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iPad Sales: 120,000 Estimated Sold in First Day of Pre-Order
We don't have pre-order numbers for the original 2G iPhone, which would really be the only fair comparison (the 3GS pre-orders were far higher, but that was the third generation of the hardware; the iPad is only the first of its kind). After the iPad officially opened to pre-order on Friday , CNN took a sample of iPad and other Apple product purchasers to try to get a glimpse at how exactly the fabled tablet is doing in sales. The conclusion?
Fast Company
- Monday, March 15, 2010
Google Product Manager RJ Pittman Defects To Apple
The company afforded me the opportunity to be ‘me’ inside the walls of a 20,000 person company that generates $20B in revenue. The battle between Google and Apple continues. RJ Pittman , a prominent product manager at Google, has left the company to join Apple. We’ve been tipped off to a tweet he sent out two days ago that said “My last day at Google.
TechCrunch
- Sunday, March 14, 2010
Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.
Incoming workers are more demanding than previous generations. The incoming generation of knowledge workers demand opportunities to learn through their work; otherwise, they will pick up and go elsewhere.
MAKING BUSINESS DECISIONS: THE HEART AND THE HEAD
Jay Cross examines decision making on learning at work, and gives the lie to some myths about the use of business metrics.
Internet Time
- Sunday, March 14, 2010
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The Generation M Manifesto
My generation would like to break up with you.
hate labels, but I'm going to employ a flawed, imperfect one: Generation "M."
What do the "M"s in Generation M stand for? Here's what it looks like to me: every generation has a challenge, and this, I think, is ours. Dear Old People Who Run the World ,
Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world — and what we want from it.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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Are You Ready to Manage Five Generations of Workers?
This translates into a social phenomenon not yet witnessed: five generations are about to be working side by side. Due to their smaller size, Gen X will never have the majority spot in the workplace — and so in essence, we will have skipped an entire generation by 2015.) When you consider the changes in the amount of knowledge available at our fingertips, the advent of social technologies, and the expansion of the global economy over those two generations, Does retirement look a little further off now than it did just a few years ago? If you are over 62, odds are you're
HarvardBusiness.org
- Friday, October 16, 2009
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Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?
Tags: Communication Generational issues Social medi There's an art to tweeting. And, I'm sorry to say, most people just haven't mastered it.
Twitter, for the few uninitiated out there, is a social networking site that limits your posts to 140 characters. You can sign up to "follow" (receive the Tweets) from just about anyone you choose.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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Continuous Brand Management for Generation 10:45
What will the "10:45 generation" expect? Second, Generation 10:45 will desire transparent service. Tags: Branding Generational issues Technolog The Kaiser Foundation recently released a study documenting the astounding fact that 8-18 year olds in the United States have increased their media use from 8 hours and 33 minutes' worth of usage per day in 2004 to 10 hours and 45 minutes' worth in 2009. Regardless of whether you think this is bad news signaling the demise of our society, or good news intimating that our progeny are on their way to becoming more literate in a
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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The Über-Connected Organization: A Mandate for 2010
And these changes will only continue to accelerate as we move toward 2020, as the Millennial Generation will comprise nearly half of the workforce by 2014 .
Tags: Generational issues Organizational culture Social medi Think about your organization and ask yourself these two questions:
Are external social media sites restricted or blocked while at work?
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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Social Media Usage Policies: Less Lawyering, More Encouraging
Tags: Generational issues Human resources Social medi "Do you spend much time on Facebook?"
It was a standard question in our hiring process, but the job candidate visibly stiffened and said, "A bit, I guess. But not every day. And only after work.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, October 8, 2009
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What Does Your Facebook Profile Say About You?
Tags: Generational issues Social media Work life balanc We were talking to the VP for online strategy at a big Silicon Valley company last week. Among other tasks she helps the company's senior executives create a presence on Facebook and Twitter.
"Some Some of them are terrified," she said.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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Let Gen Y Teach You Tech
Just look at a single photo of a rally on www.youtube.com/citzentube to see hundreds of hands raised in the air and holding a cell-phone camera to get a sense of how tech-savvy this generation is," says Steve Grove, head of news and politics for YouTube (now owned by Google). "Now Until recently, it was a conversation mostly confined to the raised-on-the-Net younger generation and a few older outliers. This post was co-authored by Laura Sherbin and Karen Sumberg.
You You say you want a revolution?
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, June 29, 2009
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User-generated neologism: "Indigenous content"
My class in the fall is called “User-generated”, and it looks, among other things, at the tension surrounding that phrase, and in particular its existence as an external and anxiety-ridden label, by traditional media companies, for the way that advertising can be put next to material not created by Trained Professionals™.
All right-thinking individuals (by which I basically mean Anil Dash and Heather Champ ) hate that phrase. Now my friend Kio Stark * has come up with what seems like a nice, and more anthropologically correct version: Indigenous Content (which is to say
Many-to-Many
- Friday, August 3, 2007
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Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications
Expo next week in San Francisco on building next-generation Web 2.0 Next generation Web apps are also much more social than in the past with features such as friends lists, activity streams, and aggregation from other social sites as well as using that information to really learn about your customer like Facebook does [Paul Buchheit.] I'm planning to build a Ruby on Rails REST API during the session based on the positive experiences we had a few weeks ago with Rails 2.0. The very latest I've been spending a good amount of time the last several weeks getting ready for the workshop session I'll be giving at Web 2.0
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