Archive for February, 2006

Revenue is not important. Profit is important.

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Scott Stevenson blogs about Dvorak's recent headline. He then follows up with a good reason why Apple won't be following Microsoft's model. Revenue is not important. Profit is important. Technically, Microsoft's model of selling the software and not hardware is a better indicator for success. The costs of CD and packaging ...

Thinking about passionate users…

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Over at "Creating Passionate Users" is a blog post which essentially says that until a user is aware of your product, it is a "Schrödinger's Product". I'm not going to go into the detail because you can read it for yourself. Essentially - until a user encounters the product, you don't ...

Building rich interfaces to social data

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

I blogged about this recently but I do think the "next big thing" is not web sites that enable the building of social networks (Sorry Mr Andresson, sorry 30 boxes) but rather "rich" interfaces to social data. I remember speaking to the Jebus about this and Orkut. The thing that sucks ...

Will I, won’t I?

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

My employer has given me the option to purchase a laptop of my choice as a 'salary sacrifice'. This means that I'd be paying for the laptop before tax, and therfore saving about 40% of the cost. What's that translate to? Well, a $3200 Mac Book Pro ...