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Why I backed the Ubuntu Edge
A journalist emailed me earlier today asking why I’d backed Canonical’s crowdfunded Ubuntu Edge smartphone, and thought I’d post here what I’d sent: It was for a variety of reasons. One is just that I’ve been an Ubuntu user since 2005 and so am partial to it (and open source stuff in general). Another is…
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A few things I might have done differently with gdgt
Obviously I’m very pleased that gdgt turned out to be a success, but that doesn’t mean that looking back there aren’t things I wish we’d done differently. Here are a few things I would go back and tell the Peter Rojas of 2009: Be less secretive We weren’t exactly in stealth mode before we launched…
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Letting it go
One of the hardest things for me lately has been to actually publish things that I write. I probably have a few dozen unfinished blog posts I’ve written for my personal blog here that are just sitting in draft or in Google Drive. The reason is that I find it so hard now to let…
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Samsung’s Galaxy S III launch strategy
Posted something up over at gdgt yesterday about Samsung’s strategy of launching their new Galaxy S III flagship phone on five US carriers simultaneously.
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Samsung’s Galaxy S III launch strategy
Posted something up over at gdgt yesterday about Samsung’s strategy of launching their new Galaxy S III flagship phone on five US carriers simultaneously.
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Generosity, empathy, and disruption
I get asked by companies for my advice from time to time, and one that I was speaking with the other day asked me about the qualities a company would need to disrupt an entrenched incumbent in a large market (sorry to be so vague, but probably shouldn’t get more specific than that). Besides the…
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Douglas and me
After almost eleven years I finally got coffee with Douglas Rushkoff. Back in the summer of 2001 I was a broke, unemployed technology writer. I’d been recently laid-off from my job as an editor at Red Herring, a business of technology magazine, and with my life pretty much falling apart I’d decided to move to…
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Email and weekends
Without really thinking about it I’ve developed a habit of not replying to emails on weekends (or at least not until Sunday night). It’s not that I don’t check email — I do pretty much all the time via my phone — or that I absolutely never respond to anything — I will if it’s…
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No, I’m good
I’d meant to post this video of the Ignite talk I gave at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference this past February. It was tough adjusting to the pacing and format of an Ignite talk (you get 20 slides, with a new slide automatically advancing every 15 seconds), hopefully I’ll have a chance to give this…
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Would Facebook let me pay them $5?
According to documents Facebook filed ahead of its IPO, their average revenue per global user works out to just under five bucks a year. That’s a number that’ll surely grow over time (and in fact it has to, if they’re going to be worth the $100 billion or so they’re expected to IPO at), but…