Safety, first!

Last week, my neighbor house got broke in. It was just evening, the time when people coming home from work, probably around 6.00 – 7.00pm. I was leaving my ouse at 6.00pm sharp as I remember.

By the time I came back home at 10.00pm, all neighbor is around the house kaypohing, not helping, just to learn more abnout the incident. There are 16 units here, so you bet the crowd drew my attention. The bad thing is, the lift was out of service, and we are living at 13th floor. First time walking 13 floor of stair.

Anyway, I tried to help by going down to ask for security to check with the police and etc. The thing is, those securities weren’t really care about the incident. Beside trying to cool me down giving me excuses like, the doors are all locked. Basically they are telling me, nothing they can do.

Lock

Now I know why some neighbor here has security cameras around their house. I can’t understand it when I first moved in, but now I do. Because the incompetent security and there is absolutely no safety living here.

Friends’ friend’s friend is a human

Promote to who is a little out-dated nowadays. With social media jumping around the Internet screaming to get attention, many people knows that starting an e-Commerce is so damn easy with social media (Check your Facebook, see if you were tagged with an underwear or not).

God touch

A lot of people suggest using social media platform when they first started, when I asked why, the answer is quite consistent – Because people believe their friend and friends’ friend or even friends’ friend’s friend. In short, it is all about people, human touch. Any human, even an illustrated character with a name tags, most importantly, a human form or something.

Do you have a human touch with who you want to befriend with online? Now go get yourself a name, a photos (try to be a real one), so your new friend knows who are they talking to.

Learn from Apple

What can I learn from Apple iPhone? With recent keynotes about iPhone 4s started the debate of iPhone 5 naming and etc, here are some of the thing I notice.

Unique Selling Point

Multi Touch
Keep only one USP all the way. Don’t change the USP at any point at all! Apple started the multi-touch iPhone, and from there on, a heavy advertisement and education about the multi-touch functionality, because that is what they care. What makes you think the multi-touch even extended to Magic Track Pad?

More features eventhough not really a feature

A lot of features in iPhone 4s are actually not new technology, but still being treated as the new technology by the enthusiast. Why? Simply because Apple showed them who is the boss the first time, and that’s all matter. Judging books by the cover is what we all do best, no?

Add more only when time come

Features
To be honest, Apple iPhone actually quite out-dated in term of the technology they’re using. From there on, Apple can come out with this update and that update for the years to come. Camera with flash in iPhone 4s, when almost all mobile phone manufacturers has came out this features back in early 2000. Erm… Maybe they are concerning about the system (To put how Steve Jobs explain about not supporting Flash in iPhone). So that bring me to the last point…

Packaging! It’s all about eye-candy

Packaging
Concerning their own technology not manage to have a camera flash? I doubt that, though I believe in Flash, it is a two-way thing. But a camera flash is definitely not. I imagine that, Apple knows their product cannot handle too much when first launch, so package it nicely, and find a USP to cover the weakness and boom (Yes, use the Steve Jobs’ sound)!

Now, that is all what other corporate cannot and don’t want to do. Let me look into Microsoft and let you know what I think.

Goal oriented and plan oriented

I am a goal oriented person, my wife is a plan oriented person. So we crash quite a lot, I complain for things happen to be not flexible enough and she complain I am too rush to get to the goal and not detail enough.

Plan oriental

After long arguing about plan and goal, I think I get some conclusion from that. It is best to combine both, we can’t be just goal or plan oriented, we need both, more plan than goal.

Goal oriental

Plan oriented person will plan a whole timeline and steps to do in order to get to the goal. A goal oriented person will look only on the goal. Combine them: Set goal on each step of the plan.