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Thoughts, Stories & Learnings
Lots of thoughts, ramblings and stories / Many topics on my mind over the years!
A while back I wrote I am the sum of my parts which explains my many dimensions.
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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 !…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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:…
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…
Tip my hat to Amazon.com – Showed Real Class
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…
Shout-out to ThisWeekIn.com Podcast Network
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…