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Intel: Meet Darwin

Pretty well put by Geoff Moore. Excellent guidance and lesson for anybody trying to be a platform player. Dealing with Darwin demands counter-intuitive actions, specifically when the environment has changed in some fundamental way that invalidates one’s traditional source of competitive advantage. … The competitive advantage position is changed. It remains to be seen if Intel can adapt and define competitive advantages in adjacencies. This past week Intel surprised analysts with the latest in a set of uncharacteristically weak performances, especially in comparison with AMD.

Posted by Jobi George Monday, June 26, 2006

Why is Scheduling Still So Damn Hard?

Stephen recently wrote What I would love is to be able to offer - selectively or publicly - visibility into my calendar, with ACL based write access that’s easy enough for anyone to use. The sheer amount of time this would save come conference time, when 10’s or 100’s of people are asking for time with us, would be worth its weight in gold. It would allow us to push the burden of scheduling onto those who request our time.

Posted by Jobi George Thursday, August 18, 2005

You've got to find what you love - Steve Job

Stanford Report, June 14, 2005 ‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html Very inspiring piece This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college.

Posted by Jobi George Friday, August 5, 2005

Plazes: Simple Solution to a really difficult problem

Simple Solution to a really difficult problem Checkout : http://beta.plazes.com/home/ Plazes is a grassroots approach to location-aware interaction, using the local network you are connected to as a location reference. Plazes allows you to share your location with the people you know and to discover people and plazes around you. Plaze = Location + Context: A Plaze is a physical location with a local network - private or public, wired or unwired.

Posted by Jobi George Thursday, August 4, 2005

Amazon files for Web services patent

This is a crucial patent to their approach in creating a marketplace for web services. Also, tied in with their A9 efforts, one can now not only search for the third party WebServices but also bind dynamically and pay to consume and disconnect. Amazon.com has received a public airing of its patent application for an online marketplace where consumers search and pay for Web services. The patent application, filed last year and published Thursday by the U.

Posted by Jobi George Thursday, August 4, 2005

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