Anyways, I think that the problem really lies in the way this phrase has come about over the years. People do not say that ‘I am in the IT profession’, they prefer to call themselves ‘IT Professionals’. So, does that mean that doctors are not professionals? It’s just that a person with a medical degree is called a Doctor & a person who has graduated from with a college of Architecture is called an Architect.

However, people with computer certification course or degree end up calling themselves as IT Professionals! In fact, in my line of work which is SEO, there’s no formal degree as such & therefore we have many people calling themselves as SEO Gurus, SEO Analysts etc.

So, bottom line is that I should not really be blaming these guys for calling themselves as IT Professionals, however the problem arises only if you are not professional in your work itself & then go on to call yourself as one. I just realized that this has been my first post without a linkout!

No I am not complaining, just overwhelmed at the amount of threads being generated.

Here’s the run down from MacWorld on Steve Jobs’s Keynote speech which was dominated by iPhone.

Macworld Expo Keynote Live Update Indepth details to his entire 2 hour speech.

High-quality images of Apple’s iPhone

CNN article on How Apple kept its iPhone secrets

Photos from Gizmodo of the iPhone

Slideshow from ZDNet about the iPhone Keynote

A few facts, which I would want to read or point out to people in a couple of days
These are from & during the Steve Jobs’s Keynote speech at 2007 Macworld Expo:

• 50% of Macs sold in the USA are to first time Mac buyers.
• The iPod Nano is the most popular MP3 player till date.
• iTunes sells 5 million songs a day !!!
• The iTunes Store has sold 50 million TV shows !
• Apple has sold more than 2 billion songs on its iTunes Store to date.
• iPhone price: $499 for a 4GB model with a two year contract & a 8GB model for $599

My take:

• Since the iPhone runs Mac OS X, I can see in the future, people switching from Vista to Mac OS X, to integrate all their mobile & laptop files.
• In other countries, will telecom carriers start partnering with Cingular?
• I can already see several domain names with ‘iPhone’ in it.
• I guess iPhone will be in the news throught 2007, so we shall be seeing lots of junk mail related to iPhone.
• At the end of the day, basic commuication [mobile] is more important than music [iPod]. So, on that basis, will iPhone eclipse iPod?

So, this domain name was worth it !!

2 new Zune user groups & Zune forums have been launched.

Zune Forum – Z Community

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123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
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12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

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12 x 9 + 3 = 111
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12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
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98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
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987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
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