- Microsoft Surface tablet: what the analysts say | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"I do not believe Microsoft see Surface as a big volume driver device in either version, but they establish the benchmark, sell a few at decent margins, and then let the ODM [original device manufacturer, eg HP or Dell] partners drive prices down. Not having 3G [mobile connectivity] makes things easier from a channel perspective [ie, it doesn't have to be sold with mobile contracts] and considering that the majority of users have been buying Wi-Fi [iPads] it will not be a limiting factor." (tablets analysis hardware dopost microsoft_surface launch microsoft )
- Executive coach: ‘Finance is an amoral world, bordering on the immoral’ | Joris Luyendijk | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"It's almost a perversion. The CEOs such as Fred Goodwin and Jamie Dimon and the like. They present themselves as to the outside world as posh and erudite and sophisticated; as supermen. But they are just like you and me, with similar needs and fears. We shouldn't fall for their spiel." (finance coaching psychopaths psychology banking interview )
- The Courier – ‘I started laughing, and kept on laughing’ — Olympic torch protester gets a police visit
''I asked [the police officers] if protest was now illegal. They said no, it isn't, but there will be lots of folk out to cheer the Olympic torch, and we wouldn't want you to get hurt by them, or vice versa. I think they were a bit nonplussed that both myself and Keri were laughing so much. I assured them that I had no intention of hurting anybody.'' (olympics protest )
- The Oatmeal v. FunnyJunk, Part IV: Charles Carreon Sues Everybody | Popehat
"On Friday, June 15, 2012, attorney Charles Carreon passed from mundane short-term internet notoriety into a sort of legal cartoon-supervillainy. [...] And so, on that same Friday, Charles Carreon also sued the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society, the beneficiaries of Matthew Inman's fundraiser. Yes. Charles Carreon, butthurt that someone had leveraged his douchebaggery into almost two hundred thousand dollars of donations to two worthy charities, sued the charities." (dopost charities legal the_oatmeal )
- The Lawrence Journal-World gets out of the CMS business, losing out to freebies like WordPress » Nieman Journalism Lab
"The future is uncertain for Ellington, the content management system designed by a news organization for news organizations. Ten people working on the project were laid off this week." Oh dear. When the chips are down the non-essentials are cut. (dopost newspapers cms python django )
- New Statesman – The angry fundamentalists of the church of gaming
"I like the idea that the hate storm surrounding Anita Sarkeesian is a surprise to some people. It pleases me that there are still people in the world who possess that level of innocence, [...] Sarkeesian you see broke two rules of online communication, the first, which I don’t want to dwell on, is that she forgot to be male. [...] The second rule she broke however is that she poked the sacred cow, video games." (sexism dopost culture gaming )
- Five Secrets Of Companies That Build Great Teams | TechCrunch
"Their CEOs spend significant amounts of time recruiting (Vinod Khosla recommends more than 50% of time for new CEOs)." And other insights. (advice dopost recruitment )
- Expletive Inserted » Lessons from the Failure of Readability’s Author Payment Plan
Not a well-planned model. "Yesterday Readability announced that they were shutting down their experiment to take payments on behalf of authors and then distribute them (minus a 30% cut) to those authors. [...] It seemed presumptuous of Readability to collect payments on the behalf of authors, without said authors ever agreeing to the model." Now they're struggling to do something appropriate with the money they've collected from customers. (dopost business_models failure readability )
- Weird Instruments
(music musical_instrument )
- A Tool too far: A Systems Perspective of Targets
"The evidence however is that targets do motivate people. It just isn’t in the ways that target-setters expect. They motivate people to do the wrong thing." (dopost systemsthinking motivation targets )
- The Family that Eats Together: Breaking Bread at Your Startup – Forbes
What do think about a family lunch every day at your company? "Around 12.15, a few team members came into a large meeting room that is adjacent to an open kitchen, broke apart the big conference table into two pieces, and arranged chairs around them. They set the table, and then called in the rest of the team." (dopost community motivation startups noom )
- Developing UX Agility: Letting Go of Perfection :: UXmatters
(dopost agile user_experience )
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