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Bucking conventional wisdom

Published on July 17, 2007

I’ll give you the end at the beginning: conventional wisdom is more guidelines than rules. Make your own rules. Here are some examples:
Don’t rock the boat
Rocking the boat has been the sole reason behind starting so many successful ventures including Apple and Playboy (no I don’t endorse pornography but thanks for wondering). If you rock the boat at [...]


Microsoft is (not) dead

Published on April 19, 2007

I just returned from a very disappointing Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and came across this commentary by Paul Graham of Yahoo! on Microsoft finally dying. Yes, they are dead - didn’t you know?
Paul Graham claims that there are four reasons why Microsoft is “dead”:
“The most obvious is Google. There can only be one big man [...]


Ted Murphy of PayPerPost is going on CalacanisCast. Awesome!

Published on March 22, 2007

OK, so maybe I’ve blogged a little too much about PayPerPost lately but I couldn’t let this go. Ted Murphy, CEO of PayPerPost will be on Jason Calacanis’ vidcast today. Holy cow! Here’s how Ted is describing the upcoming encounter:
“This is pretty much like walking into a pack of wolves or swimming with sharks with freakin’ [...]


Using iTunes to build a nuclear weapon. Wait, what?

Published on March 9, 2007

I blogged sometime ago about the problems I’ve had with my iPod booting up. Looks like I’m not the only one who has had this problem. Check out Matt Hickey at TechCrunch give some instruction on how to do major home surgery to an iPod that won’t boot. Pretty cool stuff.
While I’m on one here check [...]




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