Hot Chips
I’m very excited that I’ll be attending the 2009 Hot Chips conference which is being held from August 24-25. It’s a conference which is sponsored by the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has been held at Stanford ever since it began in 1989. What’s especially cool for people interested in technology or [...]
“Creative” Marketing
I’ve criticized Singapore-based Creative before for overhyping their Zii chip with their vague promises like “stem-cell computing” and a name that eerily conjures up a very popular game console from Nintendo (here and here) . Well, the hype keeps coming, they have now released specs for their first “stem cell computer” (whatever that means), a [...]
Seed the market
In my Introduction to Tech Strategy post, I mentioned that one of the most important aspects of the technology industry is the importance of ecosystem linkages. There are several ways to think about ecosystem linkages. The main linkages I mentioned in my previous post was influence over technology standards. But, there is another very important [...]
iGoogle Comics
Am I sad that I’m not able to go to this year’s Comic Con like I was able to last year? Yes. Thankfully, Google, in its infinite wisdom, must have sensed my sorrow and not only decorated their home page with a Google-ified version of DC’s Justice League, but they released a whole suite of [...]
Tech strategy 101
Working on tech strategy for 18 months ingrains a thing or two in your head about strategy for tech companies, so I thought I’d lay out, in one blog post (which may itself turn into a series) the major lessons I’ve learned about how strategy in the technology sector works. To understand that, it’s important [...]
18 months
My consulting experience has been pretty atypical so far. Most consultants rotate between cases and roles every couple of months. Me? Up until about a few weeks ago, I had been doing corporate strategy work for the same technology client for 18 months (which is a long time – hence the picture of the old [...]
Play Classic
While all of my friends were playing their Super Nintendo (and later, their Gamecubes, Playstations, and XBoxes), my parents disapproval of video games meant that I continued to play classic games on my Famicom (which to the uninitiated, is the Japanese name for what is essentially a Nintendo Entertainment System). It helped that I wasn’t [...]
It was a dark and stormy night in the data center
One of my favorite aspects of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts are Snoopy’s attempts at novel-writing and his classic opening sentence: It was a dark and stormy night… This was, of course, immediately followed by some comically ingenious sentence which made it immediately obvious that Snoopy, although quite creative (and talented! how many dogs do you know who can [...]
Wiki-power
A week or two ago, I had a conversation with a couple of coworkers about the use of blogs/social media to gather information about subjects (and hence justify why I spend so many hours on Google Reader). They were fairly skeptical of the ability of blogs to do the same job that the New York [...]
Upgrade
I had the pleasure of upgrading my Blackberry to use the latest version of RIM’s operating system (version 4.5) last Friday. I had intended to do it myself, but I discovered that if your Blackberry is connected to a Blackberry Enterprise Server (i.e. can you check your corporate calendar/email on your Blackberry? If so, then [...]
