In December of 2005 I had the opportunity to invite Umair Haque – who was then running a consultancy called Bubble Generation – to Sony during an internal week-long technology and strategy sharing event. I had been following Umair via his blog and felt Sony should hear what he was saying. Thanks to a skeptical [...]
Back in 2005 I invited Umair Haque to come speak at an employee-only 3-day lecture series in Sony. He gave a wonderful presentation about edge-economies, peer production, and how Sony could – if it had the guts – be an industry leader in democratizing innovation. Hack-able Aibos and an open-API for Cybershots were just the [...]
Sony’s Connect service, which saw its writing on the wall even before it was officially launched, is now officially shutting down. And Sony’s longtime controversial proprietary audio codec ATRAC is headed to the trash. Surprise, surprise :)
Readers of M@Blog may recall a few entries I posted while working in Sony’s Audio Codec Development Group – [...]
Someone is so passionately disgusted with Microsoft’s hardware entry into the digital media player market, they’ve voiced their opinion loud and clear. At least someone care’s enough to be upset and spend time expressing it. For Sony, however …
It should be pretty clear to most who have been watching Sony’s activities over the past few years that Sony’s top management really doesn’t get the Internet. What exactly does “get the Internet” mean? Well, for starters, realizing that with billions of people connected on the same platform, there will inevitably be a large number [...]
I realize there’s already a plethora of examples and commentary regarding “Web2.0″ technologies and mindset, but I gave a short presentation this evening on three points which I believe are key to developing a competitive web-based service. In fact the service need not be web-based, as Sony – being first and foremost a [...]
Gen beat me to it but it’s true – Sony finally clears out some of the old guard, which it should have done years ago. In a culture highly regarded for the respect it gives (gave?) for the elders (especially at the advisors’ generation), it was difficult for division Presidents and SVPs to make independent [...]
Imagine an executive, constrained by fiduciary duty, who knows that a soon-to-be-laid-off colleague is about to buy an expensive house. Should he warn his friend?
What do you think? I found myself in such a situation this afternoon with 3 Japanese managers on one side of a meeting table and an American consultant and myself on [...]
Had my ear talked off during a conversation at a networking event the other night, where the other party waxed philosophical over what Sony isn’t doing, should be doing, doing wrong, and doing right. Over the course of the evening when we started comparing the PSP to the video iPod (hereafter, viPod), we both [...]
(The following is a reaction I wrote down after disagreeing with a decision made from upper management. Basically, a cost-free license for an ATRAC SDK was being developed, but you could only get it in exchange for your soul. I caught wind of the news too late, so I placed this in my drafts [...]
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