[FailCon] How New York Times Gadget Guy Almost Lost His Job Using Microsoft Office Mac 2011! (Video)

October 26, 2010

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Internal bug list... yet to be fixed!

It’s a true story that just happened last week to New York Times tech columnist David Pogue!

Using Pogue’s own description, Office Mac 2011 is “buggy”, “un-stable”, “problematic”, and “missing features.” Something he experienced first hand when Outlook for Mac failed several times to send his review of the Microsoft software to his editor’s work email account (the one set by default) and got him almost sacked!

So before upgrading to Microsoft’s latest office suite for Mac, make sure to watch the video below first

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[FailCon] David Pogue: RIM BlackBerry Storm, A Piece O’ Crap (Video)

October 26, 2010

Why RIM failed the Blackberry Storm

During his keynote on consumer products failures, New York Times columnist David Pogue shared his personal RIM nightmare story with the audience here at FailCon.

For Pogue, RIM decided to ship the incomplete Blackberry Storm in the Fall of 2008 because it was under pressure to deliver it to Verizon for the start of the holiday season.

“It [Blackberry Storm] was horrible. It was a piece of crap. It was so filled with bugs, I will be on the phone every day with RIM… It just doesn’t work,” explains Pogue.

But what made this a complete disaster for RIM is it continuously denied that the Blackberry Storm had any problems, despite tons of consumer complaints on the Web and a devastating email Pogue received from one of the Storm team member:

“When you wrote that this product was released prematurely, you were absolutely right, and everybody here knew it… Internally, many of us argued that we would be hurting ourselves by rushing it out the door. Obviously, our managers disagreed,” reads the email.

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FailCon 2010… A Success ! (Video)

October 26, 2010

Cassie Phillipps, the executive producer of FailCon

Despite the name, the first conference on “failures” (starting, raising investments, scaling, exit…) was actually… a success!

Over 400 people showed up (up from 350 attendees last year) at the Kabuki Hotel in San Francisco to listen luminaries such as Esther Dyson, Paul Buchheit (Gmail, Friendfeed, Facebook), Jay Adelson (Digg, Revision3) or New York Times columnist David Pogue.

For next year, FailCon founder and executive producer Cassie “Cass” Phillipps plans to take, in early Fall, the FailCon concept overseas – Beijing, Paris and Buenos Ares.

“I hoping next year, pending the budget and the assistance, to do a series of international shows making them more like workshops: half day, 100 people, bring 3 speakers from here (San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley) and 3 speakers from the hosted place,” says Phillipps.

If you’re interested to help, contact Cass directly here.

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