Tomorrow, many are predicting that Apple will announce iTunes is moving to the cloud. Like everything else.
Welcome to the joys of virtual ownership. This is the place were we never really buy anything. We rent it. All the bits of our lives, the things we rely on day in and day out become mere sand slipping through our fingers.
Alvin Toffler predicted in “Futureshock” that we would eventually move past the service economy. I think we’re seeing that now. Instead of building products and selling them, we’re finding new and interesting ways to re-market things that are already built and the rent them to each other.
In the world of music, this new development is meant to make our iPods full of music obsolete. We’ll be paying micro-payments 0r global access fees to get access to all the music. So in truth, we won’t really own anything; except the rights to listen to music for a definitive period of time. There it is, the virtual timeshare.
Call me old fashion, but I really hate renting things. I hate paying twice. Even worse, I hate paying in perpetuity. The oil bill, the phone bill, the electric bill are services that really need to be monthly bills, but music? Video? Where does this stuff end?
It’s may be well trod ground, but it’s still a topic that needs to be considered: What to do about reputation-damaging tweets or critics mobilizing on social media websites like Facebook. This week we get a brief glimpse into the world via the 
I’m now one of the kewl kids again…I have an iPad.
When I started out in business, we dressed for success. That generally meant ties and sport coats, and often meant full suits. Granted at that point, I was in a much different industry, construction project management, but even from the mid-90’s, when I got into tech, things have changed.
A while back, a friend mentioned his frustration with a coworker who seemed to be eternally breaking the site. No matter how good things were, there was always just one more tweak he wanted to try, and in doing so, he’d inevitably take the site down.