Google just acquired Labpixes – developers of gadgets for iGoogle and other platforms. Good to see continued investment in their gadget infrastructure as this is the primary technology by which we are building out content for our digital signage in our next release.
The cynic doubts
The creator wonders
Both question, test and probe
One discourages
One inspires
Which are you?
The cynic or the creator?
Don’t doubt, wonder
Apples pissed because Google is going after their phone market, and no wonder given this graph. Record quarter revenues of all time and the majority contributor is the iPhone. Talk about coming out of nowhere.
So to retaliate Apple is trying to cut into Google’s advertising revenue by targeting mobile advertisements while maintaining absolute control over their platform – goodbye Flash.
Adobe can’t believe Apple is cutting them out so they are going out of their way to buddy up with Android and funny enough Google doesn’t mind at all if it means throwing another stone at Apple.
And while all of this is going on Facebook just overtook Google in traffic and just released plans to rule the search world by turning everything into one big social network. And if that wasn’t enough they just announced Microsoft Docs for Facebook.
Which given that Microsoft is in last place in just about all of this I’m not surprised at all to see them running to Facebook to get something, anything happening. When’s the last time you used Bing?
And then there’s Twitter, who is just now trying to figure out how to get paid for their service while fighting off Facebook’s new “Like” everything on the web API’s and the very, very, half baked attempts from Google to get social – anyone used Buzz lately after they decided we should all opt in?
Crazy, but for me, very good news. It proves that no one player rules, we still have open competition where just about anyone can come out of nowhere and kick the leader in the pants. This crazy competition will continue to inspire rapid innovation while bringing the cost to you and I lower and lower. Not to mention the entertainment value of all of this.
Fantastic slideshow of what HTML5 can do for content and as everyone knows our content is going HTML so this is very exciting!
Check it out here.
When night breaks to day a change hangs in the air
It’s the perfect time to think, to see what’s coming
In time they awake, eat, talk, share, plan and break
And the day gets noisy, feedback starts and for awhile it seems it won’t settle
But settle it does, it goes quiet, and in the lull I go for a run
Back I come with a clear head, relax into a chair and work
The day ends, in they come, all with a story to tell
I tie up the loose ends, score the day, plan for tomorrow, close my browser – my factory – and open myself to distraction and interaction
I produced, I didn’t talk about it – I had no commute, no meetings, no office
What a perfect day
We used to look after ourselves
Hunters and gathers became farmers who became factory workers
And we signed up for the collective somewhere along the way
Moved to the lowest common denominator
Abdicated responsibility
And learned it’s not my job
Hit Undo!
There are no more barriers
The factory fits in your backpack
The genius rests in your head – no matter where your head came from
Knowledge is one free hotspot away
Brand you, make you, autonomize you, make your stand
Call a crowd, lead a crowd, disperse a crowd
Take responsibility
Create something
Create you
Meetings?
Come together
Talk
Talk again
Reschedule to talk again
Why?
I want to create, not talk
We can now share ideas, propose thoughts, collect feedback and consider outcomes – better than ever before
We can now share when we’re ready, when we’ve thought it through, when the time and place work for us
We can now share, get feedback and decide faster, better, and with less interrupt then ever before
Our ability to swarm and move has evolved
Meetings haven’t
They should be extinct
5 minutes each, at most twice per day, is all I’ll give
How about you?
A friend sent me this link to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday – How to make money without trying – a new slant on success based upon an interview with John Kay on his new book Obliquity: Why our goals are achieved indirectly. I haven’t read the book and this is the first I have heard of it but the points in the article rang true with me.
What I took away was this – have a passion for creating something, anything, making money isn’t creation, it is a by product of being really good at whatever it is you do, whatever you spend your time creating. If your passionate about what you do the reward (money?) for being so good at it will find it’s way to you. If you spend all of your time on the “reward” rather than your passion, forget it, the reward will slip away. Makes complete sense to me!
Creating awesome goals, that with a stretch can be done, and that everyone is inspired to sign up for
Reaching consensus on the reality of where you are at as compared to that goal – the truth!
Identifying every discrepancy between the goal and reality
Creating actions to eliminate the discrepancies and
giving each action to someone who is committed to getting it done
testing best fit and most efficient assignment
giving each someone everything they need to make it happen
getting out of the way
All, share daily, share their journal, share where they are at, where the world is at, and test the goal, does it still fit?
adjust and move forward
No panic, pressure, wild swings, moments of the day or death marches
just creative tension to make something awesome
