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Former top Apple fanboy now rocks all Android devices

We already know Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak uses both iOS and Android devices, but this week we learned that the former evangelist who helped create the original "cult of Mac" has left iOS behind and gone all Android.

It's been decades since Guy Kawasaki preached the gospel of Apple in the '80s, but only about a year since he jumped ship as an iPhone owner for an Android phone with 4G LTE -- the Droid Razr Maxx. Kawasaki was quoted in ReadWrite saying he no longer uses any Apple mobile products:

"I fell in love with Android on the smartphone, and then I got a Nexus 7 and started using Android on the tablet as well... To me the great irony is that Apple's slogan was 'Think Different,' but today if you think different you're looking at Android."… Read more

What I learned from Steve Jobs

guest column Many people have explained what one can learn from Steve Jobs. But few, if any, of these people have been inside the tent and experienced first hand what it was like to work with him. I don’t want any lessons to be lost or forgotten, so here is my list of the top 12 lessons I learned from Steve Jobs.

1. Experts are clueless Experts—journalists, analysts, consultants, bankers, and gurus can’t “do” so they “advise.” They can tell you what is wrong with your product, but they cannot make a great one. They can tell … Read more

Guy Kawasaki on 'Enchantment' (podcast)

Guy Kawasaki is best known as the evangelist at Apple who helped spread the gospel about the new Macintosh back when it was launched in 1984. He's also a prolific writer, speaker, investor, and entrepreneur. His latest venture is Alltop.com, which his book jacket describes as "an online magazine rack of popular topics on the Web."

Kawasaki's recent book, "Enchantment," is sort of a book for entrepreneurs and people whose job it is to promote products, but it's also a manual for achieving a positive outcome in any type of relationship. It'… Read more

VC's automated Twitter feed spreads malware

Updated June 25 at 9:00 a.m. PDT with Trend Micro saying the Trojan is harmful to Macs and PCs.

Venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki got more than he bargained for from an automated feed he set up on his Twitter account.

Some of Kawasaki's more than 139,000 Twitter followers noticed something strange when they saw a particular non-VC-related tweet sent from his account on Tuesday.

The update advertised a sexy video of "Gossip Girl" star Leighton Meester and had a link leading to a site where, if the visitor clicked to view the video (and … Read more

Guy Kawasaki gets the inside scoop from Hartmut Esslinger

Famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Internet entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki offers a colorful interview with Frog Design founder and legendary designer Hartmut Esslinger. Hartmut discusses his philosophy on design and his new book "A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business," to be published in June by Jossey-Bass. Hartmut talks about how Steve Job’s brain works and why the world’s richest companies continue to put out “crappy” products. Hartmut also reveals his top 10 best and worst products of all time.

Here's the article: The Inside Scoop on Design: Ten Questions with Hartmut Esslinger.&… Read more

Guy Kawasaki's Reality Check

Guy Kawasaki, the oracle of technology startups, is publishing a new book, Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition. It's a robust collection (450 pages) of posts from his blog, "How to Change the World." If you are seeking to change the world, especially in this economy, Guy's advice will be very worthwhile and entertaining. Check out the BNET video below with some tips from Guy:

Apparently, it's easy to make a million dollars

Or so says Guy Kawasaki,

as long as you have a good idea. You don't even have to work hard: a couple of hours a day in your underwear should be enough.

Wow! Who knew? I used to joke that I was the only one in Silicon Valley in 1998 to not make a billion dollars (I worked for a large Japanese company - Mitsui - at the time. Japanese firms aren't in the habit of making billionaires out of anyone). But now Guy tells us it's easy.

So here's my new plan:… Read more

Did you hear... Truemors doesn't suck

When former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki launched Truemors two months ago, the site was not well-received. The quality of the user-generated content on the site was low. The U.K. tech site The Inquirer called it the "worst Web site ever discovered."

But it's been a while, and the site has improved. Although Kawasaki is using the site as an example of what can be done on the Web when your personal brand is high and Web developers are cheap -- he says, "You can do a stupid thing for $12,000. Life is good!" … Read more

The truth behind Truemors

"You can do a stupid thing for 12 grand. Life is good!" So says Guy Kawasaki, founder of the gossipy site Truemors, keynoting here at the Launch Silicon Valley event today. He's pitching his startup in a backhanded way, running down some numbers behind his launch. Here are a few of them:

0: Number of business plans written (editorial note: it shows)

0: Number of VC meetings taken

$0: Marketing budget

$4,500: Total cost of software development ( Electric Pulp)

$399: Cost of logo design ( Logoworks)

$1,115: Cost of registering domains (55 in total)

1.5: … Read more