tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20710644545281616332012-02-14T21:10:27.807-08:00Design Mediates Lifeethnography . human-computer interaction . designPete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.comBlogger4401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-32602367185924074672012-02-14T21:10:00.001-08:002012-02-14T21:10:27.848-08:00The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/">http://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/</a> <p /> Food for thought: <p /> The kid who’s loading up on AP courses junior year or editing three campus publications while double-majoring, the kid whom everyone wants at their college or law school but no one wants in their classroom, the kid who doesn’t have a minute to breathe, let alone think, will soon be running a corporation or an institution or a government. She will have many achievements but little experience, great success but no vision. The disadvantage of an elite education is that it’s given us the elite we have, and the elite we’re going to have. <p /> Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/the-american-scholar-the-disadvantages-of-an">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3260236718592407467?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-32040706430057659362012-02-14T14:52:00.001-08:002012-02-14T14:52:24.820-08:00paidContent - Mobile<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://m.paidcontent.org/article/419-why-apple-just-pulled-off-the-companys-first-true-post-pc-quarter/">http://m.paidcontent.org/article/419-why-apple-just-pulled-off-the-companys-first-true-post-pc-quarter/</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">But this is the essence of the post-PC era that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs liked to evangelize. These new mobile devices are not PCs: they’re not being purchased like PCs and they’re not being used like PCs. They are defining a new category of personal computing that is pretty different from that defined by the personal computer, and they should be considered separately: why lump the computer of the future in with the computers of the past?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The grandparents of the PC era—Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Intel—are well aware of this shift, no matter what they say in public. Intel (NSDQ: INTC) has struggled for years to get its processors into phones and tablets but will finally ship some products in 2012, and, as longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley pointed out yesterday, Microsoft is spending an awful lot of time promoting its upcoming Windows 8 operating system on tablets.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Five years after the launch of the iPhone, Apple is dominating the market for this new type of computer. It sold 52 million iOS devices in the fourth quarter and has plenty of room to grow, especially considering that more radical remakes of the iPhone and the iPad are likely in store during 2012.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">And if Android’s lead is really shrinking, the basic rule that has governed mobile development for the last several years will remain true. If you’re trying to build a business around mobile computing, you still have to start with iOS.</p><p />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/paidcontent-mobile">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3204070643005765936?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-86737620311174078032012-02-14T14:38:00.001-08:002012-02-14T14:38:56.981-08:00AAPL: Cook Tells Goldman Reasons Tablets Will Take Over - Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><div class="original-url"><a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2012/02/14/aapl-cook-tells-goldman-reasons-tablets-will-take-over/?mod=yahoobarrons">http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2012/02/14/aapl-cook-tells-goldman-reasons-tablets-will-take-over/?mod=yahoobarrons</a><p /></div><div><div class="page" style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.4;"> <p>Excerpt:</p><p><span style="">Cook remarked that Apple’s revenue from greater Asia, India, Africa and other emerging market territories had expanded from $1.4 billion to $22 billion.</span><br /></p> <p>Shope asked Cook what prompted explosive growth in the iPad.</p> <p>“This 55-million is something no one would have guessed,” said Cook, referring to the total shipment volume to date in just under two years.</p> <p><em>It took 22 years to sell 55 million Macs, it took us three years to sell that many iPhones. The product is absolutely incredible, and the pace of innovation on the product has been incredible. And the ecosystem. There are 170,000 apps optimized for iPad. But the reason that it’s so large in my view is that the iPad has stood on the shoulders of everything that came before it. The App Store was already in play. People were trained on the iPhone, so they were already familiar with multi-touch. It’s amazing how the product has captured so many people … You’re using one! My mother is using one. I go to the gym and my trainer is using one. It’s the fastest adoption across a wide range that I’ve ever seen before. It quickly became 80% to 90% of my work was done on the iPad. Many of us thought at Apple that the tablet market would become larger than the PC market, and it was just a matter of time before that occurred. I see the incredible rate and pace of innovation among developers. If you invited everyone today to come to this room to discuss the coolest PC apps today, you might not have anyone in the meeting! This is where the innovation is. I love the Mac, and the Mac can still grow, but I strongly believe that the tablet market will surpass the unit sales of the PC market, and it’s just a matter of the rate and speed with which that happens. It’s too much of a change for it not to.</em></p></div></div></div><div>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/aapl-cook-tells-goldman-reasons-tablets-will">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8673762031117407803?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-33317689314913658202012-02-14T07:04:00.001-08:002012-02-14T07:04:12.466-08:00Apple Invades Corporate Market with iPad<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-01/apple-invades-3-8t-workplace-market-with-ipad.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-01/apple-invades-3-8t-workplace-market-...</a> <p /> Excerpt: <p /> Bloomberg’s Peter Burrows reports that Apple is making rapid headway selling into corporations — especially financial services and pharmaceutical firms. Burrows writes that Apple’s corporate sales are being driven chiefly by iPad, which “has become a standard business tool.” The article quotes Matt Wallach, co-founder of Veeva Systems, who says: “I’ve seen a lot of devices come and go over the years. Nothing touches the speed of adoption of the iPad.” <p /> Sent from my iPad <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/apple-invades-corporate-market-with-ipad">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3331768931491365820?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-62195111122794004882012-02-14T02:30:00.001-08:002012-02-14T02:30:03.248-08:00Get Ready for 1 Billion Smartphones by 2016, Forrester Says - NYTimes.com<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/get-ready-for-1-billion-smartphones-by-2016-forrester-says/">http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/get-ready-for-1-billion-smartphones-...</a> <p /> Excerpt: <p /> In just four years, one billion people will own smartphones, many of whom will be professionals taking these devices to work, says Forrester, a research company. And because of that, businesses need to think big about how to use mobile products to engage with customers, the company says. <p /> Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/get-ready-for-1-billion-smartphones-by-2016-f">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-6219511112279400488?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-35019133390755098742012-02-14T00:45:00.001-08:002012-02-14T00:45:13.375-08:00Apple Captured a Fifth of U.S. Consumer Electronics Revenue in Holida - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120213/apple-captured-a-fifth-of-u-s-consumer-electronics-revenue-in-holiday-quarter/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker">http://allthingsd.com/20120213/apple-captured-a-fifth-of-u-s-consumer-electronics-revenue-in-holiday-quarter/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p />By now it’s a truism that Apple’s killing it in the United States consumer electronics industry, but here’s one more piece of data to drive that point home: <a href="https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/pressreleases/pr_120213" style="text-decoration: none;">NPD says</a> Apple captured 19 percent of all sales dollars of consumer electronics in the U.S. in the holiday quarter of 2011. That’s nearly twice the percentage captured by Hewlett-Packard, which ranked second on NPD’s list of the top five CE brands.<div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/apple-captured-a-fifth-of-us-consumer-electro">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3501913339075509874?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-35176581493091745012012-02-12T07:32:00.001-08:002012-02-12T07:32:11.895-08:00It's Possible That Over 95% Of Pinterest Users Are Female<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/businessinsider/~3/Oqa_YPbPGXQ/its-possible-that-over-95-of-pinterest-users-are-female-2012-2">http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/businessinsider/~3/Oqa_YPbPGXQ/its-possible-that-over-95-of-pinterest-users-are-female-2012-2</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><table class="image-container float_right" width="200"><tr><td style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><div class="image" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span style=""><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4f370259eab8eaeb6c000029/pinterest-facebook.jpg" border="0" alt="pinterest facebook" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial;" /></span></div><p class="source" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pinterest" style="">Pinterest on Facebook</a></p><p /></td></tr></table>About 97% of people that <em style="font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">like</em> Pinterest's Facebook page are women, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/11/pinterest-stats/" style="text-decoration: none;">TechCrunch</a> reports based on data from <a href="http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/274266067164-pinterest" style="text-decoration: none;">Inside Network</a>.<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Considering over 1,000,000 people like Pinterest's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pinterest" style="text-decoration: none;">Facebook page</a>, it's not a stretch to say that "97%" might not be far off for how many actual Pinterest users are female.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Still not convinced that 97% could be anywhere close to accurate?</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Well, nine million of Pinterest's ten million users are "Facebook connected," meaning their Pinterest accounts are hooked UP to their Facebook accounts.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span>Over 1/5 of these Facebook fans use Pinterest every day, which is still a pretty big sample size to draw conclusions from.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="">Sent from my iPad</span><br /></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/its-possible-that-over-95-of-pinterest-users">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3517658149309174501?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-45136565001242179142012-02-10T17:14:00.001-08:002012-02-10T17:14:51.476-08:00Kindle Fire cost breakdown<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/Amazon-Kindle-Fire-Costs-$201-70-to-Manufacture.aspx">http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/Amazon-Kindle-Fire-Costs-$201-70-to-Manufacture.aspx</a> <p /><div>Excerpt:</div><p /><div><b style=""><img src="http://www.isuppli.com/PublishingImages/Press%20Releases/2011-11-18_Kindle_BOM.jpg" border="0" alt="Amazon Kindle Fire BOM" style="border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-right-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-top-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom-color: initial;" /></b> </div><p /><div><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <b>Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) dominates the Kindle Fire design. </b>Most notably, TI contributes the applications processor, which provides the core functionality of the tablet. The TI OMAP4430 processor costs $14.65, accounting for 7.9 percent of the Kindle Fire’s total BOM. However, TI also supplies other devices, including the power management device and the audio codec. This gives TI a total of $24 per each Kindle, or 12.9 percent of the BOM.</p> <p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">TI’s OMAP4430 applications processor has been identified in an increasing number of designs dissected by the IHS, including Research In Motion’s PlayBook RDJ21WW tablet, as well as the Motorola Droid Bionic XT875 and LG Optimus 3D P920 smartphones. The OMAP4430 is a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9, 1GHz processor with a IVA 3 Hardware Accelerator and a SGX540 3D graphics core. The device supports 1080P 2-D and 720P 3-D graphics, and is produced using 45nm process geometry.</p> <p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><b></b></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><b>The single most expensive subsystem in the Kindle Fire is the display and touch screen, at a combined cost of $87.00, or 46.9 percent of the BOM.</b> Amazon sources the display from two companies: LG Display and E Ink Holdings. The display uses E Ink’s FFS technology, which LG Display has licensed.</p> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/kindle-fire-cost-breakdown">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-4513656500124217914?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-10595902287018782872012-02-10T17:10:00.001-08:002012-02-10T17:10:38.035-08:00What's inside a Kindle Fire<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/kindle-fire-teardown/">http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/kindle-fire-teardown/</a> <div><br /><div>excerpt:</div><div><p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> If you’re in need of a refresher, the $200 <a href="http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/11/kindle-fire/all/1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0,124,165); text-decoration: none;">Kindle Fire</a> tablet features a 7-inch multi-touch display with 1024 x 600 resolution. It’s got a dual-core processor, 8 gigs of onboard storage, and runs a custom, Amazon-skinned version of Android 2.3, and is — so far — a <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/kindle-fire-amazon-app-store/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0,124,165); text-decoration: none;">huge hit with consumers</a> and developers.</p> <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> </p><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <a href="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2011/11/standard-image-1.jpeg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0,124,165); text-decoration: none;"><img class="size-full wp-image-82346" title="standard image 1" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2011/11/standard-image-1.jpeg" height="444" alt="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial;" width="592" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; color: rgb(221,221,221); background-color: rgb(0,0,0); font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"> After prying off the back, you can see the Fire's ginormous battery. Photo: iFixit</p></div><p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> </p><p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> The Fire is .45 inches thick, which is a bit huskier than other popular tablets like the .34-inch-thick iPad 2. Popping open its casing (done using a guitar pick and iFixit’s “plastic opening tool”) was far easier than prying apart something like an iPod or other iDevice. And unlike <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/ifixit-razr-teardown/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0,124,165); text-decoration: none;">recent teardown projects</a>, the glass and display on the Kindle are not fused together, which is good news, but the glass panel is attached to the front panel assembly and requires a heat gun to pry it off.</p> <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> Using a Philips #0 screwdriver and a spudger, the team was able to dig deeper into the hearth of the Fire (come on, I had to make at least <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">one</em> fire-related pun). They found a large 4.6-by-4.3-inch, 4400 mAh Lithium-ion battery that’s held in place with a dab of glue and a single connector. The Fire employs a number of different Texas Instruments chips, including a 1GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 processor.</p> </div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/whats-inside-a-kindle-fire">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-1059590228701878287?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-24490680362731972802012-02-07T07:40:00.001-08:002012-02-07T07:40:14.966-08:00Research in Motion and the BlackBerry’s Rise and Fall : The New Yorker<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://m.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2012/02/13/120213ta_talk_surowiecki">http://m.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2012/02/13/120213ta_talk_surowiecki</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The easy explanation for what happened to R.I.M. is that, like so many other companies, it got run over by Apple. But the real problem is that the technology world changed, and R.I.M. didn’t. The BlackBerry was designed for businesses. Its true customers weren’t its users but the people who run corporate information-technology departments. The BlackBerry gave them what they wanted most: reliability and security. It was a closed system, running on its own network. The phone’s settings couldn’t easily be tinkered with by ordinary users. So businesses loved it, and R.I.M.’s assumption was that, once companies embraced the technology, consumers would, too.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">This pattern—of winning over business and government markets and then reaching consumers—is a time-honored one. The telegraph was initially taken up mainly by railroads, financial institutions, and big companies. The telephone, though it became popular with consumers relatively quickly, was first used principally as a business tool. The typewriter’s biggest users were offices. The Internet originated in the military-industrial complex, and first found an audience among academics and scientists. The personal computer, though popular with hobbyists early on, came to market dominance only once I.B.M. introduced models targeted squarely at businesses. Historically, new technologies have been very expensive—when phone service was introduced in New York, it cost the equivalent of two thousand dollars a month—and so early adopters have generally been companies that could make (or save) money by using them. (It’s telling that the biggest exception to the business-first pattern was television, where the business applications were less obvious.) In 2006, it looked to R.I.M. as if the story of the smartphone market would echo the story of the telegraph.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">It didn’t. In fact, even as the BlackBerry was at the height of its popularity, we were entering the age of what’s inelegantly called the consumerization of I.T., or simply Bring Your Own Device. In this new era, technological diffusion started to flow the other way—from consumers to businesses. Social media went from being an annoying fad to an unavoidable part of the way many businesses work. Tablets, which many initially thought were just underpowered laptops, soon became common among salesmen, hospital staffs, and retailers. So, too, with the iPhone and Androids. They’ve always been targeted at consumers, and tend to come with stuff that I.T. departments hate, like all those extraneous apps. Yet, because employees love them, businesses have adapted (and the iPhone and Androids have upgraded security to make themselves more business-friendly). As a result, the iPhone and Androids now control more than half the corporate mobile market.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Consumerization has been disastrous for R.I.M., because the company has seemed clueless about what consumers want. R.I.M. didn’t bring out a touch-screen phone until long after Apple, and the device that it eventually launched was a pale imitation of the iPhone. Although the BlackBerry brand name was once seen as a revolutionary success, over time R.I.M.’s product line became bewilderingly large, with inscrutable model names. If you’re a consumer, do you want the 8300 or the seemingly identical 8330? And the BlackBerry’s closed system has left R.I.M. ill equipped for a world in which phones and tablets are platforms for the whole app ecosystem.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The consumerization of I.T. has deep economic and social roots and is unlikely to go away. Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices. (Apple’s products seem pricey, but despite the weak economy it has sold more than a hundred million iPhones and more than forty million iPads.) The workplace is changing, too. The barrier between work and home has been eroded, and if people are going to have to be constantly connected they want at least to use their own phones. Companies have quickly come to love consumerization, too: a recent study by the consulting firm Avanade found that executives like the way it keeps workers plugged in all day long. And since workers often end up paying for their own devices, it can also help businesses cut costs. One way or another, consumers are going to have more and more say over what technologies businesses adopt. It’s a brave new world. It’s just not the one that the BlackBerry was built for. <span class="dingbat" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">♦</span></p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/research-in-motion-and-the-blackberrys-rise-a">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-2449068036273197280?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-12472289912226510192012-02-06T15:12:00.001-08:002012-02-06T15:12:33.184-08:00A Day Made of Glass 2<div class='posterous_autopost'><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jZkHpNnXLB0?wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="417" width="500"></iframe> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/a-day-made-of-glass-2">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-1247228991222651019?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-37801432432554214072012-02-06T15:01:00.001-08:002012-02-06T15:01:03.693-08:00Corning's World of Glass<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57371422-1/cornings-mind-blowing-concept-of-a-glass-future/?tag=mncol">http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57371422-1/cornings-mind-blowing-concept-of-a-glass-future/?tag=mncol</a><br /> <p /><div>Excerpt:</div><p /><div> <h1>Corning's mind-blowing concept of a glass future</h1> <div class="postByline"><a href="http://www.cnet.com/profile/sonyinsider/" rel="author"><img class="mugshot" src="http://asset1.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/10/12/headshots_Christopher_MacManus_140x100_60x43.jpg" height="43" alt="Christopher MacManus" width="60" /></a><span class="author">by <a href="http://www.cnet.com/profile/sonyinsider/" rel="author">Christopher MacManus</a> </span>February 5, 2012 11:52 AM PST </div> <div class="postBody txtWrap"> <div class="cnet-image-div image-LARGE2 float-none" style=""><a href="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/02/03/closet.jpg" class="lightboxIt"><img class="cnet-image" src="http://asset1.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/02/03/closet_610x343.jpg" height="343" alt="" width="610" /> </a> <p class="image-caption">One day we could have high-tech walls made of touch-sensitive architectural display glass.</p><span class="image-credit">(Credit: Corning)</span> </div> <p>"Gorilla Glass" could one day become a household phrase, but Corning has even larger ideas. </p> <p>"A Day Made of Glass 2" is a montage of "how highly engineered glass, with companion technologies, will help shape our world," according to Corning. It is mind-blowing to imagine everyday objects suddenly having rich, interactive displays and multiple functionalities. </p> <p>After watching the video, I began to think about how intelligent glass, installed on a broad scale, could change the world. There are two key integrations: in the education and medical fields. </p> <p></p> <div class="cnet-image-div image-LARGE2 float-none" style=""><a href="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/02/03/teacher_at_board.jpg" class="lightboxIt"><img class="cnet-image" src="http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/02/03/teacher_at_board_610x343.jpg" height="343" alt="" width="610" /> </a> <p class="image-caption">Education: the final frontier. </p><span class="image-credit">(Credit: Corning)</span> </div> <p></p> <p>In the video, kids sit in rows of workstations in a classroom with a large, interactive touch-screen display and a teacher. Computers show only what is on the main display with no distractions. The menu system and interactive features, combined with a teacher's expertise, compel the kids to pay attention and learn. I certainly feel this is what education could be, and should be. Just seeing the purported UI reminds me of how it is sad that we'll see something like this in a mobile device before we see it integrated into our schools. </p> <p></p> <div class="cnet-image-div image-LARGE2 float-none" style=""><img class="cnet-image" src="http://asset3.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/02/03/screen_docs_610x343.jpg" height="343" alt="" width="610" /> <p class="image-caption">Full-scale wall projections could change the way we look at glass.</p><span class="image-credit">(Credit: Corning)</span></div> <p></p> <p>There's also a portrayal of a hospital full to the brim with fancy futuristic Corning glass setups. Aside from the expected <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/">tablets</a> for carrying around information and vital stats, there's a suggestion for an all-glass room. The clip shows a doctor video-conferencing with another doctor thousands of miles away. It's surreal to see them work together on charts through a massive, ultracrisp glass touch screen. Will we really have wall displays that show another room perfectly?</p> <p>Sign me up, but please don't show me the bandwidth bill. </p> <p>The psychics at Corning also suggest that hospital rooms in the future could be made entirely of high-tech specialty glass that could offer antimicrobial qualities that "inhibit the growth of microorganisms." </p> <p>There are many more examples that we could speak about from this video. Which one is your favorite? If you want more, check out the PR-heavy <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-GXO_urMow">expanded version</a>. </p></div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/cornings-world-of-glass">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3780143243255421407?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-44244236587148650432012-02-06T14:47:00.001-08:002012-02-06T14:47:56.362-08:00What I learned from Steve Jobs<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20117575-37/what-i-learned-from-steve-jobs/">http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20117575-37/what-i-learned-from-steve-jobs/</a> <p /><div>Excerpt:<div><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 1.333em; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.22em!important; color: rgb(118,134,150); background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153,0,0);">guest column</b> Many people have explained what one can learn from Steve Jobs. But few, if any, of these people have been inside the tent and experienced first hand what it was like to work with him. I don’t want any lessons to be lost or forgotten, so here is my list of the top 12 lessons I learned from Steve Jobs.</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="cnet-image" src="http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/10/08/newsguykawasaki.jpg" height="138" alt="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" width="184" /><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></strong></p> <p class="image-caption" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.133em;"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Guy Kawasaki</strong></p> <p></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Experts are clueless</strong><br /> Experts—journalists, analysts, consultants, bankers, and gurus can’t “do” so they “advise.” They can tell you what is wrong with your product, but they cannot make a great one. They can tell you how to sell something, but they cannot sell it themselves. They can tell you how to create great teams, but they only manage a secretary. For example, the experts told us that the two biggest shortcomings of Macintosh in the mid 1980s were the lack of a daisy-wheel printer driver and Lotus 1-2-3; another advice gem from the experts was to buy Compaq. Hear what experts say, but don’t always listen to them.</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Customers cannot tell you what they need</strong><br /> “Apple market research” is an oxymoron. The Apple focus group was the right hemisphere of Steve’s brain talking to the left one. If you ask customers what they want, they will tell you, “Better, faster, and cheaper”—that is, better sameness, not revolutionary change. They can describe their desires only in terms of what they are already using—around the time of the introduction of Macintosh, all that people said they wanted was a better, faster, and cheaper MS-DOS machine. The richest vein for tech startups is creating the product that <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">you</i> want to use—that’s what Steve and Woz did.</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> </p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Jump to the next curve</strong><br /> Big wins happen when you go beyond better sameness. The best daisy-wheel printer companies were introducing new fonts in more sizes. Apple introduced the next curve: laser printing. Think of ice harvesters, ice factories, and refrigerator companies. Ice 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. Are you still harvesting ice during the winter from a frozen pond?</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">4. The biggest challenges beget best work</strong><br /> I lived in fear that Steve would tell me that I, or my work, was crap. In public. This fear was a big challenge. Competing with IBM and then Microsoft was a big challenge. Changing the world was a big challenge. I, and Apple employees before me and after me, did our best work because we had to do our best work to meet the big challenges.</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Design counts</strong><br /> Steve drove people nuts with his design demands—some shades of black weren’t black enough. Mere mortals think that black is black, and that a trash can is a trash can. Steve was a perfectionist, and he was right: some people care about design and many people at least sense it. Maybe not everyone, but the important ones.</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> </p><div class="cnet-image-div image-REGULAR float-none" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; float: none; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <img class="cnet-image" src="http://asset3.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/10/07/SteveJobsUnveilsiPhone.jpg" height="367" alt="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" width="550" /><p class="image-caption" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.133em;"> The Apple iPhone, officially unveiled at the Macworld trade show on January 9, 2007, was arguably the single most anticipated gadget in the history of the high-tech and consumer electronics industries.</p><span class="image-credit" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.133em;">(Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET)</span></div> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> </p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">6. You can’t go wrong with big graphics and big fonts</strong><br /> Take a look at Steve’s slides. The font is 60 points. There’s usually one big screenshot or graphic. Look at other tech speaker’s slides—even the ones who have seen Steve in action. The font is 8 points, and there are no graphics. So many people say that Steve was the world’s greatest product introduction guy. Don’t you wonder why more people don’t copy his style?</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> </p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Changing your mind is a sign of intelligence</strong><br /> When Apple first shipped the <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/iphone/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(41,100,191); text-decoration: none;">iPhone</a> there was no such thing as apps. Apps, Steve decreed, were a bad thing because you never know what they could be doing to your phone. <a href="http://download.cnet.com/mac/browsers/2001-2137_4-0.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(41,100,191); text-decoration: none;">Safari</a> Web apps were the way to go until six months later when Steve decided, or someone convinced him, that apps were the way to go—but of course. Duh! Apple came a long way in a short time from Safari Web apps to “there’s an app for that.”</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">8. “Value” is different from “price”</strong><br /> Woe unto you if you decide everything based on price. Even more woe unto you if you compete solely on price. Price is not all that matters—what is important, at least to some people, is value. And value takes into account training, support, and the intrinsic joy of using the best tool that’s made. It’s pretty safe to say that no one buys Apple products because of their low price.</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">9. A players hire A+ players</strong><br /> Actually, Steve believed that A players hire A players—that is people who are as good as they are. I refined this slightly—my theory is that A players hire people even better than themselves. It’s clear, though, that B players hire C players so they can feel superior to them, and C players hire D players. If you start hiring B players, expect what Steve called “the bozo explosion” to happen in your organization.</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Real CEOs demo</strong><br /> Steve Jobs could demo a 'Pod, 'Pad, 'Phone, and <a href="http://www.cnet.com/apple-mac.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(41,100,191); text-decoration: none;">Mac</a> two to three times a year with millions of people watching, why is it that many CEOs call on their vice president of engineering to do a product demo? Maybe it’s to show that there’s a team effort in play. Maybe. It’s more likely that the CEO doesn’t understand what his/her company is making well enough to explain it. How pathetic is that?</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">11. Real CEOs ship</strong><br /> For all his perfectionism, Steve could ship. Maybe the product wasn’t perfect every time, but it was almost always great enough to go. The lesson is that Steve wasn’t tinkering for the sake of tinkering—he had a goal: shipping and achieving worldwide domination of existing markets or creation of new markets. Apple is an engineering-centric company, not a research-centric one. Which would you rather be: Apple or Xerox PARC?</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> </p><div class="cnet-image-div image-REGULAR float-right" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; clear: right; float: right; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <img class="cnet-image" src="http://asset1.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/10/07/guy2x2-sml.png" height="243" alt="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" width="240" /><p class="image-caption" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.133em;"> Unique + Valuable = Has a market</p></div><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> </p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">12. Marketing boils down to providing unique value</strong><br /> Think of a two-by-two matrix. The vertical axis measures how your product differs from the competition. The horizontal axis measures the value of your product. Bottom right: valuable but not unique—you’ll have to compete on price. Top left: unique but not valuable—you’ll own a market that doesn’t exist. Bottom left: not unique and not valuable—you’re a bozo. Top right: unique and valuable—this is where you make margin, money, and history. For example, the iPod was unique and valuable because it was the only way to legally, inexpensively, and easily download music from the six biggest record labels.</p> <p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Bonus: Some things need to be believed to be seen.</strong> When you are jumping curves, defying/ignoring the experts, facing off against big challenges, obsessing about design, and focusing on unique value, you will need to convince people to believe in what you are doing in order to see your efforts come to fruition. People needed to believe in Macintosh to see it become real. Ditto for the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. Not everyone will believe—that’s OK. But the starting point of changing the world is changing a few minds. This is the greatest lesson of all that I learned from Steve. May he rest in peace knowing how much he changed the world.</p> </div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/what-i-learned-from-steve-jobs">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-4424423658714865043?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-46232571876871801222012-02-06T12:40:00.001-08:002012-02-06T12:40:07.200-08:00Pogoplug Personal Cloud<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/pogoplug-update-lets-you-print-with-an-e-mail/">http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/pogoplug-update-lets-you-print-with-an-e-mail/</a> <div><br /><div>excerpt:</div><p /><div><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 30px; font-size: 24px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> Pogoplug Update Lets You Print With an E-mail</h1></div><div><p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/pogoplug-update-lets-you-print-with-an-e-mail/pogo-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-43101" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(35,141,177); text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(229,248,255);"><img title="pogo" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43101" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2010/06/pogo1.jpg" height="359" alt="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; display: block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" width="660" /></a></p> <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> The Pogoplug got an update this week that will let you, with an e-mail from any computer or mobile device, print a document on any printer you have connected with a Pogoplug.</p><p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">The Pogoplug’s simplest use is for accessing your stored files over the Internet. The $130 device plugs into your Ethernet connection, and has a USB port – plug in a hard drive or a USB drive, and the Pogoplug puts all those files on the web for you to access via the Pogoplug site or the company’s iPhone and Android apps. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,0);">You can also e-mail files to your Pogoplug – if you’ve got a file on another computer, you can e-mail it straight onto your hard drive instead of attempting any of the other, universally obnoxious options for getting a file to your computer.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> The <a href="http://www.pogoplug.com/blog/pogoplug-puts-printers-online-enables-printing-from-any-mobile-device-179/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(35,141,177); text-decoration: none;">latest Pogoplug update</a> lets you connect a printer to the Pogoplug, instead of just a hard drive. That means that any printer with a USB port can get connected to the internet, and you can print something just by e-mailing it. Need to print from your iPad or cell phone? Now you can.</p> <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> HP announced the same feature a few weeks ago, but you’ll need to buy a new HP printer in order to print by e-mail. Pogoplug supports all HP printers and all Epson printers made since 2005 right out of the box, with more likely coming.</p> <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> More and more companies are likely to adopt this same kind of feature, and printing’s going to get a lot more convenient, no matter your location or device of choice. As the world goes mobile, printing’s catching up, one funny-looking pink device at a time.</p> </div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/pogoplug-personal-cloud">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-4623257187687180122?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-63167059484304943222012-02-04T19:11:00.001-08:002012-02-04T19:11:28.342-08:00Apple's iPhone Business is Now Larger Than All of Microsoft - Forbes<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/02/04/apples-iphone-business-is-now-larger-than-all-of-microsoftt/?partner=yahootix">http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/02/04/apples-iphone-business-is-now-larger-than-all-of-microsoftt/?partner=yahootix</a></div><p /><div>Excerpt:<br /><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">This won’t be a surprise to anyone who has been following the numbers but<a href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/apple/" style="text-decoration: underline;">Apple</a>‘s iPhone business alone is now larger than all of <a href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/microsoft/" style="text-decoration: underline;">Microsoft</a>. I’ll confess that while I was aware of the numbers I obviously wasn’t paying attention as this point hadn’t occurred to me. Parislemon makes <a href="http://parislemon.com/post/16997124721/size-matters" style="text-decoration: underline;">it plain</a>:</p><blockquote style=""><p style=""><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal;">Apple’s iPhone business alone is larger than all of Microsoft’s businesses combined.</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">And as he goes on to point out, if you took the iPhone business out of Apple then what remains is <em>still</em> larger than all of Microsoft combined.</p>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/apples-iphone-business-is-now-larger-than-all">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-6316705948430494322?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-50389514146402185382012-02-02T00:10:00.001-08:002012-02-02T00:10:19.767-08:00Scanner Apps Make Digital Versions of Paper Documents - NYTimes.com<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/technology/personaltech/scanner-apps-make-digital-versions-of-paper-documents.html?partner=yahoofinance">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/technology/personaltech/scanner-apps-make-d...</a> <p /> <br />Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/scanner-apps-make-digital-versions-of-paper-d">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-5038951414640218538?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-35039289937979638352012-02-01T23:51:00.001-08:002012-02-01T23:51:39.280-08:00Why China cannot develop its own iPhone - Forbes<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2012/02/01/why-china-cannot-develop-its-own-iphone/2/">http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2012/02/01/why-china-cannot-develop-its-own-iphone/2/</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Within this institutional framework, entrepreneurship begins with the supply side of the market, with resources, rather than the demand side, with consumers, as is usually the case in market economies. Such an approach may be rational from the perspective of Chinese planners who are in command of enormous resources and are anxious to find some quick uses that will produce short-term growth. But it is irrational from the perspective of fast-moving global markets where consumers rather than central planners are at the center of the economic universe.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">To be fair, not all American companies understand and apply this mind-set. A number of technology companies from <a href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=ek&tab=searchtabquotesdark" style="text-decoration: underline;">Eastman Kodak</a> (NYSE:EK) to <a href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=csco&tab=searchtabquotesdark" style="text-decoration: underline;">Cisco</a>Systems (NYSE:CSCO), <a href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=hpq&tab=searchtabquotesdark" style="text-decoration: underline;">Hewlett-Packard</a>(NYSE: HPQ), Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) and <a href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/bank-of-america/" style="text-decoration: underline;">Bank of America</a>(NYSE:BAC) have regressed from a consumer-driven entrepreneurship to supply-driven entrepreneurship with dire consequences for their stakeholders.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The bottom line: The iPhone is an American, not a Chinese product. Americans shouldn’t be blindsided by China’s 19<sup>th</sup> century manufacturing success. America should be the home of companies like <a href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/apple/" style="text-decoration: underline;">Apple</a> that create high-paying jobs in a modern capitalist environment, rather than the home of Foxconns that create low-paying jobs in an outdated capitalist environment.</p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/why-china-cannot-develop-its-own-iphone-forbe-42127">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3503928993797963835?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-64674319779457645462012-02-01T23:50:00.001-08:002012-02-01T23:50:50.084-08:00Why China cannot develop its own iPhone - Forbes<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2012/02/01/why-china-cannot-develop-its-own-iphone/?partner=yahootix">http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2012/02/01/why-china-cannot-develop-its-own-iphone/?partner=yahootix</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Everyone reading <a href="http://www.forbes.com/places/ny/new-york/" style="text-decoration: underline;">New York</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?pagewanted=all" style="text-decoration: underline;">Times</a> has probably come across a recent article that addresses a question many Americans ask, including President Obama: Why aren’t iPhones made in the US?</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">While this question is certainly of great importance at a time job growth in the US is slow and unemployment is hovering around 9 percent, it downplays the very fact that the iPhone is an American, not a Chinese product. This means that America, not China is the driver of innovation and job growth in the world economy.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">A more interesting question that needs to be addressed is: Why can’t China develop its own iPhone?</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The answer is that China lacks a very important resource that contributed to the development of the iPhone: Schumpeterian entrepreneurship—that is the discovery and exploitation of new market opportunities; the development of radically new products that make a difference in consumer lives, fostering the growth of new industries and new job opportunities at the same time.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Schumpeterian entrepreneurship is a special and peculiar resource. It cannot be purchased and acquired in the marketplace. Neither can it be imposed from above from an enlightened government bureaucracy. It must be nurtured and fostered within an environment that releases the imagination, ingenuity and creativity of the individual in “<a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/panosmourdoukoutas/page/2/" style="text-decoration: underline;">examining life</a>,” by exploring new business concepts and ideas, creating wealth and prosperity at the same time. Entrepreneurship must be imbued in libertarian ideas and immersed in a culture that respects and rewards inventors, entrepreneurs, and pioneers.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Obviously, such an environment doesn’t exist in China. The very concept of Schumpeterian entrepreneurship doesn’t blend well with China’s culture of Confucian conformity to existing norms. Throughout the country’s history, the established order saved little respect for inventors, entrepreneurs, and business pioneers.</p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/why-china-cannot-develop-its-own-iphone-forbe">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-6467431977945764546?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-56693942693600992672012-02-01T00:34:00.001-08:002012-02-01T00:34:49.652-08:00Ray Bradbury: Revenge of the Nerd<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/revenge-of-the-nerd/">http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/revenge-of-the-nerd/</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/rayee.jpg" style="text-decoration: underline;"><img title="rayee" class="alignright size-full wp-image-18552" src="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/rayee.jpg" height="558" alt="" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(218, 240, 254); border-right-color: rgb(218, 240, 254); border-bottom-color: rgb(218, 240, 254); border-left-color: rgb(218, 240, 254); padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; float: right; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px;" width="340" /></a>Ray Bradbury would have made a great “Revenge of the Nerds” character alongside Gilbert, Lewis, Poindexter, Wormser, and Lamar Latrell, had he not been such a caricature. A four-eyed, zit-faced, bully bull’s-eye gliding through Los Angeles on steel-wheeled rollerskates, Bradbury was a fanboy who forcefully demanded autographs and pictures from Hollywood’s most glamorous stars. Nobody told the uncouth teenaged transplant from the Midwest that he was staring at his opposites when he cornered Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, and Judy Garland. The stargazer dared to become the star. His life is the ultimate revenge of the nerd.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The writer once rebelled against his nerd designation. Now he rebels against nerds themselves. Technology, the plaything of geeks, is Bradbury’s punching bag. Seventy years and more of his short stories have taken readers from Nowheresville, Middle America to the ancient ruins of Mars, meeting along the way big, beautiful, tattooed women; Mexicans time-sharing a $59 vanilla leisure suit; and midgets achieving vertical liberation through funhouse mirrors. Within that gigantic oeuvre no theme is more, well, Bradburian than that of contraptions designed to make life better actually making it worse.</p><p /><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/ray-bradbury-revenge-of-the-nerd">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-5669394269360099267?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-60759082277169847302012-02-01T00:28:00.001-08:002012-02-01T00:28:38.932-08:00iPads in the workplace<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-01/apple-invades-3-8t-workplace-market-with-ipad.html?cmpid=yhoo">http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-01/apple-invades-3-8t-workplace-market-with-ipad.html?cmpid=yhoo</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Corporate Ecosystem</span></h2><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px;">Mainelli expects iPad shipments into commercial markets, which includes education and health care, to rise to 52.6 million in 2013 from 38.3 million this year. The device was a common sight at last week’s <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/world-economic-forum/" style="text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(234, 241, 247); font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 2px; text-align: center;">World Economic Forum</a> in Davos,<a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/switzerland/" style="text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(234, 241, 247); font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 2px; text-align: center;">Switzerland</a>. Apple’s iPhone also has pushed into the business world, often supplanting <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=RIMM:US" class="web_ticker" title="get_quote_link" style="text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(234, 241, 247); font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 2px; text-align: center;">Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)</a>’s BlackBerry. The company shipped 37 million of the phones last quarter, making it the market leader in smartphones.</p><p style=""><a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/fidelity-investments/" style="text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(234, 241, 247); font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 2px; text-align: center;">Fidelity Investments</a> has developed iPad applications that let clients check mutual funds and retirement accounts without having to boot up a PC, said Richard Blunck, executive vice president of digital distribution at the firm. At pharmaceutical companies, salespeople use iPads to show product information to doctors on a moment’s notice. During Apple’s quarterly conference call last week, Chief Financial Officer <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/topics/peter-oppenheimer/" style="text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(234, 241, 247); font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 2px; text-align: center;">Peter Oppenheimer</a> cited Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Credit Suisse Group AG and <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=NKE:US" class="web_ticker" title="get_quote_link" style="text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(234, 241, 247); font-weight: bold; border-top-left-radius: 5px 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 2px; text-align: center;">Nike Inc. (NKE)</a> as companies that have issued iPads to employees.</p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/ipads-in-the-workplace">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-6075908227716984730?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-79929777511463373142012-01-31T00:14:00.001-08:002012-01-31T00:14:19.036-08:00Apple Becomes World's Biggest Maker of Computers, Thanks to iPad - NYTimes.com<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/apple-becomes-worlds-biggest-maker-of-computers-thanks-to-ipad/?partner=yahoofinance">http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/apple-becomes-worlds-biggest-maker-of-computers-thanks-to-ipad/?partner=yahoofinance</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;">The company that<a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/apple-really-is-slowly-killing-the-pc/" style="text-decoration: underline;">proclaimed</a> the “post-PC era” — Apple — is now the biggest maker of PCs in the world.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;">That <a href="http://www.canalys.com/static/press_release/2012/canalys-press-release-300112-apple-storms-past-hp-lead-global-pc-market.pdf" style="text-decoration: underline;">conclusion</a> comes by way of Canalys, a research firm that has tacked against conventional wisdom in the tech analyst world by insisting that sales of iPads and other tablets belong in market share tallies for the computer industry. And so, as Canalys itself <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/with-ipad-boost-apple-set-to-become-top-pc-vendor/" style="text-decoration: underline;">predicted</a> in November, robust holiday sales of the iPad catapulted Apple ahead of Hewlett-Packard to make it the top PC company in the fourth quarter.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;">The 15 million iPads and five million Macintoshes that Apple sold during the period accounted for 17 percent of the approximately 120 million PCs shipped during the fourth quarter, Canalys said. The firm said tablets — Canalys calls them “pads” — accounted for 22 percent of total PC shipments during the fourth quarter, with Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook included.</p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/apple-becomes-worlds-biggest-maker-of-compute">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-7992977751146337314?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-79495212487590563842012-01-31T00:11:00.001-08:002012-01-31T00:11:44.522-08:00After the Birth of the iPod and the Death of the TouchPad, What Next for Rubinstein? - Forbes<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2012/01/30/rubinstein-ipod-imac-touchpad/?partner=yahootix">http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2012/01/30/rubinstein-ipod-imac-touchpad/?partner=yahootix</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><strong>Father of the iPod, killer of the floppy</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><strong></strong>Despite this setback, Rubinstein casts a long shadow. Although often credited with the creation of Apple’s groundbreakingly compact and simple iPod, it is worth remembering that he got that job as a result of his work on Apple’s personal computing products. Hired before Jobs’ re-elevation to the CEO position, but on Jobs’ recommendation and after working with him at NeXT, Rubinstein was responsible for simplifying the hardware range and producing the candy-coloured, highly covetable G3 iMacs that pushed Apple back into the spotlight.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Jony Ive headed the industrial design team, but two of the boldest decisions, which came to define not just the iMac but also the direction of personal computing, came from Rubinstein: forsaking what became legacy ports in favour of USB, and the removal of the 3.5″ drive. Gutsy in themselves, these choices turned out to be prescient: after a necessary period of complaint, this became the new normal. The single Thunderbolt port and disdian for optical media of the modern MacBook Air follows a direct line from that decision – as the hermetic design and proprietary connector of the iPhone and iPad follows Rubinstein’s iPod model and ecosystem.</p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/after-the-birth-of-the-ipod-and-the-death-of">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-7949521248759056384?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-55129140046040140732012-01-30T08:32:00.001-08:002012-01-30T08:32:49.797-08:00A Mobile Wallet: Cash, Credit, Or ... Cellphone?<div class='posterous_autopost'>Google already offers a way to pay for lunch or groceries using its "Google Wallet" on an Android phone — cell providers and banks aren't far behind with payment systems of their own. Analyst Gilles Ubaghs talks about how coupons and convenience might persuade customers to make the switch. - More at <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/01/27/145990092/a-mobile-wallet-cash-credit-or-cell-phone?ft=1&f=5&sc=17">http://www.npr.org/2012/01/27/145990092/a-mobile-wallet-cash-credit-or-cell-p...</a> <p /> <br />Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/a-mobile-wallet-cash-credit-or-cellphone-70246">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-5512914004604014073?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-89331064056169063372012-01-29T22:28:00.001-08:002012-01-29T22:28:19.393-08:00Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?pagewanted=all</a></div><p /><div>Excerpt:<br /><p>When <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Barack Obama" style="text-decoration: none;">Barack Obama</a> joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/obamas-summit-in-the-valley/" style="text-decoration: none;">for dinner in California</a> last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.</p><p>But as <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/steven_p_jobs/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Steven P. Jobs." style="text-decoration: none;">Steven P. Jobs</a> of <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/apple_computer_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Apple Incorporated" style="text-decoration: none;">Apple</a> spoke,<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Barack Obama." style="text-decoration: none;">President Obama</a> interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?</p><p>Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.</p><p>Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.</p><p>Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” he said, according to another dinner guest.</p><p>The president’s question touched upon a central conviction at Apple. It isn’t just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that “Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.</p><p />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class-nyt">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8933106405616906337?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-33131456194313361042012-01-29T22:18:00.001-08:002012-01-29T22:18:18.462-08:00Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="original-url"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.htm?_r=1&scp=1&sq=iPad%20human%20costs&st=cse">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.htm?_r=1&scp=1&sq=iPad%20human%20costs&st=cse</a></div><p><div class="original-url">Excerpt:<p /></div><div><div class="page" style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;"><p> In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. Apple and its high-technology peers — as well as dozens of other American industries — have achieved a pace of innovation nearly unmatched in modern history. </p><p> However, the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves. Problems are as varied as onerous work environments and serious — sometimes deadly — safety problems. </p><p><br /></p></div></div></p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-i">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3313145619431336104?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-49215270458314446192012-01-29T08:04:00.001-08:002012-01-29T08:04:35.145-08:00iPhone & iPad sales off the charts<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://seekingalpha.com/?source=yahoo#article/322861-apple-s-off-the-charts-iphone-and-ipad-sales">http://seekingalpha.com/?source=yahoo#article/322861-apple-s-off-the-charts-i...</a> <p /> <br />Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/iphone-ipad-sales-off-the-charts">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-4921527045831444619?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-7305267510889751432012-01-28T13:09:00.001-08:002012-01-28T13:09:42.748-08:00Why Wedding Photographers’ Prices are “Wack”<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.petapixel.com/2012/01/26/why-wedding-photographers-prices-are-wack/">http://www.petapixel.com/2012/01/26/why-wedding-photographers-prices-are-wack/</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div><p><a href="http://files.petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2012/01/screen_mini.jpg" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-45348" title="screen_mini" src="http://files.petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2012/01/screen_mini.jpg" height="294" alt="" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="620" /></a></p><p>Earlier today my friend and fellow photographer posted<a href="http://files.petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2012/01/craigslist.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">a link to a craigslist ad</a> from a woman in Seattle looking for a wedding photographer. The woman was upset because she thought that $3,000 for a wedding photographer was “wack” because all we do “is hang out at a wedding taking tons of photos and editing them” and that we are “making so much money its crazy.”</p><p>I first read this post earlier today while I was running errands and my head almost <em>exploded</em>. I immediately started drafting a horribly mean and punishing response in my head, but by the time I got home, I realized that this is probably a common misconception and that maybe I should try to <em>explain</em> why photographers charge what we do for our work.</p>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/why-wedding-photographers-prices-are-wack">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-730526751088975143?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-19536946096459041912012-01-27T20:34:00.001-08:002012-01-27T20:34:44.624-08:00IDG: 91% of IT and business professionals use iPad for work<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://m.bgr.com/2012/01/16/idg-91-of-it-and-business-professionals-use-ipad-for-work/">http://m.bgr.com/2012/01/16/idg-91-of-it-and-business-professionals-use-ipad-...</a> <p /> Excerpt: <p /> On Monday, research firm IDG published a global survey examining Apple’s tablet in the business world. The survey found that 91% of IT and business professionals used their iPads for work, even though only a quarter of the devices had been supplied for corporate use. Like consumers, business professionals use the device for media consumption, but they use their devices on the road far more frequently than anywhere else. Some 79% of IT professionals said they always use their iPads on the road and 54% use the device at home. IDG notes that the iPad hasn’t really prompted the majority of IT and business professionals to abandon any other devices, however, with only 12% saying that their iPad has completely replaced their laptops and just 6% saying it has supplanted their PCs. However, 72% said they were using their notebooks less because of the iPad, with 83% of corporate users describing themselves as being loyal to Apple’s device. <p /> Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/idg-91-of-it-and-business-professionals-use-i">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-1953694609645904191?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-75661024669834802092012-01-27T18:57:00.001-08:002012-01-27T18:57:39.691-08:00A Mobile Wallet: Cash, Credit, Or ... Cellphone?<div class='posterous_autopost'>Google already offers a way to pay for lunch or groceries using its "Google Wallet" on an Android phone — cell providers and banks aren't far behind with payment systems of their own. Analyst Gilles Ubaghs talks about how coupons and convenience might persuade customers to make the switch. - More at <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/01/27/145990092/a-mobile-wallet-cash-credit-or-cell-phone?ft=1&f=5&sc=17">http://www.npr.org/2012/01/27/145990092/a-mobile-wallet-cash-credit-or-cell-p...</a> <p /> <br />Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/a-mobile-wallet-cash-credit-or-cellphone">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-7566102466983480209?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-19910630877012710712012-01-24T23:44:00.001-08:002012-01-24T23:44:13.067-08:00Kindle Fire teardown puts build cost at less than $3 above retail price - Computerworld<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://m.computerworld.com/s/article/9222016/Kindle_Fire_teardown_puts_build_cost_at_less_than_3_above_retail_price?mm_ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dkindle%2Bfire%2Bteardown%2Bcost%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari">http://m.computerworld.com/s/article/9222016/Kindle_Fire_teardown_puts_build_...</a> <p /> Excerpt: <p /> As is the case with most tablets, the display and touchscreen are the biggest costs in the latest estimate, adding up to a rounded total of $87. The memory, processor, wireless LAN radio and other peripherals cost $64.45, while the cost of the battery was put at $16.50. The case was $14.40 and the box contents were $3.25. <p /> Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/kindle-fire-teardown-puts-build-cost-at-less">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-1991063087701271071?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-33144979473156091612012-01-24T23:41:00.001-08:002012-01-24T23:41:48.310-08:00Apple, aided by an iPhone frenzy, doubles quarterly profit to 13.06b<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><br /><a href="http://www.mydigitalfc.com/companies/apple-aided-iphone-frenzy-doubles-quarterly-profit-1306b-972"><b>Apple, aided by an iPhone frenzy, doubles quarterly profit to 13.06b</b> - Mydigitalfc.com</a><br /></div><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/apple-aided-by-an-iphone-frenzy-doubles-quart">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3314497947315609161?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-3568311816105158302012-01-24T23:35:00.001-08:002012-01-24T23:35:39.680-08:00Apple Sold More iPads Than HP Sold PCs - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120124/apple-sold-more-ipads-than-hp-sold-pcs/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker">http://allthingsd.com/20120124/apple-sold-more-ipads-than-hp-sold-pcs/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.45em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Here’s a metric worth noting: With<a href="http://allthingsd.com/20120124/apples-monster-quarter/" style="text-decoration: none;">the monstrous quarter</a> it reported today, Apple surpassed Hewlett-Packard in PC sales and revenue. Apple sold 15.4 million iPads and 5.2 million Macs in its first quarter. That’s more than 20 million personal computing devices. HP’s PC sales for the fourth quarter were 14.7 million, <a href="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1893523" style="text-decoration: none;">according to Gartner</a>. Which means Apple’s iPad sales <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">alone</em>surpassed HP’s PC sales, <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/24/apple_now_largest_computer_maker_sold_more_ipads_alone_than_hp_sold_pcs.html" style="text-decoration: none;">as Apple Insider first noted</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.45em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, to be clear, Gartner’s figure doesn’t include the ill-starred TouchPad. But sources familiar with HP’s build plans say the initial TouchPad order came in somewhere between 1.8 million and two million units. So, even if HP had sold every TouchPad it built, it wouldn’t have matched Apple.</p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/apple-sold-more-ipads-than-hp-sold-pcs-john-p">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-356831181610515830?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-31786846907241983052012-01-14T08:19:00.003-08:002012-01-14T08:19:47.890-08:00Data spike for iPhone 4S<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2/">http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2/</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div class="teaser_content" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 10px;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/mobile-data-idINDEE80500A20120106" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Reuters</i> reports</a> on a new <a href="http://www.arieso.com/news-article.html?id=89" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">study</a> from mobile network consulting firm Arieso showing that iPhone 4S users consume twice as much data as iPhone 4 users, with new features such as Siri driving the increased demand.<p class="quote" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 2em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: italic;">IPhone 4S users transfer on average three times more data than users of the older iPhone 3G model which was used as the benchmark in a study by telecom network technology firm Arieso. <p />Data usage of the previous model, the iPhone 4, was only 1.6 times higher than the iPhone 3G, while iPad2 tablets consumed 2.5 times more data than the iPhone 3G, the study showed.</p>The spike in data usage for iPhone 4S users is likely not fully explained by the debut of Siri on the device, as a <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/02/siris-impact-on-data-usage-examined/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">study by <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Ars Technica</i></a> conducted soon after the device's launch revealed an average of 63 KB of data used per query. With even high-use users reporting making an average of fifteen queries per day, that would equate to approximately 30 MB of usage per month if all queries were performed over cellular networks. <p /><span style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; border-color: initial; height: auto;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-325648" title="iphone_4s_siri" src="http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/10/iphone_4s_siri.jpg" height="447" alt="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; display: block; height: auto;" width="500" /></span><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;" />As <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/iphone-4s-doubles-data-usage-but-is-siri-really-to-blame/17605" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">noted by <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">ZDNet</i></a>, other factors such as iTunes Match, iCloud, device speeds, larger photos, and "new toy syndrome" are also all likely contributing to the increased data usage. <p />Data usage has become a major area of concern for carriers as they seek to deal with the surging demand from smartphone users that are growing rapidly in number and in their demands for content. While a number of carriers such as AT&T and Verizon launched the iPhone with "unlimited" data plans, most carriers have now switched to tiered data plans for new customers as they seek to encourage more modest data consumption and extract additional revenue from the heaviest data users. <p />Consequently, customers have had to become more aware of their data usage needs as they determine which data plan to sign up for in order to avoid what can be significant overage charges.</div><p /><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/data-spike-for-iphone-4s">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3178684690724198305?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-16835437476374062482012-01-14T08:19:00.001-08:002012-01-14T08:19:46.949-08:00Data spike for iPhone 4S<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2/">http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/2/</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div class="teaser_content" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 10px;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/mobile-data-idINDEE80500A20120106" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Reuters</i> reports</a> on a new <a href="http://www.arieso.com/news-article.html?id=89" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">study</a> from mobile network consulting firm Arieso showing that iPhone 4S users consume twice as much data as iPhone 4 users, with new features such as Siri driving the increased demand.<p class="quote" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 2em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: italic;">IPhone 4S users transfer on average three times more data than users of the older iPhone 3G model which was used as the benchmark in a study by telecom network technology firm Arieso. <p />Data usage of the previous model, the iPhone 4, was only 1.6 times higher than the iPhone 3G, while iPad2 tablets consumed 2.5 times more data than the iPhone 3G, the study showed.</p>The spike in data usage for iPhone 4S users is likely not fully explained by the debut of Siri on the device, as a <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/02/siris-impact-on-data-usage-examined/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">study by <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Ars Technica</i></a> conducted soon after the device's launch revealed an average of 63 KB of data used per query. With even high-use users reporting making an average of fifteen queries per day, that would equate to approximately 30 MB of usage per month if all queries were performed over cellular networks. <p /><span style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; border-color: initial; height: auto;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-325648" title="iphone_4s_siri" src="http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/10/iphone_4s_siri.jpg" height="447" alt="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; display: block; height: auto;" width="500" /></span><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;" />As <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/iphone-4s-doubles-data-usage-but-is-siri-really-to-blame/17605" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">noted by <i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">ZDNet</i></a>, other factors such as iTunes Match, iCloud, device speeds, larger photos, and "new toy syndrome" are also all likely contributing to the increased data usage. <p />Data usage has become a major area of concern for carriers as they seek to deal with the surging demand from smartphone users that are growing rapidly in number and in their demands for content. While a number of carriers such as AT&T and Verizon launched the iPhone with "unlimited" data plans, most carriers have now switched to tiered data plans for new customers as they seek to encourage more modest data consumption and extract additional revenue from the heaviest data users. <p />Consequently, customers have had to become more aware of their data usage needs as they determine which data plan to sign up for in order to avoid what can be significant overage charges.</div><p /><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/data-spike-for-iphone-4s">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-1683543747637406248?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-56839747060556630232012-01-14T08:17:00.001-08:002012-01-14T08:17:35.889-08:00iPhone closes in on the all of Android<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/">http://www.macrumors.com/iphone/</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">TechCrunch</em> <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/09/ios-marketshare-up-from-26-in-q3-to-43-in-octnov-2011/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">writes of the latest report</a> from NPD, covering U.S. smartphone sales in October and November of last year. The data, which begins right about when the iPhone 4S was released, shows a dramatic increase in market share for the iPhone. The jump, from 26% in Q3 2011 to 43% in October and November, is due in-part to pent-up demand for the next iPhone following the pushback of the "iPhone 5" from the traditional June release cycle. As a result, iPhone share is unlikely to remain quite so high going forward, but the gain is nonetheless impressive. <p /><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-333532" title="npdsmartphone" src="http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/01/npdsmartphone.jpg" height="332" alt="" style="" width="560" /><div><span style=""><br /></span><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/iphone-closes-in-on-the-all-of-android">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-5683974706055663023?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-43341862848137693842012-01-12T19:29:00.001-08:002012-01-12T19:29:42.442-08:00Michelle And Barack Obama: A Powerful Partnership<div class='posterous_autopost'>No way! Jodi and I were co-editors-in-chief of our high school yearbook back in 1992. Look at her now! <p /> New York Times Washington correspondent Jodi Kantor interviewed more than 200 sources, including White House aides and friends of the Obamas, to paint a portrait of the first family's life inside the White House. - More at <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/01/10/144324472/michelle-and-barack-obama-a-powerful-partnership?ft=1&f=13&sc=17">http://www.npr.org/2012/01/10/144324472/michelle-and-barack-obama-a-powerful-...</a> <p /> <br />Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/michelle-and-barack-obama-a-powerful-partners">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-4334186284813769384?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-85003749243138179152012-01-05T10:42:00.001-08:002012-01-05T10:42:31.506-08:00The Web OS is Already Here…<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1441">http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1441</a> <p /><div>Excerpt:<br /><p />The Web OS is already here… <b>it’s just not what you thought it would be.</b> Web technologies are currently powering content and interactions across multiple devices effectively turning the most popular native applications into Web browsers. The end result is a widely distributed and used Web-based operating system. Just not the one you imagined.</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/the-web-os-is-already-here">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8500374924313817915?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-2969274707872309982012-01-03T10:18:00.001-08:002012-01-03T10:18:04.521-08:00Behavioral Change: What Vietnam Taught Us About Breaking Bad Habits<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><p>I found the following story on the NPR iPhone App:<br /><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/01/02/144431794/what-vietnam-taught-us-about-breaking-bad-habits?sc=17&f=1001">http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/01/02/144431794/what-vietnam-taught-us-about-breaking-bad-habits?sc=17&f=1001</a></p>What Vietnam Taught Us About Breaking Bad Habits<br />by Alix Spiegel<br /><p> - January 2, 2012</p><p>It's a tradition as old as New Year's: making resolutions. We will not smoke, or sojourn with the bucket of mint chocolate chip. In fact, we will resist sweets generally, including the bowl of M &Ms that our co-worker has helpfully positioned on the aisle corner of his desk. There will be exercise, and the learning of a new language.</p><p>It is resolved. </p><p>So what does science know about translating our resolve into actual changes in behavior? The answer to this question brings us — strangely enough — to a story about heroin use in Vietnam.</p><p></p><p>In May of 1971 two congressmen, Robert Steele from Connecticut and Morgan Murphy of Illinois, went to Vietnam for an official visit and returned with some extremely disturbing news: 15 percent of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam, they said, were actively addicted to heroin.</p><p>The idea that so many servicemen were addicted to heroin horrified the public. At that point heroin was the bete noire of American drugs. It was thought to be the most addictive substance ever produced, a narcotic so powerful that once addiction claimed you, it was nearly impossible to escape.</p><p>In response to this report, President Richard Nixon took action. In June of 1971 he announced that he was creating a whole new office — The Special Action Office of Drug Abuse Prevention — dedicated to fighting the evil of drugs. He laid out a program of prevention and rehabilitation, but there was something else Nixon wanted: He wanted to research what happened to the addicted servicemen once they returned home.</p><p>And so Jerome Jaffe, whom Nixon had appointed to run the new office, contacted a well-respected psychiatric researcher named Lee Robins and asked her to help with the study. He promised her unprecedented access to enlisted men in the Army so that she could get the job done.</p><p>Soon a comprehensive system was set up so that every enlisted man was tested for heroin addiction before he was allowed to return home. And in this population, Robins did find high rates of addiction: Around 20 percent of the soldiers self-identified as addicts.</p><p>Those who were addicted were kept in Vietnam until they dried out. When these soldiers finally did return to their lives back in the U.S., Robins tracked them, collecting data at regular intervals. And this is where the story takes a curious turn: According to her research, the number of soldiers who continued their heroin addiction once they returned to the U.S. was shockingly low.</p><p>"I believe the number of people who actually relapsed to heroin use in the first year was about 5 percent," Jaffe said recently from his suburban Maryland home. In other words, 95 percent of the people who were addicted in Vietnam did not become re-addicted when they returned to the United States.</p><p>This flew in the face of everything everyone knew both about heroin and drug addiction generally. When addicts were treated in the U.S. and returned to their homes, relapse rates hovered around 90 percent. It didn't make sense.</p><p>"Everyone thought there was somehow she was lying, or she did something wrong, or she was politically influenced," Jaffe says. "She spent months, if not years, trying to defend the integrity of the study."</p><p>But 40 years later, the findings of this study are widely accepted. To explain why, you need to understand how the science of behavior change has itself changed.</p><p>Outsourcing The Control Of Behavior</p><p>According to Wendy Wood, a psychologist at University of Southern California who researches behavior change, throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s scientists believed that if you wanted to change behavior, the key was to change people's goals and intentions.</p><p>"The research was very much focused on trying to understand how to change people's attitudes," Wood says, "with the assumption that behavior change would just follow."</p><p>So researchers studied how to organize public health campaigns, or how to use social pressure to change attitudes. And, says David Neal, another psychologist who looks at behavior change, these strategies did work.</p><p>Mostly.</p><p>"They do work for a certain subset of behaviors," Neal says. "They work for behaviors that people don't perform too frequently."</p><p>If you want, for example, to increase the number of people who donate blood, a public campaign can work well. But if you want them to quit smoking, campaigns intended to change attitudes are often less effective.</p><p>"Once a behavior had been repeated a lot, especially if the person does it in the same setting, you can successfully change what people want to do. But if they've done it enough, their behavior doesn't follow their intentions," Neal explains.</p><p>Neal says this has to do with the way that over time, our physical environments come to shape our behavior.</p><p>"People, when they perform a behavior a lot — especially in the same environment, same sort of physical setting — outsource the control of the behavior to the environment," Neal says.</p><p>Outsourcing control over your behavior sounds a little funny. But understand consider what happens when you perform a very basic everyday behavior like getting into a car.</p><p>"Of course on one level, that seems like the simplest task possible," Neal says, "but if you break it down, there's really a myriad set of complex actions that are performed in sequence to do that."</p><p>You use a certain motion to put your key in the lock. And then physically manipulate your body to get into the seat. There is another set of motions to insert the key in the ignition.</p><p>"All of this is actually very complicated and someone who had never driven a car before would have no ability to do that, but it becomes second nature to us," Neal points out. "[It's] so automatic that we can do it while we are conducting complex other tasks, like having conversations."</p><p>Throughout the process, you haven't thought for a second about what you are doing, you are just responding to the different parts of the car in the sequence you've learned. "And very much of our day goes off in this way," Wood says. "About 45 percent of what people do every day is in the same environment and is repeated."</p><p>Environment's Key Role In Behavior</p><p>In this way, Neal says, our environments come to unconsciously direct our behavior. Even behaviors that we don't want, like smoking.</p><p>"For a smoker the view of the entrance to their office building — which is a place that they go to smoke all the time — becomes a powerful mental cue to go and perform that behavior," Neal says.</p><p>And over time those cues become so deeply ingrained that they are very hard to resist. And so we smoke at the entrance to work when we don't want to. We sit on the couch and eat ice cream when we don't need to, despite our best intentions, despite our resolutions.</p><p>"We don't feel sort of pushed by the environment," Wood says. "But, in fact, we're very integrated with it."</p><p>To battle bad behaviors then, one answer, Neal and Wood say, is to disrupt the environment in some way. Even small change can help — like eating the ice cream with your non-dominant hand. What this does is alter the action sequence and disrupts the learned body sequence that's driving the behavior, which allows your conscious mind to come back online and reassert control.</p><p>"It's a brief sort of window of opportunity," Wood says, "to think, 'Is this really what I want to do?' "</p><p>Of course, larger disruption can also be helpful, which brings us back to heroin addiction in Vietnam.</p><p>It's important not to overstate this, because a variety of factors are probably at play. But one big theory about why the rates of heroin relapse were so low on return to the U.S. has to do with the fact that the soldiers, after being treated for their physical addiction in Vietnam, returned to a place radically different from the environment where their addiction took hold of them.</p><p>"I think that most people accept that the change in the environment, and the fact that the addiction occurred in this exotic environment, you know, makes it plausible that the addiction rate would be that much lower," Nixon appointee Jerome Jaffe says.</p><p>We think of ourselves as controlling our behavior, willing our actions into being, but it's not that simple.</p><p>It's as if over time, we leave parts of ourselves all around us, which in turn, come to shape who we are. [Copyright 2012 National Public Radio]</p><p>To learn more about the NPR iPhone app, go to <a href="http://iphone.npr.org/recommendnprnews">http://iphone.npr.org/recommendnprnews</a></p></div><div><p />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/behavioral-change-what-vietnam-taught-us-abou">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-296927470787230998?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-61907983251963235542012-01-02T07:37:00.001-08:002012-01-02T07:37:20.142-08:00This Is When to Worry About Your CEO (BRK-B, MT)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/12/30/this-is-when-to-worry-about-your-ceo.aspx">http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/12/30/this-is-when-to-worry-about-your-ceo.aspx</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">There are a lot of things we could say about former <strong style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">MF Global</strong> (OTC: MFGLQ) CEO Jon Corzine. If we were to ask thousands of former MF Global customers -- who, as a group, are <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/12/16/12-billion-vanishes-from-mf-global.aspx" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline;">missing $1.2 billion</a> after <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/12/16/the-astonishing-collapse-of-mf-global.aspx" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline;">the broker's epic collapse</a> -- most of those things probably wouldn't be fit to print on a family-friendly website like The Motley Fool.</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">However, there is one thing we can say for sure <em style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">and</em> don't have to censor: Jon Corzine didn't need MF Global.</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">As a former chairman of <strong style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Goldman Sachs</strong>, a former U.S. senator, and the former New Jersey governor, Corzine had an impressive resume that could have opened any number of doors for him -- most of them plenty lucrative and not terribly challenging on a day-to-day basis. Corzine was also already a very wealthy fellow. He had enough to spend roughly $100 million financing his political ambitions and according to <a href="http://OpenSecrets.org">OpenSecrets.org</a>, he was the third-richest senator in 2005, with a net worth that may have been as much as $250 million.</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">To reiterate, if Jon Corzine's path had never crossed MF Global's -- heck, if Corzine was never a CEO, chairman, or other key executive anywhere ever again -- the 64-year-old would have likely lived out the rest of his days very comfortably.</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">There are a lot of directions we could run with this, but what I want to focus on is what stock market investors can take away from it.</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><strong style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Just one metric<br /></strong>Back in 2009, Fool co-founder Tom Gardner wrote an article titled "<a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2009/11/02/the-only-metric-i-need.aspx" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline;">How I Find Great Stocks</a>." Right at the outset of the article, Tom wrote something that really stuck with me. He said that if he had to choose just one metric to base his investment decisions on it wouldn't be growth, price-to-earnings ratio, return on equity, or balance sheet cash. Here's what he wrote:</p><blockquote style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 20px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 229, 229);"><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The metric is straightforward, easy to find (just look at a company's 14A filing), and it doesn't require any math or investing experience to interpret. You'd be amazed by how closely correlated it is with stock market success, and yet it is still overlooked by the majority of investors. You MAY have guessed it ... my metric of choice is <em style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit;">insider ownership</em>.</p></blockquote><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">How did Corzine stack up on this metric? At the peak of his ownership, Corzine had $3 million invested in MF Global, which equated to roughly 0.24% of the company's outstanding shares. To put that in perspective, for somebody with a more modest $250,000 net worth, that ownership stake would equate to around a $3,000 investment. That's certainly enough to be bothersome if lost, but hardly the type of investment that would cause our fictional investor to be especially cautious and conservative.</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">But it goes even further than just the money. Beside the fact that <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/12/16/j-christopher-flowers-corzines-kingmaker.aspx" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline;">his buddy Chris Flowers' investment fund</a> had an investment in MF Global, Corzine didn't have any strong connections to the company. He didn't found the company, nor did his family. He didn't come up through the MF Global ranks. The futures business wasn't even what Corzine focused on when he was blazing a trail through Goldman Sachs. In other words, Corzine was simply a hired gun who had the opportunity to make some money and burnish his reputation without really putting much on the line.</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><strong style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Into the scrum<br /></strong>So how can investors use this in choosing stocks? Building on what Tom said in his 2009 article, it's a good idea for investors to evaluate who's running the company in question and what they've got on the line.</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">On the one hand, with a CEO who founded the company and has most of his net worth tied up in his ownership stake, there's a much higher likelihood that the decisions he or she makes will be with an eye toward outcomes that all shareholders can cheer. On the other hand, a hired-gun CEO like Corzine who doesn't have any ties to the company, or much to lose, should bring extra scrutiny from investors.</p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/this-is-when-to-worry-about-your-ceo-brk-b-mt">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-6190798325196323554?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-74669448542498374072011-12-22T22:25:00.001-08:002011-12-22T22:25:28.506-08:00Study Shows Pinterest Will Compete with Top 10 Social Networks [VIDEO]<div class='posterous_autopost'> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/study-shows-pinterest-will-compete-with-top-1">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-7466944854249837407?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-15069404859504224312011-12-19T22:22:00.001-08:002011-12-19T22:22:05.794-08:00Beyond Tablets: The Next Five Computing Form Factors - Sarah Rotman Epps - Voices - AllThingsD<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111219/beyond-tablets-the-next-five-computing-form-factors/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker">http://allthingsd.com/20111219/beyond-tablets-the-next-five-computing-form-fa...</a> <p /> As you think about what’s coming in 2012 and beyond, know that none of these devices will operate in isolation. The most successful products will work with other products — for example, wearables that talk to smartphones and TVs; surfaces that are activated by the presence of your smartphone. We’re living in a multidevice, multiconnection world, and the best experiences will be those that work across devices and platforms. In that sense, the next phase of the Post-PC Era doesn’t look so different from today. <p /> Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/beyond-tablets-the-next-five-computing-form-f">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-1506940485950422431?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-81712267113455341882011-12-19T00:53:00.001-08:002011-12-19T00:53:59.030-08:00Inside Google’s Age of Augmented Humanity | Xconomy<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/inside-googles-age-of-augmented-humanity/?nomobile=1">http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/inside-googles-age-of-augmented-humanity/?nomobile=1</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px;"><em>For its next act, the Silicon Valley giant wants to put a supercomputer in your pocket, the better to sense, search, and interpret your personal surroundings. We talked to the scientists who are making it happen.</em></p><p /><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/inside-googles-age-of-augmented-humanity-xcon">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8171226711345534188?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-84626740800018249392011-12-16T11:40:00.001-08:002011-12-16T11:40:54.866-08:00Easier is Better than Better<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/28/easier-is-better-than-better/">http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/28/easier-is-better-than-better/</a><div><br /><div>excerpt:</div><p /><div><p style="margin-bottom: 1.15em; color: rgb(30,30,30); font-family: Verdana,Arial,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> In his book, <em>The Paradox of Choice</em>, Barry Schwartz comes to an interesting conclusion involving human choice.</p><blockquote style=""> <p style="margin-bottom: 1.15em;">“People choose not on the basis of what’s most important, but on what’s easiest to evaluate.”</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 1.15em; color: rgb(30,30,30); font-family: Verdana,Arial,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> Common sense would dictate that if you were given a list of choices, you would choose the one that is most important to you, when in reality humans usually choose the one that is easiest for them to understand and evaluate. Very often we do so because we don’t have the time to put in the research necessary to make an informed decision. Politicians are rarely elected based on the majority of people doing research on their background and the policies they support. They are elected for the fact that people can relate to the message they are spreading and because we have heard of them before.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 1.15em; color: rgb(30,30,30); font-family: Verdana,Arial,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">When it comes to our own designs, we imagine people being able to make informed decisions on what the next step should be. However, they are already making 400+ decisions throughout the rest of the day that are likely more important than what they will deal with in our design.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 1.15em; color: rgb(30,30,30); font-family: Verdana,Arial,Geneva,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Do you think most people realize there are benefits to driving a manual transmission car over an automatic? Do you think they care? Automatic is easier to pick up so why bother with any other choice? How often do we stay in relationships that we shouldn’t, simply because it’s easier to just deal with it than face the repercussions of having to confront the person?</p> </div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/easier-is-better-than-better">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8462674080001824939?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-81203613805918325812011-12-15T23:05:00.001-08:002011-12-15T23:05:27.584-08:003 Reasons to Believe in the Death of "Smartphones" (GOOG)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/12/15/3-reasons-to-believe-in-the-death-of-smartphones.aspx">http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/12/15/3-reasons-to-believe-in-the-death-of-smartphones.aspx</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Devices that were once special aren't anymore. They're the standard.</p><p /><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/3-reasons-to-believe-in-the-death-of-smartpho">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8120361380591832581?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-15795589259413822642011-12-15T23:00:00.001-08:002011-12-15T23:00:19.135-08:00Millions of Reasons for Apple to Worry (AAPL, AMZN)<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/12/15/millions-of-reasons-for-apple-to-worry.aspx">http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/12/15/millions-of-reasons-for-apple-to-worry.aspx</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">A million Kindles cleared in each of the past three holiday shopping weeks -- even if it's lumping the $79 Kindle, $99 Kindle Touch, $149 Kindle Touch 3G, and $199 Kindle Fire in one pot -- is impressive.</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Amazon also has some encouraging milestones to discuss specifically about the Kindle Fire that was introduced last month.</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">"Kindle Fire is the most successful product we've ever launched," Amazon exec Dave Limp is quoted as saying in today's press release. "It's the best-selling product across all of Amazon for 11 straight weeks, we've already sold millions of units, and we're building millions more to meet the high demand."</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Limp also goes on to say that Kindle Fire sales have been accelerating in each of the past three weeks.</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Nice! Having already sold "millions" means that Amazon has shipped out at least 2 million Kindle Fire devices.</p><p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Let's frame this a different way. Market tracker NPD Group stunned tech watchers when its channel checks revealed that there were just <a href="http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2011/11/29/nobody-needs-a-tablet.aspx" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline;">1.2 million tablets</a> -- outside of <strong style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Apple</strong>'s (<span class="ticker" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Nasdaq: <a href="http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/AAPL.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001" class="qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline;">AAPL</a></span> <a href="http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=AAPL&source=iwlsitbut0000010" title="Add AAPL to My Watchlist" class="addToWatchListIcon qsAdd qs-source-iwlsitbut0000010" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; display: inline-block; height: 16px; vertical-align: middle; background-position: 0px 0px;"> </a>) iPad -- sold in this country through the first 10 months of the year. In other words, Amazon has already outsold every other non-Apple tablet maker combined. </p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/millions-of-reasons-for-apple-to-worry-aapl-a">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-1579558925941382264?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-61065882927095045142011-12-15T22:56:00.001-08:002011-12-15T22:56:11.901-08:00The Year of C.E.O. Failures Explained - NYTimes.com<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/the-year-of-c-e-o-failures-explained/?partner=yahoofinance">http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/the-year-of-c-e-o-failures-explained/?partner=yahoofinance</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;">These C.E.O.’s may have had their own internal business reasons for these unpopular decisions. But they were internal, self-interested reasons. Reasons intended to please stockholders, perhaps.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;">Even so, all three committed several cardinal sins: Putting customers last. Rewarding loyalty with rudeness. Failing to make their cases to the public.</p><p /><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/the-year-of-ceo-failures-explained-nytimescom">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-6106588292709504514?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-23800155743933664852011-12-13T14:52:00.001-08:002011-12-13T14:52:45.644-08:00On Pivoting<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/05/ff_ycombinator/all/1">http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/05/ff_ycombinator/all/1</a><br /><p /><div>Excerpt:</div><p /><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> But some startups have barely come up with a plan. One group of founders knew from the beginning of the session that they were going to have to ditch their original idea, which was a tool to make real-time plans with friends. They used it as a way to get into the class but always intended to abandon it once they came up with something better. The trio—two engineers and a derivatives trader with degrees from Stanford and MIT—has been spending 14-hour days in front of a whiteboard, trying to brainstorm a promising concept. Time and again, they have proposed potential businesses to Graham; none of them worked out. But just before the first weekly dinner, they lit upon the idea of building a curated mailing list of high-demand jobs linked to college alumni networks. Graham gave them the go-ahead, and they are just getting under way with their new company, Insider Posts.</p> <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> That kind of radical reinvention is standard practice here. Indeed, a sizable percentage of YC companies will, at some point, drastically rethink their business—a process known in the startup world as pivoting. During last winter’s session, an 18-year-old Israeli founder named Daniel Gross pulled the most notorious pivot in YC history. Two days before Demo Day, soon after his cofounder quit on him, the young engineer realized that his original business plan was fatally flawed. Gross concocted an entirely new idea, a site that would allow users to search all of their social networks at once. He quickly coded a demo and gave the pitch. Within a year, he had launched the product. Now his company, <a href="https://www.greplin.com/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0,124,165); text-decoration: none;">Greplin</a>, has $4.8 million in funding.</p> <p style="margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> Helen Belogolova and Christine Yen are trying to accomplish a similarly successful pivot. When the two MIT grads interviewed for Y Combinator, they outlined their vision for Citythings, a site to help people discover local events. Over the next few months, they realized it wasn’t working and dropped the idea. But as they researched, they discovered another potential business: Because venues for special events often sit unused even as party and conference planners spend days trying to find space, Belogolova and Yen decided to set up a system that connected planners with available spaces. Citythings would become <a href="http://venuetastic.com/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0,124,165); text-decoration: none;">Venuetastic</a>. Pivot completed.</p> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/on-pivoting">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-2380015574393366485?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-88991329465447176912011-12-13T06:45:00.001-08:002011-12-13T06:45:48.745-08:00HP Offers Business Savings With Two Leasing Promotions - Yahoo! Finance<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/HP-Offers-Business-Savings-iw-2834411964.html?x=0">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/HP-Offers-Business-Savings-iw-2834411964.html?x=0</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire -12/13/11)- HP (NYSE: <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=hpq" style="text-decoration: none;">HPQ</a> - <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=hpq" style="text-decoration: none;">News</a>) today announced two leasing promotions that can help businesses deploy the latest technology while conserving capital for strategic purposes.</p><p style="margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The "1-2-3" and "90 Day" deferral programs are offered to qualifying businesses in the United States and Canada through <a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AqDLvylKZGRyu70uu7Aw84aVuodG;_ylu=X3oDMTFqaTNjbzlmBG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzMEc2VjA01lZGlhQXJ0aWNsZUJvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTJ0aGNtMzc1BGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDZGE4NGZjNGEtYTc0ZC0zYWQ5LWE5NzUtODhmZTYwZTZlODAwBHBzdGNhdANuZXdzBHB0A3N0b3J5cGFnZQR0ZXN0Aw--;_ylv=0/SIG=15hm9qj3j/EXP=1324997009/**http%3A//ctt.marketwire.com/%3Frelease=831808%26id=1081729%26type=1%26url=http%253a%252f%252fwww8.hp.com%252fuk%252fen%252fhp-financial-services%252findex.html" style="text-decoration: none;">HP Financial Services</a>, the company's leasing and asset management subsidiary.(1)</p><p style="margin-top: 11px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">The programs can help businesses expand their capabilities and evolve to <a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=ArG1iagfLxzRP7Dzwu_qd.6VuodG;_ylu=X3oDMTFqc2Fobm1zBG1pdANBcnRpY2xlIEJvZHkEcG9zAzQEc2VjA01lZGlhQXJ0aWNsZUJvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTJ0aGNtMzc1BGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDZGE4NGZjNGEtYTc0ZC0zYWQ5LWE5NzUtODhmZTYwZTZlODAwBHBzdGNhdANuZXdzBHB0A3N0b3J5cGFnZQR0ZXN0Aw--;_ylv=0/SIG=16dg2i3ti/EXP=1324997009/**http%3A//ctt.marketwire.com/%3Frelease=831808%26id=1081732%26type=1%26url=http%253a%252f%252fh10124.www1.hp.com%252fcampaigns%252fenterprise%252finstant-on%252fus%252fen%252foverview.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Instant-On Enterprises</a>, where everything and everyone is connected. Instant-On Enterprises require IT environments that are flexible, automated, secure and able to quickly adjust to changing demand.</p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/hp-offers-business-savings-with-two-leasing-p">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8899132946544717691?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-51471709034464207172011-12-08T21:34:00.001-08:002011-12-08T21:34:33.549-08:002012: Siri Is a Stunner, Amazon Is Amazin' and Security Gets Spendy - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111208/2012-siri-is-a-stunner-amazon-is-amazin-and-security-gets-spendy/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker">http://allthingsd.com/20111208/2012-siri-is-a-stunner-amazon-is-amazin-and-se...</a> <p /> Excerpt: <p /> Ahead of the dinner, Anderson stopped by my office to let me have a peek at his 10 predictions, and we talked them over a bit. All 10 are below, along with some comments from Anderson that emerged from our conversation. <br />Before diving into the predictions, Anderson tells me there is a grand theme that unifies them all: “Integrating everything.” <br />What does that mean? “It means a whole lot of stuff that needs to be integrated. We don’t need anything new at all. There’s so much work that needs to be done with the existing tool sets. Steve Jobs didn’t really invent anything at all. But he was great at integrating things into a product. There’s a lot more of that work to do. We have to do it in the phone world and the TV world and the health care world. We have lots of devices and lots of chips and lots of operating systems and lots of content. The bigger question is, how do human beings use it all efficiently?” <br />Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/2012-siri-is-a-stunner-amazon-is-amazin-and-s">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-5147170903446420717?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-85410824032132898552011-12-07T11:59:00.001-08:002011-12-07T11:59:42.925-08:00Design of Flipboard iPhone app<div class='posterous_autopost'>What a great mobile design for Flipboard with one thumb, one eye in mind! @lukew <a href="http://t.co/gOLryKi5">http://t.co/gOLryKi5</a> <p /> <a href="http://twitter.com/#">http://twitter.com/#</a>!/joshzuniga/status/144425194277183490 <p /> Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/design-of-flipboard-iphone-app">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8541082403213289855?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-23409085454911254152011-12-07T10:46:00.001-08:002011-12-07T10:46:59.823-08:00NPR: Making Facebook Private Is 'Oxymoronic'<div class='posterous_autopost'>Facebook has developed new privacy features and agreed to 20 years of independent audits of its privacy practices. Google and Twitter previously settled similar cases with the Federal Trade Commission. Farhad Manjoo argues that Facebook, or any social network, can never be truly private. More at <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/12/06/143215143/manjoo-making-facebook-private-is-oxymoronic?ft=1&f=5&sc=17">http://www.npr.org/2011/12/06/143215143/manjoo-making-facebook-private-is-oxy...</a> <p /> <br />Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/npr-making-facebook-private-is-oxymoronic">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-2340908545491125415?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-49578978600656379702011-11-30T13:44:00.001-08:002011-11-30T13:44:42.268-08:00Here comes the Post-It Printer<div class='posterous_autopost'><p>Cute print box + easy connectivity + humor sense = <a href="http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/#!prettyPhoto">http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/#!prettyPhoto</a></p><p><br /></p><div><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/petehwang/G3myobogtFRXoeldm6BhsQbROMQN8ijdYNAABixmBNpocbix4YjDaTBQNB75/image.png"><img alt="Image" height="369" src="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/petehwang/3AOShvkaNvbNzP1ESpDxKKUps7TTGXCMt9851JV2JyI9V3kJGZJyoW4A5kfu/image.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <br /> </div><p /><div><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">Make it self-sticky, and it’d make for an awesome Post-It printer!</span></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/here-comes-the-post-it-printer">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-4957897860065637970?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-20716866684206085062011-11-19T07:25:00.001-08:002011-11-19T07:25:39.538-08:00The King of Human Error<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://m.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/12/michael-lewis-201112?currentPage=all">http://m.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/12/michael-lewis-201112?curren...</a> <p /> In making judgments, people tend to use the “availability heuristic.” As Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky have shown, people often assess the probability of an event by asking whether relevant examples are cognitively “available” [i.e., can be easily remembered]. Thus [because they more readily recall words ending in “ing” than other words with penultimate “n”s, such as “bond” or “mane”], people are likely to think that more words, on a random page, end with the letters “ing” than have “n” as their next to last letter—even though a moment’s reflection will show that this could not possibly be the case. Now, it is not exactly dumb to use the availability heuristic. Sometimes it is the best guide that we possess. Yet reliable statistical evidence will outperform the availability heuristic every time. Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/the-king-of-human-error">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-2071686668420608506?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-80562019957211799302011-11-19T07:21:00.001-08:002011-11-19T07:21:53.976-08:00The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/">http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/</a> <p /> Relying on programmers to map real world social connections is like “hiring a Mormon bartender” and other observations on why our strange urge to document the nodes of friendship is doomed. <p /> Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/the-social-graph-is-neither-pinboard-blog">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8056201995721179930?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-54205562457327084102011-11-19T07:05:00.001-08:002011-11-19T07:05:51.720-08:00Tablet makers without content may exit<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/blog/morning_call/2011/11/tablet-makers-without-content-may-exit.html?ana=yfcpc">http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/blog/morning_call/2011/11/tablet-makers-without-content-may-exit.html?ana=yfcpc</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">A report from Asia on Thursday says that tablet device makers who don’t have content to sell may follow <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/company/ca/palo_alto/hewlett-packard_co/15551/" class="ct saveLink" style="text-decoration: none;">Hewlett-Packard Co.</a> <span class="follow-icon" style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle;"> <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/blog/morning_call/2011/11/tablet-makers-without-content-may-exit.html?ana=yfcpc#" style=""></a> </span>'s lead and pull out of the market before long.</p><p style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20111116PD216.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">The report in Digitimes</a> cites unnamed Asian suppliers who said that Acer, Asustek and <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/company/tx/round_rock/dell_inc/518649/" class="ct saveLink" style="text-decoration: none;">Dell Inc.</a> <span class="follow-icon" style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle;"> <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/blog/morning_call/2011/11/tablet-makers-without-content-may-exit.html?ana=yfcpc#" style=""></a> </span>are all contemplating phasing out of tablets in 2012.</p><p style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The problem, according to the report, is that they can't compete on price against <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/company/ca/cupertino/apple_inc/17304/" class="ct saveLink" style="text-decoration: none;">Apple Inc.</a> <span class="follow-icon" style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle;"> <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/blog/morning_call/2011/11/tablet-makers-without-content-may-exit.html?ana=yfcpc#" style=""></a> </span>'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad, <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/company/wa/seattle/amazoncom_inc/1086633/" class="ct saveLink" style="text-decoration: none;">Amazon.com Inc.</a> <span class="follow-icon" style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle;"> <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/blog/morning_call/2011/11/tablet-makers-without-content-may-exit.html?ana=yfcpc#" style=""></a> </span>'s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire or <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/company/ny/new_york/barnes_&_noble_inc/116333/" class="ct saveLink" style="text-decoration: none;">Barnes & Noble</a> <span class="follow-icon" style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle;"> <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/dayton/blog/morning_call/2011/11/tablet-makers-without-content-may-exit.html?ana=yfcpc#" style=""></a> </span>'s Nook Tablet.</p><p style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">That is because those three tablets are tied to companies with big content stores, enabling them to cut prices below what companies that are just making devices can offer.</p><p style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The $199 Kindle Fire and $249 Nook Tablet are both said to be priced below what they cost to make.</p><p style="background-color: transparent; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Digitimes' sources even said that it is conceivable that some tablets will eventually be given away for free in order to sell products from these companies' stores.</p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/tablet-makers-without-content-may-exit">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-5420556245732708410?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-36366099461596235852011-11-19T07:03:00.001-08:002011-11-19T07:03:11.040-08:00Comparison: Tablet v Smartphone<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://m.paidcontent.org/article/419-doubling-down-why-an-amazon-bet-on-a-smartphone-faces-longer-odds/">http://m.paidcontent.org/article/419-doubling-down-why-an-amazon-bet-on-a-smartphone-faces-longer-odds/</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">There are several reasons why a daring company like Amazon, uninterested in having its fate determined by Apple’s total control of iOS and Google’s total lack of control over Android, would want to chart its own course in mobile. <a href="http://www.splatf.com/2011/11/amazon-phone/" title="Dan Frommer at SplatF" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Dan Frommer at SplatF</a> nicely outlined several reasons how this could work out well for Amazon.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">—<strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Different Paths</strong>: But as the iPad and tablet-wannabes mature, we’re learning just how different smartphones are than tablets. In these early days, the average tablet <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/18/tablet-smartphone-use-breakfast-evening" title="spends most of its time in the house" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">spends most of its time in the house</a>. A huge percentage of them are Wi-Fi only, lacking a connection to mobile data networks through wireless carriers. And while apps are still important, <a href="http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/05/30/study-tablet-users-spend-more-time-web-browsing-than-with-apps" title="Web surfing is more common on tablets" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Web surfing is more common on tablets</a>than on smartphones.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Smartphones, on the other hand, need to be available and accessible everywhere. They’re mostly sold at retail by wireless carriers, who find ways to exert their own (and often competing) interests on the phones they sell. And applications are more important, which is why fragmentation is such a prevalent issue among Android developers confronted with an array of screen sizes and custom user interfaces across Android phones.</p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/comparison-tablet-v-smartphone">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3636609946159623585?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-34142997116512468062011-11-11T09:51:00.001-08:002011-11-11T09:51:17.934-08:00How Fast Is Apple's IPhone 4S? | The Daily Feed | Minyanville.com<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.minyanville.com/dailyfeed/2011/10/11/how-fast-is-apples-iphone/">http://www.minyanville.com/dailyfeed/2011/10/11/how-fast-is-apples-iphone/</a></div><div><br />Even the venerable iPhone 4 gets a speed bump with IOS5! =)</div><p /><div>Excerpt:</div><p />AnandTech ran Apple's new flagship <a href="http://www.minyanville.com/dailyfeed/2011/10/11/how-fast-is-apples-iphone/#" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" rel="nofollow" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: underline; float: none !important; border-color: initial; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; display: inline !important; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0);"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="float: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; display: inline; font-variant: normal; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: transparent;">phone</span></a> through a<a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/4951/iphone-4s-preliminary-benchmarks-800mhz-a5-slightly-slower-gpu-than-ipad-2" title="series of benchmarks" target="_blank" style="border-top-width: medium; border-right-width: medium; border-bottom-width: medium; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none;">series of benchmarks</a>, and the device cruised through the tests -- even topping Samsung's Galaxy Tab under certain conditions. In terms of Javascript performance, the iPhone 4S sailed past Android offerings and nestled close to the Galaxy Tab. In the graphics department, the device also topped the Android competition by a significant margin and neared the iPad 2's ranking.<p />Once the overall results were tallied, AnandTech concluded, "Using some of the integer and fp tests of published Geekbench scores we can already conclude that Apple is shipping a lower clocked A5 in the iPhone 4S than it does in the iPad 2. This naturally makes sense as the iPhone 4S has a much smaller 5.25 Whr battery." Adding, "Based on the Geekbench results it looks like the iPad 2 is clocked around 25% higher than the iPhone 4S, pegging the latter's clock speed at 800MHz."<p />So, in short, if you <a href="http://www.minyanville.com/dailyfeed/2011/10/11/how-fast-is-apples-iphone/#" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" rel="nofollow" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: underline; float: none !important; border-color: initial; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; display: inline !important; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0);"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="float: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; display: inline; font-variant: normal; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-color: transparent;">buy</span></a> the iPhone 4S, you're getting yourself a powerful machine.<p /><center style=""><img src="http://image.minyanville.com/assets/FCK_Jan2011/Image/Schuster/iPhone%204S%20Javascript%20-%20AnandTech.png" height="600" alt="" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial;" width="600" /></center><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/how-fast-is-apples-iphone-4s-the-daily-feed-m">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3414299711651246806?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-29202634434964251192011-11-04T23:32:00.001-07:002011-11-04T23:32:24.218-07:00Apple Headed for 60 Percent of Handset Industry Operating Profits - John Paczkowski - Mobile - AllThingsD<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20111104/apple-headed-for-60-percent-of-handset-industry-operating-profits/">http://allthingsd.com/20111104/apple-headed-for-60-percent-of-handset-industry-operating-profits/</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.45em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/10/cook-iphone.png" class="fancybox" style="text-decoration: none;"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-133508" title="cook-iphone" src="http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/10/cook-iphone-380x285.png" height="285" alt="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: right;" width="380" /></a>With the iPhone, Apple is doing to the smartphone business what it has done to the PC business with the Mac: Generating a disproportionate share of profits relative to revenue.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.45em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">In its third quarter, Apple captured more than half of the handset industry’s overall operating profits — 52 percent, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley. And it managed it with only a 4.2 percent global handset unit market share.</p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/apple-headed-for-60-percent-of-handset-indust">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-2920263443496425119?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-67209297168367089282011-10-23T17:40:00.001-07:002011-10-23T17:40:05.368-07:0010 Years of iPod<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/10-years-of-the-ipod-a-design-retrospective.ars?utm_source=twitterfeed">http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/10-years-of-the-ipod-a-design-retrospective.ars?utm_source=twitterfeed</a></div><p /><div>Excerpt:</div><div><br /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;">When the original iPod first came out 10 years ago, the concept didn't seem novel to those who had already hopped on the MP3 player bandwagon. What <em>was</em> new—aside from its deep integration with Apple's music store—was the physical design. The minimalist layout, the screen with playlists, the easy-access buttons—and oh, the scroll wheel! These were all elements that made up a signature Apple design. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;">The iPod in all of its manifestations has now been part of our lives for a decade now, and it has become clear that the world fancies its design. Whether in its original form or in a <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2005/09/nano.ars">shrunken down</a>and <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/">slightly manipulated</a> format, the influence of the original iPod has remained part of American pop culture for a decade. Everywhere you look, there are iPods—iPod shuffles attached to people at the gym, iPod touches and every generation of nano being fiddled with on the subway, iPod classics, and iPhones being toted on airplanes.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;">How did the iPod's original design morph over time? Let's look back.</p>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/10-years-of-ipod">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-6720929716836708928?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-36893666749572631072011-10-22T21:12:00.001-07:002011-10-22T21:12:44.714-07:00What Matias Duarte's been up to: Ice Cream Sandwich<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/exclusive-matias-duarte-ice-cream-sandwich-galaxy-nexus/">http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/exclusive-matias-duarte-ice-cream-sandwich-galaxy-nexus/</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">“I thought ‘okay you know what, I’ve tried to win so many times before,’ and it’s been shown that it doesn’t matter how great a product you have and how revolutionary the product is… distribution and marketshare are the things that matter.” Matias smiles, “Now I’m going the other way around.”</p><p /><div>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/what-matias-duartes-been-up-to-ice-cream-sand">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-3689366674957263107?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-55246535877343740422011-10-22T09:56:00.001-07:002011-10-22T09:56:04.858-07:00Mining data for competitive edges - Barrons.com<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052748704766704576641391899805386.html?ru=yahoo&mod=yahoobarrons">http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052748704766704576641391899805386.html?ru=yahoo&mod=yahoobarrons</a></div><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block;">"Big data" is the big new buzz phrase in technology, and <span class="chartToolTip"><a href="http://online.barrons.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=TDC" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; font-weight: bold;">Teradata</a></span> is the Big Daddy of the field.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block;">Big data refers to vast amounts of diverse, unstructured data that are difficult for traditional analytical systems to handle. Social media networks such as <span class="chartToolTip"><a href="http://online.barrons.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=GOOG" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: initial; font-weight: bold;">Google</a></span> (ticker: GOOG) and Facebook, for instance, collect massive amounts of data—text, photographs, charts—that come steadily from all directions. Companies from a range of industries are digging through information mountains like these in search of patterns and competitive edges. Pursuits like genomics, astronomy, military surveillance and radio-frequency identification technology are also contributing to the explosive growth of the field.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: block;">The challenge in this kind of analysis is to dig deeply, quickly and widely. The industry calls it the Three Vs: volume, velocity and variety. And Teradata's systems master the challenge.</p><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/mining-data-for-competitive-edges-barronscom">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-5524653587734374042?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-13599642932763498192011-10-16T07:54:00.001-07:002011-10-16T07:54:21.797-07:00Siri: Friendly & Conversational<div class='posterous_autopost'><div>Apple iPhone 4S Review: It's the iPhone 4, Only More So <a href="http://techland.time.com/2011/10/15/apple-iphone-4s-review-its-the-iphone-4-only-more-so/"></a><a href="http://techland.time.com/2011/10/15/apple-iphone-4s-review-its-the-iphone-4-only-more-so/">http://techland.time.com/2011/10/15/apple-iphone-4s-review-its-the-iphone-4-only-more-so/</a></div><p /><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div><div style=""><p>Based on $150 million of research by the Stanford Research Institute and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Siri melds speech input, a soothing-if-robotic synthesized female voice, natural-language processing technology, location awareness, and integration with Yelp and the Wolfram Alpha knowledge engine into something new and amazing.</p><p>You begin by holding down the Home button or simply lifting the phone to your ear, then you tell Siri how it can help you. All of the following spoken requests, and dozens more, worked perfectly for me:</p><p>"Remind me to call my wife when I get home."</p><p>"Schedule a call with Tom at 2pm"</p><p>"Wake me up at midnight tomorrow."</p><p>"Find me a Portuguese restaurant in San Francisco."</p><p>"What is 14,000 Japanese Yen in U.S. dollars?"</p><p>"When did William Howard Taft die?</p><p>Apple says Siri is in beta, but it's already remarkably clever and conversational. It understands family relationships, and if you haven't told it who your spouse or mom is, it'll ask, then remember. If you have seven Toms in your contacts, as I do, it'll list them all and ask which one you meant. It notices when you've arrived at your home or office. You can tell it "I'm hungry" or ask "Is there a God?" or "Where is Apple?" and it'll understand and say something relevant in response.</p><p>(<strong>MORE: </strong><a href="http://techland.time.com/2011/10/05/siri-can-apple-sell-the-concept-of-natural-language-computing/?xid=tringapps">Siri: Can Apple Sell the Concept of Natural Language Computing?</a>)</p><p>True, Siri isn't going to beat IBM's Watson supercomputer at Jeopardy anytime soon: There are lots of things you might want it to do—such as provide spoken driving directions—that are beyond its current skills. In fact, it's missing some cool features from the original Siri app, such as movie information and flight statuses. And as I've tried it, it's sometimes failed to understand me or just plain stalled.</p><p>Still, Siri is breathtaking for a beta. If voice-activated assistants are all around us in five or ten years, we'll look back and say it all started here.</p></div>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/siri-friendly-conversational">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-1359964293276349819?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-8508759938318426902011-10-16T07:51:00.001-07:002011-10-16T07:51:05.879-07:00It's the iPhone 4, Only More So<div class='posterous_autopost'><div>Apple iPhone 4S Review: It's the iPhone 4, Only More So <a href="http://techland.time.com/2011/10/15/apple-iphone-4s-review-its-the-iphone-4-only-more-so/"></a><a href="http://techland.time.com/2011/10/15/apple-iphone-4s-review-its-the-iphone-4-only-more-so/">http://techland.time.com/2011/10/15/apple-iphone-4s-review-its-the-iphone-4-only-more-so/</a></div><p /><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div><div style=""><p>"Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything." That was Steve Jobs talking in 2007, as he was about to introduce the first iPhone. He was right about it being a landmark. But he was also correct that it was a once-in-a-while event. Most products—including Apple ones—are merely evolutionary and only change some things.</p><p>Fortunately, Apple isn't just an expert at revolution; it also does evolution uncommonly well. Consider its new<a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/">iPhone 4S</a>, which went on sale on Friday. (The company loaned me one for review.)</p><p>As the 4S's very name acknowledges, it's no radical rethinking of last year's iPhone 4: There's a lot that hasn't changed at all, plus a few major new features and some minor tweaks. That's prompted some<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/iphone-4s-disappointed_n_995095.html">grumbling</a>, but it's <a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2096793,00.html">okay</a>: The iPhone 4 was an exceptional phone in the first place, and the 4S is that much more exceptional. And one new arrival—it goes by the name Siri—might just turn out to be the beginnings of a bona-fide revolution.</p></div>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/its-the-iphone-4-only-more-so">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-850875993831842690?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-59031395757674399962011-10-15T21:28:00.001-07:002011-10-15T21:28:53.449-07:00How Important Is iOS?<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://m.fool.com/investing/general/2011/10/15/how-important-is-ios?source=eptyholnk303100">http://m.fool.com/investing/general/2011/10/15/how-important-is-ios?source=eptyholnk303100</a></div><p /><p /><div>Excerpt:</div><p /><div><div style=""><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px;"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Apple</strong> </p><div class="ticker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">(Nasdaq: <a href="http://m.fool.com/Quote/AAPL" style="">AAPL</a>)</div> has transformed itself from a computer company to a mobile-device company, a change that began when it ditched "Computer" from its name in January 2007 -- the same day the first iPhone was launched.<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px;">Back then, the company was doing $24 billion in annual sales, with desktops and laptops combined accounting for almost 43% of revenue and iPods contributing 35%. Over the past several years, the breakdown has dramatically shifted heavily toward the iPhone, while the iPad was just introduced last year. Here's a breakdown using full-year data.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px;"><img src="http://g.fool.com/img/editorial/yearly.png" alt="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;" /></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px;" /><div class="smalltext" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Source: 10-K annual reports.</div><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px;">Apple's fiscal year closes at the end of September, so this data above goes only through September 2010. The company is scheduled to report fourth-quarter and full fiscal 2011 results on Tuesday. The past three quarters have been <a href="http://m.fool.com/investing/general/2011/07/19/dear-wall-street-apple-punked-you-again" style="">whoppers</a>, so it wouldn't be fair to leave them out.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px;"><img src="http://g.fool.com/img/editorial/2011quarters.png" alt="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;" /></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px;" /><div class="smalltext" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Source: 10-Q quarterly reports.</div><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px;">The picture is crystal clear: iOS devices now comprise the vast majority of Apple's revenue.</p><p /></div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/how-important-is-ios">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-5903139575767439996?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-54093381360004758002011-10-15T07:23:00.001-07:002011-10-15T07:23:20.367-07:00What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://m.gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs">http://m.gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs</a></div><p /><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div style=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">We mentioned much of the good Jobs did during his career <a href="http://gawker.com/5847124/steve-jobs-is-dead" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(215, 81, 72);">earlier</a>. His accomplishments were far-reaching and impossible to easily summarize. But here's one way of looking at the scope of his achievement: It's the dream of any entrepreneur to effect change in one industry. Jobs transformed half a dozen of them forever, from personal computers to phones to animation to music to publishing to video games. He was a polymath, a skilled motivator, a decisive judge, a farsighted tastemaker, an excellent showman, and a gifted strategist.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">One thing he wasn't, though, was perfect. Indeed there were things Jobs did while at Apple that were deeply disturbing. Rude, dismissive, hostile, spiteful: Apple employees—the ones not bound by confidentiality agreements—have had a different story to tell over the years about Jobs and the bullying, manipulation and fear that followed him around Apple. Jobs contributed to global problems, too. Apple's success has been built literally on the backs of Chinese workers, many of them children and all of them enduring long shifts and the specter of brutal penalties for mistakes. And, for all his talk of enabling individual expression, Jobs imposed paranoid rules that centralized control of who could say what on his devices and in his company.</p></div><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-stev">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-5409338136000475800?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-8456699651557327472011-10-15T06:57:00.001-07:002011-10-15T06:57:33.843-07:00Manufacturing, 3D Printing and What China Knows About the Emerging American Century<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/markpmills/2011/07/05/manufacturing-3d-printing-and-what-china-knows-about-the-emerging-american-century/">http://www.forbes.com/sites/markpmills/2011/07/05/manufacturing-3d-printing-a...</a> <p /> <br />Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/manufacturing-3d-printing-and-what-china-know">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-845669965155732747?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-70823319099430760662011-10-15T06:52:00.001-07:002011-10-15T06:52:15.377-07:00History and Technology Reality Promise Another Steve Jobs, Apple and American Economic Boom<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/markpmills/2011/10/15/history-and-technology-reality-promise-another-steve-jobs-apple-and-american-economic-boom/">http://www.forbes.com/sites/markpmills/2011/10/15/history-and-technology-reality-promise-another-steve-jobs-apple-and-american-economic-boom/</a></div><p /><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><span style="">History is rife with similar stories, where prescient and driven entrepreneurs built new businesses and unleashed new economic paradigms. Businesses that change the world are rarely single inventions, single devices – but are built on the maturation of collection of revolutionary components, and necessarily, emerge from the fertile mind of a passionate leader.</span><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/history-and-technology-reality-promise-anothe">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-7082331909943076066?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-81033135785155261582011-10-15T00:00:00.001-07:002011-10-15T00:00:11.004-07:00Blurry Vision: How Corporate Boards and the Consulting Industry Undermine the Future of Great Companies<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2011/10/14/blurry-vision-how-corporate-boards-and-the-consulting-industry-undermine-the-future-of-great-companies/?partner=yahoofeed">http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2011/10/14/blurry-vision-how-corporate-boards-and-the-consulting-industry-undermine-the-future-of-great-companies/?partner=yahoofeed</a></div><p /><div><br /><div style=""><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Excerpt:</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I wrote about “Kodak’s Entrepreneurial Failure,” last week, I didn’t have all the details about the company’s decline and fall from greatness. A few days later, however, one of the readers—a former<a href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=ek&tab=searchtabquotesdark" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(15, 45, 95); text-decoration: underline;">Kodak</a> (NYSE:EK) middle manager—connected the dots for me.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the early 1980s, Kodak did undergo a successful entrepreneurial transformation from the traditional film business to digital photography—a $20 billion annual business. But by the late 1980s, the board of directors, at the advice of outside consultants, dismantled the digital business division, switching resources back to the company’s “core” film business!</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kodak’s blurry vision is neither new nor unique in the corporate world, as the boards of a number of great American companies have been blindsided by untested ideas promoted by the consulting industry—that often end up enriching its own bottom line rather than the bottom line of its clients.</p></div>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/blurry-vision-how-corporate-boards-and-the-co">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8103313578515526158?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-48208020454425383562011-10-09T06:11:00.001-07:002011-10-09T06:11:33.965-07:00Mashable - The Social Media Guide<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://mashable.com/2011/10/07/pinterest/">http://mashable.com/2011/10/07/pinterest/</a></div><p /><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div style=""><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Quick Pitch:</strong> Pinterest is a digital pinboard for things you love.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">Genius Idea:</strong> A bookmark that makes it easy to save photos from any webpage.</p><hr /><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">When Pinterest founder <a href="http://pinterest.com/ben/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 136, 175);">Ben Silbermann</a> was looking for an engagement ring for his girlfriend, he turned to his own product for inspiration. He found the right one on the list of a jewelry enthusiast, and pinned it to his digital board.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">He also used Pinterest to help plan the wedding, keep track of potential future vacation destinations, list his family’s favorite recipes and just remember images that fit the title “little things I love.”</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">This flexibility is part of Pinterest’s draw. Expressing passion for a hobby is just as easy as browsing for your next purchase. But what’s even more addictive about the site — a collection of collections — is that it’s just as much about the users as it is what they’ve posted.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">“The things you collect say a lot about you, and we wanted to bring that experience online,” says Silbermann.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">Here’s how Pinterest works: Users create lists about anything and fill them with photos from around the web. They can follow other lists and users, and “repin” specific items. An Instapaper-like bookmark makes adding to a list from anywhere much easier than writing a blog post or uploading an image to a photo-sharing service. And the browser experience is ideal for the small attention spans of web readers — almost no text, almost all pictures.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">Pinterest revealed Friday that it had raised a $27 million round of funding from Andreessen Horowitz.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">The site is still not open to the public, and users need to request an invitation to use it. Silbermann says that there are no monetization plans in the works. It’s unusual for a startup in private beta to get this much attention from a top investment firm — especially a startup with no clear path to making money.</p></div><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/mashable-the-social-media-guide-91696">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-4820802045442538356?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-70073608122081950412011-10-07T06:52:00.001-07:002011-10-07T06:52:56.583-07:00Cards app<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://mashable.com/2011/10/05/apple-cards-greeting-industry/?WT.mc_id=obnetwork">http://mashable.com/2011/10/05/apple-cards-greeting-industry/?WT.mc_id=obnetwork</a></div><p /><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div style=""><center style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><img src="http://9.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/applecards.jpg" style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; clear: both; display: block;" /><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;"></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;"></p></center><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;"></p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">Were you surprised by Apple’s announcement of the <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/10/04/apple-cards/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 136, 175);">new Cards app for iPhone</a>? You shouldn’t be — it’s a multi-billion dollar industry that has so far weathered the recession better than most.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">According to the U.S. Greeting Card Association, Americans send 7 billion greeting cards every year, with the average household buying 30 cards. Retail sales of greeting cards within the States are estimated to be in excess of $7.5 billion.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">The figures are no less impressive when you leave U.S. shores. The UK’s Greeting Card Association reports £1.386 billion was spent on “single” (as opposed to multipack) cards alone in the last year. The UK card industry has also seen annual growth — a value increase of 3% and a volume increase of 2.7% — in the face of tough retail conditions.</p></div><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/cards-app">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-7007360812208195041?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-23349953605424699102011-10-07T06:38:00.001-07:002011-10-07T06:38:52.261-07:00The cult of the superstar CEO<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cult-of-the-superstar-ceo-2011-10-07?siteid=yhoof">http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cult-of-the-superstar-ceo-2011-10-07?siteid=yhoof</a></div><p /><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div style=""><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.167em; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.354em;">That at least is the clear conclusion to emerge from research conducted by Jim Collins, the author of a number of best-selling books about what makes companies great. Particularly fascinating are the findings he reported in his book “Good To Great,” published a decade ago.</p><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.167em; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.354em;">For that book, Collins identified companies in the Fortune 500 whose shares, at some point since the early 1960s, went from merely keeping up with the market itself to outperforming it by a margin of at least 3 to 1 over a period of at least 15 years. He then constructed a control group of similar companies that never underwent this transformation from good to great.</p><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.167em; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.354em;">Collins found that the mediocre companies were far more likely than the great ones to appoint superstar CEOs as white knights. In fact, Collins told me in an interview a few years ago, more than two-thirds of these mediocre companies “tried the outside savior model, and it didn’t work.”</p><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.167em; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.354em;">In contrast, more than 90% of the good-to-great companies appointed their CEOs from within, and those CEOs hardly met the criteria of being a superstar: They remained largely unknown to the outside world.</p><p class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 6px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1.167em; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.354em;">From this and other findings, Collins concluded that “bringing in a white knight to be CEO is a recipe for mediocrity.”</p></div><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/the-cult-of-the-superstar-ceo">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-2334995360542469910?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-87952361318595089282011-10-06T08:23:00.001-07:002011-10-06T08:23:18.921-07:00How The Echo Nest is Powering the Internet's Musical Brain | Fast Company<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/159/music-database">http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/159/music-database</a></div><p /><div><br /><div style=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: georgia, geneva; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; color: black;"><img src="http://images.fastcompany.com/magazine/next-p-hr.jpg" alt="" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-right: 6px;" /><strong>Eventually, the most successful</strong> music companies may not be the ones that create, play, or sell music. Rather, they may be the ones to collect the most music data. In this race, Somerville, Massachusetts-based the Echo Nest is ahead. It's an ever-growing, easily searchable database (called the Musical Brain) of every possible data point for more than 30 million songs--and it's not for you, or any consumer. "We put it all in the hands of the people who create the new ways that we discover and interact with music," says CEO Jim Lucchese. Right now, that means 7,000-plus app developers, plus some heavy names like MTV. These folks create platforms to sell music, and the Echo Nest takes a cut. Below, a sampling of the services and how versatile music data can be.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: georgia, geneva; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; color: black;"><a href="http://infographics.fastcompany.com/magazine/159/music-database-infographic.html" title="Infographic: Melodic Middleman" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline;">Infographic: Melodic Middleman</a> <img src="http://images.fastcompany.com/images/popup-large.gif" height="10" alt="Popup-Icon" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial;" width="10" /></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: georgia, geneva; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; color: black;"><a href="http://infographics.fastcompany.com/magazine/159/music-database-infographic.html" title="Infographic: Melodic Middleman" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline;"><img src="http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/music-database2-in.jpg" alt="" style="border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);" width="610" /></a></p></div>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/how-the-echo-nest-is-powering-the-internets-m">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8795236131859508928?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-8728702420645654412011-10-06T08:17:00.001-07:002011-10-06T08:17:57.054-07:00PlanetTran, Uber and RelayRides Want To Take You On A Fantastic (And Green) Voyage | Fast Company<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/159/planettran">http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/159/planettran</a></div><p /><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div><span style="">In Boston and San Francisco, eight-year-old eco-livery service PlanetTran--funded by, among others, Tjan, CEO and managing partner of Boston VC firm Cue Ball--attracts customers with its fleet of Wi-Fi-ready hybrids, easy online booking, and customized services (they'll send you drivers you rate favorably, for example). For most of its life, the company existed in moderate harmony with city-run cab services. But then PlanetTran began to hype new technologies, including Tweet-a-Ride, which lets clients tweet their location, destination, and pickup time for instant service. Not far off, according to president Lori van Dam: the ability to sync your PlanetTran account with your digital calendar and Facebook; it'll adjust your pickup time if it knows you're running late or organize ride shares if it finds out that you and the PlanetTran user down the street both have Monday-morning flights.</span></div><div><span style=""><br /></span>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/planettran-uber-and-relayrides-want-to-take-y">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-872870242064565441?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-70452590162714310912011-10-05T16:10:00.001-07:002011-10-05T16:10:50.771-07:00The Zynga Conundrum<div class='posterous_autopost'><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: georgia, geneva; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; color: black;"> <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/159/zynga-facebook-relationship">http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/159/zynga-facebook-relationship</a></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: georgia, geneva; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; color: black;"> excerpt:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: georgia, geneva; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; color: black;"> <strong>The oxpecker is an African bird</strong> that ekes out a living from the ticks that live on the backs of rhinoceroses. I imagine even it would be embarrassed by <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2011/profile/zynga.php" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: underline;">Zynga</a>'s dependency on Facebook.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: georgia, geneva; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; color: black;"> That the details of the Zynga-Facebook relationship still had the capacity to shock--as they did when Zynga disclosed its financials in preparation for its initial public offering--underscores just how deeply the game maker's fortunes rely on Mark Zuckerberg's goodwill. Not only does Zynga derive "substantially all" of its customers and revenue (almost $600 million in 2010) through the social network, but in a five-year agreement that it signed last year, Zynga also promised to give Facebook a heads-up before it releases any new game on the social network and to grant Facebook exclusive access to those games.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: georgia, geneva; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; color: black;"> Of course, Zynga is not alone. Silicon Valley is littered with companies whose fortunes are tied to what you might call "OPP"--other people's platforms. There are multitudes of Apple and Facebook app developers, Twitter clients, and Google-dependent content farms. These one-sided relationships rarely end well. So why do so many promising young developers resign themselves to building barnacles rather than great new ships?</p> </div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/the-zynga-conundrum">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-7045259016271431091?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-88855360544935021152011-10-01T22:34:00.001-07:002011-10-01T22:34:50.459-07:00PNLS | Home<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.pnls.org/1024/">http://www.pnls.org/1024/</a></div><p /><div><br /><p style=""><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(102, 163, 255);"> </span></p><p style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">Event Coordinator</span></p><p style=""><span style="color: rgb(102, 163, 255);"><a href="mailto:Events@pnls.org">Events@pnls.org</a></span></p><p style=""><span style="color: rgb(102, 163, 255);"> </span></p><p style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;">Telephone #</span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 163, 255);">Park #503-829-6866</span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 163, 255);"> </span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-weight: bold;">Questions / Concerns</span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 163, 255);"><a href="mailto:Support@pnls.org">Support@pnls.org</a></span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 163, 255);"> </span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-weight: bold;">Upload Center</span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 163, 255);"><a href="mailto:upload@pnls.org">upload@pnls.org</a></span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 163, 255);"> </span></p><p style=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(102, 163, 255);"> </span></p><p style=""><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Train Park Location</span></p><p style=""><span style="color: black;">31803 S. Shady Dell Rd.</span></p><p style=""><span style="color: black;">Molalla, OR 97038</span></p><p />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/pnls-home">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8885536054493502115?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-28939213828006085542011-09-30T23:38:00.001-07:002011-09-30T23:38:56.339-07:00Amazon, the Company That Ate the World - BusinessWeek<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-omnivore-09282011.html">http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-omnivore-09282011.html</a></div><p /><p /><div>Excerpt:</div><p /><div><span style="">If the Kindle Fire is half as good as it looked in Bezos’ conference room, it will fan the fears about Amazon’s growing dominance. The tablet funnels users into Amazon’s meticulously constructed world of content, commerce, and cloud computing. Just like owners of Kindle e-reading devices tend to start buying all their books from Amazon, Kindle Fire owners are likely to hand over an increasing chunk of their entertainment budget to Jeff Bezos.</span></div><div style=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.5em;">Tablets represent a huge opportunity for Bezos, not only to sell a new kind of device but also to entice people to buy more stuff. Even with only 28.7 million iPads sold, e-commerce sites say they see an increasing amount of traffic coming from tablets.Forrester Research (<a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=FORR" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 153); text-decoration: none;">FORR</a>) reported this summer that online purchases made on tablets now account for 20 percent of all mobile e-commerce sales, and that nearly 60 percent of tablet owners have used them to shop. Bezos says tablets “are a huge tailwind for our business.” Amazon once saw spikes in traffic during the workday lunch hours. Now traffic is more evenly distributed as people pick up their tablets anytime of the week, buying the books and albums they see on television and making impulsive decisions about replacing their dishwashers.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 0.875em; line-height: 1.5em;">The Kindle Fire (internal code name: Otter) is designed to ensure that even more of those purchases go to Amazon. The company has built a tablet-optimized shopping application, with simplified and streamlined pages but none of the clutter of the main website. The app is pre-installed and sits at the bottom of the Fire’s main screen (users can get rid of it if they want). The device also comes with the enticement of a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime, the company’s $79-a-year two-day delivery program that tends to convert members into Amazon addicts who triple or even quadruple the amount they spend on the site. Since March, Amazon has also administered its own app store for Android devices, culling Google’s more comprehensive selection and removing everything that’s offensive and unreliable. Kindle Fire owners will have access to apps from Pandora (<a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=P" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 153); text-decoration: none;">P</a>), Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix (<a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=NFLX" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 153); text-decoration: none;">NFLX</a>). Other competitors such as Barnes & Noble (<a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=BKS" style="color: rgb(6, 69, 153); text-decoration: none;">BKS</a>) can submit their apps, but it will be much easier for Kindle Fire owners to find Amazon’s own content.</p></div><div><p />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/amazon-the-company-that-ate-the-world-busines">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-2893921382800608554?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-25601427214473253592011-09-30T21:52:00.001-07:002011-09-30T21:52:26.990-07:00Google Plus & the Data Scientist Who's Navigating It to Hell<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://m.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_plus_the_data_scientist_whos_navigating_it.php">http://m.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_plus_the_data_scientist_whos_navigating_it.php</a></div><p /><p /><div>Excerpt:<br /><span style="">Horowitz and O'Reilly talked dreamily about a sensor-rich future where almost unimaginable technologies were built on tidal waves of data. "Imagine we all opted-in and donated our microphone sensors in this room to capture an aggregate of data," he imagined. "There will be sensors like dust everywhere and it will be [technologists' job] to harvest that data and return it as killer apps."</span></div><div><span style=""><br /></span>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/google-plus-the-data-scientist-whos-navigatin">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-2560142721447325359?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-29009059817181608802011-09-29T03:30:00.001-07:002011-09-29T03:30:26.310-07:00Amazon's New Cloud-Fueled Web Browser Will Predict Your Browsing Habits<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://m.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_silk_browser_predicts_browsing_habits.php">http://m.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_silk_browser_predicts_browsing_habits.php</a></div><p /><p /><div>Excerpt:<br /><div style=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;">Another way the browser aims to speed things up is by predicting the future. Silk uses machine learning to predict browsing patterns and pre-load pages that the user is likely to request next. Just as Amazon can guess which books and other products you'll be interested in, it can also figure out which pages you're likely to navigate to on the Web.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;">"The browser observes aggregate user behavior across a large number of sites," said Jon Jenkins, Silk's director of software development. "For instance, we might notice that people who view the New York Times homepage, often go to the New York Times business page afterwards. Our browser is capable of detecting these aggregate user behavior patterns and actually requesting the next page you're likely to need before you even know you need it."</p></div>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/amazons-new-cloud-fueled-web-browser-will-pre">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-2900905981718160880?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-87029140957024329062011-09-27T10:44:00.001-07:002011-09-27T10:44:49.413-07:00Banking -- Reframed, Rebooted<div class='posterous_autopost'>Introducing BankSimple:<p /><div><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/29339937?portrait=0" frameborder="0" height="283" width="500"></iframe></div><p /><div>Excerpt from <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/this_is_what_banksimple_looks_like.php">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/this_is_what_banksimple_looks_like.php</a></div> <p /><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://banksimple.com/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); cursor: pointer;">BankSimple</a></span>, the most-hyped pre-launch web application in the nerd-o-sphere, is about to make its web-only personal banking service available to its first customers. An incredibly ambitious little project that promises no surprise fees, hot web design and real time data processing, BankSimple is very eagerly anticipated. Today the company <a href="http://banksimple.com/blog/BankSimple/a-first-look-at-BankSimple/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); cursor: pointer;">released a video demo</a> of its web interface and the feedback has been enthusiastically positive.</div></blockquote> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/banking-reframed-rebooted">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8702914095702432906?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-28895374288180128792011-09-23T09:55:00.001-07:002011-09-23T09:55:08.481-07:00To HP's New CEO: Keep PCs And Focus On Consumerization Of IT To Best Serve The Enterprise Customer - Forbes<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/forrester/2011/09/23/to-hps-new-ceo-keep-pcs-and-focus-on-consumerization-of-it-to-best-serve-the-enterprise-customer/">http://www.forbes.com/sites/forrester/2011/09/23/to-hps-new-ceo-keep-pcs-and-focus-on-consumerization-of-it-to-best-serve-the-enterprise-customer/</a></div><p /><p /><div>Excerpt:<br /><span style="">Forrester believes we’re at the beginning of new trend on the consumerization of IT, where consumer products skills will be increasingly important and relevant to selling to SMB and enterprise customers. Abandoning consumer markets and skills now is to give up a strategic advantage that HP now has over IBM and Dell for succeeding in the rapidly evolving work of business technology.</span></div><div><span style=""><br /></span>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/to-hps-new-ceo-keep-pcs-and-focus-on-consumer">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-2889537428818012879?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-83746814616285988952011-09-10T05:14:00.001-07:002011-09-10T05:14:51.227-07:00What's a business plan?<div class='posterous_autopost'>yes! ::clap:: RT @LukeGWilliams: A business plan is not a document. It's a STORY about how you're going to create & capture value. #Disrupt <p /> <a href="http://twitter.com/#">http://twitter.com/#</a>!/frogdesign/status/111871913026007040 <p /> <br />Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/whats-a-business-plan">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8374681461628598895?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-17263928057150944782011-09-10T05:12:00.001-07:002011-09-10T05:12:39.986-07:0011 Reasons why responsive web design isn't that cool!<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://www.webdesignshock.com/responsive-design-problems/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">http://www.webdesignshock.com/responsive-design-problems/?utm_source=twitterf...</a> <p /> <br />Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/11-reasons-why-responsive-web-design-isnt-tha">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-1726392805715094478?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-89867571788636486282011-09-10T05:08:00.001-07:002011-09-10T05:08:55.157-07:00Spotify Gets Pandora-Style Web Interface Called ‘Echofi’ | Underwire | Wired.com<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://m.wired.com/underwire/2011/09/echofi-spotify/">http://m.wired.com/underwire/2011/09/echofi-spotify/</a></div><p /><p /><div>Excerpt</div><div><br /><div style=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2011/09/echofi.jpg" title="Full Size" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none;">Millions of prayers have just been answered. Spotify has been granted a Pandora-esque web radio interface called Echofi. But not by the company itself — it’s been built by coder </a><a href="http://www.twitter.com/asmitter" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none;">Andy Smith</a>, who’s also the brains behind Spotibot.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">It’s glorious in its simplicity. You go to<a href="http://www.Echofiapp.com/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none;"></a><a href="http://Echofiapp.com">Echofiapp.com</a>, type in the name of a band you like, hit play, and it’ll keep playing music that’s similar to that band until you tell it to stop. The recommendations are supplied by <a href="http://the.echonest.com/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none;">Echo Nest</a>’s API.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;">“After Spotify launched in the U.S., a lot of people were lamenting the lack of artist radio (which has since been re-implemented) and comparing it directly — if unfairly — to Pandora,” Smith told <a href="http://Wired.co.uk">Wired.co.uk</a>. “Reading this, I couldn’t see a reason why you couldn’t give some extended control to <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-07/14/spotify-tips" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 124, 165); text-decoration: none;">Spotify</a>. Playlists are great, but they are finite. The joy of set-and-forget systems is you can do just that. Radio is a constant background, with the occasional ‘I love this song!’ and ‘I hate this song!’ What I want to do is use those moments to drive the station into something where you’ll never experience the latter.”</p></div>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/spotify-gets-pandora-style-web-interface-call">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8986757178863648628?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-50730948957521464102011-09-10T04:56:00.001-07:002011-09-10T04:56:23.020-07:00Social circles are complicated<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://mashable.com/2011/09/01/social-media-identities/">http://mashable.com/2011/09/01/social-media-identities/</a></div><div><div style=""><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">Excerpt</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">People are naturally social creatures. That’s what makes social media such a powerful concept. Social media channels allow human beings to sort themselves into groups and factions seamlessly, and maintain intimate relationships at greater distances than ever before.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">But as anthropologist Herbert Spencer describes in his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_organism" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 136, 175);">theory of the social organism</a>, society is a system of interrelated parts that operate interdependently. Social media users understand that concept intuitively, and segment their relationships accordingly.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">For instance, you are not the same person at work as you are among friends on a Friday night. The things you talk about, the vocabulary you use and the friendships you maintain in different contexts are the products of years of learning how to interpret relationships cues. From flirting to non-verbal communication, the way we present ourselves to others is constantly shifting based on whom we are talking to, and why.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">The current social media environment has evolved to reflect this reality. It is made up of a number of independent social channels (<a href="http://mashable.com/category/facebook/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 136, 175);">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://mashable.com/category/twitter/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 136, 175);">Twitter</a>,<a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/linkedin/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 136, 175);">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/foursquare/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 136, 175);">Foursquare</a>, etc.) that allow users to create and maintain separate and distinct parts of their identity with different social circles. For example, your friends are on Facebook, but you find business colleagues on LinkedIn.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">This disconnect creates complications for anyone attempting to use social data to connect with customers or prospects. Where do you find the most appropriate audience? Do marketers need to maintain an ever-increasing number of individual social channels? How can we create a system that is scalable?</p><hr /><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">How Google+ Makes Social Networking More Confusing</h2><hr /><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">The <a href="http://mashable.com/follow/topics/google-plus/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 136, 175);">Google+</a> approach aims to simplify managing relationships, but ultimately fails because it works against people’s natural behavioral patterns. This is why Google+ faces an uphill challenge to adoption. Google+ allows users to define their own “circles” of contacts, like “High School Classmates,” “Family” or “Classic Car Fans.” The platform seeks to merge distinct interaction groups together into a unified experience. Users spend time creating the circles they want to share with, a tactic that helps push information into your contacts’ streams.</p><p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; display: block;">But the system breaks down once you try to consume content from a variety of different sources in your own stream. Suddenly, college roommates are mixed in with professional contacts, or people you’ve never actually met. This requires additional cognitive effort of the user to filter content by relationship, rendering the experience frustrating and confusing.</p></div>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/social-circles-are-complicated">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-5073094895752146410?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-5490324854027576332011-09-07T21:05:00.001-07:002011-09-07T21:05:13.827-07:00LukeW | Killing Sign Up Forms<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1219">http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1219</a></div><p /><p /><div>Excerpt:</div><p /><span style="">In my recent <a href="http://www.lukew.com/presos/preso.asp?25" style="color: rgb(111, 166, 1); text-decoration: none;">Sign Up Forms Must Die</a>presentation, I outlined a few solutions for getting people engaged with digital services without asking them to fill in a bunch of input fields up front. In case you are interested in trying one of these alternatives to sign-up forms, here are some resources to get you started.</span><div><p />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/lukew-killing-sign-up-forms">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-549032485402757633?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-2062732459652045932011-09-07T21:01:00.001-07:002011-09-07T21:01:37.648-07:00New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms - Smashing Magazine<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/22/new-approaches-to-designing-login-forms/">http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/22/new-approaches-to-designing-login-forms/</a></div><p /><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div style=""><p style="margin-bottom: 1.15em;">For many of us, logging into websites is a part of our daily routine. In fact, we probably do it so often that we’ve stopped having to think about how it’s done… that is, until something goes wrong: we forget our password, our user name, the email address we signed up with, how we signed up, or even if we ever signed up at all.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.15em;">These experiences are not just frustrating for us, but are bad for businesses as well. How bad? <a href="http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/" style="color: rgb(49, 81, 162);">User Interface Engineering’s analysis</a> of a major online retailer found that 45% of all customers had multiple registrations in the system, 160,000 people requested their password every day, and 75% of these people never completed the purchase they started once they requested their password.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1.15em;">To top it off, visitors who are not logged in do not see a personalized view of a website’s content and recommendations, which reduces conversion rates and engagement. So, log-in is a big deal — big enough that some websites have started exploring new designs solutions for the old problem.</p><p /></div><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/new-approaches-to-designing-log-in-forms-smas">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-206273245965204593?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-50575109621809276132011-08-24T10:47:00.001-07:002011-08-24T10:47:05.254-07:00WebOS on the Mac<div class='posterous_autopost'><p><img title="hp-webos" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20501" src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/hp-webos.jpg" height="500" alt="HP WebOS" width="620" /></p> <p>If you missed out on the $99 HP TouchPad deals that seem to have the entire tech web in a frenzy, don’t forget that you can experience WebOS for free right now on <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a>, just by using the SDK’s emulator. You’ll need to download VirtualBox and then the WebOS SDK which comes as a preconfigured virtual machine, but then you can toy around in WebOS and get a feel for the (possibly defunct) touch OS. </p> <p>Here’s what you’ll need to get started:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.12/VirtualBox-4.0.12-72916-OSX.dmg">Download VirtualBox 4.0.12 for OS X</a> (direct download link)</li> <li><a href="https://cdn.downloads.palm.com/sdkdownloads/3.0.2.652/sdkBinaries/Palm_webOS_SDK.3.0.2.652.dmg">Download Palm WebOS SDK</a> (direct download link)</li></ul> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/webos-on-the-mac">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-5057510962180927613?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-26259093117125689402011-08-22T10:59:00.001-07:002011-08-22T10:59:43.112-07:00Stoke a Long Tail itch. Get love.<div class='posterous_autopost'>From my coworker, Matt Clark:<p /><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><h1 style=""><span style=""><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/08/14/lego-to-release-vw-westfalia-camper-van-model-this-fall/#continued">Lego to release VW Westfalia camper van model this fall</a></span></h1></div></blockquote><div> <p style="line-height: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #404040;"><img class="post_top_img" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/08/lego-bus-lead.jpg" border="0" alt="Lego 1962 VW Camper" style="border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 4px;" /></span></p> <p style="line-height: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #404040;"> </span></p> <p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #6E6E6E;">But $100? Yikes. Pretty fun interview with the designer about the "challenges of capturing the 1962 VW Splitty"</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #4B4B4B;"></span></p> <p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #6E6E6E;">Comes with working pop-top, curtains, fold-out bed, lava lamp, surfing poster and little shirt that says, "Make LEGO models, not war" Far out, man.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #4B4B4B;"></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #4B4B4B;"> </span></p> <p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #6E6E6E;">Also notice the cute little lego head scrubber in the video player. Nice touch.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #4B4B4B;"></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #4B4B4B;"> </span></p> <p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #6E6E6E;">=m</span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #4B4B4B;"></span></p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/stoke-a-long-tail-itch-get-love">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-2625909311712568940?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-65348368999045323922011-08-20T06:52:00.001-07:002011-08-20T06:52:44.962-07:00Whiteboard | Whiteyboard: Stick on Whiteboard<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://www.whiteyboard.com/">http://www.whiteyboard.com/</a> <p /> <br />Sent from Mobile <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/whiteboard-whiteyboard-stick-on-whiteboard">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-6534836899904532392?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-8433871869138551982011-08-19T13:03:00.001-07:002011-08-19T13:03:04.397-07:00Portland Incubator Experiment attracts 290 applicants<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2011/08/portland_incubator_experiment_attracts_290_applica.html">http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2011/08/portland_incubator_experiment_attracts_290_applica.html</a><br /> <p /><div>excerpt:</div><p /><div><div style="color: rgb(68, 78, 92); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Erickson's online startup, <a href="http://spiceapps.com/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(48, 92, 182); text-decoration: none;">Spice Apps</a>, is among nearly 300 companies that applied this week to join the inaugural class of the Portland Incubator Experiment, the Pearl District entrepreneurship lab hosted by advertising firm <a href="http://www.wk.com/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(48, 92, 182); text-decoration: none;">Wieden+Kennedy</a>. <p /> Historically, Portland hasn't been a go-to destination for Internet entrepreneurs. There isn't a single truly large online company based in Oregon and the state hasn't grown a really big tech business in decades. <p /> But Wieden+Kennedy <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/06/wiedenkennedy_launches_incubat.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(48, 92, 182); text-decoration: none;">enlisted three of its big-name clients </a>-- Coke, Nike and Target -- <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2011/07/google_lends_its_geek_cred_to_wiedenkennedys_portl.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(48, 92, 182); text-decoration: none;">along with Internet titan Google</a>, to provide mentorship and financial support for the Portland incubator. <p /> In exchange for a 6 percent ownership stake, PIE offers access to its brand partners, office space at Wieden+Kennedy for three months, mentorship and $18,000. <p /> <div class="m-factbox" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; padding-top: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 12px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-right-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-left-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-top-width: 4px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.8px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); float: right; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);"> <div class="m-factboxhed" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> <a href="http://www.piepdx.com/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(48, 92, 182); text-decoration: none;">Portland Incubator Experiment</a></div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Goal</b>: An incubator for technology startups serving consumer brands.</div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Sponsors</b>: Wieden+Kennedy and three of its clients -- Coca-Cola, Target & Nike -- plus Google.</div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Participating mentors</b>: Technology managers from Coke, Target, Nike and Google, and several Portland tech stalwarts. Voyager Capital and Intel Capital will also participate.</div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Selections</b>: PIE received 290 applications for its first class, 60 percent from outside Oregon. The first class starts September 1 with eight to 10 startups. PIE expects to select a second class for the spring of 2012.</div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Terms</b>: Participants will receive an $18,000 in exchange for a 6 percent equity stake in their company.</div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">Location</b>: Wieden+Kennedy's offices in Portland's Pearl District.</div> </div>That's captured the attention of entrepreneurs around the country. <p /> PIE is casting itself as an open, freewheeling experience, Erickson said, with a brand orientation that dovetails neatly with what Spice Apps is trying to do: build "niche communities" online, for household brands. <p /> "They can connect us to major brands and have mentors with real world experience in areas we're trying to solve/improve," Erickson wrote in an email. <p /> PIE's application deadline closed Monday night and its managers have spent the week combing through the submissions. Of the 290 applicants, general manager Rick Turoczy says, 60 percent are from outside Oregon. </div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/portland-incubator-experiment-attracts-290-ap">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-843387186913855198?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-84987471882823115522011-08-18T15:40:00.001-07:002011-08-18T15:40:29.136-07:00Patenting Math (and Software)<div class='posterous_autopost'><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/appeals-court-says-only-complicated-math-is-patentable.ars">http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/appeals-court-says-only-complicated-math-is-patentable.ars</a><p /><div>excerpt:<br /><p /><div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="title" style="font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Does not compute: court says only hard math is patentable</h2><div class="byline" style="font-size: 0.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.2em; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <span class="author">By <a href="http://arstechnica.com/author/timothy-b-lee/" rel="author" style="color: rgb(52, 50, 58); text-decoration: none;">Timothy B. Lee</a> </span></div>| <span class="posted" style="color: rgb(155, 158, 163);"><span class="published"><span class="name">Published </span><abbr class="timeago datetime" style="cursor: help;">about 5 hours ago</abbr></span></span></div> <div class="story-image CenteredImage" style="float: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; text-align: center;"><img src="http://static.arstechnica.net/assets/2011/08/30_de_mayo-4e4d2d7-intro-thumb-640xauto-24743.jpg" alt="Does not compute: court says only hard math is patentable" style="display: inline;" width="640" /></div> <div class="body" style="font-size: 0.813em; line-height: 1.308em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected a patent on a method of detecting credit card fraud. The result was unsurprising, but the court broke new ground with its reasoning. Citing the Supreme Court's <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/resurrecting-the-supreme-courts-software-patent-ban-not-ready.ars" style="color: rgb(255, 91, 0); text-decoration: none;">famous rulings</a> against software patents from the 1970s, the court ruled that you can't patent mental processes—even if they are carried out by a computer program.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">Of course, <em>all</em> computer programs implement mathematical algorithms that could, in principle, be implemented with a pencil and paper. So is this the end of software patents? Unfortunately not. The court ruled that the no-patenting-math rule doesn't apply if the math in question complicated enough that "as a practical matter, the use of a computer is required" to perform the calculations.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">In order to justify this result, the court gives the most thorough defense of software patents that we've ever seen from the judiciary. We don't think the line they draw—between ordinary math and math that requires a computer—makes much sense from either a legal or policy perspective. But the ruling at least signals that, for the first time in over a decade, the courts are thinking hard about how to apply the Supreme Court's old software patent cases in the modern world. We're hopeful that as the confusion in this week's decision becomes more obvious, we'll see further progress.</p> <h3 style="line-height: 1.308em;">You can't patent math...</h3></div></div></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/patenting-math-and-software">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-8498747188282311552?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-17537908626626960872011-08-15T21:46:00.001-07:002011-08-15T21:46:36.010-07:00The Six Levels of Trust - Forbes<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolkinseygoman/2011/08/01/the-six-levels-of-trust/">http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolkinseygoman/2011/08/01/the-six-levels-of-trust/</a></div><p /><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div style=""><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A <a href="http://http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/business/siemens-ceo-on-building-trust-and-teamwork.html?pagewanted=all" title="The Trust That Makes a Team Click" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(15, 45, 95); text-decoration: underline;">New York Times interview with Peter Loscher,</a> the president and chief executive of Siemens, was titled “The Trust That Makes a Team Click.” Mr. Loscher talked about the importance of trust between team members. When I speak on “The Power of Collaboration,” I also address this issue — but with a slightly twist. Here are the six levels of trust as I present them:</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">1. Trust in yourself and in the value of your contribution</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Human beings are a “teaching/learning species.” We take pride in the specific knowledge we’ve accumulated, we enjoy adding to our expertise, and we gets a psychological lift from communicating our knowledge to others. But to be a vital contributor, we must believe that our opinions and insights matter, and that our knowledge and experience are valuable to someone else. Unless people trust the innate wisdom and creativity of their ideas, there is little impetus to offer them to others.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">2. Trust between team members</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well-placed trust grows out of experience and interaction – usually extended over time. (In fact, there are studies of the “mere exposure effect” which find that just seeing someone repeatedly — making them more familiar — increases our liking and trust of that person.) Effective team leaders have learned that the time to get to know one another and to build valuable “social capital” at the beginning of a project leads to building trusting relationships that pay off in increased productivity later on.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">3. Trust in the team’s leader</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Regardless of the overall corporate culture, individual managers and team leaders can create mini-cultures of trust within their own work group or staff. The best of these leaders do so by taking the time and effort necessary to make people feel safe and valued. They emphasize team cohesiveness while encouraging candid and constructive conflict. They set clear expectations for outcomes and clarify individual roles. They help all members recognize what each of them brings to the team. They tell stories of group successes — and the lessons learned in failures. They share the credit and the reward or recognition. And, most of all, they encourage everyone’s input, using body language that projects openness, inclusiveness and respect.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">4. Trust in the importance of the project</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People are not likely to care about collaborating on projects they feel are unworthy of their contribution (a derisive term for this kind of project is WOMBAT — Waste Of Money, Brains And Time). Conversely, human beings are more willing to share information when there is a compelling, emotional reason to do so, or when working on a project they believe has real meaning and importance. Part of the leader’s role is to clearly illustrate the organization’s crucial business need for the fruits of a team’s collaboration.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">5. Leadership’s trust in employees</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People learn what is important to leaders by the behaviors they see modeled by those leaders. Too often, there is a leadership “say-do” gap around the area of trust. People hear leaders <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">asking</em> for participation and then using exclusionary and dismissive body language that clearly shows they are uninterested in other opinions. Employees hear leaders <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">saying</em> that knowledge sharing is essential, but they don’t see leaders trusting them by being candid and forthcoming.</p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 27px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">6. Trust in the collective genius</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Human beings thrive in collaborative relationships. Given the right context, they can do great things together. There is a phenomenal sense of accomplishment in achieving as a group what could not have been achieved as individuals. But that won’t happen unless everyone on the team understands and trusts that none of us is smarter than all of us.</p></div><div><br />Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/the-six-levels-of-trust-forbes">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-1753790862662696087?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-10277103349016415012011-08-15T03:26:00.001-07:002011-08-15T03:26:28.323-07:00If you’re working in a big group, you’re fighting human nature<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://37signals.com/svn/posts/995-if-youre-working-in-a-big-group-youre-fighting-human-nature">http://37signals.com/svn/posts/995-if-youre-working-in-a-big-group-youre-fighting-human-nature</a></div><p /><div><br />Excerpt:</div><p /><div><div style=""><p style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px;">When you’ve got a small group, you don’t need to constantly formalize things. You communicate and you know what’s going on. If you have a question about something, you ask someone. Formalized rules, deadlines, and documents start to seem silly. Everyone’s already on the same page anyway.</p><p style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px;"><strong style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Ten-groups</strong> <br />According to British author Antony Jay, there are centuries of evidence to support the idea that small groups are the most efficient. In “The Corporation Man,” he talks about how humans have worked in small groups, usually five to fifteen people, as hunters and farmers for hundreds of generations. The ideal group size is a <a href="http://www.gwiep.net/period/ic156204.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ten-group</a>:</p><blockquote style="background-image: ; background-color: initial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-left: 23px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: 0px 2px;"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px;">He found the most efficient to be organised in groups of eight to fourteen people which he came to call ‘ten-groups’, each group free to find its own way towards a target set for it within the general objects of the corporation…</p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px;">“The basic unit is [a group] which varies from three to twelve or fifteen in number, and perhaps optimizes somewhere around ten; that this group is bound together by a common objective, and that the bond of trust and loyalty thus formed can become an extremely powerful uniting force; that the group needs to decide on (or at least take part in deciding on) its own objective, and to work out for itself how that objective shall be achieved…”</p></blockquote><p style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px;">He offers up interesting examples to back up the theory, from sports teams to juries to army squads:</p><blockquote style="background-image: ; background-color: initial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-left: 23px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; background-position: 0px 2px;"><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px;">Jay draws attention to units of around this size in many fields beyond the corporation. A committee works best with about ten members; if it grows much beyond that size the extra people do not take a fully active part. Nearly all team games use a group of about ten on each side. Juries have 12 members and the Jewish minyan 10. In an army, organization often decides life and death, and under this pressure armies, too, adopt a basic unit of about ten; the British army, the US army, the ancient Roman army and that of Genghiz Khan, in fact every long-standing successful army, has built up its larger formations from squads or sections of about this size.</p></blockquote></div>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/if-youre-working-in-a-big-group-youre-fightin">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-1027710334901641501?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-10201279086940640142011-08-15T03:23:00.001-07:002011-08-15T03:23:28.998-07:00Power of Small Teams<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/three_people_for_version_1.php">http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/three_people_for_version_1.php</a></div><p /><div>Excerpt:</div><p /><div><br /><div style=""><p style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px;">In a <a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/some_notes_on_the_building_of_codezoo.php" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">guest post</a> on SvN, <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/214" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Marc Hedlund</a>wrote “I’m beginning to think three people is optimal for a 1.0 product release.” I hadn’t thought about it before, but I definitely agree.</p><p style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px;">If you can’t build your version 1 with three people, then 1. you need different people, or 2. you need to slim down your version 1. Now, before I get yelled at, this doesn’t apply to <em>every project</em>, but I do believe it applies to the majority. And sure, if you are building a weapons system, a nuclear control plant, a banking system for millions of customers, or some other life/finance-critical system, then you may need a fourth.</p><p style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px;">But keep it in mind: three for version 1. Remember, it’s better to make version 1 half a product than a half-assed product. Three people will keep you closer to half a product and a cleaner, tighter, simpler base on which you can grow later.</p></div>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/power-of-small-teams">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-1020127908694064014?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-386391940276355672011-08-12T15:36:00.001-07:002011-08-12T15:36:50.666-07:00A Bold New Strategy: Give Away Your Product For Free<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/businessinsider/~3/_NAgMOCLvIw/college-prowler-free-product-2011-8">http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/businessinsider/~3/_NAgMOCLvIw/college-prowler-free-product-2011-8</a></div><p /><div><br /><span style=""><a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3cfa1561c8eb628f58839da5f81b2d58&p=2"><img src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3cfa1561c8eb628f58839da5f81b2d58&p=2" border="0" alt="" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial;" /></a></span><span style=""> </span><span style=""><br style="clear: both;" /></span><p style=""><img src="http://www.businessinsider.com/image/4dd194c64bd7c80d231f0000/hamptons-free-ride.jpg" border="0" alt="hamptons free ride" style="float: right;" /></p><p style=""><em>This article originally appeared on<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/american-express" class="hidden_link">American Express</a> <a href="http://www.openforum.com/articles/a-bold-new-strategy-give-away-your-product-for-free">OpenForum</a></em></p><p style="">The Internet has forever changed the way we do business. For some companies it has brought in easy revenues, for others -- like movie and book stores -- it has seriously dug into profits. For companies that are trying to regain their former market share, it may be time to consider a bold new strategy. This may mean targeting an entire new set of customers and even giving away your product for free -- at least in the short term.</p><p style="">Consider Luke Skurman, CEO of College Prowler. His business model was based around the idea that people would pay an annual subscription to access hundreds of student reviews of different colleges. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/things" class="hidden_link">Things</a> turned out differently: not enough people were willing to pay the subscription, and Skurman found himself in a tough position.</p><p style="">He reappropriated his company to revolve around selling sales leads to advertisers and universities. It was certainly a pivot, but what made this pivot unusual was that he decided to give away all the college reviews by students for free. College Prowler collected data from those who had signed up to read the reviews (with their permission) and turned it into a very profitable set of information.</p><p style="">College Prowler's page views are now up 500 percent and the company has partnered with 10 other companies that sell sales leads to universities. This type of strategy won't work for every business, but it's worth considering an unconventional approach if you're in a position to do so.</p><p style="">Here are two things you need to do before deciding to give your own product away for free:</p><p style=""><strong>1. Consider what you already have</strong></p><p style="">In Skurman's case, he realized that he had valuable information in his user database -- information about a person's age, location and interests. It wasn't especially profitable to College Prowler, and he hadn't previously thought about the revenue-driving resource it could turn into.</p><p style="">In the case of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/google" class="hidden_link">Google</a>, given the mass popularity of its search engine, the company had an endless supply of search terms that people were plugging into the site. The challenge then became figuring out how to turn that vast body of information into profits.</p><p style=""><strong>2. Figure out who your product is valuable to</strong></p><p style="">Skurman determined that College Prowler's user information would be highly valuable to advertising agencies and universities. He got in touch with these entities and turned unused information into profits.</p><p style="">To continue with the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/google" class="hidden_link">Google</a> example, the company developed a system of targeting ads to people based on what they were searching for. The search results are free, but the ads bring in the profits.</p><p style="">Keep in mind that this certainly will not be appropriate for all businesses. But if it's time to shake things up, it's hard to think of a more radical way to do so than to stop charging for your product.</p><span style=""><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/businessinsider/~4/_NAgMOCLvIw" height="1" width="1" /></span><br />Sent from my iPad</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/a-bold-new-strategy-give-away-your-product-fo">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-38639194027635567?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-26372394282649540222011-08-04T08:29:00.001-07:002011-08-04T08:29:20.340-07:00Meet Gojee – Have your cake and eat it too<div class='posterous_autopost'> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/meet-gojee-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-2637239428264954022?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-49174897515978036482011-08-04T08:27:00.001-07:002011-08-04T08:27:24.429-07:00iPhone App Is a Mobile Marketplace for Local Arts & Crafts<div class='posterous_autopost'> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/iphone-app-is-a-mobile-marketplace-for-local">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-4917489751597803648?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-41598480307385005422011-08-03T07:43:00.001-07:002011-08-03T07:43:47.546-07:00The Eight Pillars of Innovation | Think Quarterly by Google<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/m/quarterly/innovation/8-pillars-of-innovation.html">http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/m/quarterly/innovation/8-pillars-of-innovation.html</a></div><p /><div><br />Excerpt:</div><div><div style=""><h2 style="margin-top: 25px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 19px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Bell MT, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-style: italic; color: rgb(237, 94, 38);">Look_for_ideas_everywhere</h2><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As the leader of our Ads products, I want to hear ideas from everyone – and that includes our partners, advertisers and all of the people on my team. I also want to be a part of the conversations Googlers are having in the hallways.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Several years ago, we took this quite literally and posted an ideas board on a wall at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View. On a Friday night, an engineer went to the board and wrote down the details of a convoluted problem we had with our ads system. A group of Googlers lacking exciting plans for the evening began re-writing the algorithm within hours and had solved the problem by Tuesday.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Some of the best ideas at Google are sparked just like that – when small groups of Googlers take a break on a random afternoon and start talking about things that excite them. The<a href="http://www.googleartproject.com/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(237, 94, 38);">Google Art Project</a>, which brought thousands of museum works online, and successful AdWords features like Automated Rules, are great examples of projects that started out in our ‘microkitchens.’ This is why we make sure Google is stocked with plenty of snacks at all times.</p><img class="gutter" src="http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/images/content/innovation/embed-8-pillars-of-innovation-6.jpg" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: right;" /><h2 style="margin-top: 25px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 19px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Bell MT, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-style: italic; color: rgb(237, 94, 38);">Share_everything</h2><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our employees know pretty much everything that’s going on and why decisions are made. Every quarter, we share the entire Board Letter with all 26,000 employees, and we present the same slides presented to the Board of Directors in a company-wide meeting.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">By sharing everything, you encourage the discussion, exchange and re-interpretation of ideas, which can lead to unexpected and innovative outcomes. We try to facilitate this by working in small, crowded teams in open cube arrangements, rather than individual offices.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">When someone has an idea or needs input on a decision, they can just look up and say, ‘Hey…’ to the person sitting next to them. Maybe that cube-mate will have something to contribute as well. The idea for language translation in<a href="http://www.google.com/talk/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(237, 94, 38);">Google Talk</a> (our Gmail chat client) came out of conversations between the Google Talk and<a href="http://www.translate.google.com/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: initial; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(237, 94, 38);">Google Translate</a> teams when they happened to be working near one another.</p></div>Sent from Mobile</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/the-eight-pillars-of-innovation-think-quarter">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-4159848030738500542?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-41847771116246556912011-08-02T02:21:00.001-07:002011-08-02T02:21:11.523-07:00What If Food Labels Looked Like This?<div class='posterous_autopost'><div><a href="http://consumerist.com/2011/08/what-if-food-labels-looked-like-this.html">http://consumerist.com/2011/08/what-if-food-labels-looked-like-this.html</a></div><p /><div><br /><span style=""><img src="http://consumerist.com/assets_c/2011/08/macncheeeeese-thumb-284x346-52529.jpg" /></span><p style="">Maybe the real reason Americans are so fat is because our food labels are so ugly. If they were easier on the eye to read, maybe more people would read them and make better eating choices. That was the idea in mind behind a recent design contest at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Journalism aiming to give the standard government-mandated food label a much-needed makeover. The winning entry uses colored boxes for each ingredient that are sized in proportion to how much of each is inside the package.</p><p style="">The entry submitted by designer Renee Walker is a big improvement in terms of readability. The simple graphical approach makes it easier to understand what's inside. The question is whether it would be able to deal with products that have a more complicated series of ingredients. You can <a href="http://berkeley.news21.com/foodlabel/">look through the juried selections yourself</a> and vote for the best one by sharing it on Facebook. The winners will be forwarded onto the FDA for consideration.</p><p style=""><a href="http://berkeley.news21.com/foodlabel/designs/renee-walker/">Rethink the food label</a> [News21]<br /><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/designing-a-better-food-label/">Designing a Better Food Label</a> [NYT]</p>Sent from my iPad</div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/what-if-food-labels-looked-like-this">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-4184777111624655691?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2071064454528161633.post-44447839366239020012011-07-27T21:39:00.001-07:002011-07-27T21:39:10.531-07:00How big is the Internet (of Things)?<div class='posterous_autopost'>Love it! <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110714/cisco-reminds-us-once-again-how-big-the-internet-is-and-how-big-its-getting/ciscoinfographic/">http://allthingsd.com/20110714/cisco-reminds-us-once-again-how-big-the-intern...</a><p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image" height="1000" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/petehwang/f8jQhShmPWj3fPKXSKI6AbYTlzTpcyf0zgXJTJV11hKRurap8CuOdUVjodGW/image.png.scaled.1000.jpg" width="170" /> </div> </p><p>Sent from Mobile</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://petehwang.posterous.com/how-big-is-the-internet-of-things">Pete's posterous</a> </p> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2071064454528161633-4444783936623902001?l=mediates.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Pete Hwanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11942928031676330139noreply@blogger.com0