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Sony Has Ebook Announcement Too - Kindle DX doesn't Care
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 7, 2009
...oduct with its own purpose. It is designed as a newspaper reader and as an electronic textbook. The analogy would be an iPod Nano versus an 32GB iPod Touch, they are built for different purposes, so t...
Genetic Sequencing of Cold Virus
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 19, 2009
...rsity including a potential new species (HRV-D), mutations in field isolates, and recombination. In analogy with poliovirus, a hypervariable 5'UTR tract may affect virulence. A configuration consi...
Venture Capitalists Karen Gordon Mills Nominated to Head the Small Business Administration
in Bizinformer, on December 20, 2008
...pital is a rhinoceros; they may both be powerful, but they don't crossbreed. I think a better analogy would be that PE is a hound dog and VC is a terrier. Maybe they are historically bred for diff...
UpTake launches Public Beta. Interview with Elliott Ng, VP of Marketing.
in Les Explorers, on May 14, 2008
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The travel industry is extremely diverse. I'll use Chris Anderson's "long tail" analogy to describe the travel space. For the top "head" destinations and hotels, the prob...
People Supply Chain: The new paradigm fro thinking from Wharton
in Supplychainer, on February 26, 2008
...t of a business downturn, change in assignment length or a product redesign, for example. "The analogy in manufacturing is an 'unbalanced [assembly] line,' in which inventory builds up be...
Peanut-Free Schools: The Debate Goes On
in Allergies, on January 12, 2008
...nd all other parents who are still in the dark about peanut allergies, let me explain it using this analogy. Imagine having your child sit down to eat in their classroom and somebody went around and s...
Piggybacking is Illegal?!
in The Smart PDA, on January 4, 2008
...backing, which at its essence, is taking advantage of something that's open for public use. The analogy of Ars Technica is effective:
"If the man in question were given a key and told that h...
Social Media And Analogies
in The Search Engine Weblog, on December 8, 2007
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Some things are better understood when analogy is applied. Same thing with the social media. Shana Albert has complied cool, deep, and absorbing analogies to explain different aspects of Social ...
Fox vs. Hedgehog Analogy Works Down on the Farm
in Bizinformer, on November 17, 2007
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I recently wrote about the book Good to Great in which the analogy between being a fox and a hedgehog was mentioned.
The hedgehog does ONE THING great. All thoughts, actions and planning is di...
Book Review: You Can Never Be Too Rich by Alan Haft
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on November 14, 2007
...y Haft's strength is giving you a lot of ideas based on your needs and preferences. He uses the analogy of Bloomingdale's, with each investment type being like a department in the store. He...
Wheels: What Goes Around, Comes Around
in Classical Drives, on November 13, 2007
...more at home on a steam engine. Ditto the huge grilles and blunt front ends; continuing the railway analogy, they remind me of a late 1930's Santa Fe diesel locomotive . When it comes to car...
Does it Really Matter if Smartphones and PDA Phones Cause Brain Cancer?
in The Smart PDA, on September 18, 2007
...I used smoking as an example of self-destructive behavior. But I realized drug addicts are a better analogy, since connectivity is a addiction that's not going away any time soon, if at all....
Book Review: The Net Worth Workout by Susan Feitelberg
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on September 11, 2007
...previously, but I just finished Susan Feitelberg's The Net Worth Workout , and it's a good analogy.
Here's the thing: if you're going to get in shape for real, you can't be all h...
Another New Word for Websters
in Bizinformer, on August 31, 2007
...ertisement emails.
I agree.
At a corporate convention the speaker once used breakfast foods as an analogy for our commitment to business: who has the most invested in our favorite meal of the day; t...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 22
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 4, 2007
...ll have acquired a loyal patron.)
The 1998 letter was short on pithy stories, but this accounting analogy offers a strong lesson.
Next week: Part 23.
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I. Nelson Rose Breaks Down WTO Ruling
in Internet Poker, on April 30, 2007
...and internet but not other forms of betting that were legal within those states.
Rose uses a great analogy of how law students in his class would receive an almost failing grade (he doesn't belie...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 21
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on April 26, 2007
...hen, just smaller. At our present size, any performance superiority we achieve will be minor.
This analogy shows how Buffett sees the problem of having resources to allocate, but not much worth alloc...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 20
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on April 9, 2007
... contribution to ours. Berkshire prospers in America as it would nowhere else.
Buffett offers this analogy when discussing his famed buy-and-hold strategy:
When carried out capably, an investment st...
Do MBAs Make Better Entrepreneurs?
in Businesspundit, on March 30, 2007
...st of them weren't.
It's probably somewhere in the middle, and equates well to an exercise analogy. Some physical training will make you better, regardless of where you are, but you need more...
What Position Do You Play?
in Bizinformer, on March 20, 2007
... I just heard an analogy that I personally feel is RIGHT ON. I wish I knew who first said it - they are sheer genius.
Here is the basic difference between men and women. Ready?
On a football team,...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 18
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on March 9, 2007
...ion in it. Given that minimum, Berkshire's investment universe has shrunk dramatically.
A nice analogy on the wisdom of giving too much importance to the book value of a stock:
Some graduates wi...
Debunking Some Hot Business Books
in Businesspundit, on March 8, 2007
...out it in the research notes because I read them all.
Let me put this in perspective with a sports analogy. Would you subscribe to a theory of basketball that said all you had to do to win games was ...
Tumblr : Blogging simplified
in Web 2.0, on March 5, 2007
... are we going to do with all the existing blogging systems ??
What's Tumblr?
To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.
Blogs are great, but they can be a lot of...
We Sometimes Fall Part V
in Under My Helmet, on January 21, 2007
... corner. But until you've tried everything, don't give up on modern technology. Part of the analogy of "too hot" is that there was still some hope of making it through the pending di...
Book Review: The Nature of Leadership
in Businesspundit, on January 6, 2007
...on to talk about a "leaders can be made" (hence his book.)
Using his reptilian/mammalian analogy, White puts his model of leadership together as a pyramid. The base of the pyramid consists ...
Second Life Meets Third World
in Philoneist, on January 4, 2007
...itting the same amount of CO2 every year that an SUV does in the course of driving 2,300 miles. The analogy is thought-provoking, a shocking reminder of how much more energy Americans, and apparently ...
Second Life dissected
in TJ's Weblog, on January 3, 2007
... tanked because 3D is a crappy way to search. The invitation here is to reason about Second Life by analogy, which is simpler than reasoning about it from experience. (Indeed, most of the reporters wr...
Reverse Salients, and Open vs. Closed Innovation
in Businesspundit, on December 7, 2006
...erall progress of a system. They arise because system components advance at different rates. A good analogy is to think about them as bottlenecks to progress, although that's not quite apples to a...
Work LIfe Balance What's That? Part 2
in Small Business Unplugged, on October 25, 2006
...do a better job than you can with a specific task.
2. Resist the urge to do everything : while my analogy of a symphony conductor trying to play every instrument, note by note is ridiculous -...
Yahoo and Microsoft get together
in The Gadgets Weblog, on August 31, 2006
...ns for the Bill Gates company, such as: mail, search, photos, an address book and a calendar.
Analogy of the moment: if the second search engine giant Yahoo joins Microsoft, I'm guessing th...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 4
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 15, 2006
...his is the least interesting of the letters thus far, but a few nuggets to be had...
The hamburger analogy, which relates to 12% inflation and taxes (this was still the day of the 50 percent tax brac...
Egypt: The New Outsourcing Destination
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on August 7, 2006
...ve a growth rate of 52% in the coming months.
Adel Danish, chairman and CEO of Xceed mentioned an analogy regarding the state of outsourcing in Egypt stating that "Egypt can be for Europe what ...
India's Wind Power Success
in IfEnergy, on July 31, 2006
...#39;s novel , fell off his horse after fighting what he thought was a "giant". Quite an analogy, since windmills and definitely wind power, is fast becoming a significant source of energy ...
Accidental Innovation
in Businesspundit, on July 5, 2006
...non-trivial capability. Pasteur called it the "prepared mind." There's an interesting analogy to evolutionary models of creativity here. In 1960, a guy named [Donald] Campbell proposed t...
Sven's 90 Minute Exam
in The Soccer Weblog, on July 1, 2006
...nals. If he loses he's the inanimate Swede who could never get past the quarters.
The closest analogy is a high school exam. Five years of making friends with the popular kids (Beckham, Owen, Ro...
SAPPHIRE06
in The CIO Weblog, on May 17, 2006
... quite happy with the results. (Felt he probably took it too far with the Chainsaw sending an email analogy).
Than Leo Apotheker came up to drive home the point that most companies need to " Emb...
Joshua Tree Sojourn: Part Two
in The Outdoor Weblog, on April 30, 2006
... to create the visionary wonders of the park. One very helpful image discussed in the guide was the analogy of a melting ice cube. Like the cube removed from the ice tray and placed on a counter, it b...
Working in Serial
in Businesspundit, on February 21, 2006
...it).
Anyway, I found this interesting post about working serially, and of course the engineering analogy resonated strongly. Here is the crux of the post.
Since working in parallel is learned beh...
On Starship Troopers and Entrepreneurship
in Java Entrepreneur, on December 16, 2005
...is man that I had spent 5 years serving in the U.S. Military but I figured that might be taking his analogy a little too far and I didn't mention it). He continued to tell me that I should commit ...
Is it Harvard or Not?
in The Universities Weblog, on November 18, 2005
...ality to a Gucci and you can get it for $50. That's what this is."
Not everyone buys that analogy.
"I think that's sort of going to Harvard the wrong way for the wrong reasons,&qu...
Opportunities Abound
in Java Entrepreneur, on September 25, 2005
...erve as a forum for both subscribers and publishers of various services, Brauer evoked the eBay analogy for what he is providing; though he stresses that pricing of services will be fixed, and not auc...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
in The Parenting Weblog, on July 20, 2005
...rearing. Dahl's books mercilessly upend this illusion of harmony."
Margaret Talbot's analogy of " Why Children love Roald Dahl's stories and may adults don't " makes f...
Interesting Analogy Between ESBs and Human Body
in The CIO Weblog, on May 8, 2005
...ng markets pretty closely. Graham Glass (CTO of webMethods) has an interesting post that draws an analogy between the ESB and mechanisms of the human body (bold type added by me to highlight two key...
Examples Of Both The Power and Pitfalls Of Storytelling In Management
in The CIO Weblog, on April 13, 2005
...ot where the
carburetor comes from. But you have to question how dispassionately he
can assess that analogy. His father worked for years in the auto
business, and his sons are named for auto models: M...
your road to success
in TJ's Weblog, on March 20, 2005
...care. The first round happened just be outlining the idea (where he indeed often used the Star Trek analogy). But only after the device was in the hands of VCs and first customers he really found rais...
Computing...Off the TAP from SUN
in The CIO Weblog, on February 1, 2005
...omputers are not, He draws parallel to the electricity domain, as he has often done in the past - - Analogy used electricity is a commodity , generators arent.
And looks like SUN is taking the...
Politics - It's all about the Marketing
in Businesspundit, on August 5, 2004
...lists---for what often seemed more a sales convention than a political convention. If you doubt the analogy, consider this: in the 2000 election, Americans were showered with 245,743 TV spots for Geor...
Problems of Spyware
in Businesspundit, on June 8, 2004
..., even though Overture, its ad-placement unit, is responsible for 31% of Claria's revenue.
The analogy with spam is informative. If legislators had acted sooner, it might have been possible to pr...
Two Excellent Posts
in Businesspundit, on May 16, 2004
... This post by Mark Brady is a very interesting analogy about corporations, tigers, psychopaths, and a few other things thrown in for fun. Are corporations psychopaths? Mark says they are more ...
Sun's Marketing
in Businesspundit, on December 12, 2003
...er, though, it's clear the strategy isn't accomplishing all that Detroit native, automobile analogy expert and Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy would hope. I keep hanging on to their stock, h...
Good Leaders Embrace Chaos
in Businesspundit, on October 9, 2003
... makes some excellent points about leadership. I really like the "company as an organism" analogy, because I think evolutionary thinking can be applied in a positive way to business.
Anxie...
the P2P potential
in TJ's Weblog, on September 24, 2003
...y use of P2P. It seems like C2C has just been changed by a letter.
However the NYT finds another analogy: "The current fight over peer-to-peer technology closely resembles a grand battle in th...
UnderArmour
in Businesspundit, on August 18, 2003
...at plague trailblazing companies, analysts said. Some analysts point to Callaway Golf Co. as an apt analogy. When Callaway introduced its Big Bertha driver in 1991, the golf industry was turned on its...
A Manufacturing Economy
in Businesspundit, on July 24, 2003
...eemed to hurt us yet. Here is the criticism of the argument I used with Brother Hezekiah
A faulty analogy is sometimes drawn to the industrial Revolution, which made agriculture a relatively ...
Strategy and IT systems
in Businesspundit, on June 25, 2003
..., these processes are all part of the much larger process of strategy implementation. The following analogy illustrates why this separation does not make sense.
The journey that a business takes ove...