15th August, 2010 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
Getting down and personal with your clients and employees is surprisingly foreign for many companies; yet, I maintain that it is going to be an increasingly important element of success for marketers in the future. With the regrouped Apple IOS (i-operating system), customers will be able to swing seamlessly from one product to another. Presumably, the same will be true of other platforms, too. This post discusses how will marketers need to evolve to keep up with these new mobile consumers with interlinked computers, phones and gadgets. Read More
16th July, 2010 - Posted by Minter Dial - 3 Comments
Steve Jobs has shown himself and the company to have flaws. Every first model seems to come with some flaws and usually Apple manages to turn the situation around, aided by the Apple afficionados. This time, with the iPhone 4, Jobs has not done his customary good job… The imperfections are looking more imperfect. Will these be a turning point? Read More
12th June, 2010 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
An out of town friend of mine recently told me about this very different kind of boutique hotel in Paris, called Mama Shelter. Isn’t it funny how, sometimes, it takes a tourist to tell you about your own city. First of all, Mama Shelter is a breakthrough name for a hotel, in that it truly breaks » Read More
21st April, 2010 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
Just over a week ago, Google Docs released a new version, or should I say they added some necessary improvements? Some of the highlight new features (taken in part from Google’s only laundry list here): The ability to upload, store, and share any file in Google Docs. Your files will be stored in their original format » Read More
9th February, 2010 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
This post was originally published on Dec 14 2009 on a new defunct blog. It is the third in a series of the key learnings from LeWeb 2009 conference (Dec 9-10). As I have written before, I attended the LeWeb Conference 2009 in Paris, and have collected my thoughts here over a collection of three » Read More
16th January, 2010 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
The social media platforms have clearly managed to bring speed (real time) and globality (new word) to an unfolding crisis, such as we have seen in the 2007 San Diego forest fire through to the ongoing Haitian disaster. Read More
11th January, 2010 - Posted by Minter Dial - 1 Comment
Digesting all the information at #LeWeb conference 2009, I wrote up what I found were the nine most interesting points in three separate posts (one, two, three).* Here are the consequences of these highlight points, as I see them, for business: Le Web 2009 Even if it’s tera-bly fast, it’s still a slow long tail. The digital world is a » Read More
14th November, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
I was not able to find a ‘best practices’ site or space on the ‘net listing the best “personalised” automatic signatures (which one can add on to the end of emails). Recently, I have noticed a couple of novel signatures tacked on to messages sent from smart phones — if not smart friends! » Read More
4th October, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
Modern life is, at best, complex and, at worst, horribly wasteful and confusing. I am galled by the number of chargers that I must pack with me when I travel with my various electronics. On any given holidays, I will leave with the iPod, the blackberry, the Bluetooth earpiece, the laptop, electric razor, » Read More
15th September, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
Having spent the better part of the evening trying to download an older version of Internet Explorer in order to play an old DVD for my daughter’s homework, I finally landed upon the best solution: OldVersion.com OldVersion so rightly says in its tagline: “because newer isn’t always better…” But in my case, it was because new just doesn’t » Read More
1st May, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - No Comments
If you are looking to import your Hotmail address book into your Apple Mac Mail, here is a nifty application created by Steve Roy: Address Importer Software. It is free for the first use (he asks for a $10 donation thereafter). I have used it just once and it took me less than » Read More
19th March, 2009 - Posted by Minter Dial - 1 Comment
Listening to Apple’s videocast of the opening speech at this year’s MacWorld 2009, I heard that Apple stores around the world receive 3.4 million visitors per week. Via a separate source, I see that Apple had 251 stores as of the end of calendar year 2008 (as reported here on CNET) and is planning to open » Read More
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