AI Related Videos This Week
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… Read More »AI Related Videos This Week
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… Read More »AI Related Videos This Week
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… Read More »Travels 2016 – A look back
A new year begins. For many reasons (and not only the obvious one) 2016 was a strange one. We look forward to… Read More »Thank you 2016 – Welcome 2017
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… Read More »National Geographic Channel – Back to GOOD Programming
This is not mine, but It was a good reminder that experience is worth it and to charge for the value of your services. … Read More »Experience is worth it!
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… Read More »How often do you get home?
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… Read More »Google Is Closing Picasa – Google Photos Is Way Better
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… Read More »Virtual Reality: Not only for gamers
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… Read More »How to Engage Millennials
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… Read More »Truth is a Battle of Perceptions
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. … Read More »Stupidipity.com
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… Read More »The Board of Advisors In Your Mind
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,… Read More »Five Reasons to use CRM in your Business
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… Read More »Some people on the TSA lines..
Over the years, I have seen many different versions of this, but I liked this one which I just ran into… I am not… Read More »Difference Between a Boss and a Leader (Graphic)
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… Read More »Traveling Circus: Annoying Things
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… Read More »Travel in Style: Old Times
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… Read More »Lyft: What a fantastic service
What a pain! – I manage 3 different WordPress blogs, 5 different twitter accounts, 3 Tumblr blogs and 3 Facebook pages. Each of those channels… Read More »Social Media Publishing is time consuming!
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: … Read More »Friday Humor
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… Read More »Movie: Gravity — WOW!
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… Read More »Internet Speeds… Xfinity
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… Read More »USB Chargers Challenges…
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… Read More »Bitcasa I am all in!
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… Read More »Remember Encyclopedias?
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… Read More »What happened to printed encyclopedias?
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… Read More »US Deficit Keeps Going Up
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… Read More »Bits and pieces week ending 2013-01-26
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… Many of the podcasts and videocasts show only the successful approaches, but just a single handful (that I have been able to find) refer to the you how much time they actually spent to get to that point. Just like home remodel shows on TV!
There are many different skills that come together when approaching this business. Some thoughts on the each of the different areas follow…Read More »I Know One Thing – Part 2
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 record my experience as I move along in this adventure… This entry is not a particularly “good news” one, as I am currently struggling a bit… Good or bad here it goes…
After creating a couple of sites I thought would get SOME traffic… Surprisingly (maybe not after you read below) very little has come in…
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… Read More »Are things getting smaller?
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 “negotiating a merger”, and I am sure this is just the beginning. According to the New York Times, it isRead More »The wave ahead: Digital Content on 200 Million tablets
Part of Going Paperless Series which provides tips, tools, processes and resources to make the journey to a paperless office or home easier.
“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, device or software to correct this egregious mistake. And, finally, I bet it works – almost.
So, why aren’t we yet paperless?
Read More »The Paperless ParadoxThis 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!)
Read More »Digital Content Consumption-Tablet Devices in the Driver Seat
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″] … Read More »Logo – This is cool !
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:
Short Term Goals:
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:Read More »Online Income: First Research
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 corporations (large and small) develop, deploy and maintain technology-based solutions. I have written and created hundreds, if not thousands, of emails, reports, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, and such. Spent tremendous amounts of hours in conference rooms, planes, trains and automobiles, not to mention the large list of hotels I’ve stayed at. I really have no complaints to talk about. Overall, it has been a good time, done some great projects and developed long-lasting friendship. Although things have not come “easy”, I’ve accomplished most of the goals I’ve set out to do (in retrospect they were probably not high-enough) with a combination of hard work, teamwork, good luck and good wine along the way.
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… Read More »Reminder to Self: Enable Remote Publishing
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… Read More »Tip: Listening to any web page/blog
… it can get to me. 95% of the time I love what I do. I managed to turn my hobby into a career… Read More »I like what i do, but sometimes…
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,… Read More »Good Photo Gallery Application
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… Read More »Where are we heading?
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… … Read More »Old School Management or not
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… Read More »Not every idea is on time…
On Monday of this week Google announced the general availability of Google+ Hangout On Air. A great very personal “webcast” overview of the service… Read More »Google+ Hangout On Air – Genius!
Jason Calacanis ( Wikipedia, website, @jason ) has done it again… Side note: (I have learned so much from his 250+ This Week on Startups… Read More »Era of Excellence…
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… Read More »Google Drive: Have Cloud Drives Lost Their Way?
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… Read More »Blog writing on my iPad
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… Read More »Moving Weekend
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… Read More »Worth noting: Last entry for Encyclopaedia Britannica book.
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… Read More »Want to Archive your tweets to your blog? Part 2
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… Read More »What is Kodak to do
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… Read More »You are fully capable…
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 amount of time they spend is excessive. “Time just flies when when you are online”
There’s got to be a way for parents to regulate the amount of time and / or the times spent online on a per-user bases, just like they do on Internet cafes, hotels and other public places.. I found it… Read More »Internet Parental Controls Enforced
Interesting concept PnP – No, not the same as Plug and Play, but different… My job takes me to many sales calls, and presentations… Read More »Pitch and Pray – PnP
I just received an email (probably like many thousands others) letting me know of the release of WinZip 16. Such a GREAT product, it… Read More »WinZip: How many versions back are you?
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… Read More »Best to all in 2012!
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… Read More »5-15-50 Close Friends and Family
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… Read More »To Netflix: Must Try Something else now
Afternoon Rest , a photo by jorper98 on Flickr. I love this picture – It is a very simple and functional piece used at the… Read More »Afternoon Rest
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 —… Read More »Boring Statistics – No More!
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 and families.
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… Read More »Is email going the way of regular mail?
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… Read More »US Broadband Infrastructure falling behind
I am not alone in my note to Facebook and my distrust! - According to a report in CNET News: …a recent poll by… Read More »Facebook Distrust
I think I’ve had enough of Facebook… This is what I would write to them, if they cared…. Dear Facebook – Your disregard to… Read More »Note to Facebook
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… Read More »No More On-Premise Servers
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,… Read More »iPad thoughts – the first 2 weeks
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… Read More »Blogging from iPad
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… Read More »Cracking open the iPad
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… Read More »Random thoughts and ideas
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… Read More »To iPad or not to iPad: Courier is the question
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… Read More »The Aging of the World – totally made me think.
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… Read More »Posting from an Airplane at 30,000 feet.
Been busy this week with a lot work, so I have not had the chance to post much lately . However this does not mean,… Read More »Notables of the week –
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… Read More »slideshare World’s Best Presentations 2009
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… Read More »AWS: Free inbound Data transfers until June’10
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… Read More »AWS: Free inbound Data transfers until June2010
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.… Read More »The Art of Story Telling
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,… Read More »Reflections on Windows 7 Launch
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,… Read More »iPhone vs Palm Pre
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… Read More »Exploring Ning – jorgep has its own now.
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… Read More »Microsoft Project Natal – couple of thoughts.
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” … Read More »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” … Read More »Web 2010 Strategies for Business.
Had to stay over the weekend because of early Monday business meetings. Crazy June cold weather here – Snowing a bit where I am right… Read More »June Blues
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… Read More »Google Wave Announcement
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… Read More »Google Notebook Discontinued
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… Read More »Puppies can be so much fun
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… Read More »Rats! – It has been over a year!