Category: the market
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What Avista could do…
What could Avista do, today, to shape the day after tomorrow? Of course, they won’t do that, any of it, but they could. Fortune favors the bold, but boring companies make money in spite of being boring… right up to the point where they don’t.
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this is what I’m talking about
if you are going to be a dot.com refugee, then you’d damn well better have learned something important – otherwise you are just a fuck-up. This is something important.
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Is the IT office filled with morons?
So Slashdot is running this article about some lifelong Mac user who is ranting about the Windows operating system’s proclivities to accept malicious mobile code and sphere. This study was released recently claiming that the U. S. Economy loses $ annually in employee productivity to SPAM. Come on. First off, I’m not a huge fan…
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Google as the architect of consumer computing
Dvorak thinks that there is a Google OS coming soon, and maybe he’s right. But I think that Google doesn’t need to have an OS, a branded computer, or any other conventional consumer electronic/IT product. I think this because I think they already have what they need to unseat Microsoft, and that they can do…
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boundaries & categories
Let’s say there are two basic categories of IT in the world – Enterprise IT (EIT) and Consumer IT (CIT). Let’s also say that the size of each of these categories is so large in relation to the rest of the possibilities that they fall into the boundary between EIT and CIT – inside the…
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An idea for distributed project management
Premise: The tools are already out there. The tools for project management are, in large part, already developed and deployed. I say this for two reasons – 1) project management is more art than science and, as such, there is a broad and fuzzy domain in which “Project Management” happens; 2) the suites and monolithic…
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what Google could do…
okay… so Google has all this stuff that they have bought up – Orkut, Blogger, Babelfish, the desktop apps Keyhole and Picasa, the desktop search engine, gmail… lots of stuff. (David Allen’s stuff definition: “anything that doesn’t belong where it is, but for which you haven’t yet determined the desired outcome and the next action…
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i hate air travel
I really hate getting around by air. I have a hard time finding something that seems more universally unenjoyable yet maintains such a unyielding grip on the average person. There has to be a better way. There has to be a way to be comfortable in airports, to be comfortable on airplanes, not feel dehumanized…
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flu shots in the smart-mob world
I know nothing about what it takes to create an influenza vaccine, but what ever it takes, it seems like there ought to be a way to decentralize production and leverage a globally connected resource-space to end the shortage. In essence, open-sourcing the process of creating influenza vaccination and the adjoining quality control processes would…
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“Trust us we’re from the Corporation”
ok, so I logged onto Amazon today for the first time in maybe two years and the following list of products was recommended for me to buy: Now, what is odd about this, aside from the Paris Hilton jewelry is this – Amazon made this recommendation based on my having purchased one item from them,…