Patrick McGoohan, The Prisoner" has died. He was 80.
In the latest report by Ted Schadler (Forrester's Vice President and Principal Analyst), Ted covers several companies and video solutions for the Enterprise.
"...Information workers have been posting confidential videos to YouTube because they've had few alternatives. Fortunately, in the past few months, three vendors - Google, Microsoft, and Veodia - have introduced services or products for securely hosting videos with enterprise access controls.
These services give information and knowledge management professionals a way to harness the power of corporate and employee-generated video to teach, inspire, and capture knowledge.
This report introduces the business scenarios, platform checklist, and vendors for employee-generated video..."
Wow! I am soooo happy that Slacker now have a player for the iPhone!
Following on my previous blogs (Slacker G2 Player, Slacker player for the Blackberry), I am now using the iPhone player as well.
It is going to be interesting to track this new product, as well as the Blackberry player and to see how would it effect the sales of Slacker G2 player.
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I was working on demos for Veodia most of the day.
Cool stuff I could share in few days.
So, as I was doing all these recording, I decieded to do one short message for the Blog.
Because I can.
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RWW shared a very interesting movie on the history of the Internet.
The movie was crated by PICOL (picol.org - stands for Pictorial Communication Language) - it's a project that aims to create "a standard and reduced sign system for electronic communication." PICOL is free to use and open to alter.
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Slacker, my favorite online radio site just released a new player for Blackberry.
Unfortunately, T-Mobile do not have an update for my old 8700, but AT&T does...
:-(
If anyone at Slacker reads this - I would be happy to get the new Blackberry Bold and promise a more detailed review!
;-)
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Trying out the new Jing Pro .
I receded the 'thank you' eMail I received after buying it for $14.99/year.
I wish there was an easy way to re-size the output, as for example, my blog width is 400px and the movie I recorded was 649px...
Very cool quick integration/upload to FTP/Flickr/YouTube. Could be great to see integration to Twitter with a tinyURL for screencast.com.
I will keep working on this one and I hope it will continue to be very good experience.
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Interesting discussion with SAP’s Leo Apotheker on Oliver Marks column today.
As Leo mentioned, if the Enterprise software is not built well, it may take down many businesses with it...
Great point that emphasizes one of the main differentiators of Enterprise software.
For those who develop Enterprise 2.0 software/solutions, please keep this in mind. The transition from Web 2.0 to E2.0 is not trivial.
-- Update --
Interesting comments from Bill McDermott:
"...Bill McDermott, SAP (NYSE: SAP)'s CEO and president of global field operations, has a prediction on when software-as-a-service will become a popular platform on which large business will run their core business operations.information week
"Never," McDermott said, in an InformationWeek interview on Tuesday.."
So what are the differences between Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0?
So many opinions and Blogs about is, so, let me share my short answers, based on who is asking...
I like gadgets because they usually cute and bringing me value (saving, time, great experience, fun). Some gadgets are very cool, but also very bad for the environment (due to usage of toxic chemicals). Once in a while I get my hand/eye on a gadget which I like, but also green.
I would recommend you visiting the Greener Gadgets Design Competition Website, to learn about last year ideas, but also to have the opportunity to contribute.
Here is some information from the Website
Overview
Greener Gadgets has partnered with Core77 to generate outstanding design innovations for greener electronics. This year, the top 50 entries will be published on the web for voting and commenting, and top finalists will be showcased live at the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York City on February 27th for judging by an expert panel. Awards will be given out at the end of the conference program, and winners will be showcased on Core77.com, GreenerGadgets.com, CE.org, and Inhabitat.com.
Design Brief
We invite designers to explore the concept of "Greener Gadgets." Designs should seek to minimize the environmental impact of consumer electronic devices at any stage in the product lifecycle. Areas of sustainability to consider include energy, materials/lifecycle/recycling, social impact, and educational development. Designers can focus on a particular area of human enterprise (learning, playing, communicating, etc.), or a particular context (work, home, school, etc.), a particular material, or a specific device. Entries may also seek to create new paradigms for products and services.
This year, several kids websites (aka 'destinations'/'communities') made some waves and real money.
As kids are getting more sophisticated, the site's content and experience has to improve and be innovative.
While others created lists based on grown-up 'experts' or excel sheets ($$$), I went to my expert for an one-on-one interview.
These are the best kids websites for 2008 - as selected by my very own redhead, Danielle:
Few months pass since my son started to use a mac (MacMini for MiniMe) and now my daughter started to sneak to his (or mine) as well. As she uses computers for over 5 years now, she developed some 'skills' that allows her to access sites, bypassing Glubble and other solutions.
For example, she found how to use IE and FF to get the protective tools confused...
(I do not know if I am more proud or concern at this point...)
But as she started using the Mac, the situation is under control.
I started to use Apple Mac OS Parental Controls.
After a simple setup (see bellow), she has her own user and can use the system/Internet safely.
Now, I am looking for a solution to make sure there is no hot chocolate around my keyboard...
(And no, keep saying that does not help...)
Progress made in small steps...
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As a follow up to the 'Just Good News' post, here is an aggregation of additional good news:
http://good-news.alltop.com/
We do need more of these.
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AMIMON offers huge advantages to home and business users with its unique video-modem solution that eliminates the hassle of running video cables to HD displays and projectors. WHDI™ technology enables wireless delivery of uncompressed HDTV throughout the home with video rates of up to 3Gbps (uncompressed 1080p!) in the 5Ghz unlicensed band, with the same quality as a wired connection and no latency.
I just had a chat with my friend Dr. Zvi Reznic – Co-Founder, Vice President R&D, and was happy to hear that the company is doing very well.
Few days ago, I saw that one of Aminon's partners, SONY, started to market few TV systems, which users Amimon chips. It is great to see Israeli technologies used in mass-production, especially is they available in Israel.
kudos guys!
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Great movie from my friend Mickey.
I cannot complain about my commute, but this is even better...
;-)
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Morning, the kids are playing, had my coffee(s)...
Guess in which stage am I...
I also added the twitterfeed.com service to send updates about new blogs...
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When I talk to people about Veodia, the "What is Cloud Computing?" question pops up once in a while.
The long 'text-based' answer, is, as always, at Wikipedia.
Some attempts to simply explain it by using video interviews of experts are available on YouTube. Such as:
rPath did a good job at it with a nice video.
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