Posts Tagged ‘ change ’

iphone 4

Now that it’s the summer it seems that your friends at SOTB have had a lackadaisical approach lately with keeping up with posts. Sorry about that. So the iphone 4? Yes that’s a question because as an iphone 3GS owner I just don’t care.  What I mean is, the iphone 4 doesn’t move the needle in [ READ MORE ]

Cellphones and toilets

Mr.Pink just brought to my attention an article in the NYT about Cellphones and toilets in India. It turns out there are more cellphones than toilets.  If you’ve even been to India (I’ve had to launch a product in India and was there for a couple of months) you wouldn’t be surprised at this article [ READ MORE ]

Voice and Coca-Cola

Another milestone quietly passed us by last week to quiet fanfare.  Not surprisingly, data is now used more on mobile phones than voice. Now that we’ve finally crossed this inevitable chasm, the question is: “What has voice become?” I can only come up with one sound conclusion. Voice is now a feature like SMS (but [ READ MORE ]

Friendly fire

I’ve been thinking about Palm being sold to HP and inevitably I started thinking about Google.  Not because of my usual thoughts that Google is a sitting duck business (Have you seen the new facebook “like” feature -ruhroh!) but that Google while posturing to topple Mircosoft, and Apple has left some carnage in its wake.  [ READ MORE ]

Inflection point: Internet Ad revenue outpaces traditional media spend

Without much fanfare the New York Times reported that Internet advertising spending for the first time in history was greater than their traditional media counterparts.  That’s not surprising as marketers continue to channel ad dollars to the web. What is going to happen to traditional print media (how about the Pulitzer that was just awarded)? [ READ MORE ]

Taking your medicine….frogs style – Fast Company interpretation

One of our favorite zines Fast Company posted a nice little article on taking your medicine first everyday. While it’s a different interpretation using a frog analogy the core theme is the same. Do what’s most annoying or difficult first in the day and then rest of your day can only get better. Try it. [ READ MORE ]

Remember your differentiator

When staying in Vegas, I used to go out of my way to book a room at the Hard Rock Casino & Hotel. It was a hip boutique hotel that had a good vibe, nice rates,  was fun and had that little rock and roll edge to it. (I’m a sucker for the rock memorabilia) My [ READ MORE ]

Even SOTB can be stuck…..

As the illustrious Mr.Zero has posted, blogs get stuck. They are work and we have to chase each other from time-to-time to keep the content flowing.  Mr.Zero is so good at positive inspiration/reinforcement that he sent me this great video about just doing the minimum. Occasionally, even we get stuck. I was chatting with a buddy [ READ MORE ]

Taking your medicine

Earlier this week I met with a great group of individuals about this new crazy thing they are doing.  They just wanted guidance on their strategy and I was lucky enough to be asked to help them.  As we chatted more and more we kept gravitating to the same topics and ignoring this other [ READ MORE ]

Do you know Hyperion?

I was chatting with a prospective client recently about a potential engagement.  We were talking about a project and what was going well and what wasn’t.  We talked about approach and how to solve the big hairy issues and the process of making tough decisions to launch this thing on-time and on-budget.  Sounds good up [ READ MORE ]