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Main Applications on the iPad (1-1-2011)
The picture below represents the current home screen layout as I currently use it.
TuneIn Radio is great, as is Wikihood. They both offer something unique or outstanding IMHO.
From left to right starting at the top.
- Google Maps
- Photos
- Earthquakes (notification and visualization of recent earthquakes globally)
- Contacts
- Flickr (Actually this is an iPhone app that you have to run 2x to fit the iPad)
- Waze (Live mapping application. Has some game elements.)
- Maps (folder of map applications)
- Notes
- Flipboard (Beautiful application for visualization of online content. Mostly Twitter, but also Flickr and Google Reader RSS posts)
- Twitter (folder of Twitter applications)
- Twitter (Official Twitter application)
- Books (folder of book and reading applications)
- Evernote (The everything notebook storage application)
- AccuWeather
- TuneIn Radio (paid 99 cents, worth $5)
- Google (search and access to Google applications)
- Google Voice (access and use your account on a mobile device)
- Instapaper (Read it later application. Used in conjunction with a browser bookmarklet tool)
- WordPress (application to create blog posts using WordPress)
- Wikihood (Wikipedia entries for places near you)
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What is 2011?
2011
“The Year of Solving Other Peoples Problems”
Tagline: “What’s Your Problem?”
*This came about after thinking about how camera apps could create a viable business model. This coming year should be about solving problems other people have. People may call it service. Most of the time it is a service, there are a few times where it is an idea that is implemented and that scales and creates massive value for the user. The creator gets a healthy reward for creating so much value for the customer.
Example: Supplier creates a product that crates $1M in sales for their customer with a net profit of $250,000 (25% net margin). Regular net margin is 10%. This product is creating $150,000 in extra net profit. Perhaps a third of that will go back to the creator of the solution that created a million dollars of business and created the opportunity to grow net profits $250,000. If the supplier takes a third of the excess, that would be $250,000 NPM – $100,000 SPM (Standard Profit Margin) = $150,000/3 = $50,000. There is an incentive to create excessive value and profit for their customer. Think of the 1/3rd as being a performance bonus.
*Still to be figured out.
Q: What if the buyer is OK with a 10% SPM and uses the savings to drive market share and be more competitive versus their competitors?
A: These things will have to be negotiated and put in writing.
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#Breakfastup: Year End Tweetup at Zeff’s in Eastern Market (Detroit, MI)
Today, Friday December 31, 2010 there was a breakfast tweetup in Eastern Market (Detroit, MI). We met at Zeff’s Coney Island around 9 AM.
Attendees included: @3sixteenweb @divinemsmel @Wattyz @digitalvision @Admore @TJList @davidlingholm (& wife) @noisyzen @guinnessatticus
Think that’s everyone.
Some of use were there until noon or 1pm. Don’t recall the actual time the four of us left. We headed to the R. Hirt Jr. Co. and Cost Plus Wine Shoppe.
There were a few pictures taken. Perhaps those will appear in a post next year. 😉
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Books Completed in 2010
This year I completed the reading of thirty books. They are on the bottom shelf of a bookcase in the order they were completed from left to right.
- The Art of The Start
- Getting Real
- Unleashing The Ideavirus
- Radical Careering
- The 1% Windfall
- Linchpin
- The 22 Irrefutable Laws of Branding
- Borrowing Brilliance
- Thought Leaders: Insights on The Future of Business
- The Open Brand
- Hackers & Painters
- Drive
- Built to Last
- Valley Boy
- Free Prize inside
- Small Giants
- Delivering Happiness
- Swim With The Sharks
- Whale Done
- The Long Tail
- The Art of Non-Conformity
- Unmarketing
- Project 50
- American Steel
- Bo’s Lasting Lessons
- Angel Customers & Demon Customers
- Rework
- Serious Play
- Mirror Worlds
- The New Rules of marketing & PR
One of the things I realized in the past few days is that the number of books to be read is at about 60. These are books I’ve bought and want to read. More books are on the way too. A soft target of 60 books for 2011 seems unreasonable, but I’d like to go for it. If 52 are read that will be a win. 39 or fewer completed would be a disappointment. It will probably be a good idea to start reading the next book tomorrow, Saturday January 1, 2011.
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TweetDeck iPad App Wastes Space
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Commentary – Internet game-playing as motivational tool – latimes.com
“…this winter Vail Resorts is launching Epic Mix, a program to gamify skiing. A radio frequency chip inside your lift ticket is sensed by 90 gates spread across Vail’s resorts, recording where you’ve skied and how many vertical feet you’ve racked up. The entire mountain becomes a game board on which you can earn points or surprise pins and share your achievements with Facebook friends.
via Internet game-playing as motivational tool – latimes.com
A rather interesting article about Foursquare and other location and checkin applications. It might be kind of cool to see what courses one skied down during a trip. This kind of data could be incorporated in to apps like Memolane in the future. Geo and checkin data will be used by more and more people in the future. Many of the pictures I have in Flickr have data stamps. These data stamps tell a story when placed on a timeline. When there is Foursquare checkin data to go along with it one can better recall and remember details of the people, places and events as they occurred.
Do you use and geo or checkin apps?
Which ones?
How do you find them useful?
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Test Post From iPod
Test post from IPod touch.
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The Day of Christmas 2010
It was the day of Christmas and all through the house…
- People have gathered
- Food is being served
- Beverages are being consumed
- Stories are being told
- Love is being shared
*Test Post From Windows Live Writer
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Tweets of the book: Swim With The Sharks
Notes from the book Swim With The Sharks by Harvey Mackay
The posts below were originally tweets. I used the site TweetStats to pull them together by hashtag. They are in reverse order here. Tons of knowledge nuggets from a book written more than 20 years ago. This book should be required reading.
“No company has a permanent consumer franchise.” #swts88 (p. 273)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“The people who make it big are the ones who fix it before it’s broke.” #swts88 (p. 257)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“No one wants it if it’s too easy to get; if they can’t get it, if it’s in demand, then everyone wants it.” #swts88 (p. 239)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“You’ve got to have more than one good idea. Once is not enough.” #swts88 (p. 224)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“A firm with morale problems is usually a choice target for aggressive competition.” #swts88 (p. 217)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“Work half days every day. And it doesn’t matter which half … the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.” #swts88 (p. 180)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“Entrepreneurs scratch before they itch. They dare to fix things before they break …” #swts88 (p. 177)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“Efficiency achieved at the expense of creativity is counterproductive.” #swts88 (p. 158)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“The way you pay your bills says something about the kind of person you are to deal with.” #swts88 (p. 143)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“If you expect the other guy to care about you, show that you care about him.” #swts88 (p. 142)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“The key to keeping the ideas flowing is an atmosphere where everyone can feel free to contribute.” #swts88 (p. 129)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“… what people are looking for isn’t only money, it’s recognition, appreciation, and creative freedom.” #swts88 (p. 129)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“… our real capacity far exceeds the average expectations others have for us.” #swts88 (p. 75)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“Knowing what to do isn’t enough if you haven’t developed the self-discipline to do it.” #swts88 (p. 73)
3 months ago from SocialScope
Knowing you customer means … ? Complete this phrase. *also found in #swts88 (p. 42)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“The mark of a pro is getting the reorder.” #swts88 (p. 29)
3 months ago from SocialScope
“Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.” #swts88 (p. 28)
3 months ago from SocialScope
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Job Postings Surge as Economy Warms – WSJ.com
It said the number of U.S. job postings on the Internet rose to 4.7 million on Dec. 1, up from 2.7 million a year earlier. The company daily collects listings from corporate and job-posting websites, removing duplicates.
Job postings on Indeed were up 74.07% from December 2009 to December 2010.
Lots of interesting data in the story. Add it to your suggested reading.
Calculations:
4.7 million – 2.7 million = +2 million
2 million / 2.7 million = 74.07%
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