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http://fishtrain.com/2007/12/17/apples-strategy-is-to-partner-with-leaders/

People seem to think Apple is a big, risk-taking company. That is true, but the risks they take are calculated ones. The switch from IBM PowerPC to Intel x86 chips was a big risk at the time -- given the possibility of alienating Apple's customer base. The risks to branch out their product line from the Macintosh to the iPod, iPhone, and AppleTV were big changes. But even though these were...

http://fishtrain.com/2007/11/29/apple-bonjour-secret-weapon/

Bonjour is Apple's implementation of Zeroconf that is included with Mac OS X. Bonjour is a service discovery protocol which has the primary function of discovery services on a local area network (LAN). It uses multicast Domain Name System (DNS) service to locate devices such as computers, printers, and services that those devices offer. The beauty of this is that it allows non-experts to...

http://digg.com/software/The_7_Services_Virtualization_Lacks_For_Utility_Computing

http://fishtrain.com/2007/11/13/the-downfall-of-the-microsoft-empire/

Microsoft is seeing a monumental, momentum shift. Never before has Microsoft seemed so vulnerable. It is being attacked on all fronts by huge, game-changers. Is this a repeat of computing history? Microsoft changed the scene when they licensed MS-DOS and later Windows to IBM -- which was the dominant force, at the time. In those days, everything had to be IBM-compatible. Microsoft's operating...

http://fishtrain.com/2007/11/07/facebook-valuation/

http://fishtrain.com/2007/11/01/10-ways-to-go-viral/

Please leave a comment in then article with another example that you can think of. It'd be nice to get a giant list of viral successes :)

http://fishtrain.com/2007/10/30/google-worth-more-than-rest-of-the-big-web/

http://www.news.com/Google-quarterly-profit-swells-46-percent/2100-1030_3-6214246.html?tag=nefd.top

After earnings today they are flirting with the $200 Billion market capitalization mark!!!

http://fishtrain.com/2007/10/17/the-platform-is-what-matters/

The importance of the platform and what it has done for some software organizations.

http://fishtrain.com/2007/09/26/interview-with-gigaspaces/

Google for everyone.

http://fishtrain.com/2007/10/12/interview-with-terracotta/

Interview that talks about clustering JVMs and the Network Attached Memory.

http://fishtrain.com/2007/10/12/interview-with-gridgain/

Interview about the compute grid model.

http://fishtrain.com/2007/10/15/the-importance-of-the-home-button/

The Home Button is highly important. Here's 3 reasons why.

http://fishtrain.com/2007/10/12/10-things-on-my-google-wish-list/

Ten things I'd change to make Google products better.

http://fishtrain.com/2007/10/09/google-gears/

Can Google use Google Gears as a global grid platform?

http://fishtrain.com/2007/10/10/googles-internet-plan/

What's the big deal with Google and the GPhone, the FCC 700 MHz auction, and net neutrality?

http://fishtrain.com/2007/10/08/google-at-1000share/

Google can surpass Microsoft in market capitalization when it hits $1000 a share.

http://fishtrain.com/2007/09/28/what-happens-when-a-social-graph-is-compromised/

Is George Orwell's 1984 becoming a reality?

http://fishtrain.com/2007/09/23/itunes-movie-rentals-and-old-media/

What is the impact of an iTunes Movie Rental service?

http://fishtrain.com/2007/09/22/social-network-wars/

The battle for social network supremacy continues. Why are there so many social networks? Can you still succeed in this market?

http://fishtrain.com/2007/09/17/interview-with-binarynights/

Find out about the crew and the new features in Forklift, the file utility that replaces the Mac OS X Finder.

http://fishtrain.com/2007/09/13/googles-acquisition-strategy/

How does Google makes it acquisitions?

http://fishtrain.com/2007/09/10/brittle-machines/

Why are computers so easy to crash? If a CPU or hard drive dies, the whole system goes down. What is being done to change this?

http://fishtrain.com/2007/08/26/do-you-have-the-mentality-of-a-free-agent/

Do you think like you are the owner of the business?

http://fishtrain.com/2007/08/13/whats-a-good-name/

5 Suggestions on naming your business or organization.