Mark Milian

Kunimasa Suzuki, who is Mr. Hirai’s deputy in overseeing the videogame and consumer-electronics divisions, said before the UX group was formed, they discovered that four different product category groups were working on separate projects for a tablet computer to challenge the iPad.

It’s not just the Android OS running on Sony’s tablets that is fragmented.

Passion, Not Perks | Think Quarterly by Google

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:31:05 -0700

Passion, Not Perks | Think Quarterly by Google:

Google exec says perks don’t matter, but offers free food, ping-pong tables and volleyball anyway.

Business hours: some times (Taken with Instagram at Panhandle...

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:07:47 -0700

Business hours: some times (Taken with Instagram at Panhandle Guitars)

"If you’re thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the..."

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:00:06 -0700

“If you’re thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company, let them all in on the truth. Say, “Listen, if this gets out, we’ll probably lose the deal, so we’re all in this together.” People are getting more sophisticated. The only way to deal is by being honest and open and truthful.”

- Biz Stone in Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone to Advise M.B.A. Students at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business - WSJ.com

As of press time, 9,016 people answered “yes” to...

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:50:05 -0700

As of press time, 9,016 people answered “yes” to this question. 26,668 said “no.”

Now Can We All Agree That The “High Quality Web Content” Experiment Has Failed? | TechCrunch

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:41:05 -0700

Now Can We All Agree That The “High Quality Web Content” Experiment Has Failed? | TechCrunch:

On one side, those content producers who choose to stay on the free-and-open web will be forced into making more and more ethically dubious decisions to stay profitable. Out will go professional writers and church-and-state separation of content and commerce; in will come more Groupon-style “reader offers”, affiliate links behind every keyword and an Idiocracy of dumber and dumber linkbait.

SoHo and Turtlenecks

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:41:05 -0700

SoHo and Turtlenecks:

All the while, Ms. Deng hasn’t neglected the business of minding Mr. Murdoch, who has undergone the kind of change in appearance often associated with a man’s marrying a new and much-younger wife.

Mr. Murdoch for decades preferred establishment addresses such as New York’s Upper East Side and Bel Air in Los Angeles. But after remarrying, he and Ms. Deng set up residence in Manhattan’s trendy downtown SoHo district, a few blocks from the apartment of Mr. Murdoch’s son, Lachlan. Known for his British-style double-breasted business suits, the elder Mr. Murdoch suddenly started sporting black turtlenecks on some social occasions. News Corp. executives say that sometimes he even forgoes a tie at the office, which was once unthinkable. He told Vanity Fair that he is pumping iron with a personal trainer at 6 a.m. and downing a morning concoction of fruit and soy protein.

Call him Rue.

The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:40:05 -0700

The Elusive Big Idea - NYTimes.com:

We live in the much vaunted Age of Information. Courtesy of the Internet, we seem to have immediate access to anything that anyone could ever want to know. … In effect, we are living within the nimbus of an informational Gresham’s law in which trivial information pushes out significant information, but it is also an ideational Gresham’s law in which information, trivial or not, pushes out ideas.

Internet Killed the Philosopher

L.A. Times employees settle lawsuit over stock ownership plan - latimes.com

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:41:05 -0700

L.A. Times employees settle lawsuit over stock ownership plan - latimes.com:

$32 million settlement, an average of $1,846 per employee involved. (I wasn’t in the ESOP.) Not exactly a big payday for journalists that rode the leveraged buyout into the concrete.

Jam bar for 22 points (Taken with Instagram at Ritual Coffee...

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:31:31 -0700

Jam bar for 22 points (Taken with Instagram at Ritual Coffee Roasters)

Chinese Web Search Giant Serves Two Masters - NYTimes.com

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:41:05 -0700

Chinese Web Search Giant Serves Two Masters - NYTimes.com:

The unspoken comparisons of Baidu to the early days of Google are staggering.

"Songs you listen to often on Spotify sit, encrypted, on your hard drive. The application looks first..."

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:27:05 -0700

“Songs you listen to often on Spotify sit, encrypted, on your hard drive. The application looks first for these; if it doesn’t find them, it pulls down 15 seconds of the song from the closest server while it looks for copies of the rest of the song on the hard drives of other users near you. This is file sharing. It increases speed and lowers the demand on central servers by spreading it among several connections. Spotify and The Pirate Bay don’t just share a country; they share an operating system.”

- Some of the magic why Spotify is such a slick service.

Daniel Ek’s Spotify: Music’s Last Best Hope - BusinessWeek

(via david-noel)

"It’s transparently ridiculous that someone would buy a $600 phone with a 5-megapixel camera and then..."

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:47:05 -0700

“It’s transparently ridiculous that someone would buy a $600 phone with a 5-megapixel camera and then download an app that makes photos look like their grandma took them with a drugstore-bought camera, got them developed at the drugstore, then left them out in the sun for a week because of all the drugs.”

- Wired’s Lore Sjöberg on apps like Hipstamatic making any photo look like “art.” (via cnnmoneytech)

lonelysandwich: Apple Rocks Way Cool! My sister found a...

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:25:05 -0700

lonelysandwich:

Apple Rocks Way Cool!

My sister found a textbook in New Zealand called Apple: Business in Action, published in 1997 (a very strange time in Apple’s history, with section headings like “Apple on the Decline”), so she sent it to my dad, who would get a kick out of it. Reading it brought back such an ugly nostalgia for what I think of as Apple’s puberty, which coincided with my own…