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The conversation about Artificial Intelligence (AI), ChatGPT, AI-Bots and such is absolutely everywhere. I was at a social meeting the other day, and the topic was raised. It interesting that this is a conversation in the minds of the general public now. It is a conversation. that has many legs and many view points. I…
What a statement to make. First time I heard it is on a from Bill Briggs, CTO of Deloitte in the CXO podcast a couple of months back.
As I get older I am noticing that the different parts of me are pulling harder for my mind’s attention and some feel like they are screaming for my “attention”.
It was a busy 2016 for me. Like every year, lots of travel (airplanes, hotels, cars, and conference rooms) . It is always good to visit customers and talk about the latest tech trends with them face to face. I love to do that, and I am lucky to do it. It was about 61…
A new year begins. For many reasons (and not only the obvious one) 2016 was a strange one. We look forward to 2017 and beyond with the best of hopes… Wishing everyone the best! P.S For some reason, as I write this, this saying comes to mind: Do not look…
I saw this article in the WSJ today, and I am so happy to see confirmation that National Geographic Channel is returning to educational and interesting programming rather than the terrible reality shows they have been for the past few years… There has been several programs so far, that have been great! Before the Flood …
This is not mine, but It was a good reminder that experience is worth it and to charge for the value of your services. A critical gearbox failed and no one could fix it. So they brought in a bloke with great trouble-shooting experience. He inspected the gear drive very carefully. After looking things…
It has been a tough couple of travel days, and decided that the night was better spent catch up on work. For dinner I chose to eat at the hotel restaurant, which, to be honest, I prefer to avoid, except for rare occasions. Like most of us, I usually mind my own business, and do…
It has been with me for as long as I can remember using the Internet, but it really has been with us for only 14 years.. ( According to Wikipedia: Picasa was an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named…
I have seen many videos of virtual reality technology and sat is a couple of demos, but I must say it was early on technology (choppy at best, and generally slow) My son re-introduced me to virtual reality this weeend when he dropped by with a set of VR googles in which you put your phone…
Definitely a current topic! Finally emerging from the shadows of Gen Xers, most millennials are now in the workforce. But study after study has shown that millennials are different from Gen Xers and even from Baby Boomers, the generation that raised them. ” Develop long-term niche relationships” https://www.visioncritical.com/how-engage-millennials-customer-insight-and-marketing/ 2015-09-23T00:00:16-05:00
We’ve all been through it before. We’re in a meeting, or having a discussion with a client, when suddenly we feel like reality has been turned on its head. Our client insists that something happened, when we know it didn’t. Perhaps it has to do with who was supposed to handle a portion of a project,…
Stupidipity.com very Funny Stories and Site People tend to do stupid stuff just to get some attention or gain some popularity…cheap popularity to be exact. However, some people actually do these dim-witted things without any intention of the sort…in other words, clueless acts of stupid. These acts, intentional or unintentional, and the discovery of them…
We’ve all heard it a million times before, “you are your own worst critic”. We are so worried about what others are going to say or thing about us when we take a particular actions that very often we forget to listen to our deep inner voices. The ones that matter. Because of this tendency,…
The platypus also known as the duck-billed platypus is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia. 2015-08-17T23:51:52-05:00
You need to do all you can to give your business the edge within the marketplace. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software allows you to keep, maintain, search and centralize information about your customers which in turn increases your ability to focus on business for success. More information means better relationships. When you use CRM…
So you are late for a flight, yes you cut it too close, but you think you are ok because you are in the TSA lane. WRONG! Lately, I have noticed tons of folks that are not frequent travelers use the TSA lane, and they have no idea shoes can stay on, laptops can stay…
Over the years, I have seen many different versions of this, but I liked this one which I just ran into… I am not sure where it actually originated, but I found the graphic and Powerpoint version at: http://www.phibetaiota.net/2012/09/graphic-difference-between-a-boss-and-a-leader/ Enjoy!
There are many things that can be challenging when you travel, but when you travel as much as I do, there are a couple that can really be annoying. They are not super important, nor they are earth shattering, but somehow they get to me.. Cost of a water bottle = $4.98 in some airports!…
I have not encountered this in my travels yet but I have been told this is true sill on some far-east airlines..Part of the PanAm story.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8bQKyTHhoQ
I have been flying to San Francisco, CA for work for many years now, and it is one of those cities in which I always learn something new. The last couple of times have been no different. One of my favorite cities! SFO Side note: There is an old guideline in advertising/marketing, that I read…
What a pain! – I manage 3 different WordPress blogs, 5 different twitter accounts, 3 Tumblr blogs and 3 Facebook pages. Each of those channels had a different topic and audience. Every time I need to do something, I have to log in into the different accounts and admin interfaces and have a zillion tabs…
I got a BIG laugh when I heard about this on the news last night regarding the issues the healthcare signup website is having. Reporter: Do you feel confident the issues with the web site will be addressed? Project Manager: I feel very confident they [ the contrator ] said the issues will be addressed…
I went to see the movie Gravity last night, and I must say: It was one (if not the best) movie I have seen… The special effect, the fact that there are only 2 actors, the views, the realism of he scenes, the zero-gravity, the shadows, shades and reflections, the details on the equipment… SOOO…
I just changed the Comcast modem which has been in service about 3 years in my house to what is suppose to be the latest from Xfinity / Comcast.. My Internet speeds went up from what they used to be (about 30%) but I must admit that I can’t wait to have Google Fiber…
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a bit, but now that I have a new device (Samsung S4) that uses yet a different USB charger it is time I do… I have been annoyed by USB chargers and USB power for a bit….. Urgh.. Not all USB chargers are the same anymore… (Side note:…
UPDATE: Nov 1, 2014: Bitcasa changed their value proposition and is no longer something I can recommend. Many issues including bad migration management and very BAD customer service. See my updated on this here Original post: August 2013: After using Bitcasa for a couple of months, I am all in! The hardest part…
What ever happened to printed encyclopedias? That is a question usually asked by older generations as many of the youth today have never really had a daily interaction with this printed media. Most people today are used to receiving information via their digital books or other paperless mediums that are better for the environment. We…
What ever happened to printed encyclopedias? That is a question usually asked by older generations as many of the youth today have never really had a daily interaction with this printed media. Most people today are used to receiving information via their digital books or other paperless mediums that are better for the environment. We…
In the last week or so a number of news have come out regarding how the state of the U.S. economy is getting a bit better. As far as I can see, this is mostly measured by the stock market, housing values and general consumer confidence. On the surface, this is very good news for…
A couple of pieces of news that really made me go “hmmm” this week are: Microsoft will stop the Windows 8 reduce price offer and will go from $40 dollars to $199 starting Feb 1. – I knew this was coming, but I was secretly wishing it would not. At the same time, why do…
I know one thing: I need to do more… I set the stage in Part 1 of this post which is an effort to document my current state of mind regarding where I am about my goals in this adventure.. I realize now that: Income comes from conversions from traffic you attract. It is funny……
I know one thing: I need to do more… Yes it is a bit of a spin on the ancient Greek phrase know as the Socratic Socratic paradox,: “I know that I know nothing” or “I know one thing: that I know nothing” Early on I said that I wanted make an effort to…
I am not sure if it is only in my area, but have you noticed products come in the same size packages, but have more packaging, and less product inside ? I have noticed this in crackers (Saltines), honey graham cookies, aspirin, vitamins, and many other products out there… The latest, and what prompted me…
In one of my previous postings, I talked about the amazing growth of digital content fueled, as of late, by tablet devices. One industry that is being forced to change leaps and bounds is the publishing industry. Just last week, it was leaked that two major player in this space, Random House and Penguin, were…
“The dream of going paperless has been a pervasive part of our discourse for years but has yet to materialize.” I bet there are at least 50 articles, right now that you can search for in your browser that start that same way. I bet also that each of these articles offers some revolutionary approach,…
This week, Microsoft was the latest to enter the tablet device marketplace with its Surface device. Earlier this year, Google released the Google Nexus 7 to compete in the ever-growing tablet market place along with iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Kindle Fire, and so many others… (The 2012-2013 holiday season will be an interesting one!)
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…
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…
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:
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…
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…
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 –…
… 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 had a little time in between flights, and ran across the much improved Google translate… So I why not play a bit… 🙂
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Those of you following MS’s excellent MDOP suite of applications should subscribe to this one in your favorite feed reader: http://blogs.technet.com/mdop/ Not much there yet, but it just started. We’ll keep an eye on it!
