Jobs has revolutionized the way we see tech gadgets. He's a charismatic leader, a visionary. If he'll ask all Apple fanboys to jump off the cliff so he'll tell them the next big gadget, everyone will follow.  

I'm exaggerating, of course, but looking at how Apple gained grounds in the last decades because of his leadership, I think that description is not far from the reality.

He has resigned, the Apple community is disheartened, and Apple stocks are down by 5% today. Who knows how further the stocks will react to this news in the next couple of days more.

My thoughts on his resignation from where I'm coming from as an entrepreneur and an "idiotes" leader of an organization:

1. While Jobs has made Apple strong almost single handedly, all organizations will have to come to reality that everyone has an "expiration date". No leader can lead forever. And to build an organization around a leader might be a mistake that can be felt when the leader leaves the organization. This is

2. This is my case for personality-driven leadership vs. vision-driven leadership. In my opinion, an organization that has built their organization around a strong vision and mission can better withstand the time and storm of its life.

3. I think Steve Jobs is a great leader. And as a great leader, his leadership can be further acknowledged on how he has positioned others to succeed, how he has driven a vision for his company and how the community and members of the organization will respond to the vision and not with the person.

Just recently, TV5 approached us to work on an ambitious project. It is unique, in a sense that I I have never seen anything like that done in the past. The concept is simple but the technology behind it is not.

TV5 is about to launch a new tv show hosted by Aga Muhlach. Pinoy Explorer, as I heard, brings Aga to different places. And to hype up this show, they launched a site called NasaanSiAga.com. The concept: people will guess Aga's first destination (hence, "NasaanSiAga?"). They will tweet their answers together with the hashtag #nasaansiaga. But that's not all. While people are tweeting, the website collates the Twitter thumbnails of those who participated in, transforms it into photo mosaic on top of a portion of the flag of the location where Aga's first destination. As the number of tweets goes closer to 10,000, the flag is revealed little by little. All happening on-the-fly. Sort of (we update it every 10 minutes). 

As of writing, the flag is on 14.1%. And with all those Twitter thumbnails photo-mosiac'ed, man — what a beautiful sight.

I'm not sure if I'm ok to reveal the technology behind this. Not while it is running, I guess. But definitely, no Flash technology involved. All heavy weight PHP, Linux, cron jobs and Twitter API programming.

Carlo Ople, TV5's new media head, calls this "mission: impossible". I'd say, it probably is. Before the cool dudes at TV5 and TeamSparrow pulled this thing off ;) 

Mr. Bridges: I heard of a story of two farmers praying to God for rain to come. Both prayed but only one prepared the land. Who do you think trusted God more to send the rain?

I've been invited to attend the "Steps to Financial Peace" seminar this coming Friday, August 12, 2011. With life and personal finance coach Randell Tiongson (with popular leadership coach Francis Kong as guest, among others) downloading all these knowledge to attendees, I'm sure this whole day teaching will be a great time to be equipped with necessary tools to financial management. 

Every entrepreneur should check this out! Here's the complete description of the seminar.