Screen Size People, Screen Size!

What mobile devices and semi-mobile devices will succeed?  What ones will fail?  Which of the exotically-named consumer electronics clamoring for our dollars and time appeal to us – and to others?  What devices will succeed that we want our books, games, etc. on?

We look at these devices and want to know this.  We want to get our best value.  We want to make sure we get the media we create on the more profitable device.  But what will succeed, what will fail?

Well there are many reasons and factors, but I really think people are missing the kind of obvious factor in what makes success in SmartTabletPhoneBooKNet market.

The screen.

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Business: The Three Areas of Change

As I see it there are 3 major areas of change in how businesses function in our economy.  These areas of change are going to vastly, vastly affect the kind of world we live and work in.  These transformations will also affect any businesses we found and jobs we have (or don't have).  I want to take a chance to identify these areas of change, how they interact, and what it means for us in two essays.

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Kinect Hacks, Microsoft, And Consumer Experimentation

So how many ways can people do bizarre and unusual things with the Kinect?

The Kinect seems to be getting hacked left and right.  Yet, it seems beyond some of the pornographic elements, Microsoft is saying very little about this.  This leads me to two conclusions I'd like to discuss.

(And, yes I could joke about a Microsoft product being hacked, but that's serious low-hanging humor fruit).

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