Logo – This is cool !
This was an experiment. I sent the logo file in .png format and this is was returned 3 days later… [youtube_sc url=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/CbhQxERissE” rel=”0″ showinfo=”0″] The price was fixed fee: $5.00…
Online Income: Useful Pointers
This is part of a series (online business journey) With your comments plus other findings I come acress, I plan to continue to update list in the future…This is different than the resources page on the site, as it does not contain any affiliate links. This is for pure reference for everyone to see. Side…
Windows 8 – USB Drivers Signature Issue
On Monday, I was trying to place a presentation on a USB drive on my Windows 8 machine, and after a several attempts (different ports and drives) I discover that the USB drivers in Device Manager all had issues. I had no idea what had happened, as no matter what I did, they would not…
Windows 8 Impressions After 30 days
I have been using Windows 8 RTM (and Office 2013 Preview) on my primary laptop for about 30 days now, and have been very pleased with the experience. I am a semi-typical knowledge worker / technology consultant who travels a lot. My office is wherever I can find a small desk area and an internet…
Enabling Plugin to Auto-post to Twitter
I have just enabled plug in WP to Twitter so I can auto-issue tweets based on a particular category. Working smoothly. Nice work Joseph Dolson !
Going Paperless Means Backups
STOP!!! If you’ve started the process of going paperless in your home or office you need to stop and ask yourself one question, “since I started going paperless have I backed up any of these new files?” If the answer to that question is anything but yes, you need to start working on a data…
Link Redirection and Count
Every book, eBook, blog and podcast I have read, mentions the same thing: You got to be able to account for your incoming and outgoing traffic. When setting up blog you must be able to track your statistics (not only the people coming in, but also which links within the site are more effective than…
Cloud Services 101 – Welcome
Cloud computing (or cloud services) is the new buzz in the world of IT services. The term, which is still pretty nebulous for many users, refers to a model in which computing resources are hosted and delivered via the Internet than can dynamically grow and shrink depending on its demand and you pay only for…
Online Income: Research Summary 1
This is part of a series (online business journey) As mentioned in the previous post First Research, I began the process by doing a bit of research. After the first couple of weeks of reading and listening to a number of resources (will post them separately, a bit of a theme started to resonate with…
Online Income: My Goals
This is part of a series (online business journey) Now that I have listed a few of the items I have learned through the research, I need to write down my goals and objectives so I can Long Term Goal: Disconnect my income stream from the hours I actually work. Being able to live and…
Test of AutoTweet from WordPress
I wanted to be able to automatically send a tweet when a new blog post was published… After looking at several options, I settled on WP to Twitter Plug in By Joseph Dolson. This is a post to test the newly installed WP to Twitter plugin. Great
Enabled a link redirection within the site.
One common thing everyone has mentioned when setting up blogs is that you must be able to track your statistics (not only the people coming in, but also which links within the site are more effective than others, so I 16ot on to searching… My requirements were simple: easy to use within the administration site not…
Paperless: Selecting a Digital Format
When planning to convert your office from traditional file storage to a paperless office it is important to consider what file format – digital format – will provide the most benefits before you implement anything. When your office is paperless, it’s important to find a file format that is secure, widely used, publicly available and…
Theme Decisions!
I have spent so much time trying to figure out my new theme… I was fine with the theme I had at WordPress.com but when I moved to my own hosted instance, found out that the theme was not longer available for download.
Initial Thoughts on Windows 8
I have been using Windows 8 on my primary laptop for about 30 days now, and have been very pleased with the experience. I am a semi-typical knowledge worker / technology consultant who travels a lot. My office is wherever I can find a small desk area and an internet connection. My laptop is configure…
Online Income: First Research
This is part of a series (online income) The first step is a bit (maybe more than a bit) of education! I started, of course, by going on Google and typing “How to Make Money Online” The first entry that was not an advertisement was:
September 2012 and beyond.
This will be the first post of what I hope to be an informative and useful series ahead. They will be under the category: Online Business I have been in the technology business for over 25 years, and for the vast part of them, they have been good years. My work has consisted of helping…
Reminder to Self: Enable Remote Publishing
When you migrate from WordPress.com into your own hosted instance of WordPress, there is a setting you need to enable if you are using Microsoft’s LiveWritter (or any other tool like it) to write blogs. XML-RPC — By default it is disabled. To enable it, you go into Settings –> Writing and towards the bottom…
Tip: Listening to any web page/blog
An very interesting web application that has just been updated and is very much worth checking into. So many times I come across an excelent blog or web page, that is a bit too long, or simply do not have the time to read at that moment… ( yes, i save them to pocket –…
Going Paperless at the Office
When an office starts to consider going paperless – going paperless at the office – one of the first benefits sited is that they will be able to reduce the cost of purchasing paper to supply their office. What many businesses may not realize is that the true benefits of going paperless in an office…
Going Paperless at Home
Whether you run a business in your home or you’re a home maker trying to get rid of all those stacks of bills and papers, going to a paperless at home can not only help you keep better track of your personal files better but can increase the security of your private information and documents….
BYOD Strategy Series: Welcome
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has been a latest buzzword in the IT landscape. BYOD has been the cause of a range of issues for companies and employees alike. A recent survey uncovered some startling facts about BYOD and the approaches people are using with regards to managing, or not managing, personal devices in the…
What To Go Paperless With?
In the article, “Going Paperless” we sited the definition of Paperless, and the fact that with today’s available technology and tools the goal of going paperless has never been more achievable by so many. Let’s discuss now what it may mean to you to you go paperless, and consider considering the two major areas in…
Using your Desktop from your Tablet
You want access to your desktop from your tablet device ? I have been trying several of the available apps to remotely access my desktop from my tablet devices (I have an iPad and a Nexus 7 – Android), but the ones I have tried are usually clunky, slow, hard to setup or simply do…
Benefits of Going Paperless
There are many benefits to going paperless. Bottom line it will save you time and money.
I like what i do, but sometimes…
… it can get to me. 95% of the time I love what I do. I managed to turn my hobby into a career which I have been doing for 25 years… My interest and what my hobby used to be is what I do… So why is it that sometimes, I wonder…
Going Paperless at Home/Office: Introduction
Since the creation of the computer and data storage, people have been making every attempt to transition from their cluttered offices full of paper and rooms (or attics) full of file cabinets into a paperless, streamlined and easy to search environment. As technology has evolved, so has our ability to make the transition into paperless.Whether…
Tweets for August 2012
My Twitter tweets (@jorper98) for above mentioned period follow: 2012-08-30 01:55:21 Average Household Has 5 Connected Devices, While Some Have 15-Plus – Bloomberg http://t.co/xkAjv6mi 2012-08-29 02:33:45 Windows 8 Tip: Virtualize with Hyper-V http://t.co/1iqV2IJw 2012-08-28 19:08:43 Good tip: How to use LastPass in Windows 8 Metro Internet Explorer (kind of) http://t.co/CIHEq3dD 2012-08-28 12:56:13 Excellent article:…
What is BYOD?
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is the latest trend in workplace IT deployment and one that all businesses are going to have to address whether they embrace it or not. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is defined by Wikipedia as: ‘the recent trend of employees bringing personally-owned mobile devices to their place of work, and…
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…
Microsoft System Center WebCasts
Microsoft teams have been doing a fantastic job keeping the webcast events on System Center available for playback if you were not able to make it when live. I think this series is a must for all of us working with System Center TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft Does IT: Deploying Windows 7 Using System Center…
Tweets for July 2012
My Twitter tweets for this month follow: 2012-07-29 18:01:53 Lessons from a big iPad enterprise adopter | ITworld http://t.co/Y3zWtZVb 2012-07-23 22:04:03 BYOD: The CIO Catch-22 | Guest Opinions | http://t.co/XIiElcl2 http://t.co/aTwmg09X 2012-07-22 13:10:03 RT @FastCompany: “Encourage critical thinking during meetings.” http://t.co/5crWHnZZ 2012-07-22 10:48:35 Excellent article: Evolution of a Home Page: 37signals Basecamp http://t.co/C9hOrfE7 2012-07-21 06:39:31 Pocket…
TechEd SCCM 2012 Related Sessions
Microsoft is doing a great job at letting folks that could not attend TechEd 2012 access the great content that was presented. There is a ton that is changing… exciting times for sure!! They have made most sessions available on their MSDN Channel9 site which you can browse, search, download the video and the…
Post Install Steps Ubuntu 12.04 Pointer
Blog post: Post install steps Ubuntu 12.04
Kudos to DebianHelp team for a fantastic post on what to do after installation of Ubuntu 12.04…
Wow! So much information — Most definitely worth the read…
TechEd SCCM 2012 Sessions
As mentioned in an earlier post, Microsoft is doing a great job at letting folks that could not attend TechEd 2012, access the great content that was presented.. There is a ton that is changing… exciting times for sure!! Now they have made most session available on their MSDN Channel9 site which you can…
Tweets for June 2012
My tweets & reads for June 2012 follow: Date:Time (UTC) Tweet 2012-06-28 18:21:27 Good! — The Supreme Court of the United States upholds reforming health insurance in the USA – http://t.co/8jghIWq6 2012-06-26 06:42:49 The state of the economy: USA and World. Where are we heading? http://t.co/sN9kotXB 2012-06-26 05:14:09 …
Where are we heading?
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…
Tweets for May 2012
My Twitter tweets and reads for May 2012 follow: Date:Time (UTC) Tweet 2012-05-30 15:06:28 Interesting Comments! — http://t.co/GqTItpdK 2012-05-30 13:30:50 Good tool: Scheduled sending and email reminders | Boomerang for Gmail http://t.co/aKI3SOPV 2012-05-30 13:09:59 The Current Status of BYOD: Not Working as Planned at Cisco, IBM … http://t.co/K5DXKGBZ…
Old School Management or not
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…
Not every idea is on time…
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…
Lync Mobile Deployment Considerations
Article Written by: Rob West If you are a Lync system administrator or IT Pro, you’ve probably heard about Lync Mobility clients being released. Such a cool thing. One-click conference joining, mobile presence, etc. Why wouldn’t you just roll it out, organization wide to everyone with a mobile phone or tablet? Well, just slow down…
MCU in the Cloud
Article written by Rob West If you’ve got Lync, or another Voice over IP and collaboration solution in your organization, you’ve likely also got another video conferencing solution. Or, let’s say that you only have one, but your clients and partners have another one or two or three. What happens when you want to bridge…
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…
Era of Excellence…
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…
Tweets for April 2012
My Twitter tweets and reads for April 2012 follow: Date:Time (UTC) Tweet 2012-04-29 00:04:39 Simply amazing…. Apple’s Growth In Context (AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, FB, AMZN) http://t.co/LdbYj6jp 2012-04-28 18:38:35 @Shahkaal Thanks Sheraz – you inspired me to write a blog post on this topic! http://t.co/vJlkvm7A 2012-04-28 18:37:28 Blog post:…
Doodling on the iPad…
I am using my iPad more for content creation… You can say what you want, but in the end, It is an amazing device…
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…
MMS2012 content available
Could not attend MMS2012 in Vegas this year? Not to worry! Microsoft has posted all of the PowerPoint and videos for free at http://www.mms-2012.com/digitalmms regardless if you attended or not. You can register and browse through the sessions… Thank you Microsoft!! For those of you that want to download the content for offline viewing: Videos:…
Couldn’t make MMS 2012 conference?
Not to worry! Microsoft has posted all of the PowerPoint and videos at http://www.mms-2012.com/digitalmms regardless if you attended or not, you can register and browse through the sessions… Thank you Microsoft!! For those of you that want to download the content for offline viewing: Videos: Stefan Roth has created a PowerShell script that will…
Blog writing on my iPad
It has been an interesting challenge. Using my iPad to type an article (offline), save it locally, make revisions over time, add some pictures and then, when its ready, post it to the correct blog. Been searching for an app for a while. I have used many, some paid, some free, and they always fall…
Hello world! WordPress.org site…
Welcome to WordPress. Today I moved my wordpress.com hosted blog.jorgep.com into my own hosted version. More to come on my experience, but it has been exceptionally good.. It is an amazing product! — I have not figured out yet how to reroute old links into the new links, but I am working on it…
Moving Weekend
This weekend I moved this blog from wordpress.com into my own WP hosted instance. (Thanks to WordPress for making the migration as easy as exporting a file, and importing it into your new site… — There is a bit more than that and I plan write more details shortly, but that is essentially it!… Actually…
Tweets for March 2012
My tweets / reads for March 2012 follow: Date:Time (UTC) Tweet 2012-03-31 16:48:56 Dell Expands Portfolio of Desktop Virtualization Solutions for Light IT and Complex IT Environmen… http://t.co/Z21q5M9A 2012-03-28 22:45:16 Developing A BYOD Strategy: The 5 Mistakes To Avoid http://t.co/QVZEIgbT 2012-03-28 22:42:30 VMware shows his…
Cloud Services: Primer
I am asked often to about this topic, having written a number of individual posts in the past, I thought, why not put it all together? So here it is… Let me know if you find it useful or have any comments! – Cheers. Cloud computing (or cloud services) is the new buzz in the…
Updated IPD from Microsoft
The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides series have been updated to reflect the version upgrades and changes to the Microsoft product line in the past few months. Definitely worth the review: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc196387.aspx As a reminder: The series is a collection of documents that leads the reader through a sequence of core decision points to…
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…
Want to Archive your tweets to your blog? Part 2
End of last year, I decided to use my blog to backup my Twitter account by placing a (mostly) semi-monthly blog entry with the tweets for that time period… After looking around for a simple tool that would allow me to do this, I end up doing the work semi-manually using cut and paste a…
Tweets for February 2012
My Twitter tweets for February 2012 follow: Date Tweet 2012-02-29 14:29:45 Steven Sinofsky Is The Heir Apparent of Microsoft – http://t.co/7U1mTCH9http://t.co/InBEnbUJ 2012-02-29 13:14:34 Great Data & Analysis on Social Media Growth 2006-2011 by #dstevenwhitehttp://t.co/2bvnNSEU 2012-02-29 12:51:38 What is Tumblr? by Jonno Rodd – Marketing Freelancer http://t.co/qlsGEEaL 2012-02-29 05:02:52 Dell is not only a hardware company. eWeek http://t.co/rGI0hQAW 2012-02-29 04:56:33…
Windows 8 Consumer Preview installed
With just the right amount of hype, Microsoft releases Windows 8 Consumer Preview. It is far better than the developer’s release back in September 11, 2011 and you can tell they have been working fast and furious, keeping to a tight schedule. Definitely good stuff. I installed it on one of my virtual machines,…
Social Media Statistics as of Feb 2012–Consolidated
There has been a lot of posts lately regarding stats on the main social media sites… As I was reviewing them , I noticed each had it own way of presenting the information with a different metric or measurement (some by month, some by day, some as a percentage while others by the numbers) and …
Changed my theme.
I just changed my theme. Moved from The Journalist v1.0 to INove by mg12. The first theme served me well for years, but now that I am consolidating my website and blog, I need the capability of menu items, and a few other things. This will really be my hub for most of me 🙂
Windows 8 Logo: Everything old is new again?
It is interesting how things come around… Also — wasn’t Google the one that was going for a design with 41 shades of blue?
World Internet Usage Statistics
Very interesting statistics on Internet usage from a global perspective. Couple of things to call out: North America is #3 by number of Internet users North America is #1 by Internet penetration World Internet Usage Statistics News and World Population Stats. Source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm Data is as of December 31, 2011.
What is Kodak to do
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 !…
Tweets for January 2012
My Tweets for January 2012 follow: Date Tweet 2012-01-31 16:11:21 Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell http://t.co/MdD69T2d 2012-01-30 16:11:46 Hierarchy of Need: Consumerization of IT – what it means for the Architecthttp://t.co/qnpH1RGh 2012-01-30 16:09:10 Manage IT consumerization to benefit the company: 5 policy keys http://t.co/n27xl9rO 2012-01-30 16:06:33 Consumerization in 2012: Cloud and mobile blurs into other people’s…
You are fully capable…
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…
Move from Physical Image to Virtual
There are many reasons you would like to convert a Desktop/ Laptop image into a virtual image. They may include: Backup / easy recovery Want to access your image while on the road Tired of traveling with multiple devices Today is fairly easy to convert a physical desktop/laptop into a virtual one. Although I focus…
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…
Pitch and Pray – PnP
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…
WinZip: How many versions back are you?
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…
Tweets for December 2011
My tweets for December 2011 follow: Date Tweet 2011-12-31 18:08:57 Five tips for your 2012 social media strategy http://t.co/WwkqFCRh 2011-12-31 18:05:03 The Fine Line Between Success and Failure: Creating What You Want Most in 2012 – Forbes http://t.co/ipjStLAK 2011-12-31 17:56:16 Like Hell Facebook Is Killing Google (GOOG) http://t.co/KlvmWhCF 2011-12-30 15:47:03 2011′s Executive Compensation Highlights (and Lowlights) |http://t.co/Xp0Zl57p 2011-12-30…
Best to all in 2012!
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.
Want to Archive your tweets to your blog?
I did, and I ended up in quite a digital journey… Prelude: If you are a bit like me, you have multiple important (and not so important) digital places in which you keep things at. Heck! you probably have multiple blogs, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and so on accounts. Background: One day a while back, after…
Microsoft Hyper-V
When considering VMware to address the Server Virtualization environment, take a moment to consider another more cost effective alternative: Microsoft Virtual Server. Although Virtual Server does not currently offer VMware features such as VMotion, Site Recovery, Converter, etc. Microsoft is spending a lot of development dollars making sure that the Virtual Server environment is in…
5-15-50 Close Friends and Family
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…
Tweets Archives: November 2011
My tweets for 2011-11 are: 11/03/11 19:58:03 VDI Printing from The Virtualization Practice Blog http://t.co/ZNMsFE3X 11/04/11 14:16:35 Release: Citrix XenClient 2.1 http://t.co/bs3QuyRK 11/04/11 14:23:13 Printing Architectures for VDI – Part 2 http://t.co/nXcI6iWn 11/04/11 14:23:22 Making an Educated Decision on View 5.0 or XenDesktop 5.5 http://t.co/wRmRMtns 11/04/11 14:27:01 Desktop virtualization smackdown: Parallels vs. VMware vs. VirtualBox…
Reading Book: I live in the future….
I am reading the book: I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted by Nick Bilton… So far it is has an excellent point of view for content creators. Have not finished yet, but I am enjoying it, and have made many notes…
Tweets Archive: October 2011
My Tweets for October 2011 were: 10/01/11 17:41:07 Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 vs. Nook Color — Good explanation. http://t.co/Ktu7a36i 10/01/11 18:13:35 Good food for thought! http://t.co/6Vp457vC 10/01/11 18:36:20 Video: Brian Madden explains the Consumerization of IT in 3 minutes – Brian Madden – BrianMadden.com http://t.co/btLVnDrQ 10/01/11 18:45:01 US SMB SaaS CRM Market Set…
Tweets Archive: September 2011
My Tweets for 2011-09 follow: 09/04/11 06:05:15 Enterprise License Optimization: Microsoft licensing in VDI environments http://t.co/4zKW0Aq 09/04/11 06:10:59 Amazon Is Only Launching A 7? Tablet? Genius. (Plus A Mockup!) http://t.co/F3oZ6Wl 09/04/11 06:15:05 Netflix loses Starz contract, content to be pulled February 28 http://t.co/okhdpRR 09/05/11 17:01:02 Great graphic! RT @cloudtweaks: Infographic: The Cloud Computing Stratosphere http://t.co/NJdZzuO…
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…
Tweets Archive: August 2011
My tweets for August 2011 were: 08/02/11 02:35:05 Chrome still pushing forward, IE8 falls below 30%, IE6 falls below 10% – TechSpot News http://bit.ly/qwr5j4 08/08/11 00:19:20 Forget About Devices! Why IT Execs Should Focus On Content http://onforb.es/p5leap 08/09/11 17:17:27 10-Year Stock Comparasion: Microsoft, Amazon, Google & Apple. http://bit.ly/ohSL7I 08/09/11 18:10:44 Dropbox has 25 million users…
Tweets Archive to: 2011-07-30
My tweets for period: 7/16 – 7/30/2011 follow: 07/16/11 01:25:58 Ineresting point of view: Google+: One Hell Of A Trojan Horse http://tcrn.ch/noNOME 07/16/11 01:29:35 Desktop virtualization offers a solution to the consumerization of IT puzzle | ITworld http://bit.ly/pZF6nu 07/16/11 17:28:25 A Tale Of Two Countries: The Growing Divide Between Silicon Valley And Unemployed America http://tcrn.ch/nPgdaQ…
Afternoon Rest
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…
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…
GooglePlus First Impressions
I love it! – ..but I must also be honest A few initial thoughts and ramblings — First – a big THANKS (bold, italics and underlined) to my teenage son for inviting me in!! — ( He did made me beg for it (a little) but let me easily it is funny that…
Tweets Archive for 2011-07-15
Tweet archives for periord: 7/1 – 7/15 2011 07/01/11 06:35:07 I just connected my @klout account with LinkedIn. Connect and see how your @klout improves! http://t.co/Zaq2vVn 07/01/11 14:26:38 Reap the benefits of desktop virtualization: cut IT costs, secure data & more. Get the white paper. http://bit.ly/jhZVWB 07/02/11 16:32:10 How to patch virtualized Office 2010 sequenced…
For Fun: My name in multiple languages
I had a little time in between flights, and ran across the much improved Google translate… So I why not play a bit… 🙂
The Engagement Pyramid
Going through my ReaditLater.com pending queue, I found this great Groundwire article from By Gideon Rosenblatt which I had marked several months back A couple of quotes: …The most effective social change organizations understand how to wield their portfolio of engagement tactics in Zen-like fashion… …At Groundwire, we use a framework for mapping these different levels…
Tweets Archive: June 2011
My tweets for the month are: 06/01/11 01:44:56 How Google Takes 54 Cents From Every Dollar Spent On Web Advertising http://read.bi/lI0Pg1 06/01/11 01:48:48 Paper: Windows 7 IOPS for VDI: Deep Dive http://bit.ly/lsTPp2 06/01/11 07:14:19 Asus unveils smartphone-tablet combo, the Padfone – TechSpot News http://bit.ly/mhhmOj 06/02/11 21:10:19 Microsoft’s Windows 8 Demo From D9 (Video) – AllThingsD…
Roku Device
Got a Roku HD device and installed it – Goood user interface for the TV format… Netflix, Hulu, on demand PBS, NPR and TV NEW — The only downside: No YouTube…
Chromebooks for Business
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…
The Future of Textbooks Finally here
Check out the demo of inkling.com at the D9 conference. Very Impressive.
Tweets Archives: 2011-05-30
Tweets Archives, since the last tweets posting: 05/16/11 16:01:53 Hot Or Not: The Disruptive Tech Outlook for 2011 http://slidesha.re/k5Gbxn 05/16/11 19:36:47 8 Tips for Using Social Blogging to Grow Your Business | Inc.com http://bit.ly/kAgP6I 05/17/11 02:28:45 A Lot Of Cool Things Are Coming To Windows Phones (MSFT) http://read.bi/kyNIL1 05/17/11 02:35:59 Microsoft Apologises For BPOS Outage…
Entrepreneurship is the Art of Optimism
I love this quote! –I have never heard this one before, and it really encapsulates perfectly the term. It came Mark Suster during a session at NYU that he posted on his weekly show: This Week in Venture Capital You can watch or listen to the show here (it is about half way into the…
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
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:…
Tweets: 2011-05-15
Tweet archives for last couple of weeks. 05/01/11 06:17:56 Online College Education is evolving exponentially each year. Don’t believe me? Check this Infographic out ; http://lx.im/1c9Ey – ad 05/01/11 21:31:44 The Future of Advertising Will Be Integrated http://tcrn.ch/iGVoCi 05/01/11 22:09:22 Microsoft Keeps Burning Hundreds Of Millions Online http://read.bi/kQQqvj 05/01/11 22:21:03 Microsoft Online – $4B startup…
Test from my phone
Entering a post from my phone… The device is small, and it makes difficult to type a lot. Adding an image is easy. Formatting is challenging. For a quick post to catch a though, very useful!
Microsoft Online – $4B startup and counting
It is simply amazing to see how much is Microsot investing into its online division. Based on the the latest Microsoft quarterly result published last week, the operating loss for the online services division was $726M in the 3rd quarter alone, and a loss $1.8B for the current year. If we look back to when the…
Tweets Archive: 2011-04-30
Tweets for the last week: 04/24/11 19:02:59 Relaxing Sunday. Catching up on my reading. 04/24/11 19:05:10 Whiteboard art. Talent and patience. 04/24/11 19:15:41 Send links from iPad http://t.co/B1rtsOK 04/24/11 19:26:46 RT @jack: People around the world spend 3 hours walking for water. Take 3 min to learn why from @charitywater. Video: http://t.co/dYny8yT 04/24/11 19:32:15 Bookmarklets…