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POPSBiography of Steve Jobs Founder of Apple The Biography of Steve Jobs (available for Download) as a founder and CEO of Apple is a story of leadership. He is the father of the little apple. Apple Inc. spins around his image; his innovations, successes and even negative periods, though any of these can shadow his profile as pioneer in the tec...
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POPSCultural Wisdom Seth always asks some interesting questions and in this post he wonders who, in the organization, communicates the cultural wisdom to their customers. He defines cultural wisdom as a form or "sophistication" about current social norms, values, fashions and design. It is obviously more than just that but it is hard to define and it is harder to utilize in your work with your target customers. The sad part is that your customers will assess their level of trust vs mistrust of you and your company if you don't try. How do you determine what is cuturally wise? How do you communicate it? Who is responsible for the interpretation and delivery of cultural wisdom in your organization? Share your thoughts at http://thirstyfish.info by clicking the comment link or tweet us a reply at http://www.twitter.com/thirstyfishinfo
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POPS Jobs Takes Stage Again At Apple The stock gave up those gains, though, as the holiday rollout failed to include substantial surprises, notably the inclusion of Beatles music in the iTunes online store. Instead, Mr Jobs touted a revamp to iTunes, now called iTunes 9, with $1.29 ringtones, whilst Jeff Robbin, vice-president of iTunes engineering, demonstrated the extras that will now come with the sale of a full album, including photos, lyrics and, in some cases, exclusive video.
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POPSThe Toy Story crisis - per Steve Jobs This is a great anecdote from Steve Jobs about being disciplined and honest enough with yourself to know when you need to stop what you're doing and rethink how and where it's going. Though it's very painful in the short term - and subjects you to a great deal of second guessing - to keep going forward on something just because you already started is a temptation that has to be avoided. There are many different qualities i bring to the table in managing Amplify and Clipmarks - some good and some bad. I'd say this is one of my better ones.
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POPSPresidential Job Approval rating "If we allow 'cap-and-trade' to become law and the National Health Care Act to become law and a comprehensive amnesty bill to become law -- all of those things are transformational," the congressman points out. "I believe they are irreversible. And I think the American people are exactly right to be very concerned."
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POPSGuantanamo Ex-prisoners Get Jpbs in Bermuda! It's nice to hear that these four guys, who were almost certainly arrested by the U.S. without reason, as were many others, are at least having a few days 'holiday'. And they're Uighurs, repressed by the Chinese! Who knows what will happen to them next!?
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POPSApple Tablet to be released in 2010 Rumors of an Apple Tablet are doing the rounds yet again with more details being made available this time. A new report suggests that the device will be ready for release in the start of 2010, will look and function like an oversized iPod Touch and cost between $300 and $1000.
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POPSFake Steve Jobs: When you buy "made in China", this is what you're buying
More: Well, this is the world we are living in. These are the people we are dealing with… We can't make these products in the United States. Nobody could afford to buy them if we did. And, frankly, the quality would be about half what we get out of China. But these guys play rough. They really do. They are not nice people. And, though we talk a good game about how we insist on workers being treated with dignity, blah blah blah, well, I mean, come on. Have you ever been to China?… We know what goes on there. We know how they open your mail, and listen to your phone calls, and let their factories pollute like crazy and exploit workers, all in the name of progress. And we turn a blind eye to it. We let them know when we're coming to visit, and they give us a tour and put on a little show of how great things are, and how wonderful the dorm life is, and afterward we pretend to keep an eye on them -- but it's all theater. It is. We know it. What's more, you know it. Everyone knows it.
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POPSEmployer Health Care Mandate ‘Tax on Jobs’
National Retail Federation~Steve Pfister is NRF's Senior Vice President for Government Relations, ... We need to add new jobs, not exacerbate the near double-digit unemployment numbers. We cannot afford to have new and existing jobs priced out of our collective reach because of mandated health coverage.” Pfister’s comments came in a letter to members of the House Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means Committees. The three panels have drafted a joint “Tri-Committee Bill” on health care reform that the full House could vote on by the end of the month. Pfister said NRF opposes a number of provisions in the Tri-Committee Bill, including a publicly sponsored insurance plan that would compete with private insurance plans and lead to cost shifting similar to that already seen with Medicare and Medicaid. NRF also opposes a limited five-year grandfathering of existing group health plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because . . .
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POPSAdobe Places Bet on Bringing Flash to Mobile Devices. Beyond the implications for games and video, what would it mean for mobile formatted websites. Are those going the way of the Dodo, or would a change like this produce a hybrid. Web version, Mobile version (for less than 3G network devices) and those websites formatted in size, but not necessarily in overall load time.
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POPS Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead If Microsoft, perhaps our most competitive company, has to abandon the U.S. in order to continue to thrive, who exactly is going to stay? At issue is Obama’s policy to end the deferral of multinational taxation. The U.S. now has about the highest combined corporate tax rate, second only to Japan among industrialized countries. That rate is so high that U.S. firms have an enormous disadvantage versus competitors. The average corporate tax rate for the major developed countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2008 was about 27 percent, more than 10 percentage points lower than the U.S. rate. So the question is, why does Obama advocate a policy that so flies in the face of everything that economists have learned? I have to admit I am at a loss. Maybe it is good politics to bash American corporations, and Obama isn’t really serious about making this change happen.
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POPS HTML5 Will Kill The OS! We’ve heard that story before. Java was supposed to raise apps above the level of the operating system, offering cross-platform “write once, run everywhere” applications that would break the coupling between an application and a specific operating system. Proponents predicted Windows would become less important with the rise of Java apps. While Java has accomplished a great deal, it’s potential as an OS-killer has not been realized. HTML5 has a better shot.
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POPSTwitter amongst the greatest of all time? wow...clipped this from a longer clip posted by @bfrazier because when i read it, my eyes almost popped out of my head. this excerpt is from Time's article on the 100 most influential people. i suppose it's quite possible that this will prove to be true.
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