Category: Technology

From Mii to You

The Nintendo Wii is so popular nowadays that business books and magazines start studying the “Wii phenomena” … like how Nintendo devise its Blue Ocean Strategy, for example:

  • How Wii create uncontested market space,
  • How Wii make the competitor (read PS3) irrelevant, and
  • How Wii create and capture new demand
  • Etc. etc.

But I think one that clearly indicates its popularity is the fact that Mii pictures (you need to create a “Mii” before you play the Wii Sport game) are everywhere, it’s used wildly as blog pictures and forum avatars. In fact, you can create one with a Flash tool, even you don’t have a Wii. Try it.

Site Revamp with Amazon aStore

Really tied of keep updating my other site, 80days.com, with travel content. So I decided to change it to a shopping site with all sorts of travel related goods. Surprisingly, it just took me an hour for a four-pages, three-categories eShopping site. What can I say ? Amazon.com is still king of eCommerce sites with a good business model.

The Wait is Finally Over

Work, work and more work … what a boring weekend ?! There are couple of things that cheer me up though. First, after months of waiting, the Samsung BlackJack is finally shipping here in the city and we should be able to buy it before end of the month. Two things come to my mind immediately, how can I protect the phone properly and how can I use my Shure headphone with it ?

So I surfed to my favorite PDA / Mobile phone jacket manufacturer … Vajacases.com … ah, there is a good one. Done deal … and now for the headphone adapter since Samsung uses a non-standard headphone plug for their phone. Couple of searches and I found this headphone adapter in eBay. It comes with microphone as well. Not bad, not bad.

To Plan or Not To Plan

Let’s say you have a great idea, you have read all the Entrepreneurial Proverbs … and you’re ready to jump. Then what next ?

Some one will probably tell you that it is a time for a business plan. And of course, you have no idea on how to start, to prepare and to pitch a good business plan. You can obviously buy a lot of reference books, download dozens of templates from the net etc. … but after many nights of drafting and you then reckon – you do not enjoy writing a business plan at all.

“Help !!”

So, how about an excellent piece of advice from the start-up Guy Kawasaki, one of the few Macintosh Evangelists 2x years ago ? Enter the Zen of Business Plans.

Then you will learn why, from the end of the article – The plan, after all, should not take on a life of its own. Enjoy.