Archive | April, 2007

30 April 2007 ~ Comments

Godin’s iPhone Challenge

Seth Godin has issued a challenge to marketing pundits to predict the number of iPhones Apple will sell in the coming months and years. He cites a posting from Laura Ries, in which she proclaims the iPhone will see the same fate as the Nokia N-Gage, Microsoft’s WebTV and others. I understand Laura’s points about [...]

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27 April 2007 ~ Comments

Joost to get More Premium Content?

According to this story, Joost has signed advertising deals with a number of major brands, including Nike, GM and Coca Cola.  I highly doubt that all of these brands would be willing to advertise with second-rate content.  Is this a sign that Joost will soon announce more content partnerships?  CBS and MTV have signed on [...]

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26 April 2007 ~ Comments

Apollo to follow Flex to Open Source?

Mike Chambers’ latest blog post hints that Apollo, or at least pieces of Apollo, may go open source. This on the heels of last night’s / today’s news that some of the Flex framework will be open sourced under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Much has been written already about how great of a deal [...]

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21 April 2007 ~ Comments

Flex as a Wire Framing Tool

I have just recently begun to dig in to Flex. As I’ve been mucking around with its design view, I’ve come to the conclusion that it might be the best UI wire framing tool I’ve seen or used. Its boasts an impressive list of components, most of which can be easily scripted by [...]

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17 April 2007 ~ Comments

Are Competitive Wages Enough?

I just saw a commercial from my local cable television company letting its viewers know that they were looking for “highly motivated individuals” looking for a challenging new career. They, of course, touted their competitive wages, competitive benefits and 401(k). My question is this: What would motivate anyone to take a job [...]

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15 April 2007 ~ Comments

New Host and Domain

It became necessary this week for me to purchase my own domain. I went with the most obvious choice, bryanbartow.com. The process was quite painless thanks to HostMonster. Since I was already mucking around with MySQL and what not, I decided to make the move to WordPress to power my blog. [...]

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