Twitter launched the Activity stream today. The Activity stream will show you a lot of things related to all of the people you follow on Twitter. In other words, you can see if a connection has retweeted a Tweet, or if they followed someone new, etc.
Onebigcoffeemachine.com moved to a new website. As of today the new website will be hosted at wordpress.org instead of wordpress.com. Most of the blog items are moved as well but not all. In order to keep everything for future references this blog will be available but out of order.
See you at onebigcoffeemachine.com.
The project, the quarter or the month (or whatever) is done, and there it is: the results presentation! We probably have been there. Excel sheets are pasted into PowerPoint, graphs are made and the result is a huge deck which everyone has to sit through. One chart after another, and another, and another. One slide after another full with text on data, and data, and data. Even sometimes a text balloon flies in to explain some point in a chart. Continue reading
Steve Jobs passed away today. He was just 56 years old and still his dead, although he had cancer, was a little unexpected. As I stated couple of times I have no Apple products at home and still aren’t going to buy one. It’s not that I don’t like the products, it’s more that I think they are overpriced and the Android OS, for instance, suits me more (for now). Continue reading
According to Seth Godin presentation is all about selling. If everyone in the room agreed with you, you wouldn’t need a presentation, would you? You can save yourself an awful amount of time by just printing out a report and hand it out to others. No, the reason we do presentations is to make a point, to sell one or more ideas. Continue reading
Shares of Apple (AAPL) took a brief nosedive on the afternoon of the 4th of October 2011, down over 5% after the much-hyped “Let’s Talk iPhone” event at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, CA. The world was awaiting an iPhone 5, and instead met the iPhone 4S, a souped up version of the latest model released more than a year ago. Apple shares did recover nearly all losses before the close, but consumers may not snap back as quickly. Continue reading
Whenever I give a presentation on presentation design I always tell people to be passionate when presenting and to be passionate about the topic. By throwing in your passion the audience will feel that what you are telling really matters, at least it does to you. People sharing something with passion can be an addiction to others. Continue reading
