FOUR-FOOT DIAL SHOWS MYSTERIES
Link (from Seth Godin)
FOUR-FOOT DIAL SHOWS PHONES MYSTERIES
The intricacies of using the dial telephone come easily to students at a western secretarial school, where a four-foot dial was recently rigged up to explain its mysteries.
Not a dummy, the big dial actually works. It is connected with two telephones, an amplifying apparatus, and a loudspeaker. When the instructor dials a number, the loudspeaker reproduces, so that all may hear them, the typical sounds that will be heard; and the instructor explains to the pupils what they mean.
I love it!
Everything new for a while…
read moreTake & Get
I have struggled many times in the past dealing with staff.
In particular, Gen Y.
Seth Goddin did a post on Getting vs Taking
Most people spend a lot of time to get an education.
They wait for the teacher (hopefully a great one) to give them something of value.Many employees do the same thing at work. They wait for a boss (hopefully a great one) to give them responsibility or authority or experiences that add up to a career.
A few people, not many, but a few, take. They take the best education they can get, pushing teachers for more, finding things to do, exploring non-defined niches. They take more courses than the minimum, they invent new projects and they show up with questions.
A few people, not many, take opportunities at work
I think then the better questions to ask is: (As your Manager) What do I need to ask for you to take?
Why wouldn’t you take?
What do you think?
read moreCrayon Physics first prize at IGF
Congratulations to Petri Purho. His game Crayon Physics, just took out this year’s Independent Games Festival (IGF).
Read about it here
I saw this game in early Dec 07. Right from the start this looks brilliant but I’ve found it frustrating how long this has taken.
I can understand the delayed release strategy though. In early December, it would have been a great free game.
As time passed on, I still would have happily paid US$10 – $20 for it.
Now that it has won first prize??? Who knows how much he Petri will charge for it.
I once read that $30 was the upper limit price point for what people will pay without too much thought. That makes sense when you think of CDs, DVDs or other items.
Would I pay more?? I don’t know. Maybe if it came out in a week or so.
But if this takes much longer my attention span will disappear and he will have gone from a $40 sale to nothing…
Rock on!
read moreHello from Seattle??
Joel from Joel On Software put up a recent post commenting on the back of an ipod.
He thinks that the “Designed in California” is a good thing.
A good thing?? I guess it might to someone from California. It just sounds tacky to me.
I will agree with him on one point. Guess what’s on the back of the Zune?
Hello from Seattle?? WTF is with that!
I think the Blue Monster has a long way to go…
read moreHothouse & Peer to Peer Lending
Hothouse have put up a podcast on Peer to Peer lending. It is an interview with Linda Smith, Simon van Wyk (founder of HotHouse) and Charis Palmer (editor of Online Banking Review)
DISCLOSURE: I am a Project Manager with a competitor to Hothouse – IT Easy. A client of ours is developing a Peer to Peer Lending product.
Its a funny sort of thing to listen to. I’m not sure who their audience is. Everytime I have mentioned Peer to Peer lending, I have to explain just what it is.
They also talk about “wasabi”. What is that???
From what I can figure out, Linda Smith is the journalist who put this together. It just appears to me like something that was slapped together at the last moment.
After a quick look around I found Charis Palmer did a post on the podcast as well.She even got Wesabi right!
Now I could sit back from the cheap seats and have a rant and say this is why I no longer listen to radio, Cameron Reily talks about this all the time and blah blah blah blah.
But seriously, I’d really like to know. What’s the thought here? Linda seriously, why not put a little more effort in? Who is your audience?
Rock on!
Christian
read moreiGrin – peer to peer lending has come to Australia!
Well this week, I start on the final phases of the iGrin project.
What’s iGrin? Well, there are two parts:
The Borrower:
You put up a profile, asking how much you would like to borrow, the interest rate and over what period
The Lender:
You review all Borrower details. You can see their credit rating, what they want the loan for, how much they want and the interest rate.
You can select the loan you would like to fund (or part of loan) and bingo bango! You have a deal!
It’s a weird concept but has worked in Europe and the US.
I’ll keep you posted…
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