Zoli's Blog » Humor http://www.zoliblog.com Connecting the dots ... Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:30:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Startup Lifecycle a’la ABBA (Are We in a Bubble?) http://www.zoliblog.com/2011/06/05/startup-lifecycle-a%e2%80%99la-abba-are-we-in-a-bubble/ http://www.zoliblog.com/2011/06/05/startup-lifecycle-a%e2%80%99la-abba-are-we-in-a-bubble/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:24:19 +0000 Zoli Erdos http://www.cloudave.com/?p=13387 Wow, who would have thought 1970′s supergroup ABBA were such good predictors of the Startup Economy:-)

No kidding… it all started with a tweet by Box Lead Magician Aaaron Levie:

@levie
We must be in a tech bubble given how much ABBA I’m listening to.
24 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

My first though was:

@ZoliErdos
@levie As long as it’s not only Money Money Money :-)
21 minutes ago Favorite Reply Delete

Then I had this crazy thought of trying to remember more ABBA titles… it took me about 3 minutes to see ABBA’s wisdom … LOL.. I mean to come up with a full startup lifecycle, purely based on ABBA titles:

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]]> http://www.zoliblog.com/2011/06/05/startup-lifecycle-a%e2%80%99la-abba-are-we-in-a-bubble/feed/ 0 KaaS: Kiss as a Service. Really. Really? http://www.zoliblog.com/2011/05/03/kaas-kiss-as-a-service-really-really/ http://www.zoliblog.com/2011/05/03/kaas-kiss-as-a-service-really-really/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 17:18:40 +0000 Zoli Erdos http://www.cloudave.com/?p=12107

If you think the guy above is slurping down a milk-shake, you’re wrong.  Very, very wrong.   He is French kissing teaching his computer and a remote device to French kiss.    Here’s the formula of kissing digitized:

I can see unlimited prospects for a new Cloud-based Kiss as a Service, where you select your Kiss based on profiles.  Perhaps even sample them first.  iTunes will sell them for 99cents, until Amazon comes along with the 69c price:-)

OK, back to Earth. This is not a prank, it’s serious study conducted by researchers at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo.   How long will it take for them to get to Third Base?  (there’s nothing a straw hooked to a PC can’t do…).

But by then.. why bother… who needs feelings anyway?  Let the machines make digital love to each other. :-)

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It’s not even April 1st anymore…

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]]> http://www.zoliblog.com/2011/04/02/the-first-thing-microsoft-wants-you-to-do-after-upgrading-to-ie9%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 Variations on Hype Quadrants.. no Magic Hype… no, Hype Cycle.. or is it Magic Quadrant? http://www.zoliblog.com/2011/04/01/variations-on-hype-quadrants-no-magic-hype%e2%80%a6-no-hype-cycle-or-is-it-magic-quadrant/ http://www.zoliblog.com/2011/04/01/variations-on-hype-quadrants-no-magic-hype%e2%80%a6-no-hype-cycle-or-is-it-magic-quadrant/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:39:39 +0000 Zoli Erdos http://www.cloudave.com/11191/variations-on-hype-quadrants-no-magic-hype-no-hype-cycle-or-is-it-magic-quadrant/ Gartner introduced their Real (Magic) Quadrant:

gartner real quadrant

Not bad.  But let’s not forget the customers’ prospective. Welcome to the Magik Kvadrant:

magik quadrant

But perhaps most revealing is Phil Fersht’s Painsharing Paradox:

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]]> http://www.zoliblog.com/2011/01/25/josh-groban-sings-kanye-west-tweets/feed/ 1 Time Magazin’s Technology and Person of the Year: the iZuck http://www.zoliblog.com/2010/12/16/time-magazin%e2%80%99s-technology-and-person-of-the-year-the-izuck/ http://www.zoliblog.com/2010/12/16/time-magazin%e2%80%99s-technology-and-person-of-the-year-the-izuck/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:28:15 +0000 Zoli Erdos List, list…like I’ve said, it’s THAT time of the year.  So let’s consolidate, where we can. Why bother having a separate Technology and Person of the year:

time-ipad-460time-zuckerberg

…when we can have it combined.  Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the iZuck:

IMG_1453

Slim, portable, does not talk backSmile

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]]> http://www.zoliblog.com/2010/12/16/time-magazin%e2%80%99s-technology-and-person-of-the-year-the-izuck/feed/ 0 Unhyping Gartner’s Hype Cycle, Part 2. http://www.zoliblog.com/2010/07/22/unhyping-gartner%e2%80%99s-hype-cycle-part-2/ http://www.zoliblog.com/2010/07/22/unhyping-gartner%e2%80%99s-hype-cycle-part-2/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:09:49 +0000 Zoli Erdos http://www.cloudave.com/link/unhyping-gartner-s-hype-cycle-part-2

Here’s Part 1.  The reason I’m doing it again is that Michael Krigsman just published the Wailgum Hype Cycle:

wailgum hype cycle

Not bad.  Still a bit complex.  Me thinks the simplified,  geekified, scobleized, oprahized, too-oh-ized version of the Gartner Hype Cycle still works:

And if it doesn’t – well, it’s almost Friday. In fact for some of our readers it already is :-)

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At least the ‘write down part’.  His process for dealing with email was:

  • Have Assistant print and fax email to whichever hotel he was staying in
  • Make handwritten notations on fax, ask hotel to fax it back to his Assistant
  • Assistant would then type it as email using his account

The whole process would take only 3 days or so …except when the fax had to be forwarded to another hotel since he had already moved on.

Oh, btw, he was a VP at a very big, very hi-tech company :-)

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]]> http://www.zoliblog.com/2010/07/06/this-reminds-me-of-my-old-boss-dilbert/feed/ 2 HTC EVO vs iPhone 4 http://www.zoliblog.com/2010/06/30/htc-evo-vs-iphone-4/ http://www.zoliblog.com/2010/06/30/htc-evo-vs-iphone-4/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:03:16 +0000 Zoli Erdos http://www.zoliblog.com/2010/06/30/htc-evo-vs-iphone-4/ You may want to start with iPhone vs HTC EVO first…

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