January 2009
13 posts
Personal branding - a business opportunity
There will come a need for services that manage our personal brands. This need has at least two drivers:
Firstly, there will be a lot of information about us on the web, information that strangers or new acquaintances might employ to form impressions of us. Elements of this are understood, for example the googling of interview candidates. Having done a variety of stupid things when I was...
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Future of RSS
Interesting debate here:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rip_enterprise_rss.php#comment-122719
Bankers schadenfreude at hedge fund misery
I’ve met a few investment bankers who can barely hide their glee at the demise and probable demise of so many hedge funds.
They blame hedge funds for a portion of current events.
The bankers that express these opinions are frequently of an older generation and closer to corporate finance than trading.
Hedge funds are not primarily to blame for this financial apocalypse.
The real...
Culprits of the property boom
This article from the Wall Street Journal is a fantastic piece of journalism. It lays bare that responsibility for the property boom and crash lies not just with the banks but starts with consumers and continues through middle men all the way to the banks. In the gold rush, everyone left their brain at home.
Click here for the WSJ article.
Industrialization and greenery complimentary
Industrial processes are the major cause of pollution; it is therefore tempting to consider industrialism and environmentalism as occupying different ends of a development spectrum, with industrialism at the growth end and environmentalism at the other.
But this image is fallacious, and industrialism and environmentalism are really orthogonal concerns. Industrialism is a point in a capability...
New Years Resolution
Every year I make the same New Years resolution: Be more aggressive.
And I keep it.
This year I’m going to attack every aspect of our company’s go-to-market strategy. Who are our customers? Are our messages right? Are we channeling those messages as effectively as possible? Does our product match their requirements?
Manifesto: Question everything. Rip your ideas apart. Rip...
iPhone games 2
I’ll also add Frenzic to the list. Kinda like Tetris but much more frustrating.