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By building on open source, we're able to avoid proprietary storage and networking products, alongside proprietary software.

Second, we announced the API's and file formats for Sun's Cloud will all be open, delivered under a Creative Commons License.

For those teams that are new to Scrum, I do not recommend eliminating task estimates until you have established a stable velocity.

Once you have a stable velocity, however, you can use the concepts of story points and velocity to eliminate the need for task estimates in sprint planning. The time you used to spend estimating tasks can then be used more wisely to create working software.

We created many iterations with absolutely no room for error and no slack time at all. CM in this case focused on the short project needs because the risk of our competition beating us was far greater than the risk of failing to take a longer term "product" view. In the end - we beat our competition to the market.

There were a number of times in which we discovered that the fix did not work as expected and we saved valuable time by rejecting the release earlier in the process. I had effectively partnered with the business representative and started getting a decidedly stronger "product" view while still helping us to meet our project deadlines.

You need to be well aware of both views and make the right choices from a business perspective.

The key is the device's ability to become whatever a user needs. Typically, the more a gizmo does, the worse it gets at each separate job. Less is always more. The iPhone, however, is arguably better at everything it does, because it does so much. Start with the App store, which is now packed with more than 25,000 applications. Now add the ability to sell subscriptions that regularly deliver fresh content, additional levels for games or new content, all announced Tuesday. Suddenly an iPhone app can be a digital bookstore, or a digital newspaper, or a game that doles out fresh content by the slice. More is more.

Apple will now let developers turn the iPhone into a control panel for practically any piece of electronics you can plug it into. That will allow users to, say, pair the phone with a set of speakers to turn the screen into a digital equalizer.

El que sabe mucho de algo cree, por lo general, que el otro lo va a comprender mucho más fácilmente de lo que en realidad ocurre.

Cuando usted tiene una idea o un mensaje que comunicar, debe reconocer que su dominio del tema puede ser la mayor dificultad para comunicarse.

Piense en su audiencia. Aproveche a un lego en la materia para ver si se le entiende, antes de mandarse con todo.

Por más experiencia que uno tenga, por más mediciones que uno haga, finalmente quien decide si comprar nuestro preciado producto es un ser humano y éste como parte de la naturaleza, cambia constantemente. Cambia frente al producto, frente a la coyuntura y por su puesto frente a los embates de nuestra competencia.

Despertemos ! El ama de casa ya no es nuestra madre, es nuestra esposa. Es la esposa del vecino, la de tu portero. Eres tú que estás leyendo el blog desde tu Black Berry minutos antes de dejar boquiabiertos a unos inversionistas. Es la Carmelina del comercial de Telefónica que está dispuesta a romper el mercado Holandés a punta de blue jeans bordados con flores.

Wolfram and his team have built what he calls a “computational knowledge engine” for the Web. OK, so what does that really mean? Basically it means that you can ask it factual questions and it computes answers for you.

It doesn’t simply return documents that (might) contain the answers, like Google does, and it isn’t just a giant database of knowledge, like the Wikipedia. It doesn’t simply parse natural language and then use that to retrieve documents, like Powerset, for example.

Instead, it understands and then computes answers to certain kinds of questions.

2. Relevance. The company must continue to innovate its solutions to the problems it solves to make the market continue to want them

Creating a company structure that is flexible enough to adapt with the environment is essential to longevity.

4. Respect. For the industry, for its competitors, for its employees and for its customers.

to turn visitors into users your homepage needs to make them feel the way they will feel when they use your service - happy, satisfied, excited. And this kind of trust begins with how the information is presented on your site

The page design and content offering is based on simplicity. The product claims to be easy and the page is, in fact, easy to consume and digest. This inspires trust.

using big design statements to direct your users to a call for action is key for converting visitors to users

Ahora, hay tambien un atajo que merece ser evaluado y consiste en aceptar nuestro problema y convertirlo en el punto de partida para construir una gran beneficio diferencial.

Si esa desventaja que tiene nuestro producto esta bien instalada en la cabeza de los consumidores, hay algo de positivo en ello.  Nos tienen presentes y nos diferencian claramente por este mismo “problema”.  El reto está en encontrar la relación entre la desventaja y el efecto positivo que ésta podría tener en nuestras vidas.

A veces uno se desespera tratando de borrar una percepción negativa, cuando quizás la solución esta justamente en aprovechar el problema, y lo mejor de todo es que nadie se lo espera.

there are too many copy-cats constrained by Web 2.0 conventions: status updating, comments, friend lists, fans, gradient icons, and feeds.

Geisha Tokyo Entertainment makes something called Dennoh Figure ARis or Cyber Figure Alice. Max described it as an "augmented reality doll." It's a Web cam that's built into a doll. You hook it to your computer and software adds animation to the video.

1. There will be an increased focus on infrastructures—such as social networks and wikis—to support building strong relationships and collaboration.

2. The structure of work will become more adaptive, more informal and less focused on formal structure and static design solutions.

3. (tie) "Agile" organizations will have survived rampant aggregation and consolidation, and all organizations will be developing greater agility.