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		<title>Narrowness in business</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2012/01/04/narrowness-in-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend at Intel used to say, &#8220;no matter how narrow you make something, once you get close to it, it looks pretty wide.&#8221;   My goal in 2012 is to get a sufficiently narrow web application business off the ground &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2012/01/04/narrowness-in-business/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Android un-Marketing vs. iPhone Marketing</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2009/09/16/android-un-marketing-vs-iphone-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest difference so far in Google&#8217;s Android business development strategy vs. Apple&#8217;s iPhone business development strategy is that Google has un-marketed to experimenters, developers, and companies, while Apple has spent heavily on image-based advertising to techies and early adopters, &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2009/09/16/android-un-marketing-vs-iphone-marketing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter as News Channels</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2009/09/16/twitter-as-news-channels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use Twitter pretty much only as a news channel today. When I first started a year and a half or two ago, my early Twitterverse expanded rapidly by adding everyone I talked to at local meetups. Over time, after &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2009/09/16/twitter-as-news-channels/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Initial Impressions:  iPhone 3G</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/08/14/initial-impressions-iphone-3g/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than a general review, these are initial impressions on some aspects of the new iPhone of particular interest to me and also relative to the competitive market context. U.S. TV ads during the Olympics have been touting it as &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/08/14/initial-impressions-iphone-3g/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone 3G</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/06/11/iphone-3g/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new iPhone becoming available July 11 will have 3G for faster web and email connections and longer battery operating time. Meanwhile, where&#8217;s the best place for 4 million iPhone users (not counting the 2 million that are in China &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/06/11/iphone-3g/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wang Jing on Brand New China</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/06/08/wang-jing-on-brand-new-china/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/06/08/wang-jing-on-brand-new-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wang Jing (王瑾), professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at MIT, chair of the international advisory board to Creative Commons / China (知识共享/中国大陆), and author of Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture (Harvard Univ. Press, 2008), discussed &#8220;Creative Culture &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/06/08/wang-jing-on-brand-new-china/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rebecca Fannin on Chinese Web Entrepreneurs, 2008-4-24</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/04/30/rebecca-fannin-on-chinese-web-entrepreneurs-2008-4-24/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/04/30/rebecca-fannin-on-chinese-web-entrepreneurs-2008-4-24/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Fannin, author of Silicon Dragon: How China is Winning the Tech Race (McGraw Hill Professional, 2008), spoke April 24 for the China Business Network of the Northwest China Council in Portland on the founders of some of the leading &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/04/30/rebecca-fannin-on-chinese-web-entrepreneurs-2008-4-24/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Smartphones -&gt; Web Phones</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/01/17/smartphones-web-phones/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/01/17/smartphones-web-phones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been obvious that the iPhone sets the new gold standard for smartphones, and simplifies the definition of smartphone as web phone. But other cell phone competitors so far seem content (Michael Malone&#8217;s analysis is that they&#8217;re unable to respond &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2008/01/17/smartphones-web-phones/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Simplicity as a Market Strategy</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2007/10/31/simplicity-as-a-market-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2007/10/31/simplicity-as-a-market-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress, Google Calendar, and Apple&#8217;s iPhone have a disarming simple-mindedness that is one of the keys to their market leadership. In certain respects they&#8217;re so simple you have to wonder why a lot of people wouldn&#8217;t just be infuriated and &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2007/10/31/simplicity-as-a-market-strategy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Commentary</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2007/09/19/iphone-commentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Competitive Positioning: &#8220;The coolest upscale smartphone you can get; applies minimalist design with a vengeance.&#8221; As it happened, when I purchased my iPhone the first week they were on the market back in June, at the same time I bought &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2007/09/19/iphone-commentary/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Google vs. iPhone vs. Asia vs. U.S. cellular providers</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2007/06/19/google-vs-iphone-vs-asia-vs-us-cellular-providers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Delaney&#8217;s Wall Street Journal Online blog entry from May 31, 2007, on &#8220;The iPhone Needn&#8217;t Fear Google, Yet&#8221; points out that Google&#8217;s cell phone strategy is not to have a phone product per se, like the iPhone, but rather &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2007/06/19/google-vs-iphone-vs-asia-vs-us-cellular-providers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Restructuring the Global Wireless Information Market</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2007/01/02/tipping-the-global-wireless-information-market/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2007/01/02/tipping-the-global-wireless-information-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably the four biggest potential changes that I think will have an impact on the global wireless information market over the next few years are 1) wifi and other short-range wireless, 2) moving cell phone-based information applications onto open source, &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2007/01/02/tipping-the-global-wireless-information-market/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Linux Projects Should Totally Concentrate on 3G Cell Phones</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2006/12/03/htc-cell-phones-and-linux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the introduction over the past month of the Cingular 8525, the Cingular Samsung Blackjack (both running Windows Mobile 5.0, incidentally), plus several LG and Samsung flip phones sold by Cingular, such as the SGH-ZX20, as the first 3G (UMTS &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2006/12/03/htc-cell-phones-and-linux/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Business Professional Goes Shopping for Cell Phones</title>
		<link>http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2006/11/30/a-business-professional-goes-shopping-for-cell-phones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Fisk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Objective: Light, slim, long battery operation, sync with contacts and calendar on the desktop. Considered: Nokia E62, Blackberry 7130c, Cingular 3125, Samsung Blackjack &#8212; all at Cingular. I did not include the Cingular 8525 because a) she won&#8217;t care about &#8230; <a href="http://blog.picocosmos.net/index.php/2006/11/30/a-business-professional-goes-shopping-for-cell-phones/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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