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Are you impressed at how Nintendo has managed the development, announcement and launch of the Wii?  I am. It's been pretty clear that the suicidal game of chicken being played by Sony and Microsoft is fraught with risks to anyone caught in its path...Nintendo included.  Both companies are willing to lose mega millions of ...

I mentioned previously that I'm a big fan of virtualization and all the attendant advantages that come with it. For many tasks, speed is less relevant than flexibility, and virtualization of operating systems gives flexibility to you in spades. You can split functional server roles across different images very quickly instead of mixing them on ...

I visit both Box Office Mojo and Box Office Guru pretty regularly to see what kind of business new movies are doing.  I've noticed something interesting about the movies that have been released over the past month that I thought would be worth sharing with you folks.One movie, Stick It, was expected to hit only 5.5 million its opening ...

Yes, I read books.  I read a lot of them.As so frequently happens with books I read, I end up forgetting the specific details of the book rather quickly. What does end up happening is that, while I'm reading the book, something once in a while will click.  I take away some of those core philosophies or observations at the end and I test ...

Well, I'm finally back in Houston and managed to get a good night's sleep today, so I suppose it's time to review the past few days at SXSW in Austin.First of all, I really enjoyed the conference.  Folks were very sociable, it was a nice mix of people from all walks of life, and although I wouldn't say parties are my particular cup of tea, ...

So I'm here at South by Southwest for the SXSW Interactive portion of the festival, with a splash of the film festival on the side.  So far, this conference is a lot more fun than some of the past conferences I've been to.  I believe in part this is due to the better mix of folks from all walks of life...techie, writer, engineer, ...

Seth Godin posts that you can now watch his talk at Google (hosted, naturally, by Google Video).  He's a well known author and marketing luminary who talks here about the various challenges that Google faces and some of his own thoughts on what's important when it comes to marketing.If you get through the whole thing, note how he mentions ...

20% time...it's one of those mythically interesting things that Google does.  Basically, you get 20% of your time to work on any other project.  Keep in mind it has to be something potentially useful...it can't be ''Doing my laundry''.  Besides, Google has people to do that for you anyway.Keep in mind, Google didn't invent this ...