growing nicely over the past four years, and i [...]

Remembering Ricochet

30.07.2010 - 19:27
From roughly 1996 to 1999, my always-on Net connection at home was a wireless one, through Ricochet. Throughput in both directions was faster than dial-up, and always-on. Customer support was good too. As it happened, both homes I lived in then were atop hills on the San Francisco Peninsula, with pa [...]

It’s even worse than it appears

30.07.2010 - 17:44
The Common Errors of Telecom CEOs, by Rudolf van der Berg, is required reading for anybody who cares about the future of the Internet, and whose hands it’s in.

Informal vs. Illegal

30.07.2010 - 17:30
Immigrants and Crime: Time for a Sensible Debate is a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Francis Fukuyama with the subhead, The gardeners and maids who cross the border illegally are very different from the tattooed Salvatrucha gang member who lives by extortion and drug-dealing.Here’s the gist:Ther [...]

A lost moment in email marketing hell

29.07.2010 - 14:00
So I get an email from The River: Integrating Web Intelligence, subtitled “Bridging the Web and Physical Channels”. The first section is this:1. Audio Tweet 4 min. :Clickstream Trust / Privacy in Telcos – Part 1/4 in the "Who owns Clickstream data'”Series – Courtesy of Te [...]

It's All The Web

03.09.2010 - 17:32
Fred points out apps and services that are "Mobile First Web Second." I don't like the distinction. To me, it's all the web. It's this kind of thinking that leads to Wired's ill-considered proclamation that "the Web is dead." (I debate that in the second half of this thread...

That Was Fast:TellApart Implements A Searchblog Suggestion

02.09.2010 - 19:01
Earlier this week I mused out loud about retargeting, suggesting that perhaps it's time for marketers to not just chase folks around the web in hopes they might irritate us into submission, but rather offer us the chance to politely say "Not right now, thanks." One of Searchblog's readers...

Google and AOL Renew Pact

02.09.2010 - 19:01
One of the best cards in AOL's difficult hand has been its search deal with Google, which was up for renewal this year. This morning the two companies announced (ahead of a December deadline) that they were staying together, though I can only imagine the folks at Bing didn't...

Ping:"Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes" Except...

02.09.2010 - 06:30
...as far as I can tell, they in fact don't ever meet. You can't leverage your networks on Facebook and Twitter in Ping. It's another closed Apple system, another Apple universe in a gilded gift box. It's not that Apple hates the web, it's just that Apple is better...

Gnar Gnar Epic Apple #FAIL

27.08.2010 - 19:01
...that was the subject of an email sent to my by my Apple-loving son when the image above showed up on the family iPad (yes, we have an iPad, my wife insisted. It's really hers, but that's another story). The story goes like this. My son had a question...

Is Google Objective'

27.08.2010 - 06:30
I was struck by this headline from TechCrunch: Has Google Purged Places Of Yelp' All Signs Point To Yes. The story is rather pedestrian - yet another dispute between a content and community service with the all powerful Google. Sure, it's Yelp, but at the end of the day, it's...

The Gap Reads The Gap Scenario

16.08.2010 - 04:31
Gap Offers 25% Discount for Foursquare Checkins (Mashable, Sunday 8.15) The Gap Scenario (Searchblog, 4.30) Cool!...

No Quaero:Good Luck With That,China

16.08.2010 - 04:31
China has announced it will build a state run search engine to compete with, no wait, dominate and overrun, its own semi-autonomous upstarts Baidu (CEO Robin Li is coming to Web 2 this year) and Yahoo-backed Alibaba (CEO Jack Ma came in years past). All I can say is...

Or Maybe It's Really About (Google) TV...

11.08.2010 - 16:00
Yesterday I posted some thoughts on the Google-Verizon framework, offering what turns out to be a pretty widespread sensibility, at least in the punditocracy, that this whole thing feels off, not like Google, counter to the brand. There had to be another reason Google would do this, something super. [...]

Skype Files for IPO - Is This a Trend'

09.08.2010 - 17:01
As I was reading through the Demand Media S1 (more on that as soon as I get a bit smarter on a few financial issues), I noticed that Skype just filed to go public. Wow. Here's the S1. It's another Goldman/Morgan joint, with JP Morgan in there as well....

Demand Media Files To Go Public,First Impressions from the S-1

06.08.2010 - 23:31
It's the dog days of August, and a Friday to boot, and I certainly didn't expect this to land in my mail box this morning: The Demand Media Inc. S1. But I had set an alert for the company - and several others like LinkedIn and Facebook - because...

Signal Update

28.07.2010 - 20:30
Every day I spend an hour or two curating a set of links that I find provocative, useful, or important, adding a few lines of commentary to boot. It's called Signal, and you can consume it in three ways - as an email newsletter (sign up on the Signal Home...

CM Summit Sizzle Reel

23.07.2010 - 23:00
I'm proud of the team that put the CM Summit together, and this reel. Well done folks!...

What Would You Ask Fred Wilson'

21.07.2010 - 05:31
Tomorrow I will be at the Geo Loco conference in SF, interviewing Fred Wilson, partner at Union Square Ventures, investor in Twitter, Zynga, Etsy, Tumblr, Foursquare, and many others, and general good guy. Fred is great on stage, and we have a lot to talk about, given our mutual interests....

The Facebook App Economy:Revival Time'

20.07.2010 - 07:02
Who remembers the utter gold rush that was the Facebook Platform back in 2007, back when everyone, and honestly, really, EVERYONE, in the industry was busy answering the question "What's Your Facebook Platform strategy'" Well I sure do. At FM, we had meetings to address this question, meetings drive [...]

End Game

17.12.2008 - 04:00
This is my 603rd and last column for pbs.org. If you want to continue reading my work, please visit http://www.cringely.com, which is also in this week's links. Thanks for your support. Everybody in my line of work writes prediction columns for the coming year, but I wonder how many we will see this [...]

Insanely Great

07.12.2008 - 16:21
Looking for improved business models for the personal computer business, Apple CEO Steve Jobs often used to cite automobile makers, though never American car companies. The examples were invariably German. Whether it was the design aesthetic of his Mercedes sedan or Porsche's success at selling high [...]

Saving Detroit

27.11.2008 - 05:08
My first car was an Oldsmobile, a red 1966 convertible I wish I still owned today. It was big and heavy yet somehow managed to average 18 miles per gallon in an era when gasoline cost 35 cents. Detroit and the U.S. automakers ruled the world when that car was built, yet now the companies say they ar [...]

Not Enough Indians

19.11.2008 - 01:45
There is no joy at Yahoo, for mighty Jerry has struck out.This week Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang announced he was stepping down after 17 turbulent months as CEO of the big Internet portal -- a time in which the company rebuffed a buyout offer from Microsoft, flubbed an ad sales agreement with Google, [...]

Now For Something Completely Different

15.11.2008 - 00:43
President-Elect Barack Obama has announced that when he’s in office he’ll appoint a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the whole darned USA. Though Google CEO Eric Schmidt already said he isn’t interested in the job, I am. I accept, Mr. President. And while the idea of Cringely for CTO may see [...]

Love-Hate

10.11.2008 - 23:25
Steve Jobs is not like you and me. He has millions of customers, 32,000 employees, and a board of directors who think he can do no wrong. Running a company that is immensely profitable, gaining in market share, has no debt and $20 billion in cash, he can afford to make bold moves, the most recent of [...]

Love-Hate

07.11.2008 - 22:42
Steve Jobs is not like you and me. He has millions of customers, 32,000 employees, and a board of directors who think he can do no wrong. Running a company that is immensely profitable, gaining in market share, has no debt and $20 billion in cash, he can afford to make bold moves, the most recent of [...]

Love-Hate

07.11.2008 - 22:42
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Azure Blues

30.10.2008 - 20:43
It isn't very often I get to apply Moore's Law to a non-Information Technology business and rarer still that I can then relate the whole thing back to Microsoft, so I'm going for it. Here's what the solar power industry can teach us about Microsoft:The wonderful thing about Moore's Law is what the l [...]

Collateral Damage

23.10.2008 - 21:21
I am not a very sophisticated mobile phone user. I don't use most of the bells and whistles on my phone, probably because I don't know what they even are. But just because I'm an idiot about USING mobile phones doesn't mean I don't understand the emerging mobile market, to which I have been paying a [...]

Ctrl-Alt-Del

21.10.2008 - 00:44
Apple last week introduced a pair of very nice notebook computers that, not at all surprisingly, looked like riffs on the MacBook Air. The company in a separate announcement released 600 high-definition television episodes through the iTunes Store. This week Apple will reportedly release new 20-inch [...]

Cool Threads

14.10.2008 - 06:42
A couple of columns ago we touched on the practical rebirth of parallel computing. In case you missed that column (it's in this week's links), the short version is that Moore's Law is letting us down a bit when it comes to the traditional way of increasing the power of microprocessors, which is by r [...]

Off With Their Heads!

08.10.2008 - 18:22
My promised column on threads will appear in this space on Friday. It would have appeared here today but the crumbling global financial system suddenly seemed a more appropriate topic.We're in trouble and by "we" I mean the whole darned planet. What started as a mortgage problem in the U.S. has blow [...]

Data Debasement

07.10.2008 - 00:22
Last week I was in Boston to moderate a panel at the MIT Technology Review’s Emerging Technologies Conference — one of those tech shindigs so expensive I can only attend as hired help. My panel was on parallel computing and it produced this column and another I’ll file early next w [...]

Test Headline

06.10.2008 - 23:20
Test Body

This week in Twitter

03.09.2010 - 18:38
A few of this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter.jasonfried: The reason you can’t get it done in one day/week/month is because you’re making it take two days/weeks/months.rjs: For fans of Christopher Alexander’s recent books, Nikos Salingaros’ “A Theory of Ar [...]

A couple of interesting UI techniques at Flickr

02.09.2010 - 17:03
1) Interesting use of unicode characters for the UI on Flickr:That triangle up top is actually two triangle characters side-by-side. Sucks that we still have to resort to such hacks for such a common UI shape — but this is a smart solution.2) Also interesting is this inline tour of the new pho [...]

Smiley:An app in 24 hours

01.09.2010 - 18:14
Late Monday afternoon David, Kiran, and I were discussing how we could begin to measure how our customers felt about our customer service. We’re already measuring things like response time, average tickets per day per person, average tickets in a thread, etc. Those stats are helpful for measur [...]

QUOTE:If you ask an artist why,the greatest artists…

01.09.2010 - 18:09
If you ask an artist why, the greatest artists will tell you, “Well, it was beautiful. It inspired me. It touched me. It reminded me of this or that.”But you ask a designer why and he says, “Well, I’ve got these 15 different things that all have to coexist in this 800×60 [...]

VIDEO:Oxxford Clothes is the last factory in the…

01.09.2010 - 15:02
Oxxford Clothes is the last factory in the U.S. making custom tailored suits by hand. They are based in Chicago. Pitch perfect simple promotional video. One of the best I’ve seen.

The first step is to start

31.08.2010 - 15:24
Many people ask me, “How can I get started in web design'” or, “What skills do I need to start making web applications'” While it would be easy to recommend stacks of books, and dozens of articles with 55 tips for being 115% better than the next guy, the truth is that you don [...]

We're looking for an Office Manager / Executive Assistant

30.08.2010 - 19:40
Now that we’re 20 people, it’s time we add someone to our team who is dedicated to making sure our day-to-day administrative tasks are taken care of efficiently, reliably, and properly.Here’s who we’re looking for:You’re the type of person who thrives on taking care of [...]

This week in Twitter

30.08.2010 - 17:35
A few of this week’s 37signals staff posts at Twitter.rjs: “Operating System: There shouldn’t be one.”—Design Principles Behind Smalltalk http://bit.ly/dz7tO2kiranmaxweber: “Science is beginning to embrace the idea that some technology is Twinkies and some technol [...]

LINK:Rails 3.0:It's ready

30.08.2010 - 15:23
Rails 3.0: It's readyA couple of years in the making, thousands of commits, and hundreds of contributors, Rails 3.0 is finally done. We’re already running a handful of our applications on it and the rest are moving to it shortly.

No more drive-by teaching

27.08.2010 - 15:33
Last week at our full-company get together, each person was asked to say two things to the group: 1. What do you want to get better at' 2. What do you want to learn'Unfortunately I was out sick and unable to participate, but I heard it was a great session. Had I been there, here’s what I would [...]

VIDEO:The amazing John Cleese shares his wisdom…

27.08.2010 - 14:58
The amazing John Cleese shares his wisdom on writing, creativity, getting in the zone, and interruptions. It’s great to see advice that we hear all the time reaffirmed from outside the tech industry.

QUOTE:If you can’t draw as well as someone,or u…

26.08.2010 - 01:16
If you can’t draw as well as someone, or use the software as well, or if you do not have as much money to buy supplies, or if you do not have access to the tools they have, beat them by being more thoughtful. Thoughtfulness is free and burns on time and empathy.—Frank Chimero, What advice wo [...]

Signature designer'

25.08.2010 - 17:46
A conversation about signatures (real ones, not digital) from our room in Campfire:Jason F.: Don’t you think that would be a really cool niche side job for a designer' Custom designed signatures' The client would have to learn it, but I bet there’d be a decent market for a really cool si [...]

Nice post-order communication from Bobybuilding.com

24.08.2010 - 18:10
Ian Hall writes in:Just ordered from Bodybuilding.com and got this follow-up and thought it was an interesting way of doing some post-order marketing and outreach to build community. Take a product and talk about it, direct people to more information, and recommend additional things they could use t [...]

Facebook shows an interesting way to highlight new features

23.08.2010 - 19:35
When screen loaded, animation dimmed down and this spotlight showed up.

The stamina of Chuck Schuldiner

03.09.2010 - 19:05
Yesterday I was commiserating with another mother about the temperament of our infants who are close in age, although her son doesn't seem to have as much trouble as Marlo does with teething. I've mentioned this before, but when a tooth starts to poke its way through her gum she is inconsolable and [...]

Breakfast nook

02.09.2010 - 16:54
We've been eating off of old Mormon Church tables that the previous owner left behind until the table we ordered finally arrived for the breakfast nook. For a while there it felt like we were sitting down to eat refreshments at a wedding reception being held in the gymnasium of the church, but only [...]

My first grader

02.09.2010 - 16:14
During our family photo shoot Leta's transitional lenses started to darken because of the light, so I had her take her glasses off for a few shots so that we could get a good shot of her eyes. I think it worked.click image above to see the photo on dooce.comby dooce in Daily Photo© Armstrong Media, [...]

Office remodel,episode two

01.09.2010 - 14:34
This should surprise no one except for maybe the two people who just googled CONSTIPATED WALRUS BALL and pulled up this website for the first time that Jon has spent the last ten days researching the gravy out of how to use all his new video equipment. Also, we've been to therapy since the last vide [...]

So I know I can't dance

31.08.2010 - 19:25
If reincarnation is true, I want more than anything the ability to dance when I come back as another being. I don't care if I'm a frog or a piranha or a rock inside a cave. LET ME BE ABLE TO SAMBA! I could watch people dancing for hours. Forever, maybe. And when it's done right I get goosebumps and [...]

When there were three

31.08.2010 - 18:56
Life was so much simpler then. Before Rambo came into our lives and drew first blood.click image above to see the photo on dooce.comby dooce in Daily Photo© Armstrong Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Originallypublished by Heather B. Armstrong for dooce.com as When there were three. This postcannot [...]

Won't you be my neighbor'

30.08.2010 - 23:25
Everyone I know has had The Summer Cold, and up until last week I had managed to avoid that plague. Jon had it all week last week, and then I woke up Friday with my throat closed so tightly I couldn't even drink bourbon for breakfast. And I was all, what will my cousins in Tennessee think of me now! [...]

Vermeer

30.08.2010 - 19:59
Except instead of Girl With a Pearl Earring it's Dog With Old Maternity Underwear.click image above to see the photo on dooce.comby dooce in Daily Chuck© Armstrong Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Originallypublished by Heather B. Armstrong for dooce.com as Vermeer. This postcannot be republished w [...]

Diva

30.08.2010 - 18:28
Someone did not get the Cheerios she had written into her contract for photo shoots, and here she is throwing a fit even though we did provide diapers made from the wool shaved from lambs blessed by the Pope.click image above to see the photo on dooce.comby dooce in Daily Photo© Armstrong Media, LL [...]

Featured community question wherein Jon makes his mother proud

27.08.2010 - 22:28
Today's featured question comes from user dirtdiva321:I figured this was an appropriate question given that Jon and I eloped on a cliff at Yosemite eight years ago this week, and that Monday morning we were sitting together on a couch across from our therapist. I like to compare her to a chiropracto [...]

The girls

27.08.2010 - 19:22
This is another shot from our family photo shoot earlier this week. It was an accident, but I just realized we all matched our clothing to Marlo's dress. And then she went and matched her pants to her eyes. Teach em early!click image above to see the photo on dooce.comby dooce in Daily Photo© Armst [...]

Shhhh!

26.08.2010 - 18:10
Everybody be quiet! Someone fell asleep while standing up. Also! Please ignore the fact that his collar is on upside down. Even though knowing this has already upset the equilibrium of my day.click image above to see the photo on dooce.comby dooce in Daily Chuck© Armstrong Media, LLC. All rights re [...]

Armstrongs

26.08.2010 - 17:17
My friend Cami came over on our anniversary and took some family portraits of us. This is the first time we've ever planned and carried out a photo shoot of all of us together, and the results are spectacular I think. Can't wait to share the whole series with you.click image above to see the photo o [...]

A Jon Armstrong sized tangent

25.08.2010 - 15:26
If you haven't been following Tyrant's Flickr stream, you really should be, especially the video of the evil squirrel in our apricot tree. If you have dogs be sure to have them sitting nearby when watching this video because the memory of their reaction should keep you entertained for months. Just m [...]

The teeth years

24.08.2010 - 18:48
Those two teeth we thought were poking through Marlo's gums turned out to be SIX. That's one, two, three, four, YOU GET THE IDEA. We were sitting at lunch when Jon goes, DUDE. Do you see what's going on in there' And I was adamant that it was just a cracker she had been chewing on, so I stuck my fin [...]

30 day challenge update:meditation!

02.09.2010 - 16:08
It’s time for an update on my 30 day challenges. Here’s what I’ve done the last few months:June: I didn’t respond to email after 10 p.m. and I read the New Testament of the Bible. Both were interesting in different ways. It turns out that 10 p.m. is a pretty good time for me [...]

Climbing Kilimanjaro

23.08.2010 - 17:33
“Don’t think. Just walk.” — a fellow hiker.Last week I returned from climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. I’ll start with the bottom line: I made it to the top! That’s three of us at sunrise on the sixth day. We took the Machame route, which takes seven d [...]

Live-blogging (okay live-waving) Day 1 of Google I/O Keynote

19.05.2010 - 17:29
Okay, I’m going to try live-blogging the keynote of Google I/O, but I’m doing it with a twist. I’m going to try live-blogging in Google Wave with some other folks. Watch the live-stream video at http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers by the way.Lots of folks will be live-blog [...]

Submit video questions for May 2010

15.05.2010 - 00:19
It’s that time! On Monday morning I’ll record some new videos. I created a Google Moderator page where you can post questions or suggestions and vote topics up and down. I won’t be able to answer every single question, but I’ll tackle several popular ones plus a few of the mo [...]

Clean up extra url parameters when searching Google

04.05.2010 - 16:50
You know when you do a Google search and get all those extra url parameters that crowd things up' “ie” and “hl” and so on' I hate that, because I often copy and email Google urls, and I try to clean up the url by removing all those extra params each time.You can fix this (... [...]

39 Android Apps that I love

03.05.2010 - 17:49
Here are the Android Apps that I currently love. It’s not a complete list, but it’s a pretty good start.Music and sound appsSubsonic: stream music from your home computer to your phoneListen: save and play podcasts like This Week in GoogleTuner – gStrings: a great guitar tunerPando [...]

Google incorporating site speed in search rankings

10.04.2010 - 01:36
(I’m in the middle of traveling, but I know that a lot of people will be interested in the news that Google is incorporating site speed as one of the over 200 signals that we use in determining search rankings. I wanted to jot down some quick thoughts.)The main thing I want to get across (...)

Mini-review of the iPad

04.04.2010 - 22:54
I played with an iPad yesterday. Here’s my mini-review. The screen is bright and the touch sensitivity is fantastic. Given that it reminds me the most of an iPhone, it’s surprisingly heavy. It feels dense with potential.On the childlike-sense-of-wonder-scale (as fake Steve Jobs would say [...]

New 30 day challenge:not replying to outside email

23.03.2010 - 17:32
I just wrapped up two 30 day challenges (no sugar for 30 days and no iPhone for 30 days). I’ll try to report back what I learned soon, but in the mean time I wanted to alert you that today I’m starting a new 30-day challenge: not replying to outside email.When I announced my first (...)

Blog to Book'

16.02.2010 - 00:23
I recently went looking for some software to make a blog into a book. Here’s what I found:- Lulu will take PDF files for a book. Blogbooker.com will try to create a PDF from a blog. Unfortunately, my blog made BlogBooker choke (I have 991 posts from my blog) — even when I excluded commen [...]

Installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04

31.01.2010 - 03:18
I wanted to play with writing Android apps on my home Linux computer, which is currently running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). These are mostly notes for myself, so don’t feel guilty if you skip this post. - Make sure your system is up-to-date:sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get up [...]

Follow @googlewmc on Twitter

18.01.2010 - 17:28
Okay, we’re starting to release new webmaster videos. Normally you could follow me on Twitter to find out about each new video, but I’m on a Twitter diet until the end of January. So if you want to hear when new webmaster videos or webmaster blog posts come out, go follow @googlewmc on T [...]

Important blog post on Google blog

13.01.2010 - 01:22
This is an important blog post. Go read it from the source.

Looking back ten years

06.01.2010 - 08:02
Ten years ago this month I paused working on my Ph.D., eloped to a courthouse to marry my lovely wife, and went for a hastily organized honeymoon cruise in the Caribbean. Then we packed up everything we owned and drove from North Carolina to California to join a small start-up called Google. That me [...]

Live-blogging the Google Android Event

05.01.2010 - 18:57
I’m sitting in the Googleplex waiting to live-blog the Google Android event today. I’m on a seven day Twitter diet, but Chris DiBona is live-tweeting.

New Research:There Are A LOT Of Good Bosses Out There

03.09.2010 - 19:01
In the introduction to Good Boss, Bad Boss, I emphasize that -- following an inspiring comment from my wife, Marina, who has worked in numerous management positions -- my motivation for writing it was to describe the moods and moves...

What Are Signs That Your Boss Cares About You'

31.08.2010 - 17:55
My post on the power of bosses who take a moment to offer a simple "thanks" to people got me thinking about the more general question of little signs that your boss cares for you. Certainly, as my recent HBR...

The Boss as Human Shield:Protect People from Your Worst Instincts Too

30.08.2010 - 18:32
Over at HBR online today, one of the articles they are featuring is my piece on The Boss as Human Shield. One point the article makes, and that I emphasize in Good Boss, Bad Boss , is that your job...

It Isn't Just a Myth:A Little Thanks Goes a Long Way

28.08.2010 - 20:26
The approach that I take to giving advice in Good Boss, Bad Boss and in everything else I write is to try to be as evidence-based as possible. But I also realize that the academic literature does not always map...

Managing Leadership:An Unappreciated Gem

28.08.2010 - 18:41
Jim Stroup's Managing Leadership took me by surprise. I got in the mail last week and was intending to glance at it for a few minutes, but I am now hooked. I also felt compelled to write an Amazon review...

HBR Article on The Boss as a Human Shield:100 Free Downloads

28.08.2010 - 00:30
As I wrote yesterday, I just had an HBR article on "The Boss as Human Shield" appear, which presents some of the main points from Chapter 6 of Good Boss, Bad Boss. HBR online posts the text of the article...

The Boss as Human Shield:New HBR Article Based on Good Boss,Bad Boss

27.08.2010 - 00:09
The September Harvard Business Review includes my "The Boss as Human Shield," which presents some of the main points in Chapter 6 of Good Boss, Bad Boss. From what I can tell, HBR puts up articles on their website for...

How to Tell When Your Boss Is Lying:Cool New Study

24.08.2010 - 23:00
The most recent Economist summarizes a fascinating study by two researchers over at the Stanford Business School -- Professor David Larker and PhD Student Anastasia Zakolyukina -- based on transcripts of American CEOs and CFOs statements during 30,000 quarterly earnings...

The No Asshole Rule Paperback is Shipping - with "On Being the Asshole Guy"

23.08.2010 - 17:53
Amazon is already shipping the paperback edition of The No Asshole Rule; the official release is September 1 but they are moving a bit ahead of schedule. I had a lot of fun writing the new chapter called "On Being...

New Good Boss,Bad Boss Video Interview on Stanford GSB Site

22.08.2010 - 22:41
Paul Reist, Mehrdad Azim, Patrick Keating and Daphne Chang teamed-up to produce a new Good Boss,Bad Boss interview for the Stanford Graduate School of Business site. I was most impressed with their commitment to quality, and it was fun to...

My Favorite Books For Bosses

21.08.2010 - 18:58
Good Boss, Bad Boss is officially appearing on September 7th, but it is already beginning to appear in stores and I notice that Amazon is already selling it and will start mailing out copies next week. In thinking about the...

Are You In Tune With Your People Or Living in a Fool's Paradise' Three Diagnostic Questions for Every Boss

20.08.2010 - 21:40
The central idea in Good Boss, Bad Boss, the one that runs throughout the book and that links many things together, is the notion that the best bosses are in tune with what it feels like to work for them...

Management,Leadership,and Mark Hurd:Why Top Teams are More Important than Individual CEOs

16.08.2010 - 02:17
My last posts here and at Harvard Business Review were about the unintended dangers of the distinction between leadership and management. I argued that leadership is too often over-glorified and management is too often under-appreciated, which results in management being...

Why Leadership Can Be a Dangerous Idea

12.08.2010 - 01:14
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have a longstanding ambivalence about the distinction between leadership and management I blogged about it today over at HBR.org, under the title ""True leaders are also managers." Here is a taste...

An Amazing "Take This Job and Shove It" Performance:A New Way to Quit an Asshole Boss

10.08.2010 - 20:15
Thanks to Johnnie for sending me this amazing and well-crafted "take this job and shove it" slide deck (from The Chive)that was (apparently ) put together by a young woman who got fed-up with her asshole bose. I found the...

3 questions for Jacqueline Novogratz

Watching the game film

The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer

NYC Dept of Health Strikes Again

Is talent portable'

The power of clarity in creating change

Talk in DC on April 28

Great savings stat

The Birth of a Sticky Idea

Switch tour stops:Houston and Durham

The blog has moved!

The World of 100

Furniture for White People and Black People

On Susan Boyle

The Dirtiest Hotels in the World

FCC.gov poised for an overdue overhaul

Toward a local syzygy:aligning deals,check-ins and places

What we can learn from data,3-D and a giant globe

Is Your Survey Data Lying to You'

A New Take on the Coffee Table Book

TOC Announcement

Amazon's cloud platform still the largest,but others are closing the gap

Points of Control:The Web 2.0 Summit Map

Four short links:31 August 2010

The VC-free startup

Applying the lessons of Enterprise 2.0 to Gov 2.0

Four short links:27 August 2010

Applying the lessons of Enterprise 2.0 to Gov 2.0

The cut-free autopsy

Four short links:25 August 2010

Insider tweeting

The Rapist Says He's Sorry

Roger Ebert's cookbook

Napoleon Dynamite opening title sequence

Dry weather reveals ruins

A day in the life of Barack Obama

The 1000-foot free dive

How panhandlers use free credit cards

Designing Obama online for free

Fire tornado!

The embryonic stem cell mess

Esquire phone phreaking article from 1971

Can heavy metal singers actually sing'

Dancing in the movies

Top ten lost technologies

HTTP Live Streaming Spec at IETF

Back When Apple Previously Streamed Video From an Announcement

Bloomberg:New Apple TV Tomorrow

Just How Bad Is Flash on Android'

Pointing at the TV

Put This On,Episode 3:Work

Intel Buys Infineon’s Wireless Unit

The Oatmeal:‘This Is How I Feel About Buying Apps’

The Talk Show,Episode #5

Bing App for Android

★ How to Judge the Battle Between Apple and Adobe Regarding Flash

Nope

‘Color,Photos,and One Fuzzy Little Boy in a Field’

Building a Nation of Know-Nothings

Sentence of the Year'

Avett Brothers ::"Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promises"

03.09.2010 - 16:42
animated by Jason Ryan Mitcham :: one painting changed 2,600 times :: click below to watch ::

rain dance

03.09.2010 - 16:40
click below to watch ::

Cee Lo ::a retrospective

02.09.2010 - 16:07
warning explicit everything :: click below to watch ::

Stinson Beach Bubbles

01.09.2010 - 18:30
maybe just pretty colors, but wait for the last one, it's killer :: it's incredible the way they "pop" :: click below to watch ::

Live for Pakistan

31.08.2010 - 19:24
Tune in now and join me in raising money for flood victims in Pakistan :: Kaki Kane, Josh Grobin, Ben Folds to perform :: click below to watch ::

Wilderness Downtown ::Arcade Fire & Google

30.08.2010 - 19:59
download chrome and try this :: integrates your childhood neighborhood into an interactive music video :: http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ :: nostalgia is the new apathy!

"Routining"

26.08.2010 - 19:17
David Mercandante :: fascinating videos of our routines :: click below to watch ::

The Oregon Trail

24.08.2010 - 03:23
although this reference is lost on me (i think we had one computer in my school,) i am told it will bring back memories. and i was also told to mention a "grueling place" :: whatever that means :: click below to watch ::

Glass House Conversations

23.08.2010 - 18:37
I've been asked by the The Philip Johnson Glass House to moderate a week-long convo around a question of my choice :: here it is :: hope you can join even for a brief thought!

the age of uncertainty ::"ordinary lives"

20.08.2010 - 19:31
blogger steerforth discovers a photo album has been delivered to his office and tells its story :: click below to see and read ::

Gravité

19.08.2010 - 00:07
interesting analysis of photos used on the OK Cupid dating site :: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/

Indian Mallakhamb Gymnastics

17.08.2010 - 21:00
interesting analysis of photos used on the OK Cupid dating site :: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/

OK Cupid ::"don't be ugly by accident"

17.08.2010 - 20:58
interesting analysis of photos used on the OK Cupid dating site :: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/

how to be alone ::andrea dorfman

17.08.2010 - 00:17
i'm so into this :: click below to watch ::

Ratatat ::the drugs ::new video

13.08.2010 - 16:34
brilliant new video by brooklyn boys Ratatat :: made entirely (supposedly) from getty stock footage :: click below to watch ::

My greatest triumph!

04.06.2010 - 17:22
Sorry. I can't resist. John Carson, a fellow runner from Canada, unearthed this photo from the archives of the Toronto Star. It's the finals of the 1500 meters at the Ontario 14-year-old championships, many many years ago. The runner on...

Drug Development

21.05.2010 - 02:19
On Forbes.com, the drug industry analyst Avik Roy has written a comment on my piece "The Treatment" in last week's New Yorker. A few small points, in response. Roy is of the impression that that I believe we should abandon...

Speaking Tour!

04.05.2010 - 01:36
I will be doing a short tour of the U.K. next week, speaking on a brand new mystery topic! I'll be in Edinburgh on Sunday May 9th, Oxford on the 10th, Manchester on the 11th and Newcastle on the 12th....

Pinker,Round Two

02.12.2009 - 01:11
In Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, Stephen Pinker responds to my description of him as occupying the "lonely ice floe of IQ fundamentalism”: What Malcolm Gladwell calls a "lonely ice floe” is what psychologists call "the mainstream.” In a...

More on Quarterbacks

18.11.2009 - 16:37
A few more thoughts on quarterbacks: There are two separate issues with respect to quarterbacks. The first is whether, historically, NFL teams have done a good job of predicting which college quarterbacks will succeed in the pros. Dave Berri and...

Letting Igons be Igons

18.11.2009 - 21:51
From "Blowing Up," by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, April 22,2002

Pinker on "What the Dog Saw."

16.11.2009 - 23:37
Steven Pinker reviewed my new book "What the Dog Saw," in the New York Times Book Review this past Sunday. I sent the following letter to the editor in response: It is always a pleasure to be reviewed by someone...

Brooks on Outliers

17.12.2008 - 23:28
David Brooks wrote a very thoughtful column in the New York Times yesterday on "Outliers." Much of what he said was very flattering. I have just two comments in response. 1. Brooks argues that I "slight the centrality of individual...

Teachers and Quarterbacks

17.12.2008 - 00:20
My latest New Yorker piece, "Most Likely to Succeed" is now up. A couple of additional thoughts. In some of the responses to the piece, I've seen some resistance to the idea that choosing NFL quarterbacks and choosing public school...

Outliers update

11.12.2008 - 07:43
In my new book "Outliers," I spend a chapter trying to explain why Asian schoolchildren perform so much better at mathematics than their Western counterparts. The principal source of data on international math achievement is what's called TIMS--which is a...

Outliers!

15.11.2008 - 21:22
My new book, "Outliers: The Story of Success," is coming out on Tuesday, after long last. I'm very happy with it, and I think anyone who liked Tipping Point or Blink will like this book too. I'll be blogging more...

The Uses of Adversity

11.11.2008 - 17:11
My latest New Yorker article on Sidney Weinberg and the benefits of outsider-ness is now up on my website here: here Since writing the piece, I've continued to think a fair amount about this idea of the advantages of disadvantages....

Late-Bloomers

13.10.2008 - 19:23
My latest article, on the work of the economist David Galenson, is now up on the New Yorker website here.

Tall Tales

13.03.2008 - 12:30
A number of people have asked about a story I told at the Moth about my early days in the newspaper business. The Moth is a wierd and wonderful club in New York City founded a few years ago by...

Enron and Newspapers

07.03.2008 - 22:15
Another thought on Enron, following on my New Yorker piece. One of the big points made by Jonathan Macey and others is that the Enron scandal is an example of “receiver failure” as well as “transmitter failure”: that is, that...

Hiatus

Hiatus

The Long Tail of Travel

The Long Tail of Travel

Is this how the singularity happens'

Is this how the singularity happens'

Netflix data shows shifting demand down the Long Tail

Netflix data shows shifting demand down the Long Tail

A New York Times Bestseller!

FREE on the Kindle (free); get it while it lasts!

FREE audiobook on iTunes (free,natch)

A New York Times Bestseller!

FREE on the Kindle (free); get it while it lasts!

FREE audiobook on iTunes (free,natch)

The priceless rollout continues:Google Books

State of the Arts 2010 Symposium slated for June 19 in Los Angeles

15.06.2010 - 10:18
The State of the Arts 2010 Symposium at Los Angeles Center Studios (and via webcast) on Saturday June 19 is bringing together a multi‐disciplinary mix of experts to explore future trends in arts, media, communications and technology, with a focus on the conscious use of creativity and its tran [...]

Astrocytes affect brain's information signaling

15.06.2010 - 09:55
New research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that astrocytes are directly involved in the regulation of signalling between neurons. Astrocytes sense activity from the synapses and respond by reducing the release of the neurotransmitter glutamate.Astrocytes have previously been viewe [...]

Plans To Secure Power Grid From Terrorists,Solar Storms

15.06.2010 - 09:44
New legislatio, passed June 9 by the U.S. House of Representatives and referred to the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources committee hopes to strengthen the grid's robustness against attacks of many kinds. (Source: http://www.physorg.com/news195752582.html)

Gates,venture capitalist Doerr issue warning about America's future

15.06.2010 - 08:27
Bill Gates, General Electric Co. CEO Jeff Immelt and venture capitalist John Doerr are lobbying Congress and the White House on a proposal to increase annual U.S. spending on clean energy research and development from $5 billion to $16 billion.Of the top 30 new energy technology companies worldwide [...]

Washington's I.T. Guy

15.06.2010 - 08:20
Carl Malamud has taken it upon himself to see that all public information -- from court decisions to financial disclosures to Army training tapes -- is actually, well, public.His art is in figuring out how to free documents that aren't restricted by secrecy but by the fact that the government has fa [...]

Merely Human' That's So Yesterday

14.06.2010 - 10:04
"Some of Silicon Valley's smartest and wealthiest people have embraced the Singularity...a time, possibly just a couple decades from now, when a superior intelligence will dominate and life will take on an altered form that we can't predict or comprehend in our current, limited state," says New York [...]

Carbon nanotubes create underwater sonar speakers

14.06.2010 - 09:34
Engineers at the University of Texas at Dallas have created an underwater speaker using thin sheets of nanotubes, which they hope could provide a lightweight alternative to the sound projectors used in long-range sonar. (Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627644.800-carbon-nanotubes-cre [...]

NYT Bans The Word Tweet "Outside Of Ornithological Contexts"

14.06.2010 - 09:26
Phil Corbett, standards editor at the Times, has sent a memo asking writers to abstain from "tweet" as a noun or a verb, referring to messages on Twitter. (Source: http://www.theawl.com/2010/06/new-york-times-bans-the-word-tweet)

AI That Picks Stocks Better Than the Pros

14.06.2010 - 09:15
The Arizona Financial Text system (AZFinText) ingests large quantities of financial news stories (in initial tests, from Yahoo Finance) along with minute-by-minute stock price data, and then uses the former to figure out how to predict the latter. Then it buys, or shorts, every stock it believes wil [...]

Mind Over Mass Media

14.06.2010 - 09:05
"The new media have caught on for a reason. Knowledge is increasing exponentially; human brainpower and waking hours are not," says Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard."Fortunately, the Internet and information technologies are helping us manage, search and retrieve our collective in [...]

Ancient Ocean May Have Covered Third of Mars

14.06.2010 - 08:58
A vast ocean likely covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago and may have provided an environment for microbial life to take hold on Mars, according to a new study conducted by University of Colorado at Boulder scientists.(University of Colorado) (Source: http://www.scienc [...]

Microsoft unveils Xbox 'Kinect' motion controller

14.06.2010 - 08:53
Microsoft has revealed final details of its Xbox 360 hands-free motion control system, which it has rebranded Kinect (formerly codenamed "Project Natal"). Kinect was shown off alongside compatible games that support the new hands-free interface and, in some cases, the facial and voice recognition ca [...]

Old Livers Made New Again

14.06.2010 - 08:43
Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have taken the first steps toward building functional, transplantable livers. In a study in rats, the researchers took donor livers, gently stripped them of their cells while leaving other material intact, and then used the remaining structure a [...]

Bouncing beads outwit Feynman

14.06.2010 - 08:37
University of Twente researchers have built a machine that harnesses energy from the random motion of bouncing beads to perform work, challenging physicist Richard Feynman's dictum that work can't be extracted from such a system. Newly created machine from Science News on Vimeo. (Source: http://www. [...]

SeaMicro Drops an Atom Bomb on the Server Industry

14.06.2010 - 08:28
SeaMicro is announcing today it has created a server with 512 Intel Atom chips that gets supercomputer performance but uses 75 percent less power and space than current servers. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/06/14/14venturebeat-seamicro-drops-an-atom-bomb-on-the-server-in [...]

Good Ambition,Bad Ambition

Our First Cloud Investment

Telling It Like It Is

Our First Cloud Investment

Telling It Like It Is

The Job of a CEO

The Job of a CEO

Big Enough for the Job'

Why Do We Prefer Founders as CEOs'

Why Do We Prefer Founders as CEOs'

Big Company Execs in Startups

What Some VCs Do That We Don't Like

What do we look for in entrepreneurs'

I am so disappointed to discover that the Carlyle Group doesn't actually run the world

Life lessons from Client #9

This sums up the challenge to the digital identity community [Flickr]

31.08.2010 - 15:52
factoryjoe posted a photo:When an original OpenID advocate like @simonw can't muster enough benefits to adopt OpenID for one of his own sites, it's time to reconsider the product we're selling.See also: openidconnect.com

Clarifying my comments on Twitter’s annotations

21.06.2010 - 21:21
Two weeks ago, Mathew Ingram from GigaOM pinged me via my Google Profile to ask what my thoughts — as an open web advocate — are on Twitter’s new annotations feature. He ended up posted portions of my response yesterday in a post titled “Twitter Annotations Are Coming — What Do The [...]

Clarifying my comments on Twitter’s annotations

21.06.2010 - 21:21
Two weeks ago, Mathew Ingram from GigaOM pinged me via my Google Profile to ask what my thoughts — as an open web advocate — are on Twitter’s new annotations feature. He ended up posted portions of my response yesterday in a post titled “Twitter Annotations Are Coming — What Do The [...]

TweetPhoto NASCAR [Flickr]

14.06.2010 - 18:45
factoryjoe posted a photo:Welcome to the new world of OAuth-based NASCARs!Whither OpenID'

Social media versus Oil Can Henry’s

14.06.2010 - 03:25
It’s the banal that determines whether social media will succeed in the mainstream, and today I had an experience that I think demonstrates how far away we are from achieving the the ubiquitously useful social media experience we deserve.Specifically, I got my oil changed.The epitome of banal, [...]

Social media versus Oil Can Henry’s

14.06.2010 - 03:25
It’s the banal that determines whether social media will succeed in the mainstream, and today I had an experience that I think demonstrates how far away we are from achieving the the ubiquitously useful social media experience we deserve.Specifically, I got my oil changed.The epitome of banal, [...]

My first five months at Google,by the numbers

09.06.2010 - 08:36
Clarification: The first version of the post talked about my first six months at Google. Apparently my math skills haven’t improved since I took the job, however, as there are actually only five months between June and January. I regret the error.Today marks six five months since I joined Goog [...]

My first five months at Google,by the numbers

09.06.2010 - 08:36
Clarification: Apparently my math skills haven’t improved since I joined Google, as there are only five months between June and January. Not six. Oops.Today marks six five months since I joined Google on my birthday on January 7. It’s been an interesting, busy time for me.Having never wo [...]

My first six months at Google,by the numbers

09.06.2010 - 08:36
Today marks sixth months since I joined Google on my birthday on January 7. It’s been an interesting, busy time for me.Having never worked for a big company (where I define “big” as having more than 100 employees), working for Google is a lot like moving from the suburbs into a big [...]

My first six months at Google,by the numbers

09.06.2010 - 08:36
Today marks sixth months since I joined Google on my birthday on January 7. It’s been an interesting, busy time for me.Having never worked for a big company (where I define “big” as having more than 100 employees), working for Google is a lot like moving from the suburbs into a big [...]

Two tastes better together:Combining OpenID and OAuth with OpenID Connect

17.05.2010 - 06:10
On Friday, David Recordon, one of the original authors of OpenID, released a single-page specification for OpenID Connect, a concept that I outlined on this blog in January before I joined Google.I’m particularly excited about this early proposal because it builds on all the great progress tha [...]

Two tastes better together:Combining OpenID and OAuth with OpenID Connect

17.05.2010 - 06:10
On Friday, David Recordon, one of the original authors of OpenID, released a single-page specification for OpenID Connect, a concept that I outlined on this blog in January before I joined Google.I’m particularly excited about this early proposal because it builds on all the great progress tha [...]

Two interviews on the open web from SXSW

03.05.2010 - 18:57
You must have an HTML5-capable browser to watch this video. You may also download this video directly.Funny how timing works out, but two interviews that I gave in March at SXSW have just been released.The first — an interview with Abby Johnson for WebProNews — was recorded after my ActivityStre [...]

Two interviews on the open web from SXSW

03.05.2010 - 18:57
You must have an HTML5-capable browser to watch this video. You may also download this video directly.Funny how timing works out, but two interviews that I gave in March at SXSW have just been released.The first — an interview with Abby Johnson for WebProNews — was recorded after my ActivityStre [...]

What I like about Facebook’s "openness”

24.04.2010 - 04:38
Let’s get something straight: in my last post, I didn’t say that Facebook was evil.Careful readers would understand that I said that funneling all user authentication (and thus the storage of all identities) through a single provider would be evil. I don’t care who that provider mi [...]

Helping Challenge Dating go to Market

02.09.2010 - 03:00
I love poking conventional wisdom in the eye. I think that what this new client is going to let me do. A few weeks back I had a chat with a venture capitalist who had a higher opinion of his knowledge of social media than I did. When he told me that Facebook and Twitter (...)

2 Features to improve Twitter

01.09.2010 - 19:04
A few Fail Whale sightings yesterday reminded me of how far and how fast Twitter has grown up and out. It seems like only yesterday when a couple of million users sometimes went 2-3 consecutive days looking at nothing BUT Fail Whales. Now it's a rarity. And Twitter has done a good job, in my (...)

My Naked Reunion with Robert Scoble

26.08.2010 - 16:25
Back in 2005, Robert Scoble and I collaborated on a book about blogging for business called Naked Conversations, which seems to have done pretty well. We went on to collaborate on an eBook for Dow Jones, then for a stint on the ill-fated FastCompany.TV. Along with that Robert and I spoke together a [...]

Maybe Matt Cutts can fix Google’s recessive Social Media Genes

25.08.2010 - 21:18
(Matt Cutts on Mt. Kilimanjaro) Matt Cutts, Google's most popular blogger and social media community denizen recently went to the mountain. Perhaps, at the mountain, he had a dream, a dream that one day Google will rise up and live out the true meaning of social media. Perhaps in his dream, Google w [...]

My new List of Social Media Pros

24.08.2010 - 17:58
A couple of days ago,  started a Twitter list of social media professionals. I've entered nearly 150 names so far and I imagine this list will continue to grow for some time. I define a social media pro, quite simply, as someone making a living--or trying to--through social media. It can be a devel [...]

A different birthday celebration.

23.08.2010 - 20:59
Last year, my 65th birthday coincided with the launch of my Twitterville book. We threw a party at a local airplane museum attended by over 350 people. The next morning, we had 35 people who were actually in the book in our yard for breakfast. It was the biggest birthday celebration I ever had and ( [...]

How Google could win in social media

15.08.2010 - 17:28
A couple of weeks back, I wrote about why I'm rooting for Google in social media. Coincidentally and almost simultaneously Om Malik wrote a great piece about why doing social media right just isn't part of Google's DNA. We both used baseball metaphors. I said Google would strike out less if it stopp [...]

Would Kerouac Have Blogged'

14.08.2010 - 20:11
My inveterate friend Tom Foremski picked City Lights Bookstore at 6 pm for getting together. It seemed fitting. Tom and I are both writers whose styles and perspectives were shaped in the 60s and City Lights, is the last bastion of the stormy renaissance that is usually called "The Beat Era." I fini [...]

Ford Escape Hybrid-A review

10.08.2010 - 18:17
(NOTE--  I recently completed several posts on a 10-day, 2700-mile road trip through California, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada.  For transportation, we drove a 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid, loaned to us by Ford Motors in return for my objective review, which follows here.) I pitched Scott Monty at [...]

My 3rd Twitter Anniversary

09.08.2010 - 17:45
Yesterday,  was my third anniversary as a Twitter user.What a weird strange trip it has been. When I started on Aug. 8, 2007, the estimates varied greatly as to how many people were using it from a low of 340,000 to as many as 4 million, but no one really believed it could be that (...)

Road Trip #6:Yellowstone- the crown of the tour

06.08.2010 - 19:32
(Old Faithful in the early morning sun. Photos by Shel) (NOTE:  This is the 6th in a series of off-topic posts. My wife Paula and I  recently completed a 10-day, 2,700-mile road trip through the US northwest.) I have traveled a good deal.  There is no place that I have seen on earth that compares [...]

Why I’m Rooting for Google in Social Media

05.08.2010 - 19:38
The thing about Google in social media is that they just keep swinging the bat no matter how many times they strike out. Yesterday, they killed Wave, which turned out to be merely a ripple and today they came back to announce acquisition of the prolific and talented Slide social media apps group. Go [...]

Tweeting to get Hired

04.08.2010 - 19:55
Yesterday morning I stumbled on this blog post by Abby Gilmore a young Bostonian, transplanted to Tempe Arizona where she used social media to land herself a job as an SEO specialist by using social media and personal initiative. In a down market, it was nice to see. I've written a lot about social [...]

Road Trip #6:Tripping Down Memory Lane

03.08.2010 - 19:28
(The road through Grand Teton National Park. Photo by Shel) (NOTE:  This is the 6th in a series of off-topic posts. My wife Paula and I  recently completed a 10-day, 2,700-mile road trip through the US northwest.) I had long remembered Jackson Hole, Wyo with fondness and nostalgia.  I last saw it [...]

Do you Tweet or email 1st each morning'

02.08.2010 - 19:50
Earlier this morning I asked a question on Twitter: "What do you look at first each morning, eMail, Twitter or Facebook'" In two hours time, more than 30 people responded. There was never any closeness to the results. Twice as many people start each day with email than Twitter. Facebook, in my unsci [...]

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26.11.2008 - 07:08
Wikipedia is one of the world's most visited web sites (8th in the top 10, in fact), delivering an enormous breadth of content to an audience as vast as the internet. But Wikipedia's evolved to become more than an on-line encyclopedia: they've become one of the world's largest search engines, they'r [...]

You Have to Stop to Change Direction

10.11.2008 - 18:05
The bursting of the internet bubble was good for the computer industry.Many of us didn't like the medicine, but I can't remember a single customer upset at the idea of paying $20,000 for computing infrastructure that used to cost them $100,000. The price compression came from open source software, a [...]

Change Has Come to America

05.11.2008 - 08:07
On behalf of Sun Microsystems, I would like to offer my sincerest congratulations to President elect Barack Obama. What an extraordinary accomplishment.I would also like to extend my congratulations to his web team for having chosen MySQL as the platform behind their election web site, BarackObama. [...]

Understanding Sun's Business - Q1 Results

30.10.2008 - 22:05
We announced our earnings today, and put specifics around our preannouncement from a week ago. We also greatly increased the transparency of Sun's business by providing line item detail surrounding our most important product categories (and we broke out core elements of our Software business for the [...]

Innovation Loves a Crisis

03.10.2008 - 01:02
I thought I'd share a note I sent earlier in the week to Sun's leaders - about the turmoil we're seeing in the markets, and how I want our team focusing their efforts. _______________________________________________________________________________Begin forwarded message:From: Jonathan Schwartz Date [...]

Saving a Fortune in Data Warehousing

25.09.2008 - 09:06
I just wanted to extend my congratulations to the team at Greenplum, and our joint customers at Fox Interactive Media - the folks behind MySpace, Photobucket, IGN, FOXSports.com, and a whole series of web properties that together represent one of the single largest audiences on the web. All three o [...]

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Only in New York

03.09.2010 - 07:09
Last night around 10:15 decided to head out for dinner, and somewhat randomly picked the Cuban restaurant Guantanamera because it was nearby. Sat down in a booth near the bar, facing the band, and ordered some mojitos. Over the din of the other diners I thought “hey this house band isn’t [...]

Chic & Geek Interview

02.09.2010 - 16:40
On the new Chic & Geek website (no relation to Chic Meets Geek events) I was invited to do a “Questionnaire de Proust” style interview which has just been published in French. Lots of little tidbits that I’ve never talked about before. (Translation here.)

Upcoming WordCamps

01.09.2010 - 21:44
I really enjoyed attending WordCamps in Houston, Savannah, and Salt Lake City the past few weeks. You can always find upcoming WordCamps here, and I’m currently planning on attending Jerusalem (this Sunday), Portland (September 18-19), and Philippines (October 2). I’m looking forward to [...]

Hiking in Alta,UT

30.08.2010 - 04:38
A short hike up to Cecret Lake and along Sugarloaf peak in Little Cottonwood Canyon near Alta, UT. The Wasatch Mountains are a great place to be outdoors. Guest photographer: Sheri Bigelow.

Hiking in Alta,UT

30.08.2010 - 04:38
A short hike up to Cecret Lake and along Sugarloaf peak in Little Cottonwood Canyon near Alta, UT. The Wasatch Mountains are a great place to be outdoors. Guest photographer: Sheri Bigelow.

Sync Privacy

25.08.2010 - 00:58
Sync took a different tack, and started off with "what if we didn’t want the data' What if even having that data was a failure state'” That led us to cryptography. Sync uses strong crypto to encode your data before it is uploaded. The secret phrase is the key to this encryption, and we never (.. [...]

Happiness Team in Lisbon

12.08.2010 - 10:00
Exploring Lisbon and Estoril with Automattic’s Happiness team, who had been having a meetup there.

Leo Loves Blogging

22.08.2010 - 22:02
Buzz Kill, where Leo Laporte describes the re-ignition of his love affair with blogging over micro-blogging.

Ma.tt Themes Released

21.08.2010 - 20:52
As I announced today at WordCamp Savannah, I’m releasing two of my old designs as themes for any WordPress blog. If you’re one of the thousands of people who’ve asked me how I do my galleries here on this site, now you can look at the actual code in the Matala theme. (The talavera- [...]

Adobe & Typekit

16.08.2010 - 18:04
Adobe partners with Typekit to bring legendary typefaces to the web — pretty killer.

WordCamp Houston Photos

07.08.2010 - 10:00
WordCamp Houston at the Museum of Natural Science, after-party at Caroline Collective, after-after-party at Christine Tremoulet’s studio, after-after-after-party at Spanish Flowers.

Clean Air with Plants

15.08.2010 - 18:57
Matt Thomas (Automattic’s creative director) talks about air filtration in his home with plants.

WordPress Podcast Interview

12.08.2010 - 02:20
I was on the WordPress Podcast a few weeks ago and they just posted the first segment. Always fun talking to Joost and Frederick!

Syn-thesis 3:Switchers

11.08.2010 - 18:52
The biggest after-effect of the Thesis license violation episode seems to be raising people’s awareness of alternatives that are both fully GPL and have better functionally too. One theme that seems to be picking up a ton of new users is Genesis. We helped Laughing Squid and Paul Stamatiou mak [...]

Acceleration of Addictiveness

09.08.2010 - 17:14
People commonly use the word “procrastination” to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what’s happening as merely not-doing-work. We don’t call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working. Paul Graham’s The Acceler [...]

Social Gaming Developers Wanted

03.09.2010 - 00:29
If you develop Social Games I want to talk to you. Im looking to invest in  games,  developers and projects Im looking for consumer and corporate applications. I’m not looking for knockoffs of existing games/apps. I’m also looking for physical products that have integrated social gamin [...]

The Best Investment Advice You Will Ever Get

25.08.2010 - 16:24
I’m going to simplify what I consider to be the best investment advice I have ever been given and share it with you.  Here you go: 1. If you have any credit card or other type of consumer debt on which you pay 5pct or more interest, pay it off.  Compound interest is your enemy.  (...)

The Stock Market is still for Suckers and why you should put your money in the bank

21.08.2010 - 06:24
I wrote a whole series of articles warning people about the stock market over the years. You can see them here. It’s gotten worse. So I thought i would write some more about why you should probably avoid putting any new money into the stock market… If you haven’t noticed, individua [...]

The Future of the Facebook Like Button

07.08.2010 - 17:20
I hit the like button on pages all the time.  I like your picture.  I like the fact you had fun on your vacation. It doesn’t mean I want to get into a long involved conversation or see all your vacation pictures. I like the jeans you are selling on your website . I like (...)

Chasing the Rangers

05.08.2010 - 21:13
First of all, nothing but the best for Chuck and Nolan.  I want the Rangers to win the World Series as much as any fan does and I think they have the right people on the field and off to help them do it. So why did I go chasing the Rangers despite all the (...)

Should I do this deal '

22.07.2010 - 03:33
This showed up in my email inbox today. It was so interesting and consise an offering I just had to share it with everyone and get your thoughts ! Mark, Please review the following opportunity. This may help you in your purchase with the Rangers. I know you don’t need the help. Please keep in [...]

The End of Location Based Applications '

18.07.2010 - 22:56
I just invested in a company that takes video of an area and can tell you exactly how many people are in the capture area at any given time.  It’s great for traffic patterns, security, and much more.  We are posting cameras in certain environments where anonymity is required, and we don̵ [...]

So Where is Lebron Going '

08.07.2010 - 22:17
I have no idea.  To his credit, this has been the best kept secret since the formula for Coca Cola.  Talking to owners, GM, players, friends of Lebrons’ , no one knows. So let me you give you my guess. This afternoon I heard that a PR firm was telling some media outlets that Lebron (...)

Some Notes to Congress on the Economy

09.06.2010 - 16:24
Why not put my 2 cents in ' Here are a few notes that hopefully a couple politicians will take note of: 1. Carried Interest Taxes Of course it should be taxed at normal income rates because that is what it is.  But the bigger issue is the misrepresentation that it will negatively impact investment. [...]

What Newspapers Can Learn From Facebook and Mobile,how Google was the big loser in the FB Privacy Debate

03.06.2010 - 16:43
I’ve written multiple times about the value of independence from Google to Newspapers. Of course, each generated responses from many who disagreed with me.   I just wanted to point out that Facebook, arguably  the largest and most important website in the world has most of its content walled [...]

Netflix and the Future of the Entertainment Business

28.05.2010 - 23:30
I’m a big fan of Reed Hastings. Not just of his vision, but his honesty as well.   Reed posted his strategy deck on Slideshare.com . While we agree and disagree on a few items here and there, he does a great job identifying the risks created by Cable/satellite/telco (CST) .  The key quote o [...]

The Future of Google TV is..

20.05.2010 - 21:09
Google TV is going to be very interesting. It is far  from a certainty that it will be more than Apple TV in terms of consumer sales.   From a first glance the Marketplace is the most important and interesting element of the announcement.  As a development platform, Android creates the potential [...]

Facebook Privacy ' Who Cares'

19.05.2010 - 18:16
if you are in the media enough, you recognize that the media lives for the next headline. Facebook Privacy ' What a great headline.  We all care about privacy, right ' Wrong.  Privacy is a boogie man for the media to play with. Unless you are in the internet business in some manner, where discussi [...]

What Business is Wall Street In '

09.05.2010 - 18:36
My last two posts were designed to stimulate discussion.  But lets talk the real problem that regulators, public companies, investor/shareholders and traders face.  The problem is that Wall Street doesn’t know what business it is in. Regulators don’t know what the business of Wall Stre [...]

The Biggest Risk to the Stock Market ' The Illusion of Liquidity '

07.05.2010 - 18:12
lets reflect for a moment on the subprime mortgage meltdown.  Why did all those banks give loans to anyone with a pulse and why did institutions buy those loans ' Because the spreadsheets told them it was ok.  Their models included “no way it will get this bad” default rates. Which was [...]

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Musical discovery in the digital age:Owl City -> The Postal Service

14.08.2010 - 16:52
Fascinating experience that just turned me on to a new band and a great demonstration of the unintended consequences of allowing user comments and ratings of products...Listening to a song from Owl City (Adam Young)'s latest CD, I was wondering if there's a newer one on the way. What better way to f [...]

Win a signed copy of Jim Kukral's book "Attention"

09.08.2010 - 23:19
I seem to have a lot of friends who write books, the latest of whom is Jim Kukral. His book even includes a two-page profile of me, focused on how I branded my Ask Dave Taylor business, so it's got to be good, right' :-)Actually, Jim sent me a copy a week or two ago, and it is pretty darn fascinatin [...]

HP and Apple demonstrate execs need to own up to their mistakes too

09.08.2010 - 16:03
This has been an interesting fortnight with first Mark Papermaster being fired from Apple, then Mark Hurd being ejected from Hewlett-Packard after a strange sexual harassment investigation that uncovered violations of the HP rules of employee conduct. Mark Papermaster was the head of the iPhone and [...]

Sony prohibits Internet sales for its ES line

09.07.2010 - 23:48
Ah, Sony. I don't know of any other company I have loved for so long and yet had to endure their constant poor judgment and lame, backfiring strategy. When I was young, we didn't have a TV, we had a "Trinitron", but now Sony has long since been eclipsed by companies as varied as LG and Apple in the [...]

Recommended Facebook Privacy Settings:Everyone'

02.06.2010 - 20:05
Okay, can I just rant here for a second about the never-ending drumbeat of Facebook and its goose-stepping march towards the Island of Absolutely No Privacy' I mean, after weeks of being beaten up by the industry and users alike about it pushing people towards having more and more information public [...]

Sign up now for my week-long Web Marketing and Social Media workshop

01.06.2010 - 00:33
I'm really enthused to share that I've been working with Boulder Digital Arts on a certification program in Web marketing and social media and the first week-long workshop is coming up in about a month. It's June 28-July 2, and it'll be here in Boulder at the terrific BDA facility.Here's what I'll b [...]

Interview with the ultra-connected Vincent Wright

20.05.2010 - 18:47
I've been involved with groups managed by social media evangelist Vincent Wright for years now, and have become curious about who he is and why he's on a mission to connect us all. And when I use "evangelist" it's not in the sense of someone who is focused on self-aggrandizement, as too many "gurus" [...]

How to Create Great Presentation Slides

18.05.2010 - 17:54
A few days ago I attended a lecture on international business presented by a charming and charismatic speaker. I was interested in the topic, in a comfortable and friendly environment, yet the experience was mediocre at best. Why' Because the slides that the speaker shared with us were abysmal, inco [...]

Job Interview:What ARE your strengths and weaknesses'

29.04.2010 - 18:13
I got an interesting question on my busy Ask Dave Taylor blog:"I had been to ur site, its very useful information u have provided on this site, i want to know if in the interview if they ask u "tell me about you, & your strengths & weakness, how to answer them. pls suggest some tips or examples."Now [...]

Experiences with Keynote and the iPad VGA connector:not so good

15.04.2010 - 20:35
Last night I had a chance to test out a feature of my new Apple iPad that I'd been eager to try: the VGA connector. On a laptop you plug in a second screen or projector and it generally mirrors what's on your existing screen, giving you the ability to share what you're doing with others. Flip a sett [...]

Kudos to Levi Strauss for its Goodwill campaign

25.03.2010 - 18:42
Most PR campaigns we hear about are big ones that involve lots of money and great hopes for visibility. Problem is, a lot of them are basically PR for PR's sake and don't really make much difference in the grand picture, at least, certainly not for us normal folk that aren't in the business.That's w [...]

Are guest blog entries "works for hire"'

22.03.2010 - 19:47
I've been working on writer's guidelines for my Ask Dave Taylor blog and wanted to include some wording about my requirement that the rights to an article transfer to me when submitted. Why' Because I wanted to ensure that there'd never be any issues of our relationship going sour and them then insi [...]

How does a blogging business work'

17.03.2010 - 17:59
I received a query from a grad student who, as part of an assignment, is analyzing my Ask Dave Taylor blog as a business. Interesting timing as I just went and talked at The University of Colorado, Boulder's School of Journalism about the business of blogging (see A Class of Future Journalists and O [...]

A class of CU journalism seniors,and only one was blogging'

16.03.2010 - 01:08
I had an opportunity this morning to speak to a class of graduating seniors at the University of Colorado, Boulder, specifically the rather dryly named "JOUR 4321: Media Institutions & Economics". My topics: Are bloggers a meaningful part of the journalism landscape and how do bloggers make money bl [...]

Pre-Ordering an Apple iPad:The Visual Tour

12.03.2010 - 14:43
I don't know what it is about Apple products that makes me just whip out my credit card, but damned if I don't have one of each, even to the laptops. I think the only product that I've resisted is the Apple TV and that's only because it doesn't play Hulu content. When I started reading - and hearing [...]

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02.09.2010 - 16:53
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23.08.2010 - 17:23
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19.08.2010 - 23:29
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19.08.2010 - 05:55
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18.08.2010 - 18:56
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17.08.2010 - 18:55
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17.08.2010 - 05:42
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16.08.2010 - 19:31
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16.08.2010 - 16:59
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16.08.2010 - 02:09
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14.08.2010 - 06:39
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13.08.2010 - 04:26
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11.08.2010 - 19:07
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