There is a way cool new site called Pluggd.

“Recently debuted at DEMO 2006, HearHere™ technology allows you to search for the content you are looking for within your favorite shows. Click the button below for a demonstration.”

You can view the video Demo that was shown at Demo2006 (a great place were new gadgets and toys are pitched to thousands, and one of the ways to launch a company and/or product as Paul Allen talks about in his post.)

This is going to make it a lot easier to find richer content, a broader range of content. It opens the search to include more than just words. So instead of typing in some lyrics to your favorite song and getting pages and pages of words, your actual song should come up-maybe even the music video.

You can find out a little more about Pluggd and other technology topics, such as the Apple trademark issue as I shamelessly plug my partner in Crime, Cammon who is doing our podcast page, CopperCast where he is going to be posting the 2nd ever technology podcast for CopperRain.

I feel like there should be some tense ending music here… You can check out this article and let me know what you think?

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34616

What will this do for Apple’s image, and what exactly ARE they trying to do. Can you really trademark a culture, a trend. Is being remembered for CREATING a new culture not enough??

Personally I think that if they are going to hit all the companies who have used “pod” I think that the PODS company better watch out too!

I found this from a site I visit frequently called Conference Call University where they have experts on a conference call.  You can send in a question and have it answered by some top experts.  On October 31st, Donald Trump will be the guest speaker.  You can check out the schedule and details here.

There is a site that I was led to called Trump University: The 10 Commandments of Branding.   If you sign up, email name job position etc, you will recieve the report on the 10 Commandments of Branding.

Thought I would share this with others.  Good Luck!

Yes, Apple did hit rock bottom. Thanks to Seth Godin who directed me to this page from David Pogue we read all the quotes and stories written back in 1996 “When Apple Hit Bottom.”

* Fortune, 2/19/1996: “By the time you read this story, the quirky cult company…will end its wild ride as an independent enterprise.”

* Time Magazine, 2/5/96: “One day Apple was a major technology company with assets to make any self respecting techno-conglomerate salivate. The next day Apple was a chaotic mess without a strategic vision and certainly no future.”

* BusinessWeek, 10/16/95: “Having underforecast demand, the company has a $1 billion-plus order backlog….The only alternative: to merge with a company with the marketing and financial clout to help Apple survive the switch to a software-based company. The most likely candidate, many think, is IBM Corp.”

* A Forrester Research analyst, 1/25/96 (quoted in, of all places, The New York Times): “Whether they stand alone or are acquired, Apple as we know it is cooked. It’s so classic. It’s so sad.”

* Nathan Myhrvold (Microsoft’s chief technology officer, 6/97: “The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead.”

* Wired, “101 Ways to Save Apple,” 6/97: “1. Admit it. You’re out of the hardware game.”

* BusinessWeek, 2/5/96: “There was so much magic in Apple Computer in the early ’80s that it is hard to believe that it may fade away. Apple went from hip to has-been in just 19 years.”

* Fortune, 2/19/1996: “Apple’s erratic performance has given it the reputation on Wall Street of a stock a long-term investor would probably avoid.”

* The Economist, 2/23/95: “Apple could hang on for years, gamely trying to slow the decline, but few expect it to make such a mistake. Instead it seems to have two options. The first is to break itself up, selling the hardware side. The second is to sell the company outright.”

* The Financial Times, 7/11/97: “Apple no longer plays a leading role in the $200 billion personal computer industry. ‘The idea that they’re going to go back to the past to hit a big home run…is delusional,’ says Dave Winer, a software developer.”

Just yesterday at a CopperRain meeting, we were going over our business plan we had created a few years back. Funny how you put so much work into that and then a year later it is off track. That’s the way the technology industry works. Who would have thought we would be watching television from off our computers. Granted there is still a LOT of buggs to be worked out, but still?

(If you want to make a killing and sit in a huge mansion and retire early, with the way technology is going, someone has to come up with a better internet delivery system-I would start working on that!)

Anyway, the story here is this, when the hard times hit, put on a black turtle neck, jeans and some sneakers!

Just wanted to share with you a way to write to your future self. In 10, 20 even 30 years from now, will you remember what today was like? Well you can, by visiting http://futureme.org/ and telling yourself all about it. This email will be sent to you in the year that you desire up to 30 years from now! Set goals and then gage your progress!

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I found some comments on a new blog network called 9rules and found this blog “Turning off Technology” by Paul Scrivens. I thought this would go perfectly with my thoughts from my vacation:
I went with my husband and his family on a 10 day hiatus to England and Wales and I spent the whole 10 days with the video camera as my only elctronic device. My husband and I decided we wanted to take a complete break from the world and truly enjoy siteseeing. We didn’t have any palm pilot, computer or even cell phone. Although I think we both wished we had a GPS instead of paper maps, I don’t think either of us could have enjoyed the experience any more!
Then on the way home from England at the Newark New Jersey airport we saw this Sprint advertising board. It reads: “Say Yes to making just about any place a work place.”

I understand that the point of this campaign is to show how Sprint is giving their customers more power to do what they want where they want, but at that very moment when I saw this, I was immediatley turned off.Maybe it was because I had just spent a very peaceful 10 days not having to worry that during my meal, my phone might go off. I couldn’t have cared less that 8 of the 10 days I stayed at a Bed and Breakfast there wasn’t any internet connection. It was very nice to go see sights instead of looking for an interent hot spot.

With my husband and I working for the same company, CopperRain, we found ourselves constantly talking about work issues over dinner, before we went to bed, even on dates! This hiatus of ours to England without any distractions helped me fall deeper in love with the man I married. We talked about the past, about us and about our future family dreams.Sometimes, I think the world focuses too much on the side of making money instead of making memories. With the emerging portable electronic devices, it is much easier to miss the world around us. I’m not saying this is all bad, but set limits for yourself. Your business is not you, your work is not your life. There is a difference between a hard worker and a workaholic.