MacHeist – 5 Free Apps – ’til wednesday

MacHeist has WriteRoom, Twitterrific, TinyGrab, Hordes of Orcs and ShoveBox for free for 4 more days . I think WriteRoom is a good app to try if you write a lot of stuff.

Telco 2.0 Indepth on Internet Stats

A few days ago I posted some tidbits on Google making up 6% of internet traffic.

If you want all the gory details. Telco 2.0 guys have it here Latest Internet traffic stats: Google and CDNs outmuscle Tier 1 Telcos

I like the contrast of declining “Revenue from Internet Transit Slide” with the increasing “Revenue from Internet Advertising”

Reminds me that this diagram still has meaning when analyzing opportunities in networking.

Marketing Connects

Yesterday’s Marketing Supports Sales post reminded me of an old Marketing Connects rant I posted a while back.

The key point is that marketing people get the ball rolling, and keep the ball rolling so that “others can finish”. Marketing people fail if they decide/want to be the star. Their success is directly proportional to how big a star they make of others.

Marketing Supports Sales » Steve Blank

It became clear to me that the mission of marketing in most companies has to be to support sales. … “Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick.” » Steve Blank The Sharp End of the Stick

This is a very good “what does marketing do” post. It gets right to the heart of “Marketing vs Sales” politics/wars. The two biggest egos in the room are not gonna work it out amongst themselves. It’s got to be defined up front. Sales is the most important thing. End of story.

Barry’s New Stealth Gig – Ice Light Solutions

Finally caught up with Barry in the last month. He’s excited about his new stealth project Ice Light Solutions. The careers page indicates that he’s looking for DSP and Firmware experience.

Internet Traffic – Goog 6% & P2P Down to 18% – NYTimes.com

Very cool article at NY Times today on Internet Traffic titled Google Accounts for 6% of All Internet Traffic – NYTimes.com. Amazing how much Google accounts for. Also interesting is that P2P share dropped from a peak of 40%, a few years back, down to 18% today. It’s not that P2P declined in actual terms, it is that streaming video is the new and growing bandwidth hog.

Tip to Adam at Lifehacker for finding this.

Seth Says » “We Don’t Care What You Say”

We care what you do in What you say, what you do and who you are

The follow on to this is that change takes longer than one thinks because “No cares what you say … they care what you do”.

If you’ve got a good track record of delivering on your word ( ie high correlation between “saying and doing”) then the liklihood of quick change is good. If not …

OECD Reports on “Online ID Theft” » Offline may still be worse

The OECD recently published a book on Online Identify Theft. I was hoping for some unified OECD statistics like the Broadband Portal, but unfortunately one of their major findings is that very few countries count ID Theft.

ID theft (whether offline or online) has largely failed to attract the attention of statisticians. Most data are from the United States; statistics for Europe are sparse, except for the United Kingdom. When data are available, they often do not cover ID theft as an independent wrongdoing. The United States is one of the few countries with data that analyse ID theft as a separate offense. (Exec Summary – page 9)

Overall I found it a fascinating read. It’s not my specialty so I like the “survey” style depth. The section that posits that Offline ID theft may still be worse than online ID theft is not as I expected. Online ID Theft is good techno-nerd reading. Enjoy.

You can download a read-only pdf (browse_it edition) for free from the OECD here

I hate being in the techno 3rd world (ie Canada) – skype for iphone/touch not available here

The skype not available in Canadian app store message is !@#$ !!!! (frustrating)

The List of Can’ts is too long

• Can’t watch video from Masters site …
• Can’t get mp3 from Amazon.com
• Can’t get a ton of books on audible
• Can’t get a lot of music on eMusic (Canada)
  • eMusic even sends direct mail to me with links to music I can’t get.

A Sad Goodbye to Nyquist Capital

I wish Andrew all the best in his new endeavors.

I really enjoyed his Nyquist Capital dot com. It is sad to see the “closed sign” up on the home page