Nice post Vincent… Positioning is crucial to successful marketing.

What you've said here reminds me of a friend of mine who was busking in Tokyo. As you may know or can imagine, Tokyo is incredibly busy, and everyone is in constant motion.

My friend made very little money initially, so he decided to test a new approach. He stood frozen still, with his violin, and a sign in Japanese to give a coin for some music. Suddenly he was noticed, and he made a lot of money.

Standing out, or positioning yourself (intelligently) in someway that is different from the rest is what makes certain companies clean up while the opposition fail. Split testing different options, as you discussed, is essential, and given the development of social media today, appears to be the 'way of the future' as we vote increasingly with our 'Likes' and 'Tweets'.

Thanks and all the best,
Jym

200% agree. Woohoo!!!

I love Tiny Wings so much. It's a happy place.

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THIS is why they suck (noone wants garbage)

Lmao- -Sent from a phone, so apologies for any spelling mistakes.

Hi and thanks for your comment. We strive for accuracy at this blog and the author had in fact mixed up the units and they should be bits instead of bytes. We sincerely hope this confusion did not totally ruin your assignment.

The actual theoretical data transfer rates should be:
0G: Size of data packet was limited by what your carrier pigeon could handle
1G: Depends if you used 1st or 2nd class stamp.
2G: 9.6 kbits/s or so.
2.5G (GPRS): 56 – 114 kbits/s.
2.75G (EDGE): up to 560 kbit/s
3G (UMTS): up to 2 Mbit/s
3.5G (HSDPA): 1.8 – 14.4 Mbit/s
4G: Whatever the marketing department dreamed up last night.

Tech IT Easy regrets the error.

NO, NOT RIGHT, SO NOT TRUE. IM NOW IN TOTAL CONFUSION, SINCE YOU CAN ELEBORATE EVERYTHING SO WELL, HOW CAN YOU YOURSELF MESSED UP THE STANDARDIZED FORMAT OF BITS AND BYTES! PLEASE CORRECT IT BY MAKING CLEAR DEFINITION OF KBITS AND KBYTES. IT HAS A VERY VERY OBVIOUS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BOTH OF THEM.IN FACT IF YOURE OFF ONE OR TWO BITS, IT IS ACCEPTABLE, BUT THIS IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES. OTHERS USE KBITS AND YOU USE KBYTES. DUH MY ASSIGNMENT ARE NOW TOTAL RUINED

And truth be told, I don't care about commoditization. We are a planet of 6+billion people after all. I care about not having the resources to be authentic.

Nice last sentence: Tech these days is already easy. I still think that bloggers who deal with tech issues everyday, like e.g. developers, make good tech bloggers that add value to their niche of readers. You get an insight into someone who's work you admire, and that's great.

As a non-tech head, what I consider myself even though I'm a geek, it's too easy to be too top-level and decrease the practical relevance of your posts. I'd probably add a lot more value if I were to blog about management and company building, because that is actually my profession. But it also doesn't seem to fit the focus of Tech IT Easy, because that seems like a blog that's about technology mostly. I feel, like I've taken that focus away and if I do blog about tech, it's either about apps or about top-level innovation, not the juicy stuff.

In regards to commoditization of technology, I believe the same is the case for entrepreneurship/management. Just read Hackernews for a day, and you'll get a few how-to's for building companies. Whether any of this advice is practical or subjective, is for the reader to decide.

Still not sure what to do about it. And, I hate that you hold my past words against me .

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Thanks for your comments, Penelope. Big fan!

Thank you for your wonderful comment. I felt it would be more wonderful without your URL, because it seemed a little spammy.

Yeah, the blog post by Paul Miller refers to both as well.

On software side of robotics, Microsoft has been busy building a software development platform for robots, which is interesting. Probably so that T-1000 can run Windows, and so we'll know how to BSOD it.

If anyone has access, I recommend Gates' article on Scientific American on robots. It's from 2006, but it's still quite relevant. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=…

Thanks for this beautiful piece of advice. This really helps one who wants to open a new mobile phone shop. Giving the difference about every mobile phone technology is really helpful and advisable for the mobile phone business starters. So, once again thank you for sharing this idea.

Thanks for putting out so many fresh ideas about publishing. First, I love the photo of sushi — the analogy of eating an blogging is so smart. Second, you make me want to watch full seasons of TV shows in one sitting. I did that with Gossip Girl, and it was, indeed, like a movie but better. I just hadn't thought of it that way until now. Thanks.

Penelope

Nice post! I like this quote: "The problem with digital tools : almost anything can be done in less than two minutes." The problem that knowledge workers face, is that their work can no longer be qualified as widget-work with predictable productivity levels. That also creates the problem of compensation, of how you quantify the work that a knowledge worker does. And as your post(s) implies, we are all increasingly becoming knowledge workers.

My own approach is to try to understand what processes contribute to what approximate portion of a businesses' bottom-line. Then it doesn't matter how much you work, but how much your work contributes to part, a whole, or multiple processes. And price appropriately for that. Widget-work is dead, so it the idea of a 9-5 job.

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My reading comprehension sucks. But yeah, that sucks.

I mean search in the sense of searching your existing content. At this moment, I have over 100 pages saved in Instapaper, which makes for a long list. And it's hard to tell which article you came from when you leave it to check for something else (like what your friends liked). So sometimes I end up searching for the last article I was reading for several minutes…