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Steve Rubel
micropersuasion.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Steve Rubel is a PR and marketing technologist who blogs about Google Reader, social media, Web 2.0, and online influence.
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- 1Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader2 people · 1 points · first shared 2007 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Is Google Reader next on the chopping block?1 people · 19 points · first shared 2009 · 16 comments on HN
- 3Zinio Inside Opens 50,000 Magazines to Searching and Sharing1 people · 13 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 4Page Rank is the Ultimate Measure of Online Influence1 people · 7 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
- 5The Collaboration Economy1 people · 6 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 6Turn Gmail (or any E-mail Account) Into a Social Network Hub1 people · 6 points · first shared 2007 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Twitter monetization advice: Be the next Microsoft, not AOL. Focus on developers.1 people · 5 points · first shared 2009 · 5 comments on HN
- 8The Web 2.0 World is Skunk Drunk on Its Own Kool-Aid1 people · 4 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 93 Internet careers that soon won't exist1 people · 4 points · first shared 2008 · 3 comments on HN
- 10Social Web Speeds Ahead Despite Slowing Economy1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 11Friendfeed will Change Journalism, PR and Marketing1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 12PR Pros to Get a Database of Twitter Users by Mid-Year1 people · 3 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 13Five Reasons Why a Pay Per Click Recession Looms1 people · 3 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 14Trust in Peers Trumps the "A-List"1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 15RSS Adoption at 11% and it May Be Peaking, Forrester Says1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
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omakase · 2009-04-10
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9oliYQjP · 2011-01-10
At first I was going to answer with "the better part of Steve Jobs' absence from the company". However, thinking about it a bit longer, I think Apple started getting into actual trouble after the launch of Windows 95. They had absolutely nothing to fight back with except marketing, which consisted mostly of cheap attack ads like these ones:
- http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/08/congrtlnsw95_yo.html
- http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n-JrcfOL7Y8/SKHqBnwaUWI/AAAAAAAAABg/k8baUcgo…
Windows 95 was launched in late August of 1995. Prior to Windows 95, Apple wasn't exactly the best run company in the world. Their product line-up was an absolute mess. The Newton was acknowledged by everybody as pretty cool but it wasn't a resounding business success. However, most people still considered their products to be the best for desktop publishing and education which were huge markets at the time. Once Windows 95 was launched however, Apple's act as the only serious solution for desktop publishing and education was rightfully ended.
Skip ahead two years and Apple is in serious trouble. People looked at them the same way they look at RIM today. They were has-beens living on borrowed time. They were in really really really big trouble as a company. Steve Jobs took the reigns of Apple as interim CEO in September of 1997 (http://www.apple.com/ca/press/1997/09/InterimCEO.html). Roughly 8 months later in May of 1998, the iMac is announced, and Apple's second act -- one in…
raju · 2008-01-02
Is it just me, or did anyone else find the information in this article pretty basic? Even something like using the '+' operator in the email address and filtering based on that, or the fact that if you have a '.' in your gmail address, skipping the dot will still result in you getting the email...
I guess I am saying I was hoping for something more, like this one from Steve [http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/12/become-a-knowle.html]