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…
I am using my iPad more for content creation… You can say what you want, but in the end, It is an amazing device…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 🙂
It is interesting how things come around… Also — wasn’t Google the one that was going for a design with 41 shades of blue?
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.
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I had a little time in between flights, and ran across the much improved Google translate… So I why not play a bit… 🙂
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…
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.
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…
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:…
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!
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…
After a heck of an outage last week, Amazon published they root-cause and postmortem yesterday – less than 5 days after the actual outage, and *after* they have completely stabilize the after-math of the outage. I have to tip my hat to how Amazon for the content transparentness, analysis and the expressly stated apology to their customer. We go…
Jason Calacanis, an established, proven entrepreneur and angel investor who has started, sold and funded startups, and his crew produce a phenomenal set of podcast shows, out of their web property: ThisWeekIn.com Two of my favorites, which I listen to whenever I get the chance are: This Week in Startups (TWIST), offers aspiring entrepreneurs invaluable…
A recent piece of news captures (finally) the truth about the feeling everyone has about their cable serif. It is overpriced and there is never anything on when one finally has the time to sit down in front of the TV. Cable Lost 500,000 subscribers in a single quarter In a related piece, one of…
A recent piece of news captures (finally) the truth about the feeling everyone has about their cable serif. It is overpriced and there is never anything on when one finally has the time to sit down in front of the TV. Cable Lost 500,000 subscribers in a single quarter http://www.techspot.com/news/41013-cable-lost-500000-subscribers-in-q3-thanks-to-the-web.html In a related…
This is a common topic of conversation and it comes up every time I start a project… Best advice I have found follows: As the Project Manager you need to know what to, who should do what, when it should be done, why it should be done, the cost for it and a variety of…
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…
I have long been talking to clients (especially small businesses) about the fact that they do not need to keep servers on-premise to do their work. In a press release dated 1/13/10 where Gartner lists its key predictions for IT in 2010 and beyond (read here), the first highlight is a prediction that by 2012,…
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…
Gartner Prediction: No IT assets In a press release dated 1/13/10 where Gartner lists its key predictions for IT in 2010 and beyond (read here), the first highlight is a prediction that by 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets. By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets. Several interrelated…
So.. I had to know what all if the buzz was all about. I was not one of the first 300,000 wave, but was able to be on the second wave of shipments… So what do I think? Amazing device indeed. It will definitely be the catalyst to these types of devices. Will it be…
For those curious on what the inside of the iPad in all of its (inside) glory look like a good video by TechRepublic here. Also for more photos go here Thanks TechRepublic!
A few days ago, I tweeted that Google bought DocVerse – an office plug-in which allowed for real time sharing, group-editing and versioning of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents within the Google docs platform - I can’t wait to see how they will release within the platform, as it would improve its capabilities…
So much conversation about this topic, one more would not hurt. Like many folks out there, I can’t wait to get an iPad early next month and start playing with it, but I must confess, I am not sure why (other than it is sexy). For several years I have been using a regular HP…
One of the most common questions I get asked is what tool to I use to manage projects while working with virtual teams. The answer I give, is typically, “it depends a lot on the size of the project, and what you want to manage” Collaboration, Project Management, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Online Project Management,…
The current issue of Time Magazine (Feb 22, 2010) is titled The Science of Living Longer. It was a very interesting issue, but I have to admit the following stats which they quoted freaked me out a bit.. It is not the fact that we are aging, that made me wonder – It is how…
It has been a while since I’ve posted an entry here. I have been crazy busy traveling with work and general work. I guess that is good, but I have to confess, many times while late at the hotel, I’ve thought about posting something, but didn’t, even though I had something to say… I got…
This is not only about passwords, but all kinds of confidential data. There are so many important numbers, pins, passwords, challenge questions !! Where do you safely keep all of this information? Some of my friends have a little notebook (yes old school!). Others keep all this info stored in emails or in Word/Excel documents…
A flash site to create flash sites. I have seen these before, but this one is vey well executed. You can pay $10/month (a bit expensive, but if you want to go this route why not!) and will eliminate Wix advertisement and offer more options. the Check it out… A Couple of quick tests I…
Back in October 2009, I decided to upgrade my Treo and went with the Palm Pre platform. You might have read my post on this topic iPhone vs Palm Pre. There were 4 things I was a bit disappointed with the software/device. What’s up with no Flash capabilities? (same with iPhone) No zoom for the…
Managing Photo collection
I am in route home, at 30,000 feet or moving at 600 miles an hour, and I am writing this article while online on a “fairly high-speed” connection to the Internet while watching the news on DirectTV — What can be said? We have come a LONG way from the times in which I was…
Been busy this week with a lot work, so I have not had the chance to post much lately . However this does not mean, I have forgotten about my blog 🙂 It is interesting… When I made a personal commitment to actually write something often, everything I look at becomes a candidate for the…
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…
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…
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…
As I read articles, and surf the net, I jut down sites that call my attention so when I have the time, I can go back and check further.. Up until now, I have been just keeping them on my to-do list, and then mark them off when I get to them. I figure, why…
Every post I have made up until now, I have written while I am online. Even though I have heard a number of times about off-line blog writers and editors, I have never used one… I guess it was about time. I downloaded Windows Live Writer 2009, from the Windows Live suite of tools to…
As many of you already know, we have been strong proponent of cloud-based services for a very long time… The idea of maintaining an expensive and complex in-house infrastructure to support basic IT services is steadily shifting away from mainstream business. Adoption of cloud-based services continues to climb steadily. However, a recent article on the…
A great short explanation video of what googlewave is all about by epicheostudio.com “ Did you know that email was invented 40 years ago?” Thanks! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDu2A3WzQpo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]
I attended a conference last week and one of the sessions was all about how we have forgotten the art of telling the story of. Robert McDowell from Microsoft presented and he had a couple of slides that should be shared wide and loud… They are: What makes a Great story ? Simple Unexpected Concrete…
Article by Rob West As my esteemed colleague Jorge points out, it has been a busy summer (and now autumn) for us on this team, and as such, our posting frequency has not been, shall we say, “optimized.” I’ve been on the road a bit, and speaking at a number of Windows 7 Launch events,…
No this will not be a full comparasion or anything like that, just a quick rambling in myblog regardind my observations between the two platforms, after using both for about a couple of months now. Although I secretly wanted for the Pre to be the one to write about, I have to say that iPod…
I know, I will say it… I am a bit late to this party but I decided to explore its capabilities and nowjorgep has its own Ning community site… Ning has gotten excellent reviews lately Ning is an online platform for users to create their own social websites and social networks launched in October 2005. …
Everyone knows by now that Microsoft’s Project Natal is the talk of the town since it was introduced at E3 early this week. In fact there is one headline I read that said something like : “How Microsoft stole E3” Very cool technology, which is finally enabled by the power of faster more powerful processors…
A very good presentation was posted on SlideShare.net a couple of days ago. It is titled “Web 2010 Discover Ten Strategies Defining Your Business Future” by Jay Berkowitz, and it talks about some of the key strategies driving successful business on the Internet – Definitely a must see! Summary of the first five follow: #1….
A very good presentation was posted on SlideShare.net a couple of days ago. It is titled “Web 2010 Discover Ten Strategies Defining Your Business Future” by Jay Berkowitz, and it talks about some of the key strategies driving successful business on the Internet – Definitely a must see! Summary of the first five follow: #1….
Had to stay over the weekend because of early Monday business meetings. Crazy June cold weather here – Snowing a bit where I am right now… Wishing I was home – where is fun, nice, sunny and warm. — Will miss lots of family and friends activities this weekend. Bummer!
Yesterday, during the keynote on day two of the Google I/O Conference , Google presented the vision their vision for collaboration and communication platform which they have called it – very appropriately – Google Wave. It has been a long time – since I have been so excited about how can we use technology to…
I have been a great fan of Google Notebook feature for many years. I have posted many ideas, things to remember, web clippings and a number of other items there. I am not sure how I missed this news, but as I was rebuilding my computer and adding my browser extensions, I got the message…
Went out today to find toner for my LaserJet printer, and I almost flipped! Checked three places and the toner (at all three places) was over $124.00 – Crazy! – What happened to toner pricing? I used to buy it for $80.00 tops. I went online and decided to buy it from newegg.com which had…
We got a new puppy a couple of weeks back. Sha has been fun and has given us lots of laughs. Just for fun, and to learn – I posted the video on You Tube. Enjoy!
I just changed the style of the blog today. Looking at it all — blog, facebook, twitter, website – I need to simplyfy –
Yes, it is really shameful. It has been several months since I posted any thing to this site. Really not good. So many things have transpired. It really is not a matter of time, but focus. First with work. Then with the new position And then with the travel… I started to do Facebook and…
I have been checking online tools to help me manage projects collaboratively amongst a diverse virtual team. A few simple requirements I consider baseline are: Overall dashboard for Program Weekly Program Status Reports (entry / editing ) Ability to enter project status reports Ability to have multiple projects under one category Issue tracking – Ability…
Desktone (http://www.desktone.com/) and more pointedly the generic term DaaS or desktop as a service is being bandied about and will help (I say “help” in jest) to muddy the terminology waters and give us a new buzz word. Really, I think DaaS has legs and will see favorable acceptance with the “greening” of IT with…
Infrastructure Optimization opens the door for Green Computing with the ability to reduce overall costs via reducing power consumption through virtualization and by making better use of IT resources by more efficiently distributing workload amongst idle system resources rather than introducing additional systems.
Brian Tinham over at Manufacturing Computer Solutions leads with a posting about Window’s 2008 Server Core offering – cool stuff. Even cooler for the virtual-set is the prospect of using the application formerly known as SoftGrid in a “what if” scenario to virtualize OS’es in a way that we don’t have in today’s Microsoft SoftGrid….
Amy Newman over at ServerWatch.com in her VirtualzationWatch column helps to clear the virtual haze that is virtual presentation. Glad someone is speaking to this – in the 30 plus years of virtualization each market segment hasn’t been able to define itself all that clearly. Thanks Amy. The cool thing about application virtualization with Microsoft’s…
In the old days, Softricity was a partner of Citrix. Citrix is a partner of Microsoft. And Softricity was a partner of Microsoft, but is now part of Microsoft. See where this is going? When Softricity was acquired, there was some industry speculation as to what would happen to the great interoperability between SoftGrid and…
I thought some of you might be interested in a free event that our team is putting on, centered around the business value of virtualizing applications. For Infrastructure Optimization wonks like myself, this technology is poised to become the centerpiece of many future IO engagements for me and our team. Registration is free, and the webinar is an hour long.
Microsoft recently released an updated version of the SysInternals AutoRun tool, which is absolutely in my daily toolbox when troubleshooting desktops. What runs at startup on your machine? Like detail? It’s compatible with Vista now, and comes with a command-line version, for you automation folks. Get it.
Greetings, everyone! We’re the Infrastructure Optimization team at Getronics, and we’ve decided to start a blog. After years of internal discovery, we thought it might be a good idea to give back to the community, by sharing some of our thoughts and findings around the topic of Infrastructure Optimization.
Amazon.com does it again ! A quick follow-up to my December 29, 2007 posting , Sony/BMG has joined the bandwagon to offer their music catalog through the Amazon DRM-free service. This makes all of the major record label’s catalogs available there. – Now that is cool (and something that iTunes can not claim)
I was in Washington, DC this week and had the chance to take sometime to visit the Smithsonian Museums… It was trully a treat, and wanted to share just a couple of highlights…: ENIAC’s – **The** 1947 technology (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer ) — Wow – It seemed a bit rusty – but that is where…
Couple of years ago, we had a fantastic trip to Costa Rica. Although I have been there many times, this time we were accompanied by family friends (another family of 4) and felt a bit of the pressure to show them a memorable time. So much to see! Not enough to cover…
Very Interesting to see the latest announcement from Amazon.com on Dec 27 in which they told the world that “Warner joins EMI, Universal Music Group nd a pack of independent labels that sell so-called digital rights management-free music in Amazon MP3, at the company’s music store.“ It will be interesting to see how DRM-based services…
Wow – It has been quite a while since I posted to this site. It has been 6 months of changes (including a job change…) and lots of other things going on… – Not to serve as an excuse – just a reality of priorities.. Will try to post more often for sure. Cheers!
Back in 1998 I did an e-commerce presentation regarding how important branding is across every step of the purchasing cycle and presentation… This was back in 1998! — I end-up posting in slideshare.net. back in 2006 and I still getting ping about it. The power of the long tail! [slideshare id=21733&doc=ecommerce-101-brand-promise-12976&w=400]
Ok – so I have chosen WordPress.com to begin my blog. This is your first post. Wow! – Iit is hard to beleive I am just getting into this… All of us write so many emails on a daily bases… Some of the thoughts in them should definitelly make it to the light of day… —…
