The web today
May 8, 2008 Leave a comment
Great video about the evolution of the web, information, and more. And done in a cool way.
Did Apple really do everything wrong?
April 4, 2008 Leave a comment
The other day I wrote about strategy and how, if you have a strategy, it will greatly increase our chances of success. (Note: you can be successful without having strategy but that only occurs because of luck.)
Then yesterday I landed on this article: How Apple Got Everything Right, By Doing Everything Wrong. Ironically I used Apple as the example in my strategy article. This article does a great deal of building upon my Apple examples. Apple went against the grain in everything they did, it didn’t have to work out (and it didn’t during the ’90s), but because of the strategy they are now one of the fastest growing computer brands, the leader in digital music sales in the US,global leader of portable audio players, and soon to be the leaders in the communications business.
Strategy equals success
March 31, 2008 2 Comments
I am not a Machead by any circumstance, but Apple happens to do some great things. The strategy and foresight that comes out of Steve Jobs and Co. is brilliant. Apple garners billions of PR impressions and buzz with every announcement they make (and all the rumors that surround future product announcements). While that is fantastic for them, it really doesn’t change the products themselves. From iPods to MacBooks and the AppleTV, though the buzz drives sales it does not have any effect on the products themselves. The product development begins years ahead of the announcement, all attached to a very tight, well thought out, company vision and product road map. Read more of this post
What am I doing?
March 8, 2008 Leave a comment
Here is what I have been doing recently (among many other things), but these are worth/I’m able to blog about.
- Watched the Apple SDK/Enterprise announcement
- Watched the Steve Ballmer interview by Guy Kawasaki live from Mix in Vegas
- Followed the ExpressionEngine 2.0 developer preview, thanks to David’s Tweets
- Started (again) to Tweet and Pounce since people laugh at me for updating my status on Facebook
- Writing a blog post to follow this one, as well as taping some videos
- Doing my taxes
- Watched the recent Digg Townhall
- Upgraded Dabbledoo’s Google Hosted account to the new Gmail, and installed Better Gmail 2
- Thinking about strategy and what it mean/how to do it (see bullet 5)
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