Author: Jorge Pereira

Lately I have been drawn into trying to understand the current world financial crisis, where are we, and what are the potential outcomes from where we are.. I thin I can trace my interest back to a book I read a  while back called  “The World is Flat (2005)”  by Thomas Friedman, which opened my…

I was visiting a client the other day, and right in front of his desk there was a small sign facing the visitor’s chair direction…    (sorry it was too obvious to take a picture) … Be Brief,   Be Bold, Be Gone… My first impression: Talk about old school time management!, but as I I thought…

I was doing some research on knowledge management last night, and came across this quote  from 1865 from an editorial in the Boston Post talking about the arrest for fraud of a Joshua Coopersmith, who had been attempting to raise funds for work on a telephone:   "Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit…

  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…

Jason Calacanis ( Wikipedia, website, @jason ) has done it again…   Side note: (I have learned so much from his 250+ This Week on Startups webcasts -   I have listen  or viewed every single one, and look forward to new ones every week) Jason sent out to his subscribers “The Age of Excellence”   which is…

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As I was reading today’s news there is a story for which I  simply had to write a comment about… Kodak ditches digital camera business Kodak will “phase out its dedicated capture devices business” — which includes digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames — in the first half of 2012. Wow !…

A couple of days ago, I watched the  Star Trek (2009)  movie again.  Such a great movie, so many good scenes here… The one that  deserved a blog entry today, the one in which Sarek (Spock’s dad)  tells his young son:   You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face…

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…

Interesting concept PnP   –  No, not the same as Plug and Play, but different… My job takes me  to many sales calls, and presentations , and I work  with many salespeople  (we all are, but that is a different article).   A few of them still  are in the habit of pitching ideas and…

  I just received an email (probably like many thousands  others)  letting me know of the release of WinZip 16. Such a GREAT product, it used to be a must have tool… My thoughts (mostly in order) as I glanced at the email: wow!  v.16 that is a high number! Have I seen any other…

Wishing you all the  very best in 2012! New Year’s resolutions: – Less butter – More blog postings! PS -Let’s hope the Maya’s were not right, and they simply ran out of space.

I just read this at www.Path.com and found it very relevant and appropriate and it hit a cord with me: “…Professor Robin Dunbar from Oxford University, whose research delves deeply into the number of trusted relationships humans can maintain throughout life. We tend to have 5 best friends, 15 good friends, 50 close friends and…

Afternoon Rest , a photo by jorper98 on Flickr. I love this picture – It is a very simple and functional piece used at the bottom of doors to protect them from carts wheels and hold them from swinging wide open. The pieces go largely unnoticed, but they someone took the time to make them…

For the past 30 years we have struggled (and some of us made a living) with managing, configuring and supporting PCs. For just as many years folks have been talking about ways to make this easier. After all maintaining PCs can be a very expensive endeavor for businesses and a time consuming task for homes…

Check out the demo of  inkling.com  at  the D9 conference. Very Impressive.  

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…

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:…

  I am not alone in my note to Facebook and my  distrust! -   According to a report in CNET News:  …a recent poll by Sophos indicated that 60% of users surveyed are considering quitting  Facebook over the privacy issues. good article that explains the issues …

  I think I’ve had enough of Facebook…  This is what I would write to them, if they cared…. Dear Facebook – Your disregard to the trust placed in you with my information and relationships has gone beyond the point in which I can accept. Your complex and confusing privacy settings options are out of…