these people give you a headache

hope it is not tool late yet to order one

It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see." ~Henry David Thoreau

America needs to start asking serious questions about its future. Do we continue to treat the speculators and the value creators the same way? Does the same tax code apply to these two classes of people? Does free-market capitalism indeed suffice to restrain the destructive power of these Madoffian devils?

interesting piece in forbes ... shifting the debate from rich vs. poor to value creators vs. speculators.

not good, not good.

what i find most interesting about these Palinistas is that they have not much to say about her but that she is good looking (which i would say is questionable), that she is religious, and that she is a regular American (which is means absolutely nothing ... after all what does a regular American look like? ... judging by the demographics i would say that they certainly don't come from Alaska ... and they less and less come from the countryside) ... but no one says that she is smart, knows what she is doing ...

amazing!!! even better than the jay z version.

i have to admit that i don't understand what all the fuss is about lady gaga, i still haven't heard a good song by her, but these two songs are really good -- makes me wish she would do more like this. actually shows she has talent and a voice.

slightly connected to yesterday's

Now, Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS) has come up short on the inventory of units for its device–the Nook. The book retailer chain said “Preorders have exceeded our expectations.”

Barnes & Noble and Sony came into the e-reader market to challenge the extremely successful Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle which has established a large enough market to prove the devices are popular. Several research firms say that they expect e-reader sales to hit three million this holiday season. Amazon is the only competitor in the field which has effectively managed its inventory. That leaves Barnes & Noble and Sony with little more than the embarrasement of botched launches.

reading stories like these just make me wonder who is paying people like douglas mcintyre ... but it certainly explains why they don't allow comments on their site.

so more or less what doug says is that b&n sucks because it's nook is selling like hot cakes ... and he praises amazon because the kindle is sitting idle on store (at least virtual ones) shelfs. yes the nook won't be shipping before christmas, but that is only for those people that haven't ordered one yet. those that have will get theirs before christmas ... and there seem to be so many of them that is by far outstripped the plans of b&n which very likely are based on sales forecasts for ebooks like the one cited by doug.
in the past the business press has been fairly pessimistic for ebook readers and their sales potential. so now that one company is having success in selling one it gets dinged for underestimating the market potential.
i am sorry, but what doug is missing here is a bigger story and that is that ebook readers are becoming much more popular than most people following the space have thought so far. at least that is what this tells me.

4. Respect the customer, the process, the product, the team and each other

When does a customer know exactly what they want?  When they see it of course!  When do they know how they feel about your product?  When they see it.  Let them see it more often, gather feedback and utilize the feedback.