Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty’s predictions for the stock value of Apple shares read like listening to the weather report. She says there’s one chance in 4 Apple stock could pass $325/share and range between $325 and $435, but if the Google Android platform takes off, Apple shares might as well drop as low as $150.
In a more common and closer to home situation: the weather for tomorrow will be dry, but if our most optimistic dreams don’t become reality it will rain.
This topic has been brewing for a long time and could easily turn into a never ending rant but I will try to resist.
Do bloggers need to have an opinion on everything and can being opinionated turn against you?
Of course this entry is nothing more than just another opinionated piece, a rant.
It is time that bloggers use their grey mass a little and look in the mirror before ridiculing themselves. Being opinionated is easy but being opinionated AND making sense is a different game all together.
Especially because blogging has to be opinionated it becomes a very thin line to walk. Read more
John Gruber on why he refuses to embed Flash on his site:
As for why I refuse to embed Flash, let me put it this way. I use and highly recommend ClickToFlash, which blocks all Flash content by default. Why would I publish content using a technology that I personally block by default? I truly hope to see Flash fade as the de facto standard for embedded web video, and I’m willing to put my markup where my mouth is.
I am an avid ClickToFlash user as well and until recently thought the internet was for pr0n text. It would be nice to be able to embed H.264 videos from Youtube.
I take up the old favourite topic for lazy people who like automated backups again and this time also explain how to backup your files.
Apparently you can wake up and open your eyes to the outside world, even if you live in Silicon Valley. Of course for any European, especially fans of the football game, this is no surprise at all, we actually would prefer Russian riches to invest in our clubs than poor Americans who constantly need to renegotiate the debts taken on to buy out our clubs. Of course the internet is no exception to this, Arrington gets the wake-up call:
A controversial comment on Hacker News makes us wonder if hot U.S. startups are the new vanity purchase for rich Russians.
Blogging on iFranky hasn’t really been a priority in the last 18 months and design was only one of the reasons. The main reason though was because I really didn’t have a clue, not about the focus of the site or about my life.
The time at Emmaus Preston was rather limited and even though I was happy not to have to deal with that board anymore, it has taken me around a year to reorganise and refocus.
Refocus and return to the colours of my roots: Racing White Daring Molenbeek, the first club I played football for.
I am no person who stands still for a long time or will whine about how miserable life is, but as the years slowly accumulated I certainly needed some time.
Paul Carr, after a battle of semantics, before publishing his book as free download at Techcrunch.
And yet barely a day goes by without someone telling me they tried to find my book in the US, only to be disappointed that – due to publishing’s ridiculous obsession with territories – it’s only available outside North America. “It’s available on the Kindle” I say. “Pft” they reply, “I don’t have a Kindle”. In most cases I end up emailing them a PDF – a distribution model that doesn’t really scale.
The logical solution would be to publish the PDF on my site. The print version of the book has been available for 18 months now – it’s had plenty of time on bookstore shelves and with the publication of the paperback in the UK and no US publisher on the horizon, any future sales are just part of the long tail. There’s already a pirated version available on Limewire – that’s where I got the PDF from in the first place
Worth reading 275 pages? If you like dry humour and everything’s as good as the intro, yes. If you don’t want to visit TC, grab it here.
Michael Arrington on the topic of online privacy.
Back in 2006 people still had a notion of privacy online, particularly around contact information. Today those walls are crumbling. People share information today without blinking that they never would have considered sharing in the past. Things that bother us today probably won’t matter much this time next year.
It might seem a lost battle in the mindset of people, but the more information is readily available the more people will become aware of sharing less. Expect big battles with law makers in countries such as Germany.
Ever wanted to merge two WordPress blogs into one? A detailed walkthrough how to proceed. Not for the faint of heart? No, rather simple actually.
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The Elves Leave Middle Earth, a Normal Process at Every Young Company
I have participated to several new companies both in the bar scene and online and have every time experienced this happening, not because of free sodas or food being cancelled. It’s a natural process in every high paced sector.
Most companies go through 3 different ‘generations’ of teams. Read more