Business Process from Kasparov: Stop Thinking, Play Chess

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been one of those guys who others think to be smart. I say this with not a hint of pride; it actually makes me uncomfortable, and I realize that my so-called “intelligence” is about the way I…

To-Do Lists Make You Do Less. Try a Software Disciplinarian.

Today is my birthday. I’m getting very little done because . . . well, because it’s my birthday! But on other days I don’t really have an excuse.

Apple iPhone OS 4.0: A Beginning, or Beginning of the End?

Business Change is a odd thing. We all know we have to be constantly changing our businesses to adapt to … well, changing business … but should business change be active or passive? Proactive or reactive?

More Proof: Apple (iPad), WSJ, & The New York Times Hate You

I’ve picked on the iPad a few times. From the moment it was announced, the iPad looked to me like a brain-dead solution in search of a problem, and when Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal announced its pricing for reading…

Google: If Your Web Site is Fast, It Gets Higher SEO Ranking

How fast is your web site? You ask yourself that question all the time, right? You don’t want your customers waiting around for pages to load, and you certainly can’t risk losing the interest of someone new as they wait to…

If You Can’t Beat ’em, Eat ‘em! Both Can Be Coopetition.

What do you do once your business gets so big that you have to branch out to continue growing? If you’re Google, you try new things like making mobile phones, and hope for hits rather than misses. Or you can go the way Apple went…

iPad Arrives. Nothing Else Matters

I, of course, don’t really feel that way. I think the iPad is pointless for you and I, and just a way for content publishers to finally get their hands into our wallets.

But read this, and see if you don’t come away thinking something way worse. The iPad is . . . a very pretty 10" diagonal shackle.

Printing Through the Cloud Using Google: More to Break!

Just yesterday I asked a question: can you really trust Google’s tools enough to run your business in the cloud? And it got me thinking about yet another initiative Google recently announced: printing documents in the cloud.

Facebook Minimum Age: 13. Parental Snooping Rights? Maybe 0.

So here’s an interesting “what the heck is social networking really all about?” issue: your (under-age) child has a Facebook account. You look at it, see that he’s engaging in dangerous, illegal activities, and hack into the…

Data, Privacy, The Law, And A Mess You Can’t Clean Up

I’m all for privacy.

To be honest, privacy is a relatively new phenomenon sociologically and absent issues like identity theft and stealing from other simply by having their private data and knowing how to…