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| Saturday, March 3, 2007 |
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Disrupting Dell 
| | Glyn Moody has A Modest Proposal for Michael Dell, whose company's IdeaStorm site ("Where your ideas reign") takes Digg-like votes on ideas proposed by users. The result is a site, and a pile of votes, through which market demand for open systems, platforms and applications are expressed loudly, clearly, and constantly. Glyn understates the company's response as a "tepid" and worse: ...rather than upset supporters of some distros, Dell has decided to be scrupulously fair and to upset supporters of all distros. |
| | Observing that Dell has a classic Chistensenian case of Innovator's Dilemma (that of a successful company not able to new developments that appear to threaten its old business), Glyn suggests, |
| | If Dell were to create a separate organisation to serve the open source community, one that was not obliged to adopt all the established procedures that have made Dell so successful in the world of proprietary systems, I believe it could tap into the pent-up demand for pre-installed GNU/Linux systems to create a vibrant and profitable new business division. It might also help the main company understand the world of Web 2.0 a little better. |
Starbux, cont'd
| | Somehow I don't think the minimum wage McWorkers are going to deal with orders such as "a grande, double espresso, decaf, low fat, caramel macchiato, with extra foam, brewed at 180 degrees Celsius, topped with a sprinkle of cinnamon, and a dollop of whipped cream", but then thats not coffee. Perhaps Starbucks will keep its customers who think this is something to be savored, rather than merely injested then held up as another example of The Paradox of Choice. |
| | Iwork4xerox adds, I think the bigger issue here, however, is the question: Can companies, with or without "souls" create a coffee cup lid that won¹t splash boiling coffee on my important bits? |
The White Stuff
| | Sky Mall Liberation separates white from non-white faces, all torn out of a Sky Mall catalog on an airplane and arranged on a a tray table, presumably while in flight. |
| | And without a scissors. Impressive. |
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