Karl-Peter Gottschalk: BusinessBusiness is not just for businessmen - those grey-suited grey-faced people in old movies on TV. Business is for people who want to control their own destiny in a way that working for the Man does not allow.Apple Releases First New Pro Video App.- July 23, 2002 A report at MacNN says this: Apple today announced Shake 2.5, the first reincarnation of Nothing Real software, since it purchased the effects company, and the first release of the industry-leading compositing and visual effects software for Mac OS X. &160; &160; &160; Shake 2.5 is scheduled to be available in August for Mac OS X 10.2&8212;at a suggested retail price of $4,950&8212;and for Linux, IRIX and Windows for $9,900. Yearly maintenance for Mac OS X and Linux, IRIX and Windows is...http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15446 Tri-City, Four-State Freelancing.- July 23, 2002 Consider that last post&8212;three cities in Australia, two nations, four states. Working across such extremes of distance was hardly possible before the Internet.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100271/categories/business/2002/07/23.html#a543 Burning The Candle.- July 23, 2002 I have been burning the candle at both ends for several days here in Perth, trying to make a significant dent in a web design project for a Melbourne client and a Sydney advertising agency. &160; &160; &160; First the start of the job was delayed, then it was going to be coming much later, then it suddenly arrived at the worst of all possible times. I worked until 3AM this morning, then uploaded it all to the server in the United States for the client and my agency contact to view it at the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100271/categories/business/2002/07/23.html#a542 Evidence of Dave Winer's Perceived Industry Status.- July 23, 2002 This article, Top 100 Power Picks: A look at top influencers, forces, technologies and products in large enterprise computing. in Enterprise Systems ranks Dave Winer as the 16th most powerful person in the field.http://www.esj.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=109 More On Winer, Whining and Whingeing.- July 22, 2002 Winer goes on to say &8220;Apple could have kept me, if they had embraced the standards of the Web. Instead they tried to get the Web to balkanize over QuickTime, Cyberdog and OpenDoc. Yuck. I went with the mainstream. Apple&8217;s proposition was more slavery, the Web offered an enticing freedom, for a while, until Microsoft killed Netscape. Oh well. It&8217;s too much trouble to learn a new OS now. Why bother.&8221; &160; &160; &160; Poor old Dave. It is worthwhile commenting on him and his..http://radio.weblogs.com/0100271/categories/business/2002/07/22.html#a539 Dave Winer: Feeling A Mite Fragile- July 22, 2002 Weblogger and web standards expert Dave Winer can be forgiven for feeling a little fragile right, while he is convalescing from his recent heart surgery. But he might want to re-engage his brain just a bit. &160; &160; &160; The evidence Winer has just commented on Paolo Valdemarin commenting on Windows-to-Mac and Mac-to-Windows switchers, whom both webloggers are referring to as immigrants. &160; &160; &160; Paolo is suggesting that those few Windows-to-Mac switchers who did it during the.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100271/categories/business/2002/07/22.html#a538 E-Myth: It Is Systems, Not Talent.- July 20, 2002 Michael Gerber informs us in his bestselling book on small business, The E-Myth that you don&8217;t have to nor should you need to rely on specific talented individuals to ensure business success, but instead should create business systems that anyone of any degree of native talent can enter and excel in. &160; &160; &160; Systems, not Talents.http://www.e-myth.com/ McKinsey, Enron and the Talent Myth.- July 20, 2002 Having tried vainly and unsuccessfully to work with a former McKinsey consultant at one of Australia&8217;s largest finance companies, I was very interested to come across this New Yorker article on Enron and McKinsey and their cult of talent. &160; &160; &160; Weblogger Jonathan Delacour comments on the piece in today&8217;s entry. &160; &160; &160; The ex-McKinseyite I had the misfortune to try to work with was arrogant, an egomaniac, worshipped by her co-workers, and desperately and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100271/categories/business/2002/07/20.html#a535 Some Sample Amazon Web Services Applications.- July 20, 2002 Here are some web services applications people have already built using the Amazon Web Services API. Here are my three favourites so far: Build an Online Store with PHP One Click Search & Display Book Watch Plushttp://associates.amazon.com/exec/panama/associates/join/developer/resources.html Tim O'Reilly Discusses The Amazon Web Services API.- July 20, 2002 Publisher and Open Source activist Tim O&8217;Reilly writes about the new Amazon Web Services API, that follows the release of the Google API, and the possible consequences of this opening up process. &160; &160; &160; I am already signed up to Amazon.com as an associate, indicated by the Amazon link on the lower right of this weblog page. As Amazon&8217;s web services mature I will be adding them to my &8217;blog and other web sites as appropriate.http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1707 |