NEWS: the Google’s platform

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[via Jeremy Zawodny]

A great article from Rich Skrenta about the “real” competitive advantage Google is building with its very cheap but incredibly powerful hardware platform. A very interesting analysis and point of view!

While competitors are targeting the individual applications Google has deployed, Google is building a massive, general purpose computing platform for web-scale programming.

This computer is running the world’s top search engine, a social networking service, a shopping price comparison engine, a new email service, and a local search/yellow pages engine. What will they do next with the world’s biggest computer and most advanced operating system?

BUSINESS: Tom Peters (3/3)

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  • Rolf Jensen/The Dream Society:How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business

    The sun is setting on the Information Society even before we have fully adjusted to its demands as individuals and as companies. We have lived as hunters and as farmers, we have worked in factories and now we live in an information-based society whose icon is the computer. We stand facing the fifth kind of society: the Dream Society. The Dream Society is emerging this very instant the shape of the future is visible today. Right now is the time for decisions before the major portion of consumer purchases are made for emotional, nonmaterialistic reasons. Future products will have to appeal to our hearts, not to our heads. Now is the time to add emotional value to products and services.

  • Richard Branson

    I never, ever thought of myself as a businessman. I was interested in creating things I would be proud of.

  • Sam Hill & Glenn Rifkin, Radical Marketing

    Rules of Radical Marketing

    Love + Respect Your Customers!

    Hire only Passionate Missionaries!

    Create a Community of Customers!

    Celebrate Craziness!

    Be insanely True to the Brand!

  • Warren Bennis & Patricia Ward Biederman, Organizing Genius

    The leaders of Great Groups love talent and know where to find it. They revel in the talent of others.

  • Nathan Myhrvold, former Chief Scientist, Microsoft

    Did We Say “Talent Matters”?

    The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10X or 100X, or even 1,000X, but 10,000X.

  • Napoleon

    A leader is a dealer in hope.

  • Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery

    The leader must have infectious optimism. The final test of a leader is the feeling you have when you leave his presence after a conference. Have you a feeling of uplift and confidence?

    • NEWS: neutrality….no, it can’t be!

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    [via LeDanois via Russell Beattie]

    The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

    -Dante Alighieri

    KerryOne of the first posts of October for an important topic: I know that the US citizens will choose in about one month. Bush or Kerry? Umh, I am not a US citizen but I am a citizen of this world and I would like to clearly, and without any doubts, vote blog for Kerry! The worst is surely … neutrality!

    I already posted two times about that here and specially here. A lot to read in the blogosphere but you could find some clear inputs and statements for Kerry (or against Bush ;-) by LeDanois, Rodrigo, and Dragos.

    So let’s express your vote intention too!

    BUSINESS: Tom Peters (2/3)

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  • Sir Richard’s Rules:

    Follow your passions.

    Keep it simple.

    Get the best people to help you.

    Re-create yourself.

    Play.

  • Kevin Roberts’ Credo

    1. Ready. Fire! Aim.

    2. If it ain’t broke … Break it!

    3. Hire crazies.

    4. Ask dumb questions.

    5. Pursue failure.

    6. Lead, follow … or get out of the way!

    7. Spread confusion.

    8. Ditch your office.

    9. Read odd stuff.

    10. Avoid moderation!

  • Craig Barrett/Intel/01.08.2004

    The world has arrived at a rare strategic inflection point where nearly half its population living in China, India and Russia have been integrated into the global market economy, many of them highly educated workers, who can do just about any job in the world. We’re talking about three billion people.

  • Seth Godin/Fast Company/02.2003

    This is an essay about what it takes to create and sell something remarkable. It is a plea for originality, passion, guts and daring. You can’t be remarkable by following someone else who’s remarkable. One way to figure out a theory is to look at what’s working in the real world and determine what the successes have in common. But what could the Four Seasons and Motel 6 possibly have in common? Or Neiman-Marcus and Wal*Mart? Or Nokia (bringing out new hardware every 30 days or so) and Nintendo (marketing the same Game Boy 14 years in a row)? It’s like trying to drive looking in the rearview mirror. The thing that all these companies have in common is that they have nothing in common. They are outliers. They’re on the fringes. Superfast or superslow. Very exclusive or very cheap. Extremely big or extremely small. The reason its so hard to follow the leader is this: The leader is the leader precisely because he did something remarkable. And that remarkable thing is now taken so it’s no longer remarkable when you decide to do it.

    • TOOLS: K-Lite video codec

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    k-liteAre you also confronted with this never-ending-story concerning all these audio & video codecs? I personaly got this problem till I installed the incredible package from K-Lite. Really a must-have if you do not want to install Quicktime and/or RealPlayer (both remain quite intrusive to my mind) and if you do not want to waste time by searching the new version of hundreds of codecs (I’m exagerating a bit ;-).

    K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all the movies that you download from the internet.

    The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:

    * It it always up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs.

    * It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want.

    * It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn’t contain any conflicting codecs.

    * It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies.

    Mega Codec Pack includes everything needed to play online and offline computer media. This pack is from the makers of the K-lite codec pack. This version includes the Full K-lite codec pack as well as Quicktime and Realplayer codecs, and BS Player. This Pack includes codecs for the most popular compressions like Divx and Xvid as well as some of the less popular but still necesary codecs. This is your one stop codec resource.