While this post from TechCrunch on Zong and the new Zong+ is long, and covers a lot of ground on Zong, it leaves out what David Allen might call the Crazy Maker viewpoint. Leena Rao (the author) pits Zong as a potential PayPal killer, which it certainly could be, but my Crazy Maker idea is [...]
Tagged Money, PayPal, Personal Finance, TechCrunch, ZongIt’s funny that the these two posts both appeared on TechCrunch just yesterday… First: Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt on the Magical Potential of Mobile Cloud. I will re-blockquote: The mobile platforms, Android and the others, are so powerful now that you can build client apps that do magical things that are connected with the cloud. [...]
Tagged Google, iPhone, Lala.com, Mobile WebI specialized in Management so forgive me if I don’t understand how TV can be profitable when you broadcast it over the airwaves, but not profitable when you show it on someone’s computer. Apparently, Hulu is going to start charging for content at exactly the time when I stop using it. It’s a stunning coincidence [...]
Tagged Advertising, Hulu, MarketingThere a few key settings in order to be able to record notes to yourself and have Google Voice transcribe them for you. You can get those from that Lifehacker link, but there’s an addition note I want to make now that I’ve actually tried this. It works, but only sort of, and you have [...]
Tagged Google Voice, ProductivityAs an only child, I kind of enjoy the solitude that comes with working from home. Of course, as I tell people when they ask if I like it better: If I could walk across the hall, and be in the office downtown, I’d go into work every day. When I’m at home, though, I [...]
Tagged Hulu, Working From HomeRio gangs shoot down police chopper, 2 cops dead So, on the one hand I’m pissed that Chicago got a bad rap right before the IOC voting because the city was dangerous, but on the other hand I’m glad that Chicago didn’t get the Olympics because media events that usually make only local headlines would [...]
Tagged Chicago, Olympics, Rio De JanieroNear the end of this podcast on Organizing, Robert (David Allen’s tech guy) makes the point, basically, that you are the boss of your future self. By “boss” he means, in the traditional 9-5 working for the man way. Why is that important (as a concept)? Well, would you rather have your boss just dump [...]
Tagged David Allen, Getting Things Done, Organizing, Podcast, ProductivityAnd I was more than willing to take part… Too bad when I hit the second question their survey broke. From looking at the source code, apparently they were trying to show a video on a page that asked for my country, and either they didn’t like the version of Flash I have installed, or [...]
Tagged Hulu, Surveys