Archive for the 'soul' Category
Good quote from CIO mag
April 17th, 2008
Any IT organization that’s willing to do without training, innovation, process improvements, client relationship building and other "keep-the-business-viable" activities is only postponing its inevitable demise.
New York Tech Meetup on 1/8/2008
January 8th, 2008
My Notes:
- GoMoBo.com
- EZ Pass in restaurants
- Pretty kewl site; but for my every day it wont help me.
- Tagiton.com
- I don’t get it.
- 6 degrees of separation communication
- Seems spammy
- Gilt.com
- W00t for women
- Not great
- Membership based sales
- Im in like with you
- Blockles - they totally stole this from networked Tetris
- Ruby, AS3/Flash
- Kewl app
- First
- Commercial
- Robots
- TableXchange
- I am torn on this one. I tried to use it but of course nothing available at any restaurant I wanted to eat at when I wanted it. I think it should have an RSS feed so I can see on any day what is available without visiting their site.
New York Tech Meetup on 12/4/2007
December 3rd, 2007
- Ignighter
- Former CTO of meetup
- Peter Komlai
- Dating service - group dating
- Facebook app
- Dont get it; dont think other people will either.
- Evolvist
- Ari and Marvin
- Ecofriendly
- Search engine, google maps
- Ruby, 3months
- All industries
- The Funded - interesting guy
- Kaltura
- Wiki meets you tube
- Video editing
- Flash editor for Flash movies
- A lot going on.
- Unype
- Built on top of Google Earth
- Social networks as entry point
- Meetup
- Meetups team up
- Ron Paul example - biggest fund raising was self organized
- Meetup Alliance
- Organize groups of groups
- Who decides who gets into the group?
- Agnostic - doesn’t have to be meetup
Stereo - Part 1
November 19th, 2007
New system consists of:
- Denon AVR-4308CI
- Panasonic TH-50PZ700U
- X-Box Elite
- X-Box HD-DVD Player
- 3 x Boston Acoustics P442 for fronts and center
- 2 x Boston Acoustics P430 for rears
- Infitity Sub
- Harmony 890 Remote
- Tivo HD with MY DVR Expander
- Tivo Series 2
- Scientific Atlanta standard cable box
Current problems:
- Dam SATA cable from Tivo HD to external drive keeps falling out. Need to come up with a solution. Thinking duck tape.
- Up converting doesnt appear to be working from Tivo 2 (S-Video); picture looks like crap. Currently S into the AVR, then HDMI out to Panny.
- Panny Black screen when changing screens. Could be the HDCP? Really annoying.
Meetup from 7/10
September 17th, 2007
Not a lot of notes because it was hot and the Mac was burning my lap.
- HitTail, Mike Levin
- Confabb, Jason Rozenblat
- Diet Television, Ken Seiff
- UpNext, Danny Moon
- Parkwhiz, Jon Thornton
- Amazon (EC2& S3), Jinesh Varia
Online Storage Options
July 31st, 2007
I generally use Orb to get to my stuff at home when I am remote. Love Orb, but its slow and it tends to be unavailable. It hasnt been stable since Vista.
From a previous post I started using JungleDisk - which works great and its cheap. I just started this week to use it to back up picture - cant wait for the bill now. JD is great, but I started having issues with OneNote on my laptop (MB Pro). Still trying to figure that out - I think it may have something to do with a Vista bug where the drive letter thinks its disconnected but it isnt. SP1?
Anyway, an alternative service is Logmein. Going to experiment.
More online storage options
July 31st, 2007
Mozy - http://mozy.com/
Carbonite - http://www.carbonite.com/
Havent tested on Vista yet and thats where I always run into problems.
NYC Tech Meetup - June 5, 2007
June 29th, 2007
This isnt live, but pre-recorded I guess. Here are the presenters I saw when I was paying attention:
Goloco - Looks pretty good, but dont see people really using it.
- Robin Chase
- Social networks into Travel Networks
ExpoTv - I like this idea, hope it catched on. Love the baby stuff reviews.
- Dfj gotham financed
- Video product review
- Syndicate video to Yahoo video, AOL video, Video review tied into
- Buy.com via upc code
- Good for reviews
- NY based, 17 people
- Competitors -
- How do reviewers make money - $5 a video
- The “new focus group”
Livelook.net - Tech Looks kewl, but the chick would offend most geeks. Also too salesey.
- 2 product (consumer, )
- Instead of Webex
- Uses Java
- Competitor - Copilot
- NJ
Adaptive Blue - cute applet of sorts. I wouldnt use it but maybe a less technical person would.
- Organizer of some kind
- Based on web context you can search/take action to other built in sites
- Plugin
- Customized via user
- Seth Godin
Mogulus - very kewl, I hope these guys make it. I also hope it works as well as it did in the demo. They showed some weird ass videos as an example, people getting buried in the middle east.
- NY
- Live Video
- Kewl
- Full management console
- Flash
- Built on S3
James Hong - I like this concept; will look into it for work.
- Hot or Not
- Facebook App
Links du jour and other stuff
June 28th, 2007
Neopets - for the kids
Domystuff - outsource your stuff
MySquibbles - for the kids
Goobegone - to get rid of that sticky stuff when ou take off stickers. Gotta get some.
Use flickr for kids - shapes, colors, etc… Good idea.
A day in the life photobook. A good activity for the family.
Storynori podcast - podcast good for the kids; in the car.
Valleyfreeradio - podcast good for kids; music in the car.
Blackberry Orphans - my life.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116553463083344032-SzuhOlzamjgoRWAGOqtyX7h8ldM_20071208.html
PlasmaPong
May 16th, 2007
www.plasmapong.com - Very kewl, even on Vista.
