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Guy Kawasaki: What makes innovation?

Guy Kawasaki: What makes innovation?No revelations hereGuy is quite likable. And, his presentations and books are easy to digest and wonderfully simplistic. He knows that's what sells, specially for him. His name alone gives him credibility, and a jump on book sales: the 10-point lists generally seal the deal. We...

Tags: Leadership, innovation, Guy Kawasaki

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Guy Kawasaki: What makes innovation?

At Cisco Live in San Francisco, Silicon Valley entreprenuer Guy Kawasaki, author of Reality Check, talks about the four qualities of innovation that he believes all successful products need. They are: deep, intelligent, complete, and elegant.

Tags: Innovation, Guy Kawasaki, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Cisco, Reality Check

Videos 2009-07-02

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account compromised; used to deliver malware

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account compromised; used to deliver malwareDNS attack on MacCan you check your DNS in the Mac's Network Preferences, to see if the IP addresses are different from what you expect? Or does this malicious DNS change happen somewhere else?

Tags: Domain names, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, NETWORKING, DNS, Guy Kawasaki, Twitter, malware

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account compromised; used to deliver malware

ZDNet's own Ryan Naraine reports in his Zero Day security blog that Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account was hijacked yesterday and was used in an attempt to distribute malware to his almost 140,000 followers. The attack screenshot above included a link to what purported...

Tags: Malware, Guy Kawasaki, Twitter, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Desktops, Cyberthreats, Corporate Communications, Security, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malware

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malwareMore details about severity of attack[i]On Windows machines, a user falling for the bait gets to a series of Web pages featuring pornographic content and, at the end, a prompt to update a video codec. That fake codec is...

Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Apple Mac OS X, malware, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Guy Kawasaki, attack, user interaction, disk image, Twitter

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hijacked, pushes Windows and Mac malware

The Twitter account belonging to venture capitalist and Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki was hijacked yesterday and used to push malware to some 140,000 Twitter users. The attack screenshot above included a link to what purported to be a "sex tape video free download" linked to Gossip...

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Malware, Microsoft Windows, Guy Kawasaki, Twitter, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Channel Management, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Domain Names, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Internet, Hardware, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Guy Kawasaki achieves tech support greatness

What will those wild and crazy Web 2.0 guys think of next? Guy Kawasaki, friendly proprietor of alltop.com, offered a MacBook Air loaner to one of his users -- all because the site was too slow on her iPhone. This officially qualifies Guy as offering the best...

Tags: Guy Kawasaki, Twitter, Web 2.0, Notebooks, Enterprise Software, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Ballmer: It's all about Web developers

Plain old developers are so passe. Now it's all about "Web developers, Web developers, Web developers!" Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, at the prodding of an audience member of Mix '08, updated his famous "developers, developers, developers" chant. (Istartedsomething's Long Zheng is hosting a clip...

Tags: Web Developer, Web, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Guy Kawasaki, Plain Old Developer, Channel Management, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-06

Guy Kawasaki's 'Truemors' launches

Combining elements of Digg with the micro-blogging format of Twitter, Truemors lets users "post rumors, news, and sightings" so that "anyone with web access can read and rate them within minutes." The site which was co-founded by ex-Apple evangelist and VC, Guy Kawasaki, accepts submissions via email, SMS, online, and...

Tags: Digg, Social News Sites, Twitter

Blog posts 2007-05-16

Guy Kawasaki on Apple's 30th

Guy Kawasaki on Apple's 30thInterviewer Embarassingly Triteuninformed, shallow and without any sort of incisive eye. It's a shame. Kawasaki is a marvelous speaker on uberapple and she just took the opportunity and squandered it with a garbage can full of predictable, boring and uninspired questions. Here's hoping...

Tags: Guy Kawasaki, Apple Inc., Kawasaki

Discussion threads 2006-03-30

Guy Kawasaki on Apple's 30th

Video: Guy Kawasaki worked for Steve Jobs twice, although he doesn't necessarily recommend it. "At least once is a good experience," he said. "[Jobs] gets you to do things you didn't think could do." Jobs is well know for his low tolerance for incompetence and mediocrity. Kawasaki was a software...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Computer Inc., Jobs, Kawasaki

Blog posts 2006-03-29

Guy Kawasaki's newest love

Ahead of Macworld 2006, a new photo-sharing programAt a San Francisco event on Jan. 9, Guy Kawasaki, managing director of Garage Technologies, introduces FilmLoop.com.

Tags: Guy Kawasaki

Videos 2006-01-09

Guy Kawasaki on the art of the start

Recommended reading: Guy Kawasaki, a former Apple Computer Macintosh evangelist and founder/managing director of Garage Technology Ventures talks to me about his latest book, The Art of the Start: The Time-tested, Battle-hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything. Unlike many popular books giving advice on how to start or run a business in this...

Tags: Kawasaki

Blog posts 2004-09-22

Guy Kawasaki on the upstart art

The start-up guru lays out strategies for entrepreneurs.In this Face to Face interview, venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki, a former Apple Computer evangelist, joins ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber to talk about his latest book. In "The Art of the Start," the best-selling author gives entrepreneurial advice, from creating bold...

Tags: Entrepreneurship, Guy Kawasaki

Videos 2004-09-21

Additional Resources

SocialToo gives social networkers a false sense of security

False SenseI think there is an innate false sense of security with social media after the initial exposure and use of a platform (FB, TWTR, LinkedIn etc.).Anything that adds an additional layer of "false sense" needs to be brought in the light, as you did... good post.If SocialToo "GETS IT"...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SocialToo, false sense, social networker, networker, security

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Twitter turns to Google for help with malware attacks

As it scrambles to cope with a noticeable surge in malware attacks targeting its users, Twitter has found a friend in Google. The popular micro-blogging service has quietly started using the Google Safe Browsing API to block links to known malicious Web sites. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Malware, Twitter, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-08-03

News to know: Vizio; Apple-Psystar; Buffett; Facebook status; Palm Pre; AT&T

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sean Portnoy: Vizio spills the beans on its Internet TV plans Sam Diaz: Court allows Apple-Psystar case to resume...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., AT&T Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Jumping on the UGC bandwagon is a good move for businesses

* Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Cynthia Francis In Guy Kawasaki's own words at his keynote at the first UGCX Conference last month, "Nobodies are the new somebodies." He's right; the Internet combined with User Generated Content UGC levels the playing...

Tags: Brand, Social Media, Video, Branding, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Start cooking: can you explain SOA or mashups in two minutes?

We allude now and then in this blog to "elevator speeches" about SOA and enterprise architecture. This is often intended as a method to boil down the essentials to make them easily digestible by business decision makers with limited time and attention spans. Call it bursts of...

Tags: Web, Web Service, SOA, Essentials, Mashup, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Collaboration, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson keynote in tweets

Guy Kawasaki sat down with Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson for SxSWi's final keynote. Anderson announced that he wanted to see the audience's participation through Twitter using the hashtag #free. Here are the results: ...

Tags: Wired Inc., Keynote, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-17