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Convergence – In search of the Uber Consolidation

by Minter Dial | Feb 20, 2009 | Marketing

Are you like me, Seeking the Consolidation & Convergence of all Applications, Tools and Electrical Wires? I enjoyed this article from Engadget “What Apple could learn from Palm Web OS” and it spurred me to consider my state of un-convergence, with the multiplicity...

In case you didn’t know about the Woman with the Longest Nails in the World

by Minter Dial | Feb 19, 2009 | Marketing

A woman, named Lee Redmond, with longest nails in the world suffered a bad car accident over the weekend and lost all her nails. It is hard to imagine, but she had not cut her nails since 1979. The combined total length was nearly 9 metres, with the...

Webiquity – a new age neologism

by Minter Dial | Feb 18, 2009 | New Tech

My wonderfully witty friend David, in Schweiz land, came up with a new term that I would like to share with you: webiquity It is a neologism for web & ubiquity. As in “Minter is definitely webiquitous.” If you google webiquity, the word has been used...

Microsoft Opening Stores — A landslide or a landmine?

by Minter Dial | Feb 17, 2009 | Branding, Marketing

News is out that Microsoft is going to start opening its own stores. (Seattle Times 12/2/09 or Mercury News, 13/2/09) Having hired David Porter, a 25-year veteran of Walmart, Microsoft wants to go down the Apple path to create a retail outlet to express, educate and...

Curvature of Constitutional Space – Spacious if not Specious

by Minter Dial | Feb 17, 2009 | Politics

Here’s a juicy title for a thesis: “Curvature of Constitutional Space.” Is this thesis for a student of the law? Or Is it for a student of astrophysics? As I happen to be an amateur of astrophysics, the title certainly caught my attention.The full...