Slideshows: Meet Henry and Shift Happens

In Guy Kawasaki's interesting post today about how he launched his new website, Trumors, he mentioned that he had seen a great slideshow presentation called, Meet Henry. I went to see it, and I liked it, too.

When I went to see the "Meet Henry" slide show at Slideshare.com, I clicked on a tab called, "Favorites," and discovered that Guy had a slideshow about the post he made today about Trumors. Currently, there are two slides at the end of the presentation that are out of order but I am sure Guy will correct that soon.

And then I watched an AMAZING slideshow called, Shift Happens. It is about the demographics of the world and the SPEED of change and technological growth.

Affiliate Marketing

I just skimmed an article titled, Affliate Marketing: Hire One Employee and Get Hundreds, by Janet Meiners who has a blog called, The Newspaper Girl. It looked like it could be an interesting article. I don't know much about affiliate marketing.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at D5 Conference

Here is a link to a video interview of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the All Things Digital Conference on May 30, 2006.

Google Gears churn towards Microsoft

The search giant--which has evolved into an advertising company and now an "apps" provider--released software late on Wednesday called Google Gears at its first official Developer Day held in 10 cities worldwide. Gears is a browser extension that will enable people to access their Web applications when they are offline. It works on all major browse



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Kevorkian release nears after 8 years

For nearly a decade, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves. The retired pathologist left bodies at hospital emergency rooms and motels and videotaped a death that was broadcast on CBS' "60 Minutes." His actions prompted battles over assisted suicide in many states. But as he prepares to leave prison June 1...



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Google, Salesforce.com Discuss Alliance - Forbes.com

Google and Salesforce are looking to team up to provide some stiff competition for Microsoft. Today, by the way, Saleforce.com is holding a free, standing-room-only event that I wish I could have attended. Guy Kawasaki is one of the featured speakers.



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Amazon.com to launch digital music store

Online retailer Amazon.com on Wednesday said it plans to launch a digital music store later this year featuring songs without copy protection restrictions.



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Steve Jobs of Apple

Here is a picture of Steve Jobs (left) with Bill Gates and the Wiki bio of Jobs including four interesting excerpts from the bio:

Steve Jobs was given up for adoption:

Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco[1] to American Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian Abdulfattah John Jandali, a graduate student who later became a political science professor.[9] One week after birth, Jobs was put up for adoption by his unmarried mother, who was also in graduate school. He was adopted by Paul and Clara (née Hagopian) Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California.[10] They gave him the name Steven Paul Jobs. His biological parents later married and gave birth to Jobs' sister, the novelist Mona Simpson, whom Jobs did not meet until they were adults. The marriage of his biological parents ended in divorce years later. Jobs dislikes hearing the "adoptive parents" appellation applied to Paul and Clara Jobs and refers to them as his only parents.

Jobs works at Apple for an annual salary of US$1:

[3] and this earned him a listing in Guinness World Records as the "Lowest Paid Chief Executive Officer." As such, Jobs is well compensated for his efforts at Apple despite the nominal one-dollar salary. This approach reduces his personal tax liability because, under current U.S. tax law, salary income is taxed at a significantly higher rate (currently up to 35%) than the capital gains tax (currently a maximum of 15%) applied to profits arising from the sale of stock grants. Obtaining remuneration through stock instead of salary is a common extrinsic rewarding technique which ties management performance to financial benefits. Furthermore, it acts as a tax minimization strategy.

Steve Jobs is now Disney's largest shareholder:

In October 2005, Bob Iger replaced Eisner at Disney, and Iger quickly worked to patch up relations with Jobs and Pixar. On January 24, 2006, Jobs and Iger announced that Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. Once the deal closed, Jobs became The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately 7% of the company's stock.[30] Jobs' holdings in Disney far exceeds those of Eisner, who holds 1.7%, and Disney family member Roy E. Disney, who holds about 1% of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner included the soured Pixar relationship and accelerated his ousting. Jobs joined the company's board of directors upon completion of the merger.

Steve Jobs is the father of four children:

Jobs married Laurene Powell, nine years his junior, on March 18, 1991 and has had three children with her.[10] He also had a daughter named Lisa Brennan-Jobs with Chris-Ann Brennan, whom he did not marry. Lisa (born May 17, 1978) is a journalist who wrote for The Harvard Crimson.

Robert Iger, CEO of Disney

Here is a picture of Disney's CEO, Robert Iger.

And here is the Wiki bio on Robert Iger and Disney's bio of him.

Iger had been the number two man at Disney until Michael Eisner, then CEO, was forced out of Disneyin March of 2005. A year later is when the Pixar merger occurred. Here is an excerpt from the Wiki bio of Iger:

Pixar merger
On January 24, 2006, in a move that would have been inconceivable a year earlier, Disney announced it would acquire Pixar for US $7.4 billion in an all-stock transaction. The merger installed animator John Lasseter as Chief Creative Officer of the Disney/Pixar animation studios and Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering, the division that designs theme park attractions. It also made Steve Jobs Disney's top shareholder with 7% of outstanding shares and gave him a new seat on Disney's board of directors.

Why Disney is going to school.

I just read an article titled, Why Disney is going to school. Disney is getting into the online education biz with various articles that will appeal to moms. On the site I found something I had been looking for: pages devoted online resources for kids titled Your Favorite Sites for "Early learning."

Disney will, of course, have consumer friendly advertising on their site, including ads for Sony (and lite tech articles for moms, who do much of the buying for the family). Another nice link is Disneyplayhouse.com. It's a good site for young kids. However, I haven't checked to see what they have for older children (ages 7 or 8 and above).