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Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
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Putting the last eight years into context, putting the Iraq conflict into context and setting clear goals, refocusing on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Any discussion?
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Obama: Not buffoonish in any way!
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Hey, we need the tourist $. Next, hope it passes the house.
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“[In the 1940s, Mort Walker] would regularly walk into the New York offices of King Features Syndicate … and see crumpled up ‘Krazy Kat’ cartoons on the ground. They were used to absorb water from ceiling leaks, he says.”
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Great. Now I want a raw bar in our Whole Foods!
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Awesome wall-mounted high cabinet in a stairwell.
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“A snob is someone who is so complete in himself and so satisfied with what he has that he needs nothing from anybody…That’s what Virginians do. They never push at me… They will offer me their hospitality…All I have to do is just behave reasonably
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Nice VNC client. To check out.
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Don’t solve all problems right away. Let them mellow.
Day: July 16, 2008
Apple: MobileMe isn’t really using “push” with your PC
MobileMe (aka former .Mac) subscribers received an overdue email from the MobileMe team today, apologizing for the rocky roll-out of the new service and extending a free month of service to all subscribers.
The email contained the following interesting paragraph:
Another snag we have run into is our use of the word “push” in describing everything under the MobileMe umbrella. While all email, contact or calendar changes on the iPhone and the web apps are immediately synced to and from the MobileMe “cloud,” changes made on a PC or Mac take up to 15 minutes to sync with the cloud and your other devices. So even though things are indeed instantly pushed to and from your iPhone and the web apps today, we are going to stop using the word “push” until it is near-instant on PCs and Macs, too.
What a welcome breath of fresh air: unambiguous retraction of unjustified marketing hype!
As a product manager, it strikes me that the team managing the rollout did an excellent job of damage control: fix the operational problems, apologize to the customers, change the marketing message where it’s out of line with the new reality, extend credit and move on. And they’ve done a good job. I even have to retract my characterization of MobileMe as the Lindsey Lohan of webmail services (last paragraph).