National Geographic Channel – Back to GOOD Programming
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National Geographic Channel – Back to GOOD Programming

I saw this article in the WSJ today, and I am so happy to see confirmation that National Geographic Channel is returning to educational and interesting programming rather than the terrible reality shows they have been for the past few years… There has been several programs so far, that have been great! Before the Flood …

Google Is Closing Picasa – Google Photos Is Way Better
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Google Is Closing Picasa – Google Photos Is Way Better

It has been with me for as long as I can remember using the Internet, but it really has been with us for only 14 years..  ( According to Wikipedia: Picasa was an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named…

How to Engage Millennials
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How to Engage Millennials

Definitely a current topic! Finally emerging from the shadows of Gen Xers, most millennials are now in the workforce. But study after study has shown that millennials are different from Gen Xers and even from Baby Boomers, the generation that raised them. ” Develop long-term  niche relationships”   https://www.visioncritical.com/how-engage-millennials-customer-insight-and-marketing/ 2015-09-23T00:00:16-05:00

Stupidipity.com
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Stupidipity.com

Stupidipity.com very Funny Stories and Site  People tend to do stupid stuff just to get some attention or gain some popularity…cheap popularity to be exact.  However, some people actually do these dim-witted things without any intention of the sort…in other words, clueless acts of stupid.  These acts, intentional or unintentional, and the discovery of them…

Five Reasons to use CRM in your Business
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Five Reasons to use CRM in your Business

You need to do all you can to give your business the edge within the marketplace.  Customer Relationship Management  (CRM) software allows you to keep, maintain, search and centralize information about your customers which in turn increases your ability to focus on business for success.   More information means better relationships.  When you use CRM…

Friday Humor
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Friday Humor

I got a BIG laugh when I heard about this on the news last night regarding the issues the healthcare signup website is having. Reporter:   Do you feel confident the issues with the web site will be addressed? Project Manager:  I feel very confident they [ the contrator ] said the issues will be addressed…

What happened to printed encyclopedias?
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What happened to printed encyclopedias?

What ever happened to printed encyclopedias? That is a question usually asked by older generations as many of the youth today have never really had a daily interaction with this printed media. Most people today are used to receiving information via their digital books or other paperless mediums that are better for the environment. We…

The wave ahead: Digital Content on 200 Million tablets
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The wave ahead: Digital Content on 200 Million tablets

In one of my previous postings, I talked about the amazing growth of digital content fueled, as of late, by tablet devices.   One industry that is being forced to change leaps and bounds is the publishing industry. Just last week, it was leaked that two major player in this space, Random House and Penguin, were…

Digital Content Consumption-Tablet Devices in the Driver Seat
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Digital Content Consumption-Tablet Devices in the Driver Seat

This week, Microsoft was the latest to enter the tablet device marketplace with its Surface device. Earlier this year, Google released the Google Nexus 7 to compete in the ever-growing tablet market place along with iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Kindle Fire, and so many others… (The 2012-2013 holiday season will be an interesting one!)

Good Photo Gallery Application
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Good Photo Gallery Application

For a while now, I have been looking for a photo gallery application.  I’ve tried almost everything, from hosted services to  open source apps (Flickr, SmugMug, 500px, Google+, Photobucket (being updated soon), Gallery, Shutterfly, Facebook (ugh!) and many others.. ) and there is always something missing… I need a workhorse.. (or tug boat!)   As…

Google+ Hangout On Air –  Genius!
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Google+ Hangout On Air – Genius!

  On Monday of this  week Google announced  the general availability of Google+ Hangout On Air. A great very personal “webcast” overview of the service by the Google team can be found  here  or you can listen to it below… [youtube_sc url=T1E__F8eNJ0 width=330]   This recorded session gives an overview of the setup, a professional broadcaster…

Google Drive: Have Cloud Drives  Lost  Their Way?
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Google Drive: Have Cloud Drives Lost Their Way?

  With this week’s introduction of Google Drive,   the conversation about “cloud drives”  has significantly increased amongst the tech community…  But have we lost a bit of focus on what a cloud drive is ? To me,   and granted, I might not be in the majority here, there is a simple definition: To be able…

Worth noting: Last entry for Encyclopaedia Britannica book.
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Worth noting: Last entry for Encyclopaedia Britannica book.

You got to take note about a small piece of yesterday’s news: After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print, instead focusing on its online encyclopedia,yesterdays Publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia. Not unexpected, but the fact that it was finally announced it is amazing… 244 years!   Sources: Encyclopedia Britannica…

Internet Parental Controls Enforced
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Internet Parental Controls Enforced

Like many of you parents out there, we have a real issue with  our kids Internet access habits…   They are online at all times, talking to their friends, surfing YouTube or playing multi-player online  games.     The Internet has  become a large part of our everyday activities, so we are not necessarily oppose to these activities, but the…

To Netflix: Must Try Something else now
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To Netflix: Must Try Something else now

After several months  of back and forth, this past weekend (long weekend)  we finally came to realization that the current Netflix offering is just not working for us anymore…    When the rate increase changed, earlier this year,  we switched to streaming only, but, simply put,  the current  streaming selection sucks! Recent news events that…

Boring Statistics – No More!
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Boring Statistics – No More!

Who said statistics need to be dull…. Excellent video : titled Social Media Revolution 3 (4:15 version via Erik Qualman) based on the book Socialnomics by +Erik Qualman — [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EnhXn5boM]   Back in 2009 I was exposed to the same style video called “Did You Know? 3.0 ” which conveyed a number of statistic, in a very refreshing matter…

Is email going the way of regular mail?
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Is email going the way of regular mail?

First some astonishing statistics: (Source: PingDom: Internet 2010  in numbers) 107 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2010. 294 billion – Average number of email messages per day. 1.88 billion – The number of email users worldwide. 89.1% – The share of emails that were spam. (that is 269 billion emails) 2.9 billion – The number of email…

US Broadband Infrastructure falling behind
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US Broadband Infrastructure falling behind

A few  days ago (5/13/2011), I saw a segment in the PBS.org series Need To Know that talked to how strategic Europe sees the upgrade of their broadband infrastructure.  More interesting is that it is being financed privately. As the program shows, the result have transformational. Fast forward to at time stamp: 24:50 time stamp. Watch the full episode. ( Broadband Infrastructure:…

iPad thoughts – the first 2 weeks
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iPad thoughts – the first 2 weeks

  Very interesting device.   For me, it is definitely a consumption device.  Netflix, web-surfing,  news and blog reader, drawing and playing games with my kids, and some YouTube.      The video quality is amazing, the magazine reader is excellent, the battery second to none… Very good for easy blog postings and lite-email writing during my daily…

slideshare World’s Best Presentations 2009
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slideshare World’s Best Presentations 2009

Back at the September 2009 slideshare.net ran an online contest to find the world’s best presentations.   I have completely forgotten to check the finalists until I ran across an old email reminding me about it.   I went in to the slideshare.net 2009 winner’s page and was surprise to find the winner to be a presentation…

AWS: Free inbound Data transfers until June’10
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AWS: Free inbound Data transfers until June’10

From Amazon Web Services Email today: Free Inbound Data Transfer (until June 30, 2010) Data Transfer into AWS will be free of charge from now through June 30, 2010, making it even easier for customers to get their data into AWS. This applies to data transfer into Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational…

AWS: Free inbound Data transfers until June2010
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AWS: Free inbound Data transfers until June2010

From Amazon Web Services Email today: Free Inbound Data Transfer (until June 30, 2010) Data Transfer into AWS will be free of charge from now through June 30, 2010, making it even easier for customers to get their data into AWS. This applies to data transfer into Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational…