Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Gmail SMS: Big Deal

English: mobile phone text message
English: mobile phone text message (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Google launches Gmail SMS, letting users in Africa send and receive emails by text message

This should be global. And it should apply to more services beyond email. And it should go beyond Google. SMS is a key sub category within mobile. Just like web services have been figuring out how to go mobile, they need to figure out how to go SMS.
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Visionaries

Historic Microsoft photo of Paul Allen (left) ...
Historic Microsoft photo of Paul Allen (left) and Bill Gates (respectively) on October 19, 1981 surrounded by PCs after signing a major contract with IBM to develop software for its upcoming PC line. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Large companies can only find real Visionaries by looking for people who have been right more than once, and never right because they rode somebody else’s wave. Having found one of these rare unicorns, Visionaries are often completely at odds with the skillset needed to survive in large organizations. They are not politically savvy (or don’t care). They do not do well in meetings. They do not crave gigantic staffs to manage. They will not suck up at the expense of doing something they know is wrong, or even a little bit less right. They are prickly and uncompromising. Yet, you must not only find them, you must prop them up and make them successful despite all the antibodies the entrenched burocracies at Microsoft and Yahoo will generate to try to expel them. It’s not going to be fun, but the alternative is a continuing slide into irrelevance at the hands of the Visionaries in other companies. That’s even less fun and you’ve had a taste of what that’s all about.
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