The new material has been described by the band as "good."
Read the release on Blabbermouth!
Q. Where do you want to be during a zombie apocalypse? A. I don't think it really matters where you are since there are going to be dead people everywhere so I guess I'd say Seattle. I've always wanted to see Seattle.
Q. So here we are. What should we do? A. We should seek the greatest value of our action.
The biggest news from CES this year, captured by Asymco:
These actions confirm the end of the PC era.
full post here. Don't miss it.
Via Daring Fireball.
From a comment thread over on Reddit:Check out the post here.
You think you know the situation. It's more complex than you think it is.
Short article at TechCrunch here. Choice quote:
Stuart Feigin, Oracle’s fifth employee says, ”There was no version 1 [of Oracle software] because everyone thought, well, no one buys version 1, it’s buggy. So we started with a version 2. Well, our version two was at least as buggy as anyone’s version 1…And I describe those early versions as the roach motel of databases. The data went in, but it didn’t come out.”
MG Siegler provides a mostly analysis free summary:
He noted that email is too cumbersome. There’s a subject field, a formal greeting, a closing. Teens are using SMS and IM because it’s much simpler. And that’s what Facebook is trying to add to everyone’s life, using email as the gateway drug, of sorts.
Highly astute comment in the ensuing comment thread here.
Complete article here.
See here Hopefully the stupid trope that the iPad cannot be used to create content will die one day.
WSJ quoting Best Buy CEO:
Mr. Dunn also said internal estimates showed that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs by as much as 50%
Full story here
Fantastic talk given by Steve Blank from Startup Lessons Learned conference on the need to create an "entrepreneur school," to help one understand the process of keeping the lights on and finding initial customers, instead of conventional business school, which assumes you have already attained the state of large company.
Now the problem is, you can get a piece of advice telling you anything you want to hear. The problem I believe today, is not a lack of information, but a lack of a framework to take that information and to turn it into something that's actionable for you.