John Gruber writes the most insightful piece on Microsoft’s new campaign, but most specifically what has been, and I agree, a fatal misstep.Daring Fireball: There’s Nothing There The problem Microsoft faces today is that they have nothing to hang their brand on. Windows is Windows, so colossal it exists in its own orbit. (If anything, the problem Microsoft faces with Windows is the problem Apple faced a decade ago with the Mac,...

David Murphy Like hundreds of thousands of people across the country, I stood in line last weekend at the Apple Store in Newport Beach, Calif., to buy the new iPhone 3G for my daughter after three unsuccessful attempts at nearby AT&T stores. Witnessing this exuberant demand for a new product made me wonder if this feat could be repeated in other categories, such as the auto business. What would an automaker have to do to...

Big doings at Plaxo today! We are really excited to announce some of the biggest news in the history of Plaxo: We have just signed an agreement** to be acquired by Comcast, the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services (and our largest customer and partner). Plaxo’s Personal Card Social Media’s wall St. cred is building ever so rapidly. Now even for the slightly smaller...

Forgive me Gates for I have sinned…..It’s been almost 3 months since I fully became a switcher. And let me tell you… I’m lovin’ it. In one sentence this is how I would express owning a new Mac. It’s the cheapest computer I have ever bought and it’s the most productive I have ever been. I purchased a lil white MacBook in August I was pining after the more expensive, by almost a grand, MacBook Pro,...

Want to get from under the web radar? You’d like to expand the exposure of your website on the cheap, well you need a blog. Here’s why. Every website needs a dynamic area and a static area. This set-up creates a symbiotic relationship between the two. It’s kinda like having the institutional and the commercial areas of a city. The city hall and the downtown. Every city needs both and each zone needs the other. Together they add up to...