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Dell Mini9 and the Cloud

My Dell mini9 arrived.  The mini9 is Dell's entry into the netbook market. I have been quite skeptical of the cloud and the value of a netbook, but I'm at the airport on free WIFI and I've been accessing everything I need from my web browser. Webmail, my companies CRM, Facebook, Twitter...all from a 2lb, $400 laptop. I feel the mini9, except for a few keyboard oddities and a slightly dim screen, was a great purchase. If I'm not on the Internet, computers have little value to me. Everythin...

Good is better than Best

I am currently reading Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing by Harry Beckwith. It's a good read, but there is a page and half that has had a major impact on me, showing me where I have a huge blindspot in business and how I stop my own progress.  This page and a half is possibly the most important material I've read in a book in several years (for me it applies directly). The author talks about the Fallacy of Planning in a business setting. He ranks plans in this order...

Google Chrome is your new PC

Google has released a new browser called Chrome.  Unlike Firefox or IE, Chrome is intended to be a full Operating System in the near future.  It's pretty clear Google wants to change the rules of Information Technology and Chrome is just a starting point.  Just like Email became Gmail, it appears Google intends to replace the PC with the GC (Google Computer).  The Google Computer will run Chrome as an OS and a suite of Apps Google will provide in the cloud.  Once Google picks up a decent fina...