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From the monthly archives:
I have no idea what’s going on, but every search on google at the moment is reporting a Malware warning. Google broke the internet, how interesting.
* Update
The problem appears to be fixed now.
* Update 17:00 GMT
Google officially responds to today’s incident.
I had to share, I thought this was pretty funny.
I’ve been fortunate enough to own a box-set of Tony Robin’s media which I have found to be an invaluable resource for at least three to four years.
No matter how many times I listen to his Cd’s whether I’m running, driving or taking a hot bath I always learn something new.
If you haven’t heard of Tony Robins before or listened to any of his audio over the years stay tuned, you’re in for a treat.
Tony has been kind enough to start a blog this year, providing anyone with an Internet connection and a browser with free videos, audio and other training materials from his sell-out seminars all over the world.
I’m sure you will find these free resources useful.
Something to think about.
Thanks to 500 Hats.
Update via Twitter.
@jonnytokyo those 6 rules are from “Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion” by Cialdini, one of my all-time fave books.
On Friday I gathered around with some of my closest of friends and headed off to the cinema to watch The Wrestler. Like most good movies they spark a certain emotion within you, some make you sad, cry or rejoice.
In this case The Wrestler inspired me to write, thus the title of this series is called The Blogger in homage to the movie.
You can’t help but notice the ever growing list of successful bloggers out there. Every morning I crawl through my RSS subscriptions and bam! Like a clothes line from hell someone hits you with ‘How I made over $40,000 in one month’ or $50,000 even.
It kind of makes you feel ‘ah eh insane’ but in truth without these guys I wouldn’t of started this blog. My goal has always been to run an online business, and I thought that by starting a blog and connecting with like minded people who shared the same passion would inspire me, and it has.
Blogging is fun; I quite like the banter and the ridiculous things I read sometimes. But in truth it’s become much easier ever since I changed my mind set from making cheese to writing these.
In other words from September 2008 onwards my goal was not to make money but to write what I wanted, when I wanted, how I wanted. I no longer found blogging hard work for that very reason – I changed my perspective.
I make an effort to subscribe to a lot of smaller blogs, I’m talking zero PR and manky domain names. And for the first couple of weeks I notice their on fire, writing 3 – 4 posts a-day because their mentors tell them too.
But after awhile they run out of oil and burn up – and I don’t blame them, just who on earth are you blogging for little guy. I feel sorry for you, your fingers must hurt.
And let’s be honest, for the majority of us – in the first 3-4 months the traffic to your blog is going to be just enough to make you want to puke and think what’s the point. But that’s okay, if you look around a little you’ll notice you’re not alone.
Take what these so called experts say with a pinch of salt, they are obviously doing something right but they have also worked very hard. Success is not achieved overnight, and anyone that convinces you otherwise is probably doing so for their own momentary gain.
Saying that be inspired by them seriously – because some of them once in a while will share some great advice.
Google’s announcement that it is ending support or shutting down web services such as Google Notebooks, Google Catalogs and Jaiku should serve as a stark warning to Business and Start-ups lured by the promises of cloud based only computing.
Yes – the above named services where not necessarily cloud based offerings such as Google Apps, SalesForce or Amazon WS. But the principles remain the same – instead of building, supporting or procuring on-premise applications and infrastructures you are lured into the cloud.
But what happens when your ASP or S/PaaS provider decides to pull the plug on that service, what do you do? What happens to your data? And more importantly how do you continue to run your business?
Thousands of businesses have invested heavily in building key line of business applications on top of SaleForce. There’s nothing wrong with that, but when they openly promote an end to all software I grind my teeth because they just don’t get it.
Cloud based and on-premise solutions are not enemies, so why does SaleForce treat them as such? In my opinion Microsoft has the right idea with the up and coming Windows Azure.
With Windows Azure Microsoft are saying “Look you can have the best of both worlds.” They understand the shift towards the cloud, but they also understand the importance of running services on-premise. And with that you have the ability to build hybrid-applications that use both the cloud and on-premises services.
Microsoft is not choosing one over the other; they are simply giving you a choice which I think is the way forward.
SaleForce on the other hand have backed themselves unnecessary into a corner with that hideous no software campaign. Only time will tell who the true winners and losers will be, but I’m backing Microsoft on this one.