Show Me Your Desktop, Guy Kawasaki
If you missed last week’s interview with the lovely (as David Letterman would say) Rebecca Bollwitt you can still read it. This week I’m very proud to ask Guy Kawasaki to Show Me Your Desktop.
Guy Kawasaki saved Apple, (according to some he resurrected Apple twice), is managing director and founder of Garage Technology Venture, one of the founders behind Truemors.com and launched Alltop.com last week.
Guy’s latest site Alltop.com is inspired by popurls.com, except Alltop has divided the news into topics. Alltop grabs the feeds from the top sites within each topic. The topics range from Auto and Celebrities to Macintosh and Sports. It basically gives you the latest headlines from 50+ websites within each topic. I discovered a few gaming sites I didn’t know, not to mention the very valuable Green topic. Remember you have to reduce your CO2 emission.
Now during the interview you will see, why Guy resurrected Apple and see an interviewer who never could do that. I’ll have to reword my future interviews for season 3.
What is your background picture?
I did the Leopard update, and this is what was left.
Why did you chose that picture?
I never bothered to change it after the upgrade. I should be getting a MacBook Air shortly and maybe I’ll make an effort to have a cool desktop.
If you have a personal and a work computer, which program do you use the most on your personal computer?
I only have one computer. The application that I use most is Entourage because I am a slave to email.
Since I spoke to Guy, he has converted to Mac Air and uses two computers regularly. The Mac Air and iMac.
Internet Explorer or Firefox?
*BEEP* This is where yours truly reveals his Mac-noobness. Guy is very overbearing and takes it pretty well, for a man who breathes Mac.
You have to read the rest of the interview with Guy Kawasaki on The Beta News this is not the only question, where I display my Mac ignorance. :-/
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One thing is sure, I’ll never forget about Macintosh again. The interview has inspired me to start a new blog. I’ve been a PC user for nearly 20 years and never given Macs much thought (sorry Guy). I’ve supported a Mac-user once and it was a nightmare.
From now on all the money I earn from my blog will go into the “Buy a Mac”-pool. I’ll pack my PCs (laptop and stationary) down and just use a Mac Notebook, Mac Air or whatever they are called for an entire year and blog about it. From day 1 where I open the box and write my first blog post to day 365 where I’ll evaluate my experience. I’ve got a sneaky suspicion that the Mac will surprise me.
Sorry for the rambling, but the thought just hit me. Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my questions Guy! I’m honoured to have such great and inspirational people in my interview series.
You have to read the rest of the interview with Guy Kawasaki on The Beta News.
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Comment by Eva White on 15 February 2008:
I checked out the site Alltop.com. It’s a good site. Definitely a lot of information is put up and seems like a lot of research has also been done.
Comment by Micah on 15 February 2008:
Mac’s are pretty neat - I’m still partial to my Dell though. Guy’s a pretty interesting person.
Comment by Zath on 16 February 2008:
I’m still not sure I’d get along with Macs despite having had a play on them a couple of times - just not sure it’s for me, I quite Vista now I’ve got it working well - yeah it took a while, but now I’m there with it.
Comment by Everton on 17 February 2008:
@Zath
I’m the same as you. I think the move to a mac will be like the initial move to Vista but worse i.e. all those little apps you never appreciated fully won’t work anymore. I spend most of time in a browser and watching media anyway, so what the OS does is pretty irrelevant I think.
Comment by Vinod on 18 February 2008:
Hi Everton!
I’ve already left Windows for good. You can read about it at my blog. Hope you too get a Mac soon
Comment by testertestes on 23 May 2008:
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