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Video Streaming Held 42% Share of Global Mobile Bandwidth in H2...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:11:21 +0100

Video Streaming Held 42% Share of Global Mobile Bandwidth in H2 ‘11

The Cult of Amazon Prime

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:34:17 +0100

The Cult of Amazon Prime

szymon: iOS ‘86 by Anton Repponen piękne.

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:03:46 +0100

szymon:

iOS ‘86 by Anton Repponen

piękne.

Source: Top 10 Print Media Websites - January 2012

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:46:59 +0100

Source: Top 10 Print Media Websites - January 2012

Proseed #19

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:09:39 +0100

Proseed #19:

Dwa ciekawe artykuły: o płatnościach i serwisach randkowych.

Mój ulubiony temat - information overload.

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:44:11 +0100

Mój ulubiony temat - information overload.

I am a lousy copywriter

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:07:51 +0100

April 19, 1955

Dear Mr. Calt:

On March 22nd you wrote to me asking for some notes on my work habits as a copywriter. They are appalling, as you are about to see:

1. I have never written an advertisement in the office. Too many interruptions. I do all my writing at home.

2. I spend a long time studying the precedents. I look at every advertisement which has appeared for competing products during the past 20 years.

3. I am helpless without research material—and the more “motivational” the better.

4. I write out a definition of the problem and a statement of the purpose which I wish the campaign to achieve. Then I go no further until the statement and its principles have been accepted by the client.

5. Before actually writing the copy, I write down every concievable fact and selling idea. Then I get them organized and relate them to research and the copy platform.

6. Then I write the headline. As a matter of fact I try to write 20 alternative headlines for every advertisement. And I never select the final headline without asking the opinion of other people in the agency. In some cases I seek the help of the research department and get them to do a split-run on a battery of headlines.

7. At this point I can no longer postpone the actual copy. So I go home and sit down at my desk. I find myself entirely without ideas. I get bad-tempered. If my wife comes into the room I growl at her. (This has gotten worse since I gave up smoking.)

8. I am terrified of producing a lousy advertisement. This causes me to throw away the first 20 attempts.

9. If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on the gramophone. This generally produces an uncontrollable gush of copy.

10. The next morning I get up early and edit the gush.

11. Then I take the train to New York and my secretary types a draft. (I cannot type, which is very inconvenient.)

12. I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor. So I go to work editing my own draft. After four or five editings, it looks good enough to show to the client. If the client changes the copy, I get angry—because I took a lot of trouble writing it, and what I wrote I wrote on purpose.

Altogether it is a slow and laborious business. I understand that some copywriters have much greater facility.

Yours sincerely,

D.O.

(Source: The Unpublished David Ogilvy: A Selection of His Writings from the Files of His Partners)

"When two engineers get into an argument about whether to use one big Flash SSD drive or several..."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:51:23 +0100

“When two engineers get into an argument about whether to use one big Flash SSD drive or several small SSD drives, do you really think the CEO is going to know better than the two line engineers, who have just spent three days arguing and researching and testing?”

- A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky

"For every Steve Jobs, there are a thousand leaders who learned to hire smart people and let them..."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:51:00 +0100

“For every Steve Jobs, there are a thousand leaders who learned to hire smart people and let them build great things in a nurturing environment of empowerment and it was AWESOME. That doesn’t mean lowering your standards. It doesn’t mean letting people do bad work. It means hiring smart people who get things done—and then getting the hell out of the way.”

- A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky

It’s amazing what you can learn when you don’t have cable TV: peaceful.com says “coming...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:23:00 +0100

It’s amazing what you can learn when you don’t have cable TV:

peaceful.com says “coming soon”.
joyful.com is a one-man software shop. At least he’s Irish.
disappointed.com tells you to get over it.
angry.com and sad.com are both for sale.
happy.com redirects to Walgreen’s pharmacy.

Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 | Managing Product Development

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:33:37 +0100

Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 | Managing Product Development

"Apple would love us to believe it’s all “Eureka.” But Apple produces 10..."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:25:54 +0100

“Apple would love us to believe it’s all “Eureka.” But Apple produces 10 pixel-perfect prototypes for each feature. They compete — and are winnowed down to three, then one, resulting in a highly evolved winner. Because Apple knows the more you compete inside, the less you’ll have to compete outside. We are all mesmerized by Apple’s beautiful design, from device to screen, to the packaging itself. We see what the magicians want us to see. What we don’t see is the 18 months of negotiating with the music companies. Nor the three years of teaching the supply chain that the Macbook Air had to be really thin, really light, and really enduring (10-hour battery). When those improvements intersected with the iPhone’s great screen technology, the iPad (that glorious Air/iPhone hybrid) exploded.”

- Steve Jobs and the Eureka Myth - Adrian Slywotzky - Harvard Business Review

"If your developers are charging into production in an uncontrolled manner without forewarning and..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:51:11 +0100

“If your developers are charging into production in an uncontrolled manner without forewarning and training the users and without checking for clashes with changes to underpinning systems (the short name for that is “Agile”); if nobody knows exactly how much work your helpdesk does in a day; if you have too many outages or failed changes; if your suppliers ride roughshod over you because nobody holds them accountable; if nobody is settign policy around what users and business units can buy; if nobody in the business can tell you what is your most important service… if you need to improve your IT management then guess what: that is going to involve extra work. Somebody will need to do more.”

- ITIL doesn’t add overhead | The IT Skeptic

"Amazon’s 1-Click (or One-Click, OneClick, various people use different names for it) patent..."

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:08:04 +0100

“Amazon’s 1-Click (or One-Click, OneClick, various people use different names for it) patent application has just been denied in Europe. Again.”

- Amazon Loses 1-Click Patent - Forbes

"In case you missed it, and I certainly would have if not for someone asking a question,..."

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:20:12 +0100

“In case you missed it, and I certainly would have if not for someone asking a question, Apple’s fiscal 2012 first quarter earnings report has a jaw dropper. iPhone generated $24.42 billion revenue. During the same quarter, all of Microsoft: $20.89 billion. More broadly, Apple revenue ($46.33 billion) was more than twice Microsoft’s, and net income nearly was ($13.06 billion versus $6.62 billion, respectively). But it’s that iPhone figure that really stands out. One product’s revenues against an entire company’s. Microsoft’s margins are better, but who wouldn’t want more money in the bank?”

- iPhone generates more revenue than all Microsoft

(via Refining the Model | Monday Note // Source: Internet...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:53:21 +0100

(via Refining the Model | Monday Note // Source: Internet Trends, Mary Meeker, KPCB Oct 2011)

"Micro-manage much? Communicating information from life form to another is a super complicated..."

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:56:29 +0100

“Micro-manage much? Communicating information from life form to another is a super complicated process that just can’t be micromanaged. Riding around on your mentee’s back directing them to do this, then do that, with no consideration of the mentee’s motivations, desires, mental states makes for a pretty inefficient process, rife with frustration. The scene where Yoda is riding around on Luke’s back is a classic, and a classic bad example of bossing your student to death.”

- Terrible Teacher and Mentor, Top 10 Reasons Yoda Was - GeekWire

Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager - GeekWire

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:54:21 +0100

Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing project manager - GeekWire

(via You’ve probably underestimated just how big this is – Cross...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:39:24 +0100

(via You’ve probably underestimated just how big this is – Cross Platform Dev Blog)

This Article Explains Why Apple Makes iPhones In China And Why The US Is Screwed

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:14:13 +0100

This Article Explains Why Apple Makes iPhones In China And Why The US Is Screwed