We saw that exponential improvements in computer capabilities would make great software quite valuable. […] In the next 20 years the improvement in computer power will be outpaced by the exponential improvements in communications networks.

Disney's virtuous cycle.

Gates argues that Apple should license their hardware and operating system out to other companies, making Macintosh a “standard.” If that pitch sounds familiar, it should: after being ignored by Apple for six months, Microsoft took the idea and ran with it, bringing Windows to the world.

In 2002, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos issued a memo that has entered tech industry canon. The memo, known as the “API Mandate”, is generally perceived as being a statement about technology at Amazon, and is therefore widely admired by technologists and wholly ignored by executives.

In 2010, a year before his death, Steve Jobs outlined Apple’s strategy in an email to the company’s 100 most senior employees. He heralded the “Post PC era,” vowed “Holy War with Google,” promised to “further lock customers into our ecosystem,” and warned that Apple was “in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long.”

This is the text of an memo sent by the then Nokia CEO Stephen Elop to all staff in February, 2011. The memo outlined the perilous situation facing the company that was once the world's leading mobile phone company. Microsoft later acquired Nokia and brought Elop onboard. Overnight, Microsoft announced he was moving on.

IKEA is the world’s leading furnishing retailer and an amazing success story. As Christensen points out the success is all the more perplexing because it seems perfectly defensible. Nobody has tried to duplicate or undermine IKEA. […] Apple’s entry into retail depended on a clear job-to-be-done, design, carefully selected merchandise and retailing as an experience.

An internal document by Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo senior vice president, says Yahoo is spreading its resources too thinly, like peanut butter on a slice of bread.

However, the main reason was to explain how our actions fit into a larger picture, so that they would seem less random. The point of all this was, and remains, accelerating the advent of sustainable energy, so that we can imagine far into the future and life is still good. That's what "sustainable" means. It's not some silly, hippy thing -- it matters for everyone.

Our core mission remains producing the world’s best journalism. But with the endless upheaval in technology, reader habits and the entire business model, The Times needs to pursue smart new strategies for growing our audience. The urgency is only growing because digital media is getting more crowded, better funded and far more innovative.

Our model — offering content and products worth paying for, despite all the free alternatives — serves us in many ways beyond just dollars. It aligns our business goals with our journalistic mission. It increases the impact of our journalism and the effectiveness of our advertising. It compels us to always put our readers at the center of everything we do.

Lasting only 11 days he did manage to produce a ‘communications plan’ but obviously did not get the chance to implement it.

Today, we all understand the Internet business is not the software business. We strive to build networks and platforms. We compete on user experience (and marketing, to some extent). Features and flexibility are far down the list of competitive tactics, at least when you’re dealing in consumer software (make that, services).

The memo was sent to the team at Tiny Speck, the makers of Slack. It had been a little under seven months since development began and was two weeks before the launch of Slack’s ‘Preview Release’.

Blackburn’s the next cycle and it runs from September 19th through October 28th. Thanks for putting up all the pitches - you'll see we'll be tackling some of them along with pieces of others, plus addressing some long standing frustrating issues that keep coming up.

Our proposed plan for SDS includes targeted keyword specific placement across select school in TheFaceBooknetwork. As mentioned, TheFaceBookdelivers a verified 18-24/student audience as all users must have a .edu address at the university to log-in to TheFaceBook.

The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Mach3Turbo.

Webgen allows clients to generate web catalogs remotely.