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Lots of thoughts, ramblings and stories / Many topics on my mind over the years!
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The Art of Story Telling
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…
Reflections on Windows 7 Launch
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,…
iPhone vs Palm Pre
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…
Time Tracking Web-based
Time tracking software has come a long way from the early days of having to enter time into pieces of paper and spreadsheets, which had to then be manually entered into the billing systems. it was tedious and crazy work… These days, web-based tracking software tools range from the simple, to highly complex systems with…
Tweets of the month: 2009-06
My Tweets for June 2009: 06/04/09 02:58:52 Alley Insider’s Startup2009 competition: Article One and Expensify shine http://viigo.im/MI9 06/07/09 02:53:56 Some people are just talented! – Take a look at these photos of LEGOS! http://tinyurl.com/mey6xh 06/07/09 14:48:22 Good article on Cloud Computing evolution as oppose to revolution along with a list of top player. http://chilp.it/?10d3d7 06/07/09…
Controlling Multiple Computers
Like many of us, crazy technologists, I’ve had at least 3 (if not 4+) computers on my desk for years now… Aside from your day-to-day one, you must have the computer with the music library, then there is the laptop, and then the test sandbox one, where everything new goes into… I thought virtualization was…
Exploring Ning – jorgep has its own now.
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. …
Microsoft Project Natal – couple of thoughts.
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…
Web 2010 Strategies for Business
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….
Web 2010 Strategies for Business.
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….
June Blues
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!
Google Wave Announcement
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…
Google Notebook Discontinued
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…
Toner
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…
Puppies can be so much fun
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!
Latest Tweets: 2009-05-31
The latest set of tweets from the last couple of weeks: 05/13/09 02:42:42 Officially SharePoint lost the Office title http://tr.im/lcgn 05/13/09 03:14:58 New Office 2010 Product Team Blog: http://tr.im/lcnA 05/14/09 23:48:58 Google Contacts please add notes/memos to your feature sets – You can be sooo much more with a little more effort. http://tr.im/lnWr 05/18/09 15:07:06…
Cloud Computing – Basics
Microsoft’ Ron Markezich, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Online, made available a basic but interesting video on his views on cloud computing adoption which he expressed at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Boston, MA For one thing, chief information officers are uncertain how to fashion a roadmap that brings “cloud services” into their IT architecture….
Contacts from Email Signatures
I have a good friend that introduced me to Anagram – a tool that allows you to highlight a section of an email and it will convert it into an outlook contact. — I tried it for a couple of weeks (during the trial period) and I found it VERY useful. Unfortunatelly, not 34.95 worth…
Changed the Blog’s Style
I just changed the style of the blog today. Looking at it all — blog, facebook, twitter, website – I need to simplyfy –
Latest Tweets: 2009-05-10
Tweets for the last couple of weeks: 04/27/09 18:43:33 At MMS2009: MED-V shuodl be treated as a v1.0 product. 05/05/09 17:03:58 McKinsey Cloud Computing Report: Is it too expensive? http://tr.im/kylc 05/06/09 01:51:33 Found Twitter app for my Palm-based Treo device. MOtwit. 05/06/09 04:18:40 Somehow I missed the news: Apple releases iPhone OS 3.0 beta 4…
Tweets of the week: 2009-04-19
Latest tweets: 04/15/09 03:54:53 I ran into DabbleDB and I love it. Excel data analysis, reporting and web data entry — http://tr.im/iQKA 04/15/09 04:11:43 Great article: “Get Rich Slow” in Time Magazine. Bootstrap Internet businesses is hot again! Uplifting article… http://tr.im/iQNP 04/15/09 14:41:05 Received a Google strategy briefing today for Messaging and Collaboration. Very cool…
Tweets of the week: 2009-04-12
Latest tweets: 03/30/09 13:48:34 In route to LAX this morning… Busy week ahead. 03/30/09 13:52:08 Airports are packed. Spring break for sure. Long lines, so make sure you allow some extra time. 04/03/09 06:08:01 Made it back after a very full week in LAX. Arrived to a cold 41 degrees and rainy city. Looking forward…
Tweets of the Quarter: 2009-03
Tweets of the quarter: 01/10/09 03:19:11 Resuming communications. It has been a long time. 03/25/09 05:55:43 I was in NY today. Visited the metropolitan Museum. Wow! What a place. Heading to 3oronto tonight. 03/25/09 06:01:52 Arrived late to Toronto. Long day. Lost my new iPod nano. Very upsetting. 03/25/09 19:01:42 Good meetings today. In…
Rats! – It has been over a year!
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…
Tweets of the Month: 2008-10-00
Tweets of the Month: 10/13/08 17:24:30 worked on Bizplan all weekend! – crossed eyed. 10/13/08 17:27:53 Learned and setup Salesforce.com also over the weekend. 10/14/08 21:35:34 This is a test 10/16/08 02:19:09 Tonight is family night until 9p then back to the spreadsheet. 10/17/08 14:09:14 in bus to sea. 6:50a is when it passes by…
It’s a fresh coat of paint… For all of us!
Those of you following the business sections of the IT rags will know this already. As of today, CompuCom has closed its acquisition of Getronics North America. Among other things, that means all of us got new email addresses tonight. We are excited to see what the future holds for our group, and we will…
Online Project Management Tool Requirements
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…
Tweets of the week:2008-06-01
Tweets of the week: 05/28/08 04:47:20 In NYC – can’t sleep 05/28/08 04:52:13 just setup phone. 05/28/08 05:16:07 I am trying tweeter from my phone. 05/28/08 20:39:59 Just finished work at client. Beatifull day in NYC. Decided to take the long way via a double decker tour. 05/29/08 00:32:11 had a t hour bus tour…