Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Cupcake Android Delay Reason: Donut Android

Google android g1Image by Dan Patterson via Flickr




To those who can't read between the lines, Android is Google doing operating system. It does not have to compete with Windows. It is betting on the machine getting lean and mean. The PC is clunky.

For Office, you got Google Docs. That's word processing, spreadsheets, presentations right from your Gmail account. Check out how it is so completely online. It did not attempt to compete with Office on the desktop. No need if you can look ahead. The Office is in the rearview mirror. (David Gelernter: Manifesto)

Cupcake, Donut, Eclair? That is how they name hurricanes: alphabetically.

But then the traffic is two way. Wolfram Alpha is no Google killer, but it promises to be a niche king, and next thing you know Google felt the need for a revamp. Yahoo and Microsoft started to smell blood. Yahoo has come out saying it wants to "kill those 10 blue lines." (Google Is Working On Search)

Goal: A Billion People On Twitter

C for capitalism, c for competition.

Google Analytics Says I Am Paul Krugman Friend, Cupcake Android Expert
Cupcake: Android 1.5

In The News

T-Mobile Delays Android 1.5 Update, Android 2.0 Spotted InformationWeek
Delayed: Android Cupcake 1.5 gizHQ
Android 1.5 Cupcake update delayed by T-Mobile USA Unwired View
Android Cupcake update delayed in US Pocket Gamer.Biz
Cupcake party: Android 1.5 update coming to T-Mobile G1 owners ...
CNET News
T-Mobile USA: Android 1.5 (Cupcake) Coming Next Week! Android Phone Fans - Phandroid.com
Google: Upgrade now to Android 1.5 "Cupcake" SDK ZDNet
New Android ''Cupcake'' Update Out! I4U
T-Mobile OTA Android 1.5 'Cupcake' update hits G1 SlashGear
Google's Android Gets A Cupcake Forbes
You Tell Us: Beyond Cupcake, What do You Want from Android? AndroidGuys
Here's Why Your G1 Android Phone Hasn't Updated To Cupcake 1.5 Yet InformationWeek



Donut Android build in the works | Google Android Blog
PalmAddicts: Donut: Android 2.0 nickname proves that Google loves food
Twitter / Android News: Donut Android build in the ...
Android Donut | TopTenREVIEWS Blog
Samsung Bigfoot & Spico Android smartphones with OS 2.0 “Donut”?
Homer Simpson Approves of Google Android 2.0 "Donut"
Google Android 2.0 dubbed Donut Details
Stunning Growth (900%) Predicted for Android
Samsung prepping two more Android phones for 2009?
Stuff.tv
What do you want from the next Android device?
Cnet Asia
Cupcake update delayed by T-Mobile; new target release is June Boy Genius Report
Android Cupcake, Donut, Eclair and Beyond… Android Phone Fans - Phandroid.com
Google's Android Gets A Cupcake Forbes
Android Cupcake is Now in a Donut Google Android Phone News - GAB


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Eminem: The Relapse: Twitter


How Eminem's Marketing Team Is Using Twitter to Build Buzz By using Twitter to dispense short, often disturbing thoughts and links to multimedia components revolving around a mental institution, they've helped make the album the most highly anticipated hip-hop release of the year -- and set it up for a sequel in the second half of 2009. ....... Some of the tweets are behind-the-scenes updates leading up to the album's release tomorrow ("They are still editing my video") while others are seemingly non-sequitur paranoia ("There's no place to hide ..."), complete with links to images that suggest Eminem is in a mental hospital and/or rehab facility called Pompsomp Hills. ....... Other tweets have included a link to the album's cover, a mosaic of pills that form an image of Eminem's face; a screenshot of his upcoming paid iPhone and iPod Touch game set in Pompsomp Hills; a link to a blood-splattered video for his single "3 A.M." that's set in the fictional clinic; and a link to an interactive web experience that's set there as well. That a simple Google search reveals a just-amateur-enough-to-look-real website for Pompsomp Hills makes the narrative details even more discomforting for fans familiar with Eminem's recent real-life troubles with prescription drugs, which put him in rehab and led to his hospitalization for pneumonia in early 2008, as he recently revealed in a Vibe cover story. Omelet, a branding, advertising and entertainment agency based in Los Angeles, helped develop the Pompsomp Hills website, along with other facets of the nontraditional push. ...... The entirety of "Relapse" was leaked onto the web last week, and in it the rapper reportedly describes his problems in both blunt terms and twisted fantasies, bringing life, marketing and product full circle. ....... a trail of breadcrumbs to the album ....... Eminem.com reached 113,868 unique visitors during April, while the most popular of his tweets -- which linked to Therelapse.com on May 7 -- reached at least 41,704 people within just one week ....... Eminem was the most-talked-about artist on Twitter last week, the week before the album's release. ...... one of Eminem's fictional characters, Stan -- a dangerously obsessive fan -- has, in the web lexicon, morphed into lowercase slang for a diehard yet non-violent admirer. ........ "Twitter is, in a way, the world of 'stans' who now have access to artists" ......... helped him build up mystery around the record ....... The 'Relapse' campaign is very similar to how we would break out a major movie ........ skewer a number of women pop stars and make lewd references to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ..... Twitter can be just as effective at drawing out mystery and building anticipation as it is at making bands and brands more accessible.














I thought I was a Paul Krugman friend, but guess not. I am still counting on the Cupcake Android expert part though. (Google Analytics Says I Am Paul Krugman Friend, Cupcake Android Expert)

I admit, it was going to be a marketing effort for me. Read a bunch of New York Times and Wall Street Journal blogs, and leave one liner comments for each blog post. Of course my comment would have a signature, this blog's web address. Looks like the moderators those places have been weeding out my comments.

Then I am like old media does not get it. How about new media? The Huffington Post, Mashable, TechCrunch. Huff lets you sign in with your Facebook account, and Mashable does Disqus. But then reading numerous posts on Huff, Mashable and TechCrunch to hit 1,000 page hits a day can feel mechanical. Reading and responding to tweets does not feel mechanical, takes less time, and is more direct. It is one on one. Instead of hoping for people to show up in the comments sections of big name sites and maybe click on that link, that is iffy. Why not go straight to the people? Kick out the middle man?

Now I feel I already have the solution and I was looking for far and wide. I have over 1,700 followers on Twitter and counting. (What Just Happened?)

I want this blog to hit 1,000 page hits a day. That would be 30,000 page hits a month. Mark Penn says at 100,000 page hits a month, a blogger starts making 75K a yar. That is decent income. I have a feeling there is a takeoff point. I am guessing once you hit 2,000 page hits a day, it then takes off. Word of mouth kicks in and then you can focus more on content creation and less on marketing.

For now I want 1,000 page hits a day. And I want to focus on my Twitter followers for marketing. If I could get to know 1,000 of my followers on Twitter, maybe I could hope for somewhere between 500 and 1,000 page hits a day just from that. Read and respond to their tweets, get to know people.

Content Is Queen, Marketing Is Princess

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Monday, May 18, 2009

Bad Time To Start A Company?


The economy is in a bad shape. Banks are not lending like they used to. Investors are cranky. Venture capitalists are nervous. The unemployment rate is high and going higher. If you have a tech startup in mind, is this a time to lay low? Or is this precisely the time to barge forth?

I am going to argue now rather than two years earlier is the right time to embark on a truly ambitious company. Microsoft got launched during the stagflation of the late 70s, as did Apple, and Oracle. Companies launched during the 30s went on to define an era. This is good time. All you need is fire in your belly. Only don't let angels and investors blackmail you.

The Big Money Is Not In Blogging
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What If The Plateau Lasts Nine Months?
Mideast Peace: Tech Industry Style
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Brands Will Still Matter
New York City: Transformed Forever?
Reimagining The Office
Stream 2.0: The Next Big Thing?
Microfinance, Nanotech, Biotech, Software/Hardware/Connectivity
Peter Thiel: Primitive Mind In The Tech Sector
David Gelernter: Manifesto

The United States Of Entrepreneurs
Visionary Entrepreneurs Will Recreate The World
That StartUp Mentality (2)
That StartUp Mentality



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