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Thank you Steve Jobs

blog364 — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:10:19 +0000

And everywhere the broken-hearted On every lonely avenue No-one could reach them No-one but you One by one Only the Good die young They're only flying too close to the sun And life goes on - Without you... ... Yes! - it was such an operation Forever paying every due Hell, you made a sensation You found a way through One by one Only the Good die young They're only flyin' too close to the sun We'll remember - Forever...

Lessons learned from fatherhood: Pick your battles!

blog364 — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:20:02 +0000

But before I could reach him, a thought came rushing into my mind: “I have two things that I’m trying to accomplish: 1) Get him out of his PJs and dressed and 2) Get out of the house with him ASAP. ...Usually a good way to find out which task is most important is by asking: Which of this task, if it doesn’t get done now, will keep me from completing the other ones?

Best startup pitch ever!

blog364 — Wed, 18 May 2011 04:10:46 +0000

Recently I’ve been reading a lot about how to pitch a startup. But it wasn’t until I found this video that all started to make sense… well, sort of. The scary part is that this video is not too far off from reality!

Will online ads suffer the same fate as Newspapers?

blog364 — Wed, 18 May 2011 05:13:07 +0000

As consumers start to rely more and more on their social-networks and the wisdom of the crowd for products, services advice and information, will this cause a decrease in the consumers reliance on online advertising, thus causing a decline in online ads?

...So, may be in a not so distant future, we’ll either stop seeing online advertising (at least in their traditional shape and form) or see a big decline as advertisers start reaching and using direct lines of communication with their target markets ( permission marketing & Seth Godin ) and engaging them in the promotion of their services and products, thus, making online advertising as we know it today obsolete.

88 MPH “real-time” does not make

blog364 — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:32:35 +0000

Unless you own a DeLorean that can run at 88 mph and go Back to the Future, it is not. ... It gets indexed by one of the many "real-time" engines/sites A more appropriate name would be near-real-time If I clap my hands that's real-time If I take a picture of my hands being clapped, that's real-time Now, if I go print the photo of my hands being clapped and then show you the photo and say: "Look, I'm clapping my hands."

Sometimes to win you have to stop

blog364 — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:07:08 +0000

You may not win the race but at least now you have one more fighting chance! --- Note: Notice that when I set the scenario up, I said that you were in x place but NOT in first. ... Well, if you are in first place, chances are that you and your car/company are performing at 100% efficiency, and sans some unforeseen tragedy, are probably on your way to a win.

Empty quotes…

blog364 — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:59:54 +0000

Being able to memorize " management best practices " and forecast projections one, three or even a hundred years into the future are only a few of the things needed to build and run a successful business and assuming that this knowledge will be sufficient is the same as thinking that chewing gum can help you resolve an algebra equation. ... So, quite the MBA program, save your money and get real, because in the real world you do have to build a product or service and do what you are best at if you have any aspirations to having a business. Build it and they will not come : Oh, really?

Ask and you shall recieve

blog364 — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:53:18 +0000

I explained to the person helping me that it didn't seem fair to be getting charged for things that: 1) I wasn't told were part of the deal, or that I had explicitly said I didn't want, and 2) they couldn't explain what they were, how they got in my bill or why I should have to pay for them. ... From Dell Hell to Antennagate , we've seen how making a stand for what's right can make even the largest corporations stop, listen and, more and more often now, make changes that will have a long term positive impact, not only on their customers but, by association, on their bottom lines.

Apple’s hypocrisy

blog364 — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:31:41 +0000

Apples monopoly: Why can’t I delete “default” Apple apps from my iPhone? Even Microsoft now give you the option to uninstall default Windows apps (i.e.: Internet Explorer), albeit not out of their own will. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/technology/14brawl.html?

Don’t let my kid cook the cat!

blog364 — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:10:46 +0000

You'd never again have to worry about how the microwave "could" be used or whether the family's pet might end up in the nightly supper stew, or whether they kids might set the house on fire (clearly the cooking stove is another candidate for this, but this article is not about "baby proofing" it. ... It's time to start thinking whether we want to be restricted and constrained in what's possible with the products or services we use and start re-thinking and breaking out of our user-experience boxes and designing and demanding the experiences that we truly crave.

Baby proof my stereo

blog364 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:28:30 +0000

So this got me thinking.... why haven't household electronic manufacturers (i.e.: Sony, LG, Samsung, etc.) come up with a way to "baby proof" some of the staple electronic components that most families have at home? ... And meaningful in this case would be a "baby proof" button in the remote control. Thinking about how to keep Dash from changing the stereo's settings I came up with several ideas, but no one seemed simpler to integrate and design than adding a "baby proof" button to the remote control.

Permission to Google me

blog364 — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:21:49 +0000

If you want the right to say/post whatever you want to (clearly with the intention/understanding that it will be found - otherwise you'd be keeping an old-style paper journal in a safe at home) then you should do so knowing that it will be found and that, YES, people will read and talk about it and, very possibly, JUDGE you by it. ... We own our silence but are slaved by our words and in this day and age of great technology we are slaved by everything we post online! --- I’m not sure if what I’m about to say and do has any legal standing… but there’s only one way to find out.