I’m not a huge apple fan boy, but I’m on my way. I’ve got an iPod Touch, a Macbook and I’ll probably get an iPad at some point in the future. I’ve stayed away from the iPhone as I think the iPod browsing and apps meets my needs. Then I saw the [...]
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How to make pay walls work
Interesting article from the Guardian last week talking about the Irish News online pay wall and how they’ve set up a paywall last year with the choice of £5 for one week’s editions, £15 for a month’s and £150 for a year’s subscription but only managed to get “just 1,215 paid subscriptions: 525 weekly, 370 [...]
Do one thing great
I read this article from Dan Lyons about switching from an iPhone to an Android and the news about the Android outselling the iPhone in the US and looked down and my blackberry and laughed.
Don’t get it twisted, I really like Google and respect the Android OS, I love Apple and love working on a [...]
Leaving Yahoo!
I’ve always believed in the idea that you should leave a place in better shape than you found it. From when I go to a fast food restaurant and make sure I give the table a good wipe before I take off to my professional career. So with tomorrow – my last day [...]
Market share today doesn’t mean market share tomorrow
I’m really enjoying using the Amazon Kindle application on the iPod Touch. I’ve downloaded 3 books and read 1 full book and am halfway through the second. Reading books on an eReader is not something I thought I would really enjoy – at least not as much as I have so far. [...]
Having a villain
I came across this interesting interview on business week today (hat tip to Matt), with a guy talking about Steve Job’s presentation style. There were some tips, including one that I’ve been toying with for some time, having a villain.
According to the article:
“In every classic story, the hero fights the villain. In 1984, the [...]
Spending in a downturn
Okay, I get it, we’re in a downturn. A recession or whatever you want to call it. Fine.
The question is what do you do to ensure long term success during a down turn? Our office had an interesting professor from IMD visit us and talk to us about macroeconomic trends and behaviour, basically [...]
Using exclusivity
Recently it was announced that both O2 in the UK and Rogers in Canada would lose their exclusivity around sales of the iPhone. So Orange, Vodafone in the UK and Telus and Bell in Canada will all have the right to sell the iPhone in their respective markets. My guess is that we’ll see [...]
Being open when you’re apple
While watching the Apple special event from last night I was really touched when Steve Jobs thanked the 20 something year old who had donated his organs and whose Liver he was the recipient for. He encouraged everyone to be an organ donor, something I would encourage everyone to do as well.
I wonder if [...]
Closed is a recipe for failure
I love my iPod touch, love using Skype on it, love playing games on it, checking my Yahoo! and Gmail, using all kinds of apps on it. But I’m upset that there’s so much potential for the iPod/iPhone devices that Apple’s stopping the users from getting.
Google voice has been rejected (and Eric [...]