Did you read that story about the guy who called Zappos and asked the representative where to buy pizza? The agent was cool.  Started doing some research.  And answered the caller’s question. The caller, of course, was a snarky Internet troublemaker.  He wanted to see if the legend was true, that Zappos gave free reign […]

Did you see they lowered the price of the Kindle 2 to $299? You should buy one now.  Get in on the ground floor as opposed to waiting until everybody else tells you how great it is, how it’s changed their life. It’s kind of like the iPod, suddenly everybody looked at each other and […]

I’m not excited about this.  I’m quite happy with OS X.  I’m not one of the minions tearing their hair out, bitching about Vista.  But as a business story, this is fascinating. You see Microsoft is married to an old business model.  They make their money selling Windows and Office.  What if these are suddenly […]

The Death Of Traditional Media The story was broken on TMZ and spread on Twitter.  Not only was the straight media caught flat-footed, stating that it was playing by traditional rules, waiting for confirmation, it let TMZ continue to own the story. In other words, in the future, if a story is breaking, you will […]