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Apple Employees Approve of Tim Cook 100%
It’s going to be tough for Tim Cook to hold that top rating.
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Four Firms to Watch in Consumer Technology
The four consumer technology and Internet firms to watch over the next five years and possibly beyond are, in no particular order.
- Apple
- Amazon
These firms are starting to have overlapping products and services.
- Books
- Movies
- Music
- Social Services
- Content Consumption … (New types may be created in the not to distant future)
- Communications (Phone, IM, Email …)
- Images / Photography
- Community (similar to Social Services) [sort of like Meetup.com]
- Cloud storage – Apple – iCloud, Google – Gdrive (?), Amazon – Cloud Drive
Notes:
These firms have been competing in similar spaces for a while now. Apple has been selling music in the iTunes Music Store since April 2003 and Amazon has been selling MP3’s since September 2007. Google recently introduce Music Beta by Google.
Will Facebook get into streaming movies? They recently added Spotify integration to make their music offering more robust.
Amazon has a streaming movie service, Amazon Instant Video, and Google has YouTube. What will happen to Hulu? Will one of these four players make a move to buy it or create a strategic partnership?
Uncrunched – RSS Subscribers
Looks like there are just over 500 RSS subscribers to the Uncrunched website Michael Arrington, formerly of Tech Crunch, recently started. The image above was taken from a screenshot of Google Reader after I subscribed to the site.
YouTube Founders Aim to Revamp Delicious – NYTimes.com
YouTube Founders Aim to Revamp Delicious – NYTimes.com:
“Ms. Fake said Delicious might attract a wider audience now that more people are accustomed to sharing links and information socially — something foreign to most people eight years ago.
“It didn’t quite get to the mainstream before,” she said, “but I’m optimistic that it can get there now.””
Sharing and privacy were big barriers to mass adoption for sites like Delicious.
Amazon – Missing Sort Type – Kindle Format
Odd, there is no clear way to just display an authors books as available by format. In this case I was hoping to only see books that are available as Kindle ebooks.
Kindle Network From Twitter Followings – Social Reading
The Kindle reading network has some interesting possibilities.
- Book clubs
- Education:
- K-12,
- College
- University
- Community Ed.
- …
The key might be to arrange around some circle of relevance. Classes and topics make sense as these are areas one can identify interest in. How do you find areas of interest that are below the surface of consciousness? Perhaps this is solved by connecting with people from other networks something like a cross-pollination of interests.
Canada Posts First Jobs Decline in Five Months – NYTimes.com
Canada Posts First Jobs Decline in Five Months – NYTimes.com: “Canada’s economy shed jobs for the first time in five months as the country’s unemployment rate rose to 7.3 percent from 7.2 percent in July”
It appears that the headwinds that were challenging the USA have shifted North to Canada.
Waffle House Index Measures Hurricane Recovery – WSJ.com
Waffle House Index Measures Hurricane Recovery – WSJ.com:
“In a recent academic paper, Panos Kouvelis, a business-school professor at Washington University in St. Louis, pegged Waffle House as one of the top four companies for disaster response, with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Home Depot Inc. and Lowe’s Cos”
Impressive. Would have never guessed Waffle House in the top five, much less the top ten.
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