...on The Rising Cost Of Fruit.:
19:42, August 6th, 2008: That's the interesting thing; most users don't care. The majority of new apps in development are web-apps anyways. So why shouldn't an industry shift occur? Ubuntu, and most (if not all) linux-based OS's have OpenOffice available. If the majority of your work is done with MS Office... why wouldn't you switch? Cheaper, more stable, not Apple. Win-win-win for me.
...on Finally - Apple As A Lesson On What Not To Do.:
18:28, August 6th, 2008: Part of me wonders if this is an attempt by apple to manufacture some false sense of stability in the Microsoft software systems. MobileMe is essentially a more grandiose gateway into the Microsoft Exchange server. If they release nearly EVERYTHING else without bug... what's the deal? Microsoft's SDK is very approachable and developer-friendly.
Apple's claim is that they tried to do too much at once. Why is it they always seem to screw up with windows? Even iTunes lacks the functionality and stability of the same on OSX.
I think Apple is playing a dangerous game of "Screw the User".
...on Is Steve Jobs' Health Really Private? :
18:36, July 22nd, 2008: Oh, I wouldn't worry. He'll die from the evil chewing away at his soul long before the cancer gets him.
...on Beer Is Beer, Except When It Isn't.:
19:48, July 14th, 2008: "I was actually drinking a bud light when I heard the news, and then I realized, wow this tastes terrible - hopefully the germans do a better job fixing this than they did with Chrysler." - Matt H.
...on Crunch Time Has A New Meaning. :
21:08, July 10th, 2008: I'm pretty sure this has been done in Japan for decades. What about just banning Doritos from the workspace?
...on What's So Great About Lively?:
16:04, July 9th, 2008: I agree, these social interactivity "things" are a bit pointless to me. A game like World of Warcraft has a goal, a progression, a unifying theme and a challenge to it.
Lively and Second Life don't seem like they can be half-assed either, they require being very involved with walking around, talking to people having all this fake interaction with someone that looks like a sushi-cat. Where's the money to be made? Real estate and advertising like on Second Life?
Hooray for another chance to be something you're not.
...on Minority Report: VCs Are White Men.:
12:10, July 9th, 2008: That remaining 1% could be demonic entities or possibly just, The Man.
...on Today In Business History: The Wall Street Journal.:
11:55, July 9th, 2008: These are good, not quite as realistic as some others.
...on Breaking: Green Business Is Hot.:
20:05, July 8th, 2008: Is it fair to say there's too much money chasing too few ideas? I think there's still a neurosis of green tech investment for ideas too radical for modern consumption.
I had previously thought that VC's were a little tentative to invest in green tech because of the generally slow pace to be adopted by a marketplace. Maybe that pattern is finally shifting...
Larger firms like GM, Edison and others are investing plenty of millions of their own projects. http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=914
...on The Economy's Bad! Let's Drink!:
17:33, July 2nd, 2008: And here I had thought that booze was an economic constant. It is for me.
...on Burnt, Er, "Bold" Coffee To Be Less Ubiquitous Next Year.:
15:37, July 2nd, 2008: I often wonder if mass closings like this are part of a rebranding effort. A chance to contract the image a little bit, recreate the demand, then expand again? Maybe to appear smaller and more of a "core" coffee shop? I have no idea.
In 2005 there were 74 starbucks in Portland, Oregon. Closing 600 is a lot, but not ridiculously so.
...on Pixar Preaches Reducing Waste With Wall-E, Ignores Own Message.:
20:15, July 1st, 2008: Pixar was just testing the audience. They failed.
...on Hedge Fuel, Save Money? :
20:13, July 1st, 2008: First oil. Next... MyPorkBelly.com
...on Should eBay Be Held Responsible For Fake Goods On Their Site?:
15:04, June 30th, 2008: Maybe LV should sue China next? I hear they do the same thing. It's a buyer controlled marketplace. If someone found that they were selling fakes, they should be reported and banned... what more can eBay do to police this? They can't search through every seller's merchandise. That's like asking a team of 5 guys to find all the fake LV's in Los Angeles.
...on Sucess Story: ARM Holdings:
14:59, June 30th, 2008: I think it's prime time for smaller chip manufacturers like ARM to create a presence in specialty cpu's. Ageia developed a physics processor that is becoming more widely used, and can take some of the processing weight off of a main CPU. With the wider use of business thin clients and specialty devices (phones, small form factor pc's) that don't require the full ability range of an Intel/AMD chip, the demand is only going up.
...on .Com Is So Last Year.:
15:40, June 26th, 2008: I'm registering Matt.Matt as soon as it's possible. With a subdomain it could actually be matt.matt.matt!!
...on Minority Business Feature: Tanka Bars.:
19:08, June 10th, 2008: No, but I think I would. An energy bar with power of real buffalo.
...on Are You Getting A 3G?:
14:11, June 9th, 2008: If they make a semi-affordable upgrade deal from the iPhone I already have, then yes. I can't believe the first version wasn't 3G, kind of weak.
...on Is Amazon's Kindle A Threat to Small Booksellers?:
18:38, June 3rd, 2008: Save some forests, buy a Kindle. Paper books pretty much have to go the way of the antiquarian collector. Get out there and evolve. I wouldn't mind a Kindle Lite. Something smaller that relies on a computer to make the purchases, no email, no QUERTY. Get rid of all those things and give me shark repellent.
...on Wii's Lesson For Entrepreneurs:
18:02, June 3rd, 2008: Nintendo definitely hit the approachability mark. The Wii is not for gamers, it's just a SuperFunToy. Everything on the xbox360 is reality training. When the Covenant arrives, myself and a legion of geeks will be ready to destroy them. You slow-moving Wii-geeks will be wondering what the hell a plasma rifle is.
...on Why Can't Starbucks Even Get Wi-Fi Right?:
17:38, June 3rd, 2008: It's not hard to serve free wireless securely. If they were smart, they'd just pay the city to setup a Metro-fi location over/in their business. I've actually never met anyone who can hack a simple linksys box. They're screwing up again. How's about printing a simple key on a sticky if you ask for WiFi with your Orange Mocha Frappuccino? Maybe that simple key is set to expire in 4 hours or whatever.
...on Wal-Mart v. Craigslist:
16:54, June 3rd, 2008: Walmart's site looks like a placeholder website. The kind of site that you'd land on if you were researching domain names to buy and came across one like this...http://logofame.com/ or this http://webtrafficcontrol.com/. Jerks.
...on New Ideas: Internet Search For Tech Geeks:
13:00, May 28th, 2008: I don't know about a mass of ad revenue, but certainly Dell, Microsoft, server technologies... Placing those ads could be much more costly considering how targeted they are. Saying, we get 10,000 IT professionals coming to our site for solutions every month. experts-exchange.com does Q&A for a membership... but Paglo is way more accessible if it works.
...on Cougar Website Seeks Investor:
12:08, May 28th, 2008: I'm having a hard time signing in... every time I go to register it gives me an error saying, "Sorry, you are greater than 30 years old" then it re-directs me to YouAreOfCougarAge.com.
...on Celebrity Endorsements: Our Theory Is Tested:
18:19, May 27th, 2008: Just look what O.J. Simpson did for Bruno Maglis.
...on Another One Bites the Dust: Akimbo:
15:53, May 27th, 2008: Xbox360 is already doing this extremely well, and they're partnering with NetFlix for in-home, on-demand viewing. If I could stop tossing molotov cocktails into busy Grand Theft Auto 4 intersections long enough, I'm sure I'd use the service.
...on Have A Question About Business Planning? We've Got Answers.:
15:47, May 27th, 2008: You say, "Dungeons and Dragons, not okay", but what if your main character is a level 7 barbarian, isn't that experience worth something in the real world? It's not like a play a hedge wizard or sorcerer, which we all know only exist in 3rd world countries.
...on Corporate VC Investment Highest Since Dot-Com Boom:
15:07, May 21st, 2008: I think they're both worries, but at least they provide a road to some income. I think a bigger worry is when existing management gets gutted with a large round of funding.
...on Green Business Innovations: Part 2 :
13:46, May 21st, 2008: I want that man out of my yard.
...on Another One Bites the Dust: Le Coq Sportif:
17:13, May 15th, 2008: Maybe failure in the american market what it takes for a failing euro-styled company to reinvent itself for a younger market. The same thing will happen to Fubu.
14:54, May 15th, 2008: The sporting "chicken"? Now I don't speak much russian, but that brand may not make much sense to America's sporting youth. They're better off re-marketing their 70's and 80's apparel designs through Urban Outfitters or some hipster entity.
...on You Didn't Really Go to Yale, Did You.:
14:31, May 15th, 2008: This is exactly why it's so hard to get an SBA loan for a carjacking venture. I mean, yeah, of course I have a criminal background. College? No. College parking lots? Yes.
