From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Server issues

July 31, 2009

If you came here earlier, you might have got server errors – these now appear to have been fixed, by turning off comments using Disqus and reverting back to WordPress’ built-in commenting. I’ll fix this later. And thanks to all the people who let me know the server was playing up!

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Ballmer predicts Windows PC 2010 = Macintosh 2008

July 31, 2009

More from the analyst’s meeting with Steve Ballmer: “Ballmer told analysts there would be a new class of “ultra-thin” PCs” — or high-end netbooks –coming this year that would combine the light weight of netbooks with high-power and high-performance of traditional PCs. ‘When I talk to many of our customers, they say ‘I love the [...]

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Watch out, Mac-using analysts: Ballmer knows where you live

July 31, 2009

Via Joe Wilcox, comes this bit of Steve Ballmer’s speech to financial analysts: “We have low share, by the way, in the investor audience. I can see the Apple logos versus the PC logos. So we have more work to do, more work to do. Our share is lower in this audience than the average [...]

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Daring Fireball is wrong about Microsoft’s weakness

July 31, 2009

I am, you’ll have noted, an argumentative sod. This is a great source of irritation to my dear other half, who rolls her eyes as I shout at the television or Internet. But sometimes, you read something and… well… you just have to respond. Such is the case with John Gruber’s post on “Microsoft’s long, [...]

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Why are companies so afraid of “think(ing) different”?

July 30, 2009

You’d think that companies would want to make their products different from their competitors, wouldn’t you? ?After all, if there’s a difference, people might actually buy your product rather than someone else’s? Not always the case, as Matthew Taylor notes: “Then a few days later a friend was comparing prices from Virgin and BT to have [...]

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links for 2009-07-30

July 30, 2009

Jason Calacanis on Yahoo/Microsoft "The lesson for all startups–and BDC's (big dumb companies)–is thatinnovation is all you have. Once you stop innovating you lose yourtalent and you lose the race. Never. Stop. Innovating. Never. Neve …

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Jason Calacanis on Yahoo/Microsoft

July 29, 2009

“The lesson for all startups–and BDC’s (big dumb companies)–is that innovation is all you have. Once you stop innovating you lose your talent and you lose the race. Never. Stop. Innovating. Never. Never.Never.” Posted via email from Ian Betteridge’s lifestream

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Why Freemium fails: The Idiots Guide

July 29, 2009

Here’s your business model:1. Attract people who don’t want to pay for movies by giving away free movies.2. Try and charge people for something they specifically come to your site to get for free3. Wonder what went wrong. via news.cnet.com Posted via web from Ian Betteridge’s lifestream

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Fake Steve Jobs on the Apple tablet

July 28, 2009

“Dear netbook makers, whoever you are — I don’t know your names because we don’t pay any attention to you, but we know you’re out there, polluting the world with your cheap, ugly, underpowered machines — but here is my command: Surrender and prepare to be boarded. Yes, you’ve been pwned. We told you we [...]

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The real story of the 4chan AT&T block

July 27, 2009

“Sounds like you don’t understand what’s going on – please educate yourself.4chan is being SYN flooded, various ISPs were getting a lot of collateral traffic from the resulting ACKs going back to spoofed IPs. Since those ISPs had nothing to do with either the attacker or 4chan, there was nothing they could do but pull [...]

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