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Are we running our businesses the wrong way?
In a recent TED presentation author Dan Pink makes an excellent case that we are running our businesses and managing our talent the wrong way. Pink points to an abundance of evidence showing that common business approaches to reward and incent performance, such as sales commissions and employee bonuses, actually result in worse performance. The [...]
I Yike the Yike Bike
I have been fascinated by the New Zealand designed and developed Yike Bike, which has been profiled on New Zealand TV3 recently, and has also been launched at the Germany Eurobike Show this last week. The Yike Bike is an electric bike, that can be collapsed and carried away in a carry bag. With a [...]
Create a Professional Commerical Website on WordPress for Less than US$150
Setting up a professional looking commercial website – that must be time consuming and expensive – right? Wrong! a friend Shaun McGavin and I recently set up a professional commercial website for Shaun’s photography business. We set it up over 3 or 4 evenings, around 3 hours per evening. It cost less than US$150 to set [...]
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Author of The Long Tail and Editor of Wired Magazine Chris Anderson says that every economy that becomes digital eventually becomes free. The technologies that underlie the web are becoming so cheap that the cost of the provision of digital services effectively becomes free. We already use services such as Gmail and Google Search for [...]
Interface Looking after Tomorrow’s Child
We have a choice to make during our brief brief visit to this beautiful green and blue living planet – to hurt it or to help it. Ray Anderson, Founder of Interface, 2009 I watched the below presentation from Ray Anderson on www.ted.com a couple of days ago and it was an unexpected inspiration. From [...]
Willy Wonka Differentiation
This blog is about business differentiation, but not just small points of differentiation – I’m interested in differentiation that is unexpected. Differentiation that re-defines the game, violates expectations, and grabs attention. We have already seen some great examples of this – Terracycle who built a business on worm poop and waste, Moller who is working [...]
More iPod Touch MityMic Audio Samples
Many thanks for Graham Scharf of the Tumblon Podcast for his comment asking how the TouchMic.com MityMic microphone sounds when it is placed in the middle of the table, for example when recording an interview around a table without passing the iPhone or Touch back and forward to each person speaking. Great question because the two [...]
iPod Touch MityMic Review and Audio Samples
This post provides a review and audio samples for the TouchMic.com MityMic microphone, which plugs into the 2nd Generation iPod Touch or the iPhone 3G, and can be used for quality field recording for interviews and podcasts. I first introduced the MityMic in my March post entitled Record Field Podcasts on your iPhone / iPod Touch. [...]
Little Miss Matched Socks
If you follow the marketing legend Seth Godin you will be familiar with the company Little Miss Matched, which started off by selling sets of three mismatched colourful socks to girls. The company decided to take advantage of the issue that one sock in a pair always gets lost, so why not sell socks that [...]
Record Field Podcasts on your iPhone / iPod Touch
In the past, as a podcaster wanting to audio record field interviews, you would have likely paid US$400 – $US500 to purchase a dedicated portable recorder such as the Zoom H2 or Zoom H4. However, if you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, this may no longer be necessary. As you know there are a variety of [...]