I thought I’d recall for you my recent experiences with Netflix. I really love this service, but in the past few months I’ve been concerned about the quality of service delivery I’m getting. Specifically, I routinely get DVDs which are unplayable. I would estimate that, on average, one out of every five DVDs I get [...]
Categories: Management
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For all you folks who simply cannot get enough of me, you can now tune in every week to hear me live. I’m guest hosting with Joel D. Canfield for the foreseeable future on Business Heretic’s Radio courtesy of BlogTalk Radio. We air every Tuesday at 10AM PST. If you can’t make it live to the show, [...]
Categories: Communication, Leadership
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On at sunset…off at sunrise. To first order, that’s all I wanted. A simple device that turns all my outside lights on when it gets dark, and then off again when it gets light outside. That should not be hard…right? That is surely a problem that has been solved before…RIGHT? After all, last time I [...]
Categories: Product Design
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Wow…too many double-negatives for you? In any event, Apple just announced the next version of their professional image-editing tool, Aperture. Aperture Version 3 is now being marketed with the tagline “Taking photos. Further.”, which to me seems like an obvious ripoff of Kodak’s famous [and better] tagline “Take Pictures. Further.”. Whether or not you believe [...]
Categories: marketing
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OK…I just had to write this one. My young daughter got a ton of presents at Christmas this year. So many that we did not actually get around to opening them all until this past week [hey...I've been busy!]. When I did, I confirmed that What Not to Do practices are indeed still alive and [...]
Categories: Product Design
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