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AOL's State of the Union
Time Warner just announced their quarterly numbers. Although TW profits went up, AOL subscribers continue to drop down to 19 million. Just a few years ago they were over 35 million and now they’ve shed...
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Songbird's Here
There’s a new media player that’s been released called Songbird. iTunes has dominated as the go-to media player for people to play music. And with WMP, Winamp, Yahoo Music Engine and others (J. River)...
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Following up on last week’s post about Netvibes, i just noticed that they have added a few very SWEET features: 1. They now have tabs so you can set up different views of feeds. I personally have a...
View ArticleSubscription Music Breakdown
In the past few months, i've had quite a few questions about what "subscription" music is. This is my attempt to explain it. Napster, Rhapsody, MusicNow, MTV, and Yahoo! all offer services where you...
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If I Was Apple, What I Would Do To Protect iTunes
Apple has a great monopoly on both the fulfillment and playback of digital music. ITunes is a great player, the iTunes Music Store is the most comprehensive music store available online, and the iPod...
View ArticleiPhone Is On Its Way
This is the guy that Apple sued because he always get it right. So this is probably the real deal: Apple iPhone to be Cingular-exclusive at launch By Ryan Katz, Senior Editor September 26, 2006 –...
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Holy Crap the iPhone is AMAZING
Granted, i haven’t seen it in person or used it, but i watched the Macworld speech by Steve Jobs about it and let me tell you – the phone looks incredible. The phone looks awesome but more than that,...
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EMI Tracks on iTunes – Not mp3's
I’ve heard a bunch of stuff today about all of EMI’s tracks being available on iTunes without DRM. At first i was really happy, but 2 things kept me from being REALLY impressed. First, these tracks are...
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iPhone will take down Blackberry eventually
I had a Blackberry Pearl and loved it. I was planning to keep it – until i saw a friend’s iPhone. It was just so frackin’ slick that i couldn’t stay away. Does Blackberry do email better? Yes....
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Music lessons from Seth
Speaking of music (my last post was), a good blog post from Seth Godin about music lessons. To read it all, go here. The main points were: 0. The new thing is never as good as the old thing, at least...
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Jobs Interview
There’s a good interview with Steve Jobs in the latest Fortune magazine. One of my favorite parts was this: People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not...
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Leaders and Followers
Cover via Amazon There’s a new book by Seth Godin called “Tribes” which talks about the startup culture and out-of-the-box thinkers. Two interesting parts of the book are the parts about followers...
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Mobile World Congress wrapup
I spent the week at MWC in Barcelona this past week. I made my way to a bunch of booths and companies. It was a huge show. Here are some thoughts: Phone Operating Systems There were many new phones...
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The iPhone and the world of computers
I’m an iPhone users and i love it. It has transformed my mobile phone usage and dare i say, my life. With the internet at my fingertips, i no longer go more than 10 seconds without knowing the answer...
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I Want a Real Apple TV
Apple keep talking about a tablet to be released sometime soon. What i really want is an AppleTV – and i don’t mean the box that attaches to the TV. I want an actual TV created by Apple that’s an LCD...
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Do What You Want
There are a lot of times in the world where people tell me what to do. Things like, “I need the deck by tonight.” or “Can you meet me on Sunday to talk about the deal?” Sometimes i like doing it and...
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Droid vs. iPhone Grudge Match
Raduchel recently did a post that inspired me to speak up as I’ve been carrying around both an iPhone and a Droid for the past few weeks (since Droid’s launch) and comparing the two. I’ve set the...
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Reflections from CES
I spent a few days at CES and while i didn’t get to walk the floor as much as i had hoped, i did get around enough to figure out what the themes were this year. Here are my thoughts: Televisions. The...
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iPad Thoughts
I’m not sure if you’ve heard about the iPad. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you can’t avoid the Apple madness. I’m up in San Francisco this week and couldn’t help but feel the Apple riptide and get...
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Microsoft vs. Apple
There’s been lots of talk about how Apple’s market cap is about to equal Microsoft’s. People love to discuss this because of the battle the two companies have fought over the past 3 decades....
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Steve Jobs: Designer First, CEO Second
I recently read a great interview by John Scully where he talks about Steve Jobs. Scully was CEO of Apple for almost a decade. It’s just a great read. For anyone in the tech business, this is a...
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Apple is Crushing It
Say what you will about Apple’s product and their company culture. They can be closed (vs. Google’s “open”) and the company can be arrogant, but you have to admire how successful they are right now....
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Business Org Charts (Apple, Microsoft and others)
I thought this was a good graphic of how some companies are organized. Cool little diagram. Thanks to MacL3 for it.
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My thoughts on Steve Jobs
I’ve been reading all the news about Steve Jobs’ death these past few days. It’s one of the few stories that i can’t get enough of. Because of all the articles, i didn’t want to post anything about it...
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Steve Jobs is Shocking in his Biography
I’ve got the mp3’s of the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson and i’ve been listening on my daily commute for the past few weeks. So far, i’m 25% through the book and loving it. Here’s what i like...
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Steve Jobs Biography was Great
I just finished the Steve Jobs book and it was probably one of the most enjoyable books i’ve read in a long long time. I might say the past 10 years. Here’s why: Steve Jobs really cared about his...
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Thoughts on the iPhone 5
At the Kapost office yesterday, about half the company was glued to live-blogging of the iPhone 5 announcement. What we saw was only a blog but watching it was quite a show. A few things stood out...
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iPhone5: 3 months in
I wrote a post about 4 months ago about the iPhone5 and what I thought about it. This was before i had purchased it or even used it. I have now been using my iPhone 5 for over 3 months and really...
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My Pebble Watch
About 10 months ago, I watched this video on Kickstarter and was really intrigued about the thought of having a watch send me updates from my iPhone. I put some money down in May 2012 and waited. And...
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The craftsmanship between a great idea and great product
Saw this from Dixon’s blog over the weekend. It’s a good clip from Steve Jobs in 1995 where he talks about how building great products and thought it was worth a repost. As the head of Product at...
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Thoughts on Apple’s iPhone 6 & ApplePay
I listened to the announcement last week and have a lot of thoughts on the upcoming iPhone. Apple’s launch event came, and delivered (mostly) what had been leaked and/or expected: a larger iPhone...
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Apple Maps vs. Google Maps: A Rant
I recently heard someone talk about what a bad move it was for Apple to release their own Maps app on the iPhone. I’ve heard this maybe half a dozen times lately and I couldn’t disagree more. We...
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Please Put Your Dock on the Side
One of my little pet peeves is how people use their dock on their Mac. Here’s my logic. What do you do most on your computer? You read web pages from top to bottom. Because of this, your page is...
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The More Open Your Network, The More Successful You’ll Be
I just read this article by Michael Simmons and it was really interesting. It states that that simply being in an open network instead of a closed one is the best predictor of career success. The idea...
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Apple’s No Jack City
Apple announced the new iPhone 7 yesterday and announced that they are removing the headphone jack. Some quick thoughts on that… Short Term Pain It’s annoying to have to live in a world where my...
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Favorite Tech Purchases of 2017
I made a few fun purchases in 2017. Here’s two that captured my attention… AirPods They look ridiculous but man are they useful. I love them over all my other headphones because they They connect to...
View ArticleEpic Tweet Storm about Apple’s Development Process
This is an epic tweet storm about Apple’s development process by Steven Sinofsky. If you don’t know him, he ran the Microsoft Office business unit for over a decade. This rant touches on how to balance...
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Day 32: Tech to the Rescue
What I’m Thinking About: Tracking Through Tech I’m really interested in the privacy implications and the technology behind how we track people who have recovered and keep track of those are infected as...
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82: Fitness Trackers, More Like Sickness Trackers
I was a person who never wore a watch. I didn’t like the feeling it had on my wrist. That is, until 2 years ago when I got an Apple Watch as a birthday present. I haven’t taken it off since. I love it...
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