January 2012
1 post
"A Call to Arms", or "What Happens When You Play...
“Qat”, or “qi”, is an allowed word in Scrabble. Play that game, WordsWithFriends, or WordFeud enough, and there’s a lot of shady words that you swear you’ve never heard from your friends in regular conversation, be used casually during play, and no amount of frustration over the fact that you’re playing with someone with an extraordinary amount of...
December 2011
2 posts
An article related to the last pizzost →
Virtualization
The “socializing” of the internet has been an influence in the growing virtualization of the American worker, especially in tech, where the laborer carries their skills and reputation from company to company, rather than foster these skills within a company for the long-term. This is also due to the tech industry’s high creative destruction, where companies can spring up and...
October 2011
8 posts
Conan on creativity →
And wouldn't you know (see previous post)... →
Steve Jobs never went to an Ivy League School...
Play F-Ab-G-C in a certain rhythm, and you can get Boston’s More Than a Feeling. Play it slightly different, and you get Smells like Teen Spirit. Look at everything the Beatles have done with the small amount of chords out there.
Next to the Sun, the biggest renewable resource out there is going to be creativity. Creativity is going to differentiate the future economies in a world where...
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September 2011
6 posts
Begging the question...
With Facebook’s timeline feature, does Google want to leverage their data by defining users with their search history? Now that would be interesting
PitchEvent
On the heels of today’s TechCrunch Disrupt wrap-up, last Thursday AT&T ballpark was invaded by the nerd-chic bubble, and by coincidence I showed up too. The event was PitchEvent, and it took over the third floor of the ballpark. Various tech startups pitched their wares, connected with VCs, as well as tried to scavenge any available developers walking around, like hawks to prey.
(hat...
What are the big trends coming up?
In light of the recent jobs report by the BLS, I’m wondering about the big picture. Specifically, what are the big upcoming trends that we are expecting?
Just off the top of my head,
the “social”-ization of everything, from marketing to politics*
a virtualized working class
the cloud
an asia-centric world
energy (clean and green, nuclear, wind, oil, etc)
Anybody else want...
August 2011
9 posts
Create something scarce and coveted => you win
Or in HP’s case, create something not ultimately coveted, get out of the whole business of creating that product, spark a demand wildfire when you sell the remaining units at a $99 deep discount, and now hint that you might keep continuing the manufacture of that product given the possibility of there now being a sustainable consumer base. What the face?
In an in last year’s Harvard...
Untitled Poem
I don’t like to text in Droid X at all, I’d take a rotary phone, tiny or tall, I hate the bounceback on my calls, i hate a hard reset to fix it all. I wouldn’t buy a droid x if it was free, its autocorrect smells like pee.
Music these days
So when is the next big musical scene supposed to happen? Or is that antiquated? Are the musical eras now gone, and did technology play a part in that?
Since the death of grunge, really, I’ve been wondering when the next “big thing” would emerge, and what it would sound like. To date, I have not really seen anything storm the public consciousness the same way as that era did in...
Google stops sexting around, and commits
Google’s latest acquisition of Motorola Mobility was a surprise direct move in that they are now effectively competing against their partners in the mobile market, but the acquisition represents a consolidation trend amongst all tech companies as they jockey for position in a new environment defined by going social and local.
Google just bought 100% of 50% of the company I used to work for....
This Should Happen: AMC is in serious need of a... →
Well, now AintItCool is saying something about AMC and their recent troubles…
This isn’t a Walking Dead blog, fyi :)
I just couldn't resist...
(Advance warning on the unnecessary analysis)
So they fired Frank Darabont from The Walking Dead, one of the few shows I still watch on TV (even fewer since Desperate Housewives is going off the air now*), and there was quite an interesting amount of information about why AMC execs went in that direction, involving some fascinating internal business dynamics and creative personalities, but the...
gurupanguji asked: Welcome to tumblr. :)
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/quotes.htm
Politics everywhere
The public got a nice, shimmering spotlight on just what goes on in Washington, and they didn’t like it one bit.
It’s so easily for the public to get lost in details thrown at them over politics done a long time ago, by partisan sources who are all too happy to spin the news one way or another. But this recent debt-ceiling “debate” pretty much showed you what you needed to...