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Photos: Furries, pirates, drag queens at 'Second Life' ball

What do you get when you tell a bunch of Second Life enthusiasts to dress up for a real-life costume party? Many of them go just as all-out as they would with their avatars in-world.What do you get when you tell a bunch of Second Life enthusiasts to dress up...

Tags: photograph, Second Life, lace, Second Life Community, Second Life Community Convention, avatar, wig, piracy, leash, Chicago, mask, jacket, hallmark, outfit, assortment, attendance, Hilton Hotels Corp., identity, brand

Image galleries 2007-08-27

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CRM Association-Netherlands Rocks Het Huis!

I'm in love with Amsterdam....no wait, I love it but I'm not in love....no, hold on, I like it a lot, but I'm not in love, nor do I love it. The Theory.... Interestingly enough (to me at least and who else am I really writing this for...

Tags: Car, Amsterdam, Conference, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-16

My new daughter is a lot like Linux

Windoze is a boys smelly diaper, Linux is a girls one, that's the messageI guess some people will never be mature enough to get it.Handling the learning curve...is not very hard. Particularly when you let them use the simple Gnome user interface which the standard Ubuntu has.Maybe this website of...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, diaper

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

The best protection for software assets

Support and development."You have to reveal your invention. The rights don?t last that long."They do last too long, frankly. Software technology changes very fast. Most products are well beyond the end of their life cycle by the time a patent expires. Pretty much all of our IP stuff is way...

Tags: asset, patent, Fight Club, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Should Obama Have Won the Nobel?

What are you going to do about it?Please,reveal how many more extremists there are for the secrete service to watch.I'm as big an Obama fan as anyoneBut the fact is that he hasn't accomplished anything worthy of such a prize. He says the right things, certainly, but until plans are...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Nobel, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Verizon-Google changes mobile landscape; Customers have real options again

I had to take a moment to pause and think about this new Google-Verizon chumminess and their common, yet unspoken, quest to go after the Apple-AT&T relationship with the iPhone that includes today's partnership news and a new ad campaign. For those who don't know, I am...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-06

IBM targets Google Apps for business, undercuts pricing and touts reliability

Good newsWhile I'm not a big fan of IBM due to the usual cost associated with their offerings, I like their products overall and the fact that IBM is one of if not the largest proponent of open source software. I've used Lotus Notes and found it not as...

Tags: cloud computing, E-mail servers, pricing strategy, Premier Edition, Louts Notes, Google Inc., Google Apps, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast Marsupial

I'm having issues with VirtualBox . . .I'm having issues with VirtualBox: Even though it worked before, lately it's claiming that "VT-X/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational" and not allowing me to run 64 bit Ubuntu :(.RE: Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast MarsupialI had some...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Win 7, Ext4, Karmic Koala

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi

Kinda eerieMakes me wonder if I should delete that "Socialism" picture of Obama as the Joker from my machine.There are 2 Issues HereThe first is whether such forensics have a legitimate place in law enforcement and the second is whether these methods can be misused. I believe that the...

Tags: Blogging, information technology, Zazi, Internet Surveillance, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Will online education kill the university?

More to Harvard than the ClassesWhile I'm a big proponent of online and hybrid courses, I don't think that the residential college will go away entirely. People go to places like Harvard and Yale not just because they might learn more (and they might, depending on a lot of...

Tags: Harvard, education

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

'How I tweeted my way out of spinal surgery'

Surprise, surpriseObama says that doctors provide unnecessary surgeries to boost their bottom line, and lo and behold, we suddenly get stories of people being coerced into unnecessary procedures.And, of course, we all know that anyone who tweets anything is telling us the absolute gospel truth.And, of course, if this woman...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Obama, hospital, health care, surgeon

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Brent Leary Expounds: The SMBs Rejoice

Brent Leary, who is not only my bud, but one of the leading, no, the leading, small business consultant and analyst when it comes to small business (duh!), CRM, social CRM and social media,  is someone that I want to highlight on these pages.  Not that you need to come...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Leader, Small Business, Small And Medium Business, CRM, Brent Leary, Maximizer Needs, Price Point, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Could One Laptop Per Child be a bad thing?

Or roadsOr how about roads so farmers can get there goods to the markets cheaper? The one laptop per kid is such a scam. Why should kids get cheap laptops overs small business owners. Who would be more productive. Um track sales, write, write e-mail, do books. I am so...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Not your father's tech school

Tech schools are more important than universities now.The entire economic system has been changed so much that a university education is almost pointless. A person seeking a "job" would usually be far better off with an 18 month targeted investment in a particular skill. And we all know...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, BS Degree, CTE, job

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

News to know: Windows 7; Verizon; RightNow; Salesforce; Palm; HP

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Windows 7, Vista exposed to 'teardrop attack' Microsoft patches gaping Windows worm holes Firefox to run...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Patent, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., RightNow Technologies, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Cable, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Using social media to turn all staff into customer service reps

Good griefSocial media give me a break, so now they turn off the 1-800 numbers and tell you go to a web-site...I will NEVER do business with a company that does not have accountability and support.This is not the Soviet Union.RE: Using social media to turn all staff into customer...

Tags: Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), social media, customer service, Intuit Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Am I a big whiner about Gmail's downtime?

Establish Down-Time Procedures. Move on.Google Apps is a GREAT resource.Whining for something you get for freeNTyes you areand on top of it you give the M$ shills something to hang on.I've never looked into it, but does Google Gears help......when / if Google Apps is down?Teachers are hardly unique...

Tags: cloud computing, E-mail providers, Google Inc., big whiner, Google Gmail, whiner, Google Apps

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Planet Android and the terrible twos

Re: Planet AndroidAs a programmer, I am more interested in what is going on with the actual OS than ads for it. For example, I would like to know how to place android on a phone that does not have it, or get the actual Android os on a...

Tags: Blogging, RSS, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Is the Apple rumor mill getting out of control?

How to stop the rumors1) Have the MS posters stick to what they know rather than invent Apple stories. Have the Apple posters stick to their product rather than invent MS stories ok have not noticed much of the latter2) Stop the idiot bloggers who post a diatribe for or...

Tags: rumor mill, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

Making the tablet computer "classroom-ready"

With all the recent conjecture about the rumored Apple tablet (nee "iPad") I found this email particularly interesting. Confessions of a teacher, parent and wanna-be tech geek by John H. Julian I've taught since 1980 and the people to get involved...

Tags: Teacher, Computer, Tablet Computer, Personal Information, Tablets, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-16