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Microsoft Romancing iPhone Developers

Apr 30, ’11 4:45 PM

I have always said and believed that Apple’s biggest adventage is their huge creative and innovative developer base. Not just their iDevices, AppStore, or iTunes. It is not enough for a company to make a better smartphone than an iPhone they need all the other elements that add up to Apple’s success. It is the collective intellectual brain trust of the Apple developer community that others wish they could have. Microsoft  thinks they have found a way to get that. Microsoft, on the verge of the Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, Microsoft is attempting to wrest away Apple’s greatest asset. Microsoft is releasing an API tool that allows developers to easily map, migrate and contort iPhone applications over to Windows phones.

Microsoft officials have said not to expect mapping for all of the APIs, as the two phone platforms are built on different architectures and user interface.

“For this first round we focused on identifying the one-to-one mapping when it exists. In following versions we’ll expand the scope and anytime the concepts are similar enough, we’ll do our best to provide the appropriate guidance.”

Microsoft is hoping that developers will step up and suggest additional APIs they’d like to see mapped, and is asking developers to submit suggestions. Microsoft also is providing interested developers with a 90-plus page “Windows Phone 7 Guide for iPhone Application Developers” white paper.

In this way Microsoft hopes to dynamically enhance their roster of over 15,000 applications currently available for Windows phone 7

This seems a twist on reverse engineering that has stimulated expensive time-consuming litigation in the past. Sometimes instigated by Microsoft against competitors for similar reasons.

We await and anticipate Apple’s reaction to this aggressive Microsoft move.

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Sony S1 and S2 Tablets

Apr 30, ’11 9:48 AM
Sony S1 tablet

Sony S1 tablet

It was a couple of weeks ago that I wondered in a post on this site what was holding Sony back from jumping headlong into the emerging tablet fray considering it was in their product wheelhouse. It seemed only natural that Sony would eventually  enter a market that is so well suited for them to enter and succeed in. After all Sony literally pioneered the UMPC product category and as always has had such a strong design and development infrastructure.

Well it seems that Sony was not napping and was working on this. We just overjoyed to learn that Sony has developed and is readying S1 and S2 Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” tablets. The S2 is particularly interesting being a dual-screen tablet.

It is xpected that Sony will integrate Sony Reader e-book software and as is common for them they will add in a slew of home-entertainment features such as  allowing them to serve as universal remote controls and to be able to transfer videos and music to compatible television and wireless speaker systems.

I am a long time Sony fanboy with one of just about every Sony consumer electronic product of theirs since the Walkman, not to mention the four VAIO computers sitting around gathering dust that I just can’t see myself giving up.

I look forward to their new tablet products. I know Sony will put their best foot forward and come out with excellent products that will uphold their well-earned reputation for delivering top quality technology.

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COOL COMBO: Motorola Atrix

Apr 29, ’11 1:43 PM
Motorola Atrix 4G

Motorola Atrix 4G

 

 

 

The Motorola Atrix is if not an iPhone “killer” is a decent combo laptop and smartphone device setup plus powerful media hub. Moto’s Atrix was a huge hit at the past CES. and is another hit in the continuing run of recent successes in Motorola’s modern line of devices and producs that includes their new Motorola Honeycomb Xoom tablet and the Motorola Defy. The Atrix that is Motorola’s big punch. It is a powerful, dualcore smartphone with loads of upside offering a series of docks, USB and HDMI connections and a multimedia hub, and a 11.6-inch laptop.
The Atrix is an attractive high quality well built device.  It houses a Dualcore Tegra 2 processor and runs Android (2.2) – Froyo – and comes with Motoblur, Twitter and Facebook integration and Motorola widgets. Display wise there’s a four-inch, 960×540 touchscreen for tight, bright, strong color.  The speaker delivers good volume and quality. It sports an 5-megapixel camera capturing 720p movies.
You can dock the Atrix up to the Lapdock or HDMI-connect it to an available Multimedia Dock, HD Multimedia Dock.

The more I think about it the more I like this product set. I can’t wait to give the Atrix a try and get back to my readers to report if I love it or not.

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SECRET # 5: Free Offers Aren’t Free!

Apr 28, ’11 9:00 AM

Again, its not really a secret. Without a doubt doubt you have probably already unfortunately discovered that most Free Offers online aren’t really free and sometimes aren’t even offers! There are many covert hooks and snares out there that result in you winding up on sucker lists. Their costs are time and bother. You may have been cautious and diligent for many years of your digital life and then on a whim you responded to an offer to download something for free, signed up to play a free game, responded to an email to get free movie tickets, taken a radom survey, or offered your opinion only to find you have just opened yourself  up to unsolicited junk mail and opened Pandora’s box. You may have innocently participated in the online survey, signed up for a product discount or registered on a site only to find out the offer wasn’t what it seemed. Often they don’t even bother to deliver on the offer or promises that drew you in the first place, but now your email and vital information is in their sweaty little paws and once in their database they begin to do their worst with disturbing marketing calls at all times of day and night, and unsolicited junk email that clutters up your email accounts. Once the floodgates are open you will find it extremely time consuming and difficult to stop. Even unsubscribing has unintended and unexpected effects because what you have done is that you have just verified your presence and successful receipt of the junk. The bogus offers seem to spawn and replicate beyond anyones ability to monitor or control.

Be overly cautious and diligent if you desire to uncomplicate and unclutter your online life. Understand that if an offer seems to good to be true it probably isn’t. If you feel like a tiny fish swimming in a big pond heavy with baited hooks and shiny lures that masquerade as deals is because this is the sea you swim in.

Some deals aren’t deals take for instance :

The bait: Normally $99, but now only $0.  FREE for 1 Week :)

The hook: if you bite. you would have just signed up for a paid service that requires your approval to automatically deduct the full payment from your bank or credit card after the “free” week.

In the above case you were required to allow them access and control to your Twitter or Facebook account exposing your following to their hyped messages and postings in order to simply get access to the video. The question is. is this worth the price of selling your followers down the river? If they get the sense you did it they will never trust you again and will “unfollow” you quick, fast, and in a hurry. There goes all your good will and hard work.

5/5/11:

I bought a Dr. Pepper soda. The advertising on the bottle said “A winner on every bottle”. What was necessary was signing up online with complete information to discover what you won. The entry number was on the bottle cap. The prize was a coupon for another soda. I dread the frlood of junk I may have just opted in for. Whatever it is is not worth the exposure I have opened myself up for. Such is the way of modern marketing. More trouble than it is worth.

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Gadget Obsession or Digital Addiction?

Apr 27, ’11 5:38 PM

I recently saw a young man get knocked 10 feet in the air by a fast moving car he never saw because he was busy text messaging as he crossed the busy street. It would be ironic if the driver was also tweeting, she was too shaken to relate what she was doing when she plowed into him.

Precious youth getting wiped out by cars, Senior citizens getting ganked and jacked, bank accounts being siphoned and all in the name of societies’ growing gadget obsession or addiction to gadgets, gizmos and gear.

I’d say that these are at the very least good signals that its time for a reality check.

Smartphones have emerged as status symbols among peer pressure conscious teens and are the key to modern business communications among aspiring entrepreneurs of all ages and classes.

I remain uncertain as to whether any of this is either healthy or useful but I do know that this is the world we inhabit. And we need to be more careful and aware of things in the real world as well as in the virtual world. We used to be able to judge the status of others by simply observing their clothing or their shoes, now the sophistication of the gear they carry tells us much more than any other single indicator. A man with an iPhone 4 trumps a Blackberry owner. An iPad user outranks a netbook user, and so on.

American homes are burning valuable energy supplying juice to all the computers, media players and electronic devices we plug in.

It is not too late to call out our obsessions addictions when they appear too consuming or destructive.

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AD: A $49 iPhone 3 GS? Yeah!

Apr 27, ’11 3:52 PM

Did my eyes and ears just deceive me? But I’d swear that I just saw an ad on cable TV that offered anApple 3 GS iPhones for $49.

If this is true and I don’t doubt it. I have a couple of questions. The first is, (1) is this merely a competitive strategy to grow the base of  iPhone ownership, or (2) are there just so many 3 GS iPhones left that they can afford to almost give them away? Either way this seems quite a blow to the many iPhone competitors out there that only thought they had to compete with a somewhat scarce iPhone 4 inventory. Now this! We should probably to see in a few short weeks what effect. if any, this will have on the market, with consumers and on the telecom industry in general. It may not even be a big deal. Without a doubt AT&T will likely be the biggest beneficiary attracting tons of new account sign ups and 2-year contracts.

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COOL NEWS: White iPhone 4 Available NOW!

Apr 27, ’11 10:07 AM

 

 

White iphone 4

White iphone 4

What was harder to find, a white tiger, a white elephant or a white iPhone?

Until today the white iPhone would have ranked up right there? Today’s post from Apple quickly solved that mystery. We will finally saw the arrival of the imfamous white iPhone.After months of anticipation and waiting through delays, rumors and missteps the official availability of the white iPhone 4 happened and for as long as they last they are available in Apple stores, partner stores, and online, The Apple announcement.

To quote Philip Schiller, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, “The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it’s beautiful,” he continues, “We appreciate everyone who has waited patiently while we’ve worked to get every detail right.” The rumored paint peeling and sensor problems must be resolved.

Last July, Apple announced that the white iPhone 4 would be released later that year, but with no explanation as to why. Finally, in October, Apple announced that it would be delaying the release of the white iPhone until spring 2011, saying only that it was “more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected.”

The white iPhone 4 is on shelves in the Apple Store, Apple retail stores, AT&T and Verizon stores, and from select resellers and will be available for both AT&T and Verizon in the UK, and U.S, Denmark, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Austria,, China, Czech Republic,, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Macau, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Consumers can purchase the 16GB version for $199 or the 32GB version for $299. Of course expect the obligatory two year contract.

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Secret #4: Who is viewing you?

Apr 26, ’11 9:21 AM

Take the concept like a Reverse Directory. Transfer it to the online world and what do you get? You get Social Searcher.

Business Case: In the rapid rise of the use of Social Search Engines when social site users are constantly exposed to the methods and motives of a world full of all sorts of folks digging through our profiles dredging up our info for who knows what reasons? There are now business opportunities opening to companies that offer users new ways to view others viewing you. This is a very interesting twist when companies allow you to view who is viewing you. It is up to you to figure out why. One of these reverse search providers is called Social Searcher. Social Searcher lets individuals see who has been searching online for their name, and who else has been viewing their Profile and Picture? Some of the social sites  they monitor include: Facebook, Linkdin, MSN, Picassa, Twitter, Yahoo and You Tube. This twist stresses important reasons why and how you should control your profiles and online identity. They also provide a fairly useful free guide to learning about who’s searching for who and how to protect your personal information online.
http://www.socialsearcheronline.com

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Apple: “If you don’t have an iPhone…You don’t!”

Apr 26, ’11 8:08 AM

Apple’s “If you don’t have an iPhone Ad”

The ad says “If you don’t have an iPhone, you don’t have an iPhone”

I interpret this as meaning there is something more about having an iPhone, it’s called status and cache, so you may have a smartphone that looks like an iPhone and does some of the things an iPhone does, but, without an iTunes App store, the developers base, doing iPod music functions with a retina display and in a thin cool design package  you really just don’t an iPhone, the very best available smartphone on the market.

That is a brag that should engage and enrage iPhone competitors and should also be taken as an “in your face” challenge to the many iPhone competitors.

With the many interesting new devices coming out we should probably look back at this bold statement a few months from now and we will view it as either hubris or a gauntlet thrown down and backed up.

This actually is a whole series of television ads in heavy rotation that stress the different aspects and advantages of iPhones that competitors don’t have or offer. I have seen it four times on ESPN while drafting this post.

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Samsung Droid Charge 4G Smartphone.

Apr 25, ’11 9:22 AM
Samsung Droid Charge

Samsung Droid Charge (4G-Verizon)

Samsung’s Droid is being readied for Verizon following up on the recent popularity of Motorola’s Droid. HTC’s Droid Eris also has generated a sizable and growing following. Finally, Samsung will join the party adding one of its own devices to Verizon’s lineup with the Samsung Droid Charge, Samsung’s anticipated Android OS-powered smartphone. Verizon and Samsung have announced that the Droid Charge will be available stateside on April 28 in Verizon retail stores for $300, of course with a two-year contract commitment. Spec wise the Samsung Droid is not shabby. There is a 4.3-inch super AMOLED screen, 1-GHz processor, back and front facing cameras (8 megapixels and 1.3 megapixels). But, the Charge isn’t running 2.3 or 3.0 versions of Android,

The Samsung Droid is the second 4G LTE-enabled smartphone released for Verizon in 2011, the formidible HTC Thunderbolt was Verizon’s first 4G device. AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are offering a few more 4G devices. The Thunderbolt has been a hit for Verizon in the short span since release. 4G Thunderbolts sales still were eclipsed by 3G Apple iPhone sales on Verizon.

Get ready for a literal avalanche  of Droid phones from HTC, Motorola and select others.

[Photo courtesy of Verizon]

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COMING SOON: Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet

Apr 25, ’11 7:55 AM

CLICK HERE IF YOU NEED A COOL POWERFUL LAPTOP OR WORKSTATION!!!

It was only a matter of time and opportunity before a strong player like Lenovo would mustle up and join the phalanx of Apple tablet competitors in the massive “me-too” tablet stampede.

Lenovo is joining the horde of Motorola Xoom, BlackBerry PlayBook, Samsung Galaxy Tab and various other tablets from Dell and HP because it must have been all too tempting for Lenovo to overlook or pass up on a chance to become a player in this new tablet game.

Lenovo the fortunate inheritor of IBM’s laptop line is using their significant manufacturing and development and enterprise awareness advantages to leverage their way into the rapidly emerging and expanding tablet arena and marketplace with a planned June launch of a new Android 3.0 ThinkPad tablet.

What we’ve heard so far:

  • Lenovo has spent a lot of time enhancing the Android user interface.
  • A slide-out deck would appeal to enterprise and corporate users
  • Many ports will be offered for expanded connectivity and integration.
  • Native enterprise support for Citrix and remote desktop software.
  • The Lenovo tablet will serve as  a hotspot.
  • Lenovo tablets will feature Word, PowerPoint, Excel and other business-favored applications.
  • Pricing of a Lenovo tablet will start around $499.
  • A ThindPad tablet exploits Lenovo’s corporate strengths and support infrastructure.
  • Lenovo will be a strong tablet player in enterprise and corporate markets.
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COOL PORTAL: My Way.com

Apr 24, ’11 8:00 AM
My Way

My Way

 

It will be interesting to see what changes or surprises that are in store for My Way users when My Way completes the changes they are implementing that have caused them to pull the site down temporarily.

My Way Background:

Back in the day web portals were what yahoo and others like Netscape thought we all wanted. After Google blew away the portal concept with a sparse search page without all the confusion and clutter the portals fell like victims of the black plague. When the concept was all but gone My Way dived in and have tried to find a place. My Way still seems to be a “best kept secret” but is well worth taking a good look at. They might take offense being called a portal considering the history of the term, but there are few better terms to describe exactly what My Way is all about. the point they want you to know and are proud of is that there on My Way there are  “No banners. No Pop-ups. No Kidding”

The notice reads:

  • My Way will be back shortly!
  • We’re currently conducting scheduled maintenance on this My Way feature. While this brief interruption is necessary to continue offering you the best service possible, we do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Thank you for your patience. Please stop back shortly!

On their site you can custom configure your own personal “My Page” you’ll also find: News; customizable weather for your area; you can also keep a porfolio.

http://my.myway.com/

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Web Secrets #1: An Introduction

Apr 23, ’11 12:54 PM

Some argue that there are no real secrets on the web, still others declare that there are nothing but secrets online. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle and depends on just what each of us consider to be a secret. There are many types and degree of secrets. Many so-called secrets weren’t initially intended to be secrets and are just little known tightly maintained bits of information, or seldom discussed and grudgingly revealed facts and information. Some secrets are remain mysteries deeply buried under signs, symbols and codes that only the initiated can understand or decipher.

  1. Web Design Secrets
  2. Web Marketing Secrets
  3. Deep Web
  4. Free and discount sites
  5. Opportunities
  6. Web methods and techniques
  7. Business Secrets
  8. Success Secrets
  9. Social Secrets
  10. Web Traffic secrets
  11. Internet Archive
  12. Search Secrets
  13. Smart Devices Tracking Users

Links to secrets:

In the instances where they cannot be reduced down to bite-sized chunks I have provided links and pointers to more detailed info.

Over the coming week The Coolness Factor will attempt to explore a wide range of secrets. Turn back in each day for the next installments starting with #1 “The Deep Hidden Web” One of the biggest online secrets is that there are whole sections and layers of the web that are buried so deep, and hidden that most users do not even know that it exists.

4/24

I am just now learning that there are some deeply held secrets that some others would rather we not know. See the post on Smart devices that are tracking and revealing the locations, movements and stored data of loyal trusting users.

 

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E-Commerce Reality Check 2011

Apr 23, ’11 11:12 AM

What’s been going on in the E-commerce world? Has Amazon managed to take over and drive everyone else away? Has the economic downturn drained and dried up pocketbooks so throughly that nobody is spending online? Has cyber crime finally scared so many buyers away from online purchasing so as to impact the prospects that were so bright just a few years back?

One thing is sure. Get your buying in before the cash-strapped Federal and State governments come up with new ways and the hubris to finally impose onerous taxes on online retail purchases. According to reports Online retail is set for serious growth if the important variables don’t change too drastically.

The success of App stores may be a sign of the future but also present an opening for the tax option stated.

E-Bay is still rolling in it and penny auctions are attracting buyers looking to score big deals.

Mobile e-commerce seems to be where many of the greatest e-commerce opportunities live for both buyers and sellers. Shopping by smartphone is red hot for a whole variety of reasons. Most web development platforms have implemented shopping cart plains and solutions that have taken the pain and expense out of developing a secure e-commerce presence.

Online entrepreneurs deserve our respect and due consideration. We encourage all efforts to make the users online buying experience safer and much more secure. We implore hackers and cyber criminals to refrain from activities that have the power to slay the Golden Goose of opportunity. Their efforts would be better spent trying to set up legitimate business and use their talents for good.

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COOL MAGAZINE & WEBSITE: T3

Apr 23, ’11 10:30 AM
T3 Magazine

T3 Magazine

I have a favorite magazine. It has been my favorite since the late 90′s. I used to plunk down the cash and purchase T3 whenever I could find it at the few serious newsstands that imported and carried it. When I couldn’t find the magazine I would tune into their website. Lately I have lapsed due to so many other distractions. I had to revisit their site and quickly realized what I had been missing. I thought I owed it to you my readers to turn you on to this important resource if you are not already hip to it.

For someone who is selective about what I sign up for I have subscribed to the full range of T3 offerings including the T3 RSS feed and newsletter. I have also registered to joined their membership. This gives me complete access to some of the best technology and gadget content on the web, and allows me to fully join their community of gadget lovers. Allowing me to:

  • Comment on the latest technology news
  • Give my opinion on T3 gadget reviews
  • Enter the latest competitions and hopefully win the latest technology
  • and finally to Receive their free T3 newsletter

The T3 website is chock full of the latest Headlines; News; Reviews; Features; Tech Videos; Lists; Charts; Awards and much more. It is truly good reading!

http://www.t3.com

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Corporate Tit for Tat: Samsung suing Apple

Apr 22, ’11 10:07 AM

Oh come on now! Really…

Last week it was widely reported that lofty Apple was suing Samsung in Northern Cali court. Now, In a serious game of corporate “tag, you’re it” We just learned that Samsung is suing Apple in Europe and Asia.  IWeeks ago I wrote another article  called “To Innovate or litigate” predicting this could be the likely future of competition. Not knowing at the time just how quickly and sure that scenario would actually play out and come true. Now here we are entering the Innovation Twilight Zone and the Litigation Outer Limits.

Samsung has responded to Apple’s recent patent lawsuit by filing a frontal assault of its own on more familiar and agreeable turf. The lawsuit was filed against the Apple on Friday in South Korea, Japan, and Germany. Samsung’s lawsuits don’t directly address Apple’s suit filed earlier in the US, even though they do accuse Apple with violating a number of Samsung’s patents related to how devices communicate with cell towers. According to Samsung, Apple has infringed on patents on how to reduce transmission errors, reduce power during data transmission, and tether a device to a PC to share its data connection.

Apple’s suit against Samsung accuses Samsung of copying Apple’s user interface design, packaging, and product design for the iPhone and iPad.

Additionally, Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee implied that Apple is simply being a bully attempting to stiffle Samsung’s recent success.

There clearly are similarities between the companies’ products. For example, iPad/iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab/Galaxy S look alike in physical design. and in UI the Galaxy looks just like iOS—In general Samsung’s products have grown closer to Apple’s seemingly without restraint. The phones and tablets do share various characteristics, but both companies believe that they have the upper hand when it comes to product design and innovation. Samsung is the first competitor to offer major tablet competition to the iPad, and Samsung’s handsets are finding acceptane with with Android users. Apple contends that Samsung has “crossed the line,” so everybody get ready for a patent fight like we have only rarely seen before.

 

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ABOUT YOUR DIGITAL LIFESTYLE 2011

Apr 22, ’11 8:16 AM

While ZDnet’s great magazine “Your Digital Life” is under construction and the website gets rebuilt I thought it still might be a good idea to take a look at how our present digital lifestyles and how they have and are changing.

Once you find out what makes up your digital lifestyle you need to more closely monitor how that lifestyle changes, and how frequently and dynamically it will change.

The report I will reference below describes 6 digital lifestyles that represent the different ways in which people most often interact with the Internet.

We each of us should frequently examine what has changed over the last few years, and be aware and prepared for what is on the verge of changing as we go from Analog to Digital, Actual to Virtual,  from offline to online, As we make tradeoffs, understandind that there are always substantial risks and rewards.

In this environment who can we trust? With privacy and freedom on the run, Who is out there looking out for our interests? With the FCC and other regulatory agencies is under attack how do we preserve the rights and protections of vulnerable consumers and plain everyday citizens.

Example: if you thought you were over commercials, guess again, here comes Interactive commercials.

In the course of researching this post I ran across a pdf file that more than anything is a really good attempt to analyze and describe our digital lifestyles.

http://discoverdigitallife.com/downloads/pdf/The_Digital_Lifestyles.pdf

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Ultimate CMS Showdown

Apr 21, ’11 4:50 PM

In late March of 2009 there was an event billed as “The Ultimate CMS Showdown” It was originally presented at SXSW – South By Southwest Interactive in March, 2009,  pitting three teams of all-star Web developers from the Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress communities against each other to develop the same Web site in each of their chosen open source content management platforms.

The competition was intended to provide folks with decision-making tools to use when trying to determine which of these open source content management systems might be a good fit for their individual needs.

It was envisioned as a bloodless battle between Content Management Systems to determine the Destiny of the concept and it was a good idea but probably a little before its time. There were still companies like WordPress that did not know that was the business they were in or would be in eventually. Now years and trends later we have a bit of a better perspective to judge.

Having extensively used Joomla, Drupal and WordPress I have a fairly good idea what is working. I have personally settled on WordPress and still need to give tumbler a tumble.

My opinion is whatever works. Not all sites are alike, therefore they may need different things and that is great when different solutions are doing different things in different ways. Something that works well for me may be exactly what you hate about another approach. We can handle more than one. It is just too bad that they are worlds apart and incompatible. This is what I had hoped Open Source APIs would change. Oh Well!

In the pits were staunch fans of Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. To say it was a “no decision” is fair. No bodies were found in container bins and no kneecaps were broken. So I would say its time for another go round. There are a few more contestants and the audience is bigger as is the need.

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RIM Playbook

Apr 21, ’11 3:19 PM

TABLET WARS:YEAH BOY! IT’S ON NOW!!!

The media and threir minions and pundits should/must be more fair in their evaluations of new tablets like RIM’s Playbook. The Playbook is not an Apple iPad! It is a functional device that can stand on its own and support enterprise markets that Apple covets but has never mastered in ways that seem to come natural to RIM. his can only serve to force Apple to do better in addressing business uses and users. The tablet market is young, new and fresh. Competition must be encouraged without knee-jerk fanatic sympathies that do not allow for alternatives and options.  The iPad is not perfect. there is room for improvement that will only come in response to pressure from competition.

Even though RIM’s latest moves seem to be outright blatant attempts to steal Apple’s thunder and suck all of the air from the room, example being RIM previewing a new version of their Playbook to the press on the very eve of Apple’s big iPad 2 press event. The equivalent of someone crashing a party, slapping all the guests in the face, throwing up on all the presents, having their way with the host’s wife, and urinating on the front door welcome mat on the way out. it was just an all-out “declaration of war”.

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EVENT: NAB SHOW 2011

Apr 21, ’11 1:07 PM
NAB Show

NAB Show

NAB 2011 is all over now, but it merits a quick check out to see what went down there that we missed.

When I was a young eager professional broadcaster NAB was the site of an annual pilgrimage. Since I got bitten in the neck by Digi-Drac and my subsequent conversion to geek I have been missing in action. I just decided to check in and see whatI may have missed, especially now that that industry is drinking the tech kool-aide.

The event has been running for 85 years and though not new continues to be a destination for broadcasting® professionals who desire to stay connected and share their passion for content from creation to consumption. They have registered andare pimping the term Broader-casting® in efforts to expand the focus of their work. The following is excerpted from the show site.

NAB Show Fast Facts

• 90,000+ media and entertainment professionals from over 150 countries

• Over $35 billion in purchasing power represented on-site

• 1,500+ unique companies spread over 800,000 net square feet

• 9 conferences and 3 training programs, featuring more than 500 skill-building sessions

• 1,200+ members of the press

• 85+ years of industry leadership

Take a look at the substantial video coverage ans show news on their site:

http://www.nabshow.com/2011/index.asp

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