analyzing the business and technology of the web
I use both Apple and PC’s so I have little bias. Each has their own purpose in my home/office. I’m happy Microsoft and their ad firm CP+B is finally on the attack pointing out the overwhelming reason many people shy away from the Apple store – price.
Here is the commercial (which you’ve likely seen already)
What do you think?
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Charlie Rose has a conversation with Marissa Mayer – V.P. of Search Product and User Experience, Google ..
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Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com) was on Charlie Rose last week talking about business, the economy, reinventing your business, the kindle, the future of reading, and much more. I love Jeff Bezos and I think he’s one of the greatest business minds around – and he’s awesome to hear speak.
Some notes:
- “Your value proposition to customers shows itself better to your customers in this economy”
- “If I look long term, I am very optimistic”
- “Me too companies tend not to do very well”
The quote I will take with me was…
“People often ask me – Jeff, what’s going to change in five to ten years? But I rarely get asked ‘What’s going to stay the same’? [...] If you base your business strategy on things that are going to change – then you have to constantly change your strategy. Whereas, if you formulate your strategy around customer needs – those tend to be stable in time.”
Brilliant. It’s so easy to get caught up with the changing landscape on the web, in business, etc – and it’s hard to focus on your core competencies. But in the end it always comes back to what your customer needs.
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I was pleased to stumble on another killer service built on Amazon S3 called StreamInCloud. This service will monitor an Amazon S3 bucket for new videos. Once you upload a video to that bucket, it will automagically convert your videos to flash. They support all the major video formats so you need not worry if your videos will work or not.
Now that you know streaming videos in S3 is easy and affordable, you need a convenient
way to encode (convert) those videos to FLV. That’s where Streamincloud comes in.
We continuously scan your bucket for video files and encode them to FLV so
they’re ready to embed on your site. If you want to get started with Streamincloud,
click here to sign up.
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My company (48Web) has recently teamed up with Lava Row for the What Now? Six-part entrepreneur survival guide series. We felt it was important to help aspiring business owners who have recently been layed off or are looking to ditch “The Man”. Here is the first in that series from Liza Kindred and Brian Hemesath – “Making The Jump”
Join Liza Kindred (Lullabot) and Brian Hemesath (Diligent IS, Catchwind) as they discuss common pitfalls and mistakes made when forming a business, and how to overcome various logistical and emotional obstacles.
What advice do you have for new entrepreneurs? What mistakes did you make? Let us know in the comments!
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