New Facebook IPAD application rocks but
With everything there is always the potential for using something for good, or just downright stalking people. I downloaded the IPAD application last night for Facebook, and overall I really like it. But thought that the mapping feature was simply … Continue reading →
Porn sites start using Facebook Connect
With a sense of humor because when Mashable’s Pete Cashmore wrote that Facebook users should be beware that the new timeline feature could embarrass a user, I just had to see what the porn industry was doing. Porn has been trying to get involved in social media, but for a multi-billion dollar industry we tend [...]
HP’s Monkey Business
Bloomberg reports the HP Board is considering replacing CEO Leo Apotheker after less then a year tenure… poor Leo, after this and his previous gig as SAP CEO where he lasted 10 months, he might as well specialize on 10-month “turnaround” gigs. But it would be naive to think Leo could have initiated changes [...]
That new XXX TLD is going to cost you 209 dollars to register
I buy my fair share of domain names every year some I park, some I sell, and some I wrap a web site around to see what happens with it. I usually pay between 6.95 and 9.95 depending on what extension I want for the domain name. Reports are surfacing though that the new XXX [...]
Startup Lifecycle a’la ABBA (Are We in a Bubble?)
Wow, who would have thought 1970′s supergroup ABBA were such good predictors of the Startup Economy:-) No kidding… it all started with a tweet by Box Lead Magician Aaaron Levie: @levie We must be in a tech bubble given how much ABBA I’m listening to. 24 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply My first though was: [...]
KaaS: Kiss as a Service. Really. Really?
If you think the guy above is slurping down a milk-shake, you’re wrong. Very, very wrong. He is French kissing teaching his computer and a remote device to French kiss. Here’s the formula of kissing digitized: I can see unlimited prospects for a new Cloud-based Kiss as a Service, where you select your [...]
Dilbert Shuts SETI Down
I am not kidding… just saw this cartoon a few days ago: … and today SETI Institute CEO announced they are shutting down their famed Alien Telescope Array. Wow. More CEOs should listen to Dilbert.
Cloud-in-a-Van
Yes, you can have your Private Cloud. By mail-order? @reillyusaChristian Reilly IBM Smart TV commercial "computing has left the box"…yes, it’s on a USPS truck on the way to me. Yay ! Mail order cloud ! Nah, the best solution is Cloud-in-a-Van: @DEVOPS_BORATDevOps Borat We launch new product ‘Cloud in Van’. Azamat drive van around [...]
The First Thing Microsoft Wants You to Do After Upgrading to IE9…
… is to upgrade to IE9. No kidding: It’s not even April 1st anymore…
Variations on Hype Quadrants.. no Magic Hype… no, Hype Cycle.. or is it Magic Quadrant?
Gartner introduced their Real (Magic) Quadrant: Not bad. But let’s not forget the customers’ prospective. Welcome to the Magik Kvadrant: But perhaps most revealing is Phil Fersht’s Painsharing Paradox: Enough of this quadrants, squres, cubes… let’s hype up some cycles. Superseding the Gartner version, here’s the Wailgum Hype Cycle: Not bad. Still a bit complex. [...]
