Magical act in branding & miniaturization. Charistimatic builder of great business with attitude. Sony Walkman, Sony Handycam. "It's a Sony" slogan. Build Sony from scratch, turning the tiny setup into the crown jewel of Asia, and the darling brand of the world.
Dedication, tinkering persistence, passion & strong vision to make horseless carriage a reality. "Car for the people". "Assembly manufacturing concept". Years of consistent dedicated act, tinkering and passion. One of the greatest, finest and bravest tinkerer of all time. Modern mobile society as the result.
Passion for excellence & master of continous magical act. Make things happen greatly with style. Leaders with strong sense of vision and with "no limit" nor "no boundary" for next great cultural possibility to explore. Mac. Next. iPod. iPhone. Apple. Next. Pixar. Think Different. Mix innovation & culture at its best. Modern digital culture is born, and consistently turns greater under his act. 
The greatest people manager and most charismatic people-centric business leader of all time. Think. Respect to individual. People first. Under his great leadership turns the tiny IBM into a mighty organization of its time. The "king" in the annal of "business kingdom". A rare business person with great business persona and legendary people-centric attitude of our time.If with XP we can have a minor "broken windows", with Vista we can have: a "broken heart". Take a look at the "parodic" video below. Interestingly, while the parody is funny, the statement and expressions that comes with it is NOT all that wrong. It reflects what Vista situation really is today.
Oh Vista, Vista. How sad ....
Perhaps it's about time Mr. Ballmer should step down (and Bill Gates shall be back).
A new exciting form factor for interaction design might emerge soon in the marketplace. It's called "surface computing" -- or if I would rather prefer to call it: "Wall Computing".
With "wall computing" the impact and potential of information and technology to surround, influence and enhance our interaction and everyday living would be even higher.
Imagine at anytime during the day we can turn our "wall" into a "screen" and can immediately talk, video chat, conference and interact each other through this "wall" with no hassle.
Being able to do such would be truly awesome.
You might say, but that's just like the "Web TV" thing that we talked about a few days back. You probably right. Yet now imagine what would happen if -- instead of just being able to "read, chat and interact" through this wall -- we could also writing on top of those "walls", and -- as we write on top -- the "wall" smartly, seamlessly and interactively send the data/image across?
Such would bring computing and interactivity design into a whole new package of "great experiences", in ways that we never seen (nor never experienced) before!
People would then be able to wake up everyday in their home, go to their wall to check their morning "journal" (on their wall), and immediately save, tag, comment, annotate, jot down and respond to that piece of news and information online, right through their "wall", right ON TOP of their "wall" !!!
When such "wall computing" capability happen, our digital world will reach its greatest potential. That's the time when the power of the web magnificently combined with the potential of the interaction device that we can leverage and use, everyday.
Through that our daily living and working chore would never be the same again. It will improve significantly so much, for the better.
I can not wait to see it happen ... (and/or to participate to make it happening too). :-)
Today Firefox 3 RC1 has been released. Despite there's still "add-on incompatibility" in this new version, soon a new browsing experience would begin.
It'd be faster, leaner, simpler, easier to use too!
This is how Google looked like, when they started (1998):
Even, prior to that, this is how they look like:
People say everything great starts from small, then grow eventually very fast. I totally agree.
Alot of great giant company that we saw today (Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Matshushita, Toyota, Honda, Ford, Xerox) ... were all initially have one thing in common: once they are all small tiny struggling innovative company, which later on invent and redefine the industry that they are focusing on.
The early days of Apple
The first Apple product - the "Apple I"
The early days of Microsoft
Microsoft whole employee photograph - 1978
The early days of Sony
Sony early factory & headquarters
Sony Employee (the whole company!)
Sony G Tape Recorder
Sony Tape Factory
Sony H Tape Recorder - for Home Use
Sony Transistor Factory
Sony Transistor Radio
Sony Pocketable Transistor Radio
Sony founders -- Akio Morita & Masaru Ibuka
When something start small and then grow, we see nothing else but beauty of their founders great, continuous, consistent, persistent, ingenious effort in building things to try to make it happen.
Their journey become a great story that inspire many more entrepreneurs and business builders to come.
This is how Google look today:
Awesome!!
While Palm positioned Palm Centro as the most affordable smartphone device to allow people to keep in touch through phone, text, email or web, it's potential seem to be beyond just for "fun" stuff.
Looking at the spec, this device seem to have tremendous potential to become the portable "mobile working device" that also -- at the same time -- is the most affordable too.
With a price that is reportedly could be as low as $99.99 (with 2 years data plan -- in the U.S), surely this device is a great bargain. Everybody can now get connected and work anytime anywhere, as long as network and wireless GSM GPRS/EDGE or CDMA 2000 connectivity is available.
Unfortunately it doesn't come with a Wifi (yet). But seems it got alot of great potential to be a superb great device someday in the future, especially if it can keep the simplicity (and intuitiveness) of its Palm OS, and if it can keep the responsive speedy feel of the application performance.
If Palm can also give its OS a modern skin appeal -- so this easy, stable, fast, responsive and simple to use OS and software platform doesn't look very tired, boring, and old, as how it looks today -- then its relevance and popularity might increase back even more. After all, beyond skin look and feel, people do love speedy response, intuitive - easy to use - interface, workable keyboard, as well as very stable OS.
Let's take a look at the latest Palm screen, and feel again its directness, speed and simplicity that is still uniquely differentiate Palm from its competitor. Then later on let's imagine how would it all feel so great, if a modern skin interface can be applied on top of that!
If such "skin upgrade" can be done, I feel the whole usage and interaction experience would be wonderful and great.
We look forward for a greater future at the Palm camp. After all, they are the one that pioneer the "palm" and mobile computing industry.
If they can get their OS' skin improved to current modern age, and if they can get their device form factor to become as sleek as their "Palm V" once had been, I feel the future at Palm could be as wonderful and as great again as it used to be.
We will see how the future goes. I do really hope they would get their mojo back very very soon -- before everything becomes way way too late.
Blackberry Bold really look awesome! With 3G capabilities built in, now we shall not be restricted to our desk anymore to do our everyday work stuff.
The device comes with a reasonable form factor. The size and dimension seems almost perfect.
Yet screen size is perhaps the only worrying factor.
This is something that we need to study further. I wish the keyboard could disappear. But again I think RIM (the maker of Blackberry) is right: as of today, physical keyboard still function better (and more accurate) than the iPhone's soft keyboard. Today's iPhone's soft keyboard needs alot of getting used to, before "normal person" can start using it effectively.
Moving forward, we will see how 3G portable device evolve to become more mature and effective both as a browsing device, and data entry device. At the right time, we will see more and more possibility of moving our computing chore from our desktop and laptop, to our "palm" top as well.
When we can start doing everything on our "palm" top, work and computing would then become so seamless and doable everyday, at anytime, anywhere.
Awesome!
This might be a beginning of something important in the future:
A new generation of TV (from Sharp) now has a browser built-in. The announcement said that this device had a LAN connectivity and a built-in browser, hence at anytime we would like to switch from "viewing" mode to "browsing" mode, we can do that without having to switch to our computer.
I wonder whether this means that with this "Browser TV" we would be able to run YouTube also or not. If we can, then it will be really great. We then can start to experience "personalized TV" on our "everyday TV"!. For example:
This brings personalized content richness and bi-directional interaction capabilities of the web, with the powerful event trigger capabilities of the "traditional mass TV" together.
I guess it's a start of many more great "social interactivity design" and "personalized media consumption" things to come.
What a fascinating possibilities!!
Soon, the way people communicate and work together around the globe will change. No more we will be bounded by distance that separate us. Our "office" will become global. No more boundaries for getting effective and productive. Everything would be simply visual, communicative and interactive at the same time.
Video, sound and document will be integrated as one.
This is probably an illustration of how we will "look", "talk" and "interact" each other in the future:
The technology is soon will be fully ready for that. The people are increasingly ready for that. What is needed now is perhaps a continuous systematic effort to really make it happen.
We will see how soon it will become a true, daily, everyday reality.
Many people speculate about how the "future office" will look like. My suggested answer: How about this?
Yes, now, sooner and later in the future, our office around the globe simply would be placed at the place where it would be most effective and productive ... on the web!!!
It's not about email. It's about work on the web.
That is how our "future" office will look like!
Mac Clone has finally arrived. Take a look at below OpenComputer machine by psystar. This machine runs MacOSX! Sometimes people call it "Mac Clone", sometimes people call it "Hackintosh".
When the OS of this machine is that great MacOS X , and the hardware price is becoming even more affordable at $399 (Open Computer) or $999 (OpenPro Computer) because it is an OpenComputer/Hackintosh, ... is there still anymore reason to still consider Vista?? ;-)
Check out the psystar website for more.
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