Posts Tagged ‘ why ’

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 ]

Death by PPT

I’ve reviewed two PowerPoint(PPT) presentations in the last few days from colleagues that are starting their own companies and really have great ideas.  They are pitching investors or potential clients to help grow their business.  These are guys that are smart and that I respect but they can’t do PowerPoint.  It’s not that they can’t [ READ MORE ]

Century +1

For the 101 post on SOTB I have to get on the BP band-wagon that Mister Zero started.  While everyone knows this oil spill totally sucks here’s a couple facts that you may not know: 1) The oil-well if left unchecked would stop flowing in 7 years 2) There are over 3,500 oil & gas wells in [ READ MORE ]

Can’t listen to the news without getting pissed off.

I have been taking it from all sides, knee and elbow pad style of late (hence the lack of posts), but I do manage to catch snippets of NPR each morning and all I can say is that I can’t stand it. I can’t believe what an incredible $hit $h*w British Petroleum is putting on [ 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 ]

Speaking of broken links…

Mr. Hero had a great post on Friday about broken links. I’m surfing around seeing if I can extend my very cool Squeezebox Duet that I installed on my home stereo a week ago.  While the remote has an audio jack on it that should do what I need, I can’t listen to the audio [ 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 ]

All your customer channels have to talk to each other

I’ve had Apple in the cross-hairs for a while now, and it’s time to stand down, but not without one more blast over the bow. I’ve got an old Mac Pro (those beautiful towers (but wicked heavy) from the office and was told it ‘couldn’t be put on a wireless network.’  A couple of months of [ READ MORE ]

Bee-Zarre

This was strange. DoCoMo was demoing eye controlled headphones. That’s right. Eye controlled headphones for your iPod that let you do things like look right twice to skip to the next song.  Roll your eyes in a clockwise circle to increase the volume. Roll your eyes in a counter clockwise circle to decrease the volume. It [ READ MORE ]

Friday Question :: Who ‘gets’ it?

Mentioned it before, but I think everyone can agree to the point that Malcolm Gladwell’s comments about in Outliers, that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in something.  Raw skill and talent is just the basic building block and a given.  Everyone who has the potential to be very successful has raw skill [ READ MORE ]