Digital Disruption

The New York Times reports today on yesterday’s Microsoft Vista launch. According to Steve Ballmer, it’s “the biggest product launch in Microsoft’s history” and the rollout will be backed by a first-year marketing budget of hundreds of millions of dollars. Microsoft has 500,000 industry partners worldwide who have a vested interest and are obviously betting [...]

DepicT! (www.depict.org) is a short film competition for amateur / budding filmmakers to tell a story in 90 seconds. The brief was “to uncover distinctive voices – originality, imagination, and the ability to engage the audience with a compelling idea told in a mere 90 seconds.” The 2006 shortlist is here – the contest has [...]

Here’s a wonderful 2 minute sarcastic view of the Telco space by the inimitable Stephen Colbert: The big winners are the M&A industry (the likes of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley et al have made billions / tens of billions of dollars) Some of the biggest telco-related M&A deals (thanks to Wikipedia) in the past 10 [...]

Six weeks ago, a Philadelphia man started a new weight loss program. His idea? Play Wii Sports for 30 minutes a day. Today he published his results and pictures. He was able to drop 9lbs, 2% body fat, and 3.5” off of his waistline! Now, if only I could find a Wii in stock at [...]