Thoughts on Apple ‘Antennagate’ Press Conference: Apple throws Blackberry, Nokia, Samsung under bus
AppleInsider | RIM, Nokia respond to Apples “Antennagate” press conference Clearly, Steve Jobs is pissed. I would be, too. You pour thousands of hours collectively into a project like this and you want people to just use the damned thing, enjoy it, and have it change their lives on some level. That the media has [...]
Picture a half-dead tree
Here’s a quick snap of the front of a postcard I did for a client this year. It’s to announce their participation at the National Association of College and University Business Officers conference in San Francisco this month. Just a quick bit of commentary on this one that I found interesting. When I first stumbled [...]
Installing Adobe Flash 10.1 the Adobe way is all kinds of broken
How to Install Adobe Flash V10.1 with VoiceOver– The Mac-cessibility Network – News [Lioncourt.com] Last week, Adobe released version 10.1 of their Flash player plugin for both the Mac and Windows operating systems, which included a large number of security fixes. Much to the frustration of visually impaired users, the installer application, which had previously [...]
Check out the naked marketers Ep 15: “We Digress”
Ep 15: We Digress – with Greg Schneider from 3BL Media | the naked marketers Ad spending is up. You Facebook people have a real monetary value and you know what? You ain’t worth much. You spend a lot of time online and you’re a candidate for gambling AND gaming addiction from Virgin. iPhones sell by the [...]
Rumors spike about CDMA iPhone again — Recommend holding of all horses, people
Pegatron lands Acer notebook orders for 2011 Even the rumor of a CDMA phone in 2010 is going to piss people off. Q4 isn’t that far away, and with all the fervor over iPhone 4 sales this week — and all those freshly-minted 2-year AT&T contracts — that there’s even a remote chance for a [...]
Taking Control Podcast Ep 8: Getting Control of Paper Clutter
Taking Control Podcast Ep 8: Getting Control of Paper Clutter | Take Control Organizing Getting control of the paper in your life can help you get control of so much more. This week on the show, Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright talk about how you can put the systems in place in your own home [...]
Navigating Change Ep 16: Building Your Vision 2020 Part 2 – with John Eldert and Howard Teibel : Teibel, Inc.
Ep 16: Building Your Vision 2020 Part 2 – with John Eldert and Howard Teibel : Teibel, Inc. Academic planning often adopts the business approach to strategic planning. The results are predictable: clear, measurable outcomes; tight, pithy vision statement; focused strategy targeting a clear and “directable” organizational culture. But these assumptions don’t fit the higher [...]
Taking Control Podcast: Ep 7 – Preparing your Garage Sale | Take Control Organizing
Taking Control Podcast: Ep 7 – Preparing your Garage Sale | Take Control Organizing Running a successful garage sale can be a lot of work! But it can be a rewarding and profitable way to kick-start your summer organizing by clearing out the cruft in the way of your new lifestyle. This week on the [...]
Navigating Change Ep 15: Building Your Vision 2020 Part 1 – with John Eldert and Howard Teibel : Teibel, Inc.
Ep 15: Building Your Vision 2020 Part 1 – with John Eldert and Howard Teibel : Teibel, Inc. Academic planning often adopts the business approach to strategic planning. The results are predictable: clear, measurable outcomes; tight, pithy vision statement; focused strategy targeting a clear and “directable” organizational culture. But these assumptions don’t fit the higher [...]
Navigating Change Ep 14: The Importance of Training as a Team : Teibel, Inc.
Ep 14: The Importance of Training as a Team : Teibel, Inc. We underestimate what it means to collaborate. The result is often a catalog of missed opportunities for improving function across the organization, which comes at the expense of systems training and technology solutions for simple problems. This week, Howard Teibel joins Pete Wright [...]
Google Search Stories highlight your tale on the web
Wonderfully clever little tool here, this Google Search Story Creator. What’s a search story? It’s the story of your business as told through Google’s search results. Simply enter search terms that are representative of your business or brand online and Google will craft a clever little commercial for you. Whether it was a lifelong talent, [...]
Mark Zuckerberg talks
Mark Zuckerberg – From Facebook, answering privacy concerns with new settings Speaking up for the first time since f8 on the privacy mess. Simply put, many of you thought our controls were too complex. Our intention was to give you lots of granular controls; but that may not have been what many of you wanted. [...]
When will you resort to canabalism?
The game of deliciously hard choices – Resort to Cannibalism Why yes, it is a Flash game in which you try to beat your raft-mate and eat him before he eats you. Thank you for asking.
D.C. Douglas PSA For Tea Party And FreedomWorks Critics is stone cold funny
D.C. Douglas PSA For Tea Party And FreedomWorks Critics Takes stones to be divisive and funny with such a marvelously patronizing tone. NSFW. Thanks Amy Lambert for the tip. “
Jack Dorsey with a great reminder on creative visualization, and other things I should do more
Jack Dorsey on turning ideas into reality Commit your ideas to paper before you worry about committing them to code. Get your idea out of your head so you can see it from a different perspective. And just as importantly, share it with others.
Clock reminds you your value in meetings
Clock calculates wasted time at meetings Pretty much sums up how I feel about meetings in general. Nice visual reminder, this.
Another wonderfully smart person angry about the state of Facebook Privacy: Danah Boyd
Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) Sometimes, what a person says is magnified 1,000 times by who says it. This is one of those times. Danah is a smart person. This is worth reading. What I find most fascinating in all of the discussions of transparency is the lack of transparency by Facebook itself. Sure, [...]
Facebook privacy statement: Longer than the Constitution of the United States
Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options – Graphic – NYTimes.com This is fantastic. Note — two of the most important privacy options in Facebook are not actually available on the Facebook User Profile Privacy Settings page. How would someone just *know* that? And, say what you will about Facebook transparency, there’s just no excuse [...]
StarWars: The Baroque
Star Wars the baroque version It is … pretty much … what it is. My fav is the Imperial Walker.