For those nature buffs out there, this is an amazing story of survival. For everyone else, it’s a very loooong 8 minutes

I saw the Bourne Supremacy last night with my wife and it was pretty much the typical encapsulation of an action movie. However, the draw (and the reason why gobs of people have flocked to the theaters to take part in the experience) is the superb acting of Matt Damon. To be even more exact, it’s the compelling story of someone that is so good at what he does, that he can’t be touched by even the most experienced people in his field. Jason Bourne, the enigmatic genius and skilled fighter, uses sheer concentration to prove that he is unstoppable.

Don’t we all wish for that mixture of confidence and concentration?

At the end of the day, the Bourne Supremacy Complex is the necessary ingredient for business success. It’s the meticulous training and the steep concentration and focus that allow people to excel. It’s not the abnormal ability, or the stroke of luck. Rather, it’s the more standard ability of hard work and extreme dedication (sure, ability and luck help) that make things happen!

Maybe this should have been one of the Ten Commandments, but I guess G-d felt that it might cause people to become internet and digital lifestyle junkies, espouse love thy brother beliefs, and move away from serious religious dedication.

In any case, I had posted a while ago about the need for Wesabe to open itself up a bit and think more like a social network. While it hasn’t really taken the social network advice to heart as of yet, it certainly has decided to open itself up (as reported by Mashable). At the time, Marc Hedlund had told me that he was working on bringing all of my suggested improvements into the site. So I suspect that he’s still working on the remainder.

In other news, Apple has chosen to take the exact opposite tack of the common open theory, and has proven its tactics to be highly successful. While my colleague at Zedge wasn’t very impressed, I thought the overall usability and experience was second to none and that the iPhone team has pulled it off. In truth, it doesn’t really matter what I say. Just look at the stock price.

Ben Bauman should now be a very rich man!

First of all, I’m back from a great vacation in Miami. Now that I’m back, I’ve noticed that I left 90 degree weather down South to enjoy 95 degree weather here in my hometown of NYC :)… and for those of you that are searching for the phrase “Mark Rosner IDT,” I know who you are.

So back to the regular beat…

T-Mobile just announced that it is offering dual Wi-Fi cellular phone service. You can now ditch your regular landlines for good. The NYTimes is correct to point out that this is a game changing event (not so much for cellular companies, as it is for traditional landline telcos such as Verizon and AT&T). All calls that originate from a Wi-Fi hotspot are free. Given that most of us have those hotspots in our house and work, the vast majority of cell calls will be free.

While the phone choices are limited, I certainly expect more phone variety in the future and expect other cellular operators to begin offering the same and/or similar services.

Via BusinessWeek

Even if they’re so inclined, other carriers may have trouble following T-Mobile’s lead. Rivals are six to eight months away from being able to offer an @Home lookalike, says Shiv Bakhshi, director in charge of mobility research at consultancy IDC (IDC). After all, it took T-Mobile three years to develop the service, which necessitated a network upgrade and tweaks to the Wi-Fi router to improve battery life on the phones.

So, you ask… “what are the benefits?”

There are two singular (no pun intended AT&T) and very direct benefits: You can reduce your monthly cellular minute allowance and ditch your landline for good. The interesting thing is that the demographic that T-Mobile is targeting is the college to 26 year old crowd. Isn’t that the same target market as the iPhone?

Nice!

Hey, if you were wondering where I was going with the last post… I’m now ranked #117 on the official blogger salary list. For those that think a little deeper, I was also commenting on Paula’s recent traffic benefits from her initial efforts to put together the money list.

To see my position, click here… and no, it didn’t take me a year

The ripple is an interesting phenomenon.

Think of a pebble that falls into a vast body of water. It has an initial ripple effect, where a passerby will notice a change in the equilibrium. Then, the ripple disappears and equilibrium returns. Now compare that with someone digging an interncontinental tunnel, where the angle is off by 1%. The person that notices something askew will save the day. The tunnel could have been miles off its mark by that slight, almost imperceptible change at the outset.

It would seem that there are certain businesses where each small successive effort can have a vast effect, or where each small successive effort will turn into a non-factor.

The child that takes his 200′th step?
The person that presses the first key on the piano?
The salesman who smiles 27 seconds into the conversation?
The runner who runs the extra foot at the end of the 10 mile run?

Think of the guppie that found its mate under that pebble, built a family, and spawned millions of successive guppies.

Everything is important.

Just going through a somewhat intense period and will post shortly…

Hey, a really good tongue-twister is often hard to come by!

Granted, the title of the blog should really read AT&T Cell-to-Cell Sells Cells?… or will the new AT&T cell-to-cell service actually sell any mobile phones?

I think it has a pretty good chance.

While this service won’t work with the iPhone (even though it is brought to us by the same local American network that is debuting the iPhone, contrary to Engadget’s take), you have to suspect that it could achieve some level of success.

Ok, let me take a step back.

The cell-to-cell service will allow users to conduct a live video conversation with someone else using a cellular connection to converse cell to cell. Both sides must have enabled phones and both sides must have access to the 3G network. To limit the market further, the camera will have to be screen-side. It would be really annoying if the camera were to be found on the flip side of the phone.

Of course, this will get even more interesting once it’s connected to the computer and television. I’m looking forward to another source of interruption while I watch the Mets blow another one…