March 2012
10 posts
KINDL-REALIZING-NEW PARADIGMS
I’ve been spending a lot of time researching the entire ecosystem of “indie publishing” and have learned quite about about limitations, hacks, best practices, tools, software solutions, the dark side of gaming systems, complex format challenges, and so on.
I’ve seen the arguments about Amazon’s Kindle DTP publishing program over its lending program with 5 freebie...
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I AM ANGRY+. TIME TO RANT ON A BLOG!
So let me get this straight.
An ex-Google+ engineer decided to rant against his former employer, and somehow, he was able to post it on the Microsoft blog. Since when did this become practice?
Either Microsoft has lax new policies which allow for such online slugfests or they’re so desperate, that they’re willing to lower themselves to scum by allowing their staff to wield some...
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FOR APPLE TO WIN, MICROSOFT MUST LOSE.
HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED.
There was a time when a die-hard Apple fan (yours truly) used to feel the vibrations of an early tech economy as a zero-sum game between evil vs. good. While pirate flags were flying over Cupertino, the real debate of who stole what is still open for debate. Did Bill do it? Did Jobs do it? It really doesn’t matter. Who cares! :-)
That’s been my point...
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Mobile World Congress 2012: Recap (Part 1)
My key headlines from a week of pure madness at the world’slargest mobile show with attendance breaking 67,000 - a new high compared to a reported 29,000 at the 2004 opener. Barcelona is host to the world’s great mobile show for the next four years.
“There will be an Android in every pocket”
A new technological “middle class” is emerging to play “a...
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ROBERT TERCEK IS RIGHT.
The subject of piracy is a complex one. Old world views dictate the matter as a copyright problem. However, in a recent engagement with Robert, he correctly suggests that the industry faces a business model problem. It is a point of view that I’ve been completely aligned for more than a decade.
Robert says:
“My view on piracy remains the same: when content is made available at a...
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Valley Talk
So caught up with an old friend who is now based in the Valley. We had worked together in 2005 in a joint collaboration effort to launch an NTT DoComo WIND initiative specific to i-Mode.
After 10 minutes down memory lane, we compares stories about the Valley and Toronto. He is a Toronto transplant in the land of sun launching a business with a partner.
His thoughts:
- The Valley is hot....
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Android RULEZ. iZombie's SUCK.
I am taken aback by the amount of tribal nonsense I see through comment threads and social media networks about which platform is better. You have the ‘super-geeks’ who think of themselves as special because they somehow can ‘hack’ their Android units and get all the latest stuff on their device. When you ask them how much they’ve actually purchased, you get this...
I'LL BE BACK.
Welcome everyone!
I have decided to do something I have not done in more than 10 years. I don’t think this is called “blogging” anymore. So I struggled with decisions. Some folks told me - go with Wordpress and I could have but then that would mean domain hosting, wordpress installs, updates, plugins etc etc.
I just want to write. I think I’ve narrowed my theme a tad....
