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.
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It's excellent! I just discover today that Twitter have a 'verified account' badge for its twitter pages.
With this feature inplace, people now can be sure that 'famous people' that they follow are really who they are; instead of a 'fake' one. This is truly useful and wonderful.
Visit http://twitter.com/help/verified for more info.
Many netbook in the market today looks pretty ordinary, but this one -- coming 'soon' from Apple might make a difference.
Whether such 'thing' eventually be called 'mini notebook', 'apple netbook' or other, one thing perhaps would be clear: the era of 'ugly netbook' would soon be over.
As the result of "Apple's influence", perhaps after Apple start entering the 'netbook' or 'tablet' category in the coming future, we'll start seeing many well crafted, well designed, well built netbooks with mini great price being introduced into the market, instead.
Such would be truly wonderful!
Finally, the Apple Tablet -- dubbed the "Jumbo iPod" -- the latest creation of Steve Jobs' design, entrepreneurial, marketing and technical genius -- might come to the market as early 2010.
The device itself goes through 4 years of meticulous development process. Some describe the process as follow:
The project was reset at least a half-dozen times over the past 24 months. Each time, development was frozen and key aspects of the device rethought, retooled and repositioned. At times, those close to the Apple co-founder had their doubts that it would ever see the light of day, just like a smaller PDA device he canned a few years after returning to the company.
However, the past six months have reportedly seen the critical pieces fall into place. Jobs, who's been overseeing the project from his home, office and hospital beds, has finally achieved that much-sought aura of satisfaction. He's since cemented the device in the company's 2010 roadmap, where it's being positioned for a first quarter launch, according to people well-respected for their striking accuracy in Apple's internal affairs.
That means that the device, which is expected to retail for somewhere between the cost of a high-end iPhone and Apple's most affordable Mac notebook, is bound to turn up any time between January and March, should there be no last minute setbacks. Analyst's following the Cupertino-based company may consider factoring first full-quarter sales of the device into their models for calendar Q2.
Bill Gates is a technologist, probably one of the best technologies -- beside Steve Jobs -- who understand how to pick, choose and strategically apply technology for the better.
Beside his awesomeness in making and choosing technology that is useful and wonderful to use; one of the biggest thing I really "love" about Bill Gates since very very long time ago (when Microsoft was small) is always practicality of his vision and opinion; and his clarity and outspoken-ness in expressing such.
In recent interview regarding the current "buzzing" social technology and stuff, Bill Gates cast his view and opinion. He said:
Mr. Gates said the buzzwords “social networking” applied to something that had been around for a long time — a way to communicate with numerous people at the same time.
He acknowledged that he once had a Facebook page, but every day “ten thousand people tried to be my friend.” He said he spent too much time trying to decide “Do I know them? Don’t I know them?” Ultimately, he said, “I had to give it up.”
Asked whether he ever “unplugs,” abandoning e-mail messages, computers and his cellphone entirely, Mr. Gates laughed and said “I’m not a 24-hour technology person.” He said he read a lot “and sometimes not on a screen.”
I guess that is truly true!
As we technologist, entrepreneur, innovators, designers and practical user always know, technology is a wonderful thing. But as these tool increasingly 'penetrating' our lives, seems increasingly we truly need to proactively figure out how to control, organize and orchestrate it, so it keep us productive.
Proactive filtering is the way to go. Modern people that can 'proactively filter' unnecessary messages and information out of their daily routine would become productive people that burst with wisdom of productivity enabled by their tool; whereas those that fail to filter nor manage the flood of information that flow across the globe -- will eventually end up being 'drown' inside it; and struggle their days everyday using computers, smartphones and many productivity tools to 'filter unnecessary garbage' which keep them busy everyday, every minute and the whole day -- in a totally unproductive ways!
Of course everybody has their own ways and choice of how they are going to use technology, and that is truly rightful and respectable. It's just that -- with increasing amount of tool, connectivity and information we had in our hand today -- we come to the fact and situation, whereby if we are not starting to proactively control, manage and apply it for truest power and productivity, we might would end up being totally improductive because of the productivity tools that we invented!
I still love Bill Gates for his truly wonderful vision and insight of 'practicality' of the past 15-20 years. He is still as practical and as sharp, from the days when Microsoft was small until Microsoft had become today! He is is the kind of practical, visionary, outspoken, no buzz-word, practical, daring, not boastful Microsoft leader that I still truly "love". He is definitely the 'great unique thing' behind the "greatness" of Microsoft, the one "element" that makes practicality, relevance and exciting ingenuity of Microsoft product, technology and product in the past possible. He is the 'soul' that makes Microsoft as a company able to transform itself from a tiny company to become extremely huge and powerful as it is today.
For those wisdom, vision, practicality, simplicity and outspoken-ness that Bill Gates still burst and convey today as youthfully, as practically, and as 'brilliantly' as when he was in his younger days, I still respect him so much. This is "my Microsoft leader". This is the kind of leader, entrepreneur and visionary behind Microsoft that make the name "Microsoft" so much exciting and exhilarating to program and support (in the past).
For all these sentiments and joy of observing great leadership and entrepreneurial journey of Bill Gates, I always have a 'wish and dream': that the character and 'soul' of a true "Bill Gates" really need to be back at Microsoft someday in the future. Then Microsoft leadership and product would be great once more!
... as most (and some) of my stuff resides on Google (gmail, google calendar, google reader), I haven't seen how Yahoo new home page would 'fix' this problem.
Seems if Yahoo's new designed home-page and concept would really work, Yahoo had to 'forget' the rivalry between itself and Google. Only then it's idea of becoming the 'hub' (a.k.a the 'portal' ??) for all people, for all kind of information access around the globe might work.
We'll see how the future goes.
Latest news that spread around the internet today is that starting tomorrow Yahoo will change the look of its homepage. (Take a look at the picture to see how it might look like).
These early snapshot indicates that Yahoo seems try to embrace everything that is currently popular on the web, and make it accessible through one page: the Yahoo page!
I am not really sure whether this would entice people to visit and use Yahoo site even more or not. If I consider my case:
But this might be too early to conclude. When Yahoo finally reveal its new homepage, we might be able to know more. And based on that will be able to answer and decide whether this "new-Yahoo-look" initiative would be the kind of useful, powerful and exciting innovation to use everyday, or whether this would just simply be a passing fad that we all will eventually forget.
We'll see how the future goes.
I happened to checkout currency rate on Google on July 19 2009 -- 12:58 pm, and found this a very rare & very surprising 'perfect sequence string' of 1s and 0s in the USD to Rupiah conversion rate.
10 10 10 10 1 ... a.k.a: 10,101.0101 ... !!!
I sincerely hope the country would very soon be back to its perfect condition once more.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then you win" - Gandhi.
This quote might reflect what Palm is trying to do with its WebOS devices. While many people consider Palm 'puny' compared to the mighty iPhone, in reality, Palm might be -- step by step -- in the process of building momentum that might eventually make it a winner -- not against iPhone as many people predicted -- but against Blackberry.
Palm started its move this June 2009 by introducing Palm Pre in the US -- a relatively "ignore"-able device with a WebOS operating system that far better than Balckberry OS for true multitasking duties.
Then it spread it wings this August throughout December 2009, by preparing to release Palm Pre in the UK -- an act that is no longer totally "ignore-able" but still relatively "laughable" as people still think: who these guys trying to beat? The mighty iPhone? the super popular Blackberry?
Yet, if we see all these development closely, seem what Palm is really trying to do is to build up a distribution path and channel, both in the US and in Europe.
And why such 'penetration' becomes important? Because beyond selling Pre, what Palm perhaps really trying to do is to actually introducing a series of hardware device based on WebOS operating system; which means once the distribution path is built, we might not see only Palm Pre in the market, but also various kind of mobile computing devices based on Palm WebOS operating system!
Such distribution platform and foundation would then become Palm's pathway to build its WebOS device + WebOS application 'empire'; something that might -- on a global scale and on a global basis -- eventually 'compete' with Blackberry (first), and then iPhone (later) on genuine innovation basis; something that eventually Blackberry might have 'hard time' to catch up.
We will see whether eventually such attempt will make Palm the 'winner' it intend to be. But looking at the whole thing that Palm try to do in complete retrospect, it seems -- if Palm can get its momentum and economics right -- its Palm devices + Palm WebOS strategy might work.
We'll see how the future goes.
Rupert Murdoch might finally found the "front-end" that he need to make his Wall Street Journal & Dow Jones aquisition fruitful. It's in the form of the kindle device!
While Mr. Murdoch's MySpace aquisition -- at the current moment -- probably a bit in the limbo, his daring, amazing, superbly expensive (and truly visionary) bet on Wall Street Journal & Dow Jones acquisition a few years ago might proven to be correct and superbly fruitful, 'very very soon'.
Sooner or later, the era of printing physical newspaper might become obsolete. But newspaper business will remain! Kindle device might make it all even become more possible!
In that context, Jeff Bezos and Mr. Murdoch's respective vision and execution capability really truly amazingly awesome!
On July 7, 2009 Google announced that they are going to release a new operating system for netbook computers. The operating system is named Google Chrome OS and is expected to be open-sourced-released later by the end of this year. By mid 2010 it is expected to be available in the hand of consumers.
While initially the Linux-based desktop OS will power netbook computers, soon it will be extended to cover traditional computer as well. You might ask what the motivation of all this? As Google said in their press release:
Computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates.
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