Corporate Disobedience – Operation Chokehold
Well this is interesting from a civil/corporate disobedience viewpoint, and an interesting way of looking at flash mobbing a place/product/service to see what the upward limits are. Fake Steve Jobs has proposed that IPhone users try to bring the AT&T 3G network to its knees and is asking everyone who has an IPhone to launch [...]
Just a quick note about Twitter SEO and Social Marketing
If you are planning to use Twitter to help raise buzz for your company, there are some things you do need to note. Many Twitter users use Autofollow – but many do not, and fake following is quickly becoming a scourge of Twitter, meaning you will be blocked by some users. As some folks know [...]
How to Crash a Party, or Do Not Send a URL and Password Through Twitter
Hey everyone, guess who is having a party at their house! Well everyone in the whole world knows at this point if you have been following people on Twitter. One of the basic rules of social networking is always work to keep yourself safe. If you post a link and a password to a protected [...]
Industry Expert Panel Discussion on Data Privacy
We all have a vested interest in how data and data privacy is enacted by companies, regardless of the environment, cloud, mobile (laptop, cell phones), private Data Center, or anything else that is a combination of the above. Companies have a vested interest in keeping their customers data private and clear of distortion or error. [...]
Reverse Brain Drain to India and China
America is a great place to start a company, there are no questions about that, and when Governments were busy making it harder to start a company, many immigrants came to America. Reports state that 52% of all Silicon Valley companies were started by Immigrants, and we have HP and Google as prime examples of [...]
Building a Streaming Video in the Cloud using Apple’s Darwin Server
We are in the process of building out our own streaming video server at the school, and tinkered around with Darwin from Apple for a bit. While it ended up not being the product we are going to stick with because it needs a completely different link structure than http, and it is difficult to [...]
I love you Google Wave
My love hate relationship with Google just switched over to love today as I just got my Google Wave account invite today, and am going to spend the rest of the day playing around with this puppy to see if it will work for the school I work at. As we take a look at [...]
Why Is It So Hard to Innovate in Online Education?
With the number of totally cool tools that Schools can use, why are we still waiting for online education to move past blackboard and other systems that are essentially static, unfriendly to social connections, and in general, just unfriendly. The online educational experience can be cold, disjointed and sterile, but it does not have to [...]
College Students Reject the Kindle: What e-Book Reader is Going to Work?
As students begin to reject the Amazon Kindle ebook reader, the idea of ebooks as text books for colleges should start taking center stage. What device or system is going to truly work for busy students who want to use ebooks, but are finding it hard to use them at all on any device? Ebooks [...]
Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?
This is part of my ongoing series called “Start-up Lessons.” I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start [...]
How Cloud Computing Can Help School Education?
Image via Wikipedia I have long advocated the use of Cloud Computing in academic research in this blog. It is my opinion that Cloud Computing helps academia by In the current tight funding situations, a low cost option to high end computing Offering an easy way to scale up and down based on their needs [...]
When Clouds Form In US, It Rains In Ethiopia
Here, at Cloud Ave, we have been emphasizing about how Cloud Computing levels the playing field for people across all sizes of businesses, across countries and in places where computing was an unknown term till recently. In my early days at Cloud Ave, I also wrote a two part series highlighting how Cloud Computing can [...]
The British Are the Masters of the Universe – the Facebook Universe
Image via Wikipedia The University of Salford in Manchaster will offer a Masters degree in Social Media, focusing on Facebook and Twitter. Course leader Professor Ben Light said: Social media is often associated with photos and statuses on Facebook… But there’s a massive potential for it to bring communities together, whether they’re geographical or online… [...]
A New Learning Resource from LearningSource
After many months spent in super stealth mode, SaaS training management system vendor LearningSource has gone public with their offering. Learning Source is a fully featured, end-to-end training management system that LearningSource believe will; streamline business processes help manage business relationships enhance the learning experience in, and beyond, the classroom LearningSource has a number of [...]
Sequential Programming is Dead. But it May Just Mean Job Security :-)
Do you have a screaming-fast Quad-core computer? Does it really feel that fast? If not, it’s probably because most applications were not programmed to take advantage of the new architecture. In fact, if you ask the Intel guys, not even the next generation of programmers is well prepared: All major manufactures of CPUs, GPUs and [...]
