April 2010
53 posts
In any external relationship a company has, one of you is the customer & the other is the supplier. Can be EZ 2 forget that.
Just saw 2 tween girls send ~100 texts 2 each other fm 3 ft apart cuz they found it funny 2 hear their phones beep that fast
Good Timing: Silicon Clocks acquired by Silicon Labs to take MEMS to next level http://bit.ly/9hDo1d
Is your customer synching their schedule around yours, or are u sinking your schedule around theirs? #formerisbetter
Way cool… here’s a video mashup of the movies on tap for the summer of 2010 - fire up! http://bit.ly/cFj0bR (via @mashable)
Hey PaaS me an app: Salesforce and VMware team up & take a shot at Azure http://bit.ly/bJfCU8 RT @stefanried
OH at giants dugout store PA system: attn shoppers, we are sold out of Tim Lincecum wigs
Thoughts on the whole Mahalo resignation by email matter: http://bit.ly/dkOoCs
A 2nd wrong doesn’t undo a write: The downside of using the web to seek revenge on your boss http://bit.ly/dkOoCs
A Second Wrong Definitely Doesn't Undo a Write
Wow. There are so many interesting pieces to this story.
An employee (Evan Culver) at Mahalo submits his resignation to his bosses by email in what appears to be a humble, graceful goodbye message.
The Company’s CEO (Jason Calcanis) responds via his Blackberry in the absolute, worst way possible (in an email).
The employee, baffled and pissed by the response, decides to publish the...
Do you spend more time promoting your market, your company or your product/solution?
Awesome! Watch what happens when a YouTube video goes wrong by means of social/mobile media technologies http://bit.ly/aMzlXb
Salesforce enters cloud-based data services mkt by acquiring Jigsaw http://bit.ly/cDhvsb RT @peHUB
The death of the website http://bit.ly/axlPVp RT @boris <- and the birth of the API…
Crowd meets Cloud: uTest and SOASTA announce partnership RT @SoftwareTestTT http://bit.ly/94noGI
Mixing sports metaphors, but companies strategically moving up & down the supply chain: Is this a pivot or a line change?
My 4-yr old just asked me to download that Justin Beaver song
If they redrafted every NFL player, here’s how they’d stack up: http://bit.ly/bQprBM Cal Bears place 2 first round picks
TacoBell Innovation: Not a tostada, gordita, chalupa, crunchwrap supreme or enchirito. No, its a Tortada http://bit.ly/cHlkeg
Seems that between Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, that Twitter is still the least understood (and valued)
Dear sir, thank you for the personalized email. How did you know that I prefer emails with 3 different fonts types and sizes?
A failure in communication. I couldn’t have said this any better http://bit.ly/aLdc5i (RT @joshk) #intermedia
Would you pay to use Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn if it all of a sudden became not free to use?
Tried 2 think of brands that have significantly upgraded image since the 80s. Came up w/three: Apple, UPS & Kaiser Permanente
Brands still alive that have been decimated since the 80s: Sony, Kodak, Motorola, Acura, Macy’s, Blockbuster, Guess
Now it seems like the Twitter analytics cos. are rolling out their press to avoid becoming roadkill when the hammer drops…
How Twitter’s business model will affect the different players in the ecosystem http://bit.ly/8Yi67i (RT @jowyang)
Motoblur, Cliq, Backflip, Devour, Droid, Karma, Evoke, ROKR… Hey Motorola, what are you trying to get us to remember?
wow, the table seems to be set for an epic U.S. Open at Pebble. Tiger cleaned up in 2000 by 15 strokes http://bit.ly/9zqhpT
For each new CE item (iPad, phone, etc) bought, I bet we spend >30-40% of item’s ASP on accessories over product lifetime
I can see why the apps are concerned/pissed… havent used Ubertiwtter once since downloading the new Twitter app on Blackberry…
KFC’s new sammie: the Artery Clogr: 2 fried chicken slabs in lieu of bread w/bacon & cheese in between http://bit.ly/941S78
Life like a round of golf: After front 9, u can hang at the snack bar 4 as long as u want b4 teeing off 10th to start back 9
8 of 37 business cards I recd this week have Twitter addresses on them. 12 of 37 had fax numbers. 1 had a Skype ID.
Think revolutionary value propsotions that have evolutionary revenueability, if that’s a word #vcsecrets
Fun to have tables turned w/ entrepreneurs grilling the VCs - Thanks @larrychiang for hosting #vcsecrets
Video… one of the hardest things to do, yet one of the easiest things to judge
RT @CloudTest: SOASTA named in AlwaysOn OnDemand Top 100. Read it here: http://tinyurl.com/yhla5xy
One Shining Moment… would have been brighter if Haywood made the half courter. http://bit.ly/bF0oWo #butler
Forget 3D TV: Watch “Life” on Discovery Channel and fall in love with HDTV all over again http://bit.ly/bXjuKG
I’ve said this before, your customer cant be an idiot, nor can he be an a**hole. At least not until he’s an ex-customer.
This old house… is upside down… http://bit.ly/aP8AWw
What’s more newsworthy, a company filing for an IPO or a company pulling its IPO?
Watched BradyBunch rerun w/the payphone in the house due 2 kids fighting over phone. Wonder if there R pay iPhone/iPads?
