I’m not sure I like “4th party” as a description. We spent way too much time at the VRM West Coast Workshop wrangling over the naming of firs, second and third. But when you get past all that, this key idea is really something big: VRM is about enabling the first party. It is also…
“It’s not a surprise if you’re paying attention,” says my wife. Of course, when it comes to new sexy toys from Apple, we want details and dates. We know it’s going to come… eventually. It’s fairly obvious that the Macbook Air was the first step. This is the product development process we’ve come to know.…
This just cracked me up… Markets are Hanging Up On Customers I just recorded my call with Apple Support to improve customer service: [Click to listen] How to hang up on a Mobile Me customer. [From ProjectVRM Blog » Markets are Hanging Up On Customers] Follow the link and have a listen. Truly amazing.
When dealing with complex issues that spread across functional lines, a senior executive focusing on the issue can being important focus and coordination to the effort. But too often, people are paying more attention to the politics of Turf instead of the value of that cross-organization emphasis. I started thinking about this after reading a…
Robert Scoble posted details of this week’s blow-up over failing drives and censored forum posts: Seagate (maker of hard drives and storage devices) has been getting slammed on forums and blogs the past couple of days. Partly because they had a bad batch of hard drives and didn’t properly recognize or fix the problem quickly.…
The May 30th Gillmor Gang is all about FriendFeed and it’s one of the best I’ve heard. http://gillmorgang.techcrunch.com/2008/05/31/gillmor-gang-053008/ Why FriendFeed Matters Bret Taylor of FriendFeed makes the point that different people use different tools, and that’s one of the reasons he created FriendFeed. He says: “The union of all of your friend’s one or two…
Why the Open will win If only my friends who have accounts in the same service can see my photos or favorite music or restaurants, then I will put less energy into participating in that service. But with a mesh of services connected by common syndication formats and open APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), my friends…
WSJ Online now has a policy that shuts down your account access if they detect you logging in from more than one computer at a time. TechCrunch does a nice job telling the story behind this fiasco.What I find really funny is that this sort of stupidity is now considered an “understandable, and classic reaction”…
In this video interview, Danah Boyd makes some great points about lack of socialization of kids. Lack of space for them to gather and be social even in with their own friends and some of the factors making this happen. Then she talks about how they DO socialize, online… OK, there’s a few asides regarding…
Well, the one and only thing that I did for my blog was start it up again… [From What one thing did you do on your blog in 2007 that improved it the most? – The Last Answers]