January 2011
Presenting "Marketing to Online Communities"
In a few minutes I’ll be giving a presentation on “Marketing to Online Communities” to a small audience in a meeting room in the CNN building in DMC, Dubai. Invitations have gone out to all of TECOM’s areas, including Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City, Dubai Knowledge Village, Dubai International Academic City, eHosting DataFort, International Media Production Zone,...
Steve Jobs doll is back, yay baby →
As close as you’re ever going to get to the real thing :-)
On Samsung and Android updates
Now, here’s where the politics come in: most U.S. carriers aren’t very happy with Samsung’s decision to charge for Android updates as feature updates, especially since they are essentially charging for the Android Open Source Project’s efforts, and the effort on Samsung’s end is rather minimal. As a result of perhaps, corporate collusion, all U.S. carriers have decided to refuse to pay for the...
Looking for range of Web peeps (update)
Update: We’re no longer actively looking for more candidates. We’re still going through CVs and will hopefully in the next few weeks reach out and contact some candidates. Thanks everyone for all your interest!
We’re looking to hire a line of people for some new ventures. I’ve tried to describe briefly each position and what we’re looking for. You can ask...
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No more Kodachrome
I’m old enough to remember that cameras weren’t always digital (it’s really not that long ago). In fact, we used to put a little tube-like cartridge in our cameras. Eastman Kodak’s Kodachrome was one of the 35mm films that was most influential in the pre-digital era.
In popular culture, besides the actual photos taken with Kodachrome, which are among the best known of the...
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Some thoughts on 2010
For us, 2010 was a pretty shitty year.
Now that we’re in 2011 we wanted to post a few remarks. Some of you know the background to all of this, most of you don’t.
We can honestly say that 2010 was in many ways the worst of our lives but also in many ways the best we’ve experienced. Especially the middle six months of the year strained our patience, understanding, tolerance, and...
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Software piracy confusion
Think about this title for a second: “Study Finds the Economic Benefits of Reducing Software Piracy Compound as the Pace of Progress Quickens.”
How many times did you have to read that before you understood it or did you just give up?
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) and IDC have apparently produced a report entitled “The Economic Benefits of Reducing Software Sooner vs Later:...