Posts Tagged ‘ Not Startup ’

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 ]

Question: When Customers love you, do you owe them a heads up?

The Dave Matthews Band just made the following announcment on their website today: As we feel the excitement building for this summer, we wanted to let everyone know that after twenty years of consecutive touring, Dave Matthews Band will be taking 2011 off. We feel lucky that our tours are a part of so many people’s [ READ MORE ]

Love when a big name follows up

Back in February, Mr. Hero had a very good post about Google being a one trick pony and how that just didn’t make good business sense.  Well, lookie here — who else jumped on that bandwagon of rock solid logic? None other than Yahoo’s Chief Carol Bartz, citing that “Google is going to have a problem [ 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 ]

3D – I’ll bring over my glasses

3D continues to be a hot topic on SOTB.  Why? Because it has all the right ingredients to be totally stuck. Until 3DTV’s don’t need glasses it’s just too much of a hassle to have your friends and family over. Here’s a great quote from the NY Times The glasses go for a premium — around $150 [ 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 ]

Getting in your own way — so frustrating.

This is *extremely* frustrating.  Our FiOS router has been booting our wireless devices off of the network periodically for the past couple of weeks.  Turns out, the router was configured to only allow 5 wireless devices at a time, so as an iTouch came in and out of the network it was kicking the last [ READ MORE ]

Come Again, how much ?

Reading the local news paper (the really local news paper — you know what I’m talking about) and was reading the article about the school budget and what steps were being taken to reduce this fiscal year’s budget. One bullet that struck me was that installing a new phone system was going to save $60,000.  Let [ READ MORE ]