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Enterprise mobile vendor Good Technology published a new study on Thursday revealing iOS’s massive market share in the corporate world. The iPad accounted for 96% of all tablets in the fourth quarter according to the firm, while the iPhone accounted for 53% of all smartphones activated by more than 2,000 companies using Good’s services in the fourth quarter.
Source BGR via iPad owns 96% of enterprise market and iPhone share climbs to 53%, study finds.
Really? Really!
Source: Cnet 27,000 Google Chromebooks headed to U.S. schools
“The Chromebooks are closely linked to Google Apps, Google’s online suite for word processing, e-mail, presentations, and more. It also can run any number of applications downloaded through the Chrome Web Store or simply loaded as Web pages.”
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Tuesday Technology Talk: Social Media Panel from Princeton Public Library on Vimeo.
At a March 1, 2011 Tuesday Technology Talk at Princeton Public Library in New Jersey, enthusiasts shared tips for utilizing social media to market a business or organization. I am honored that I was asked to be on the panel answering questions about privacy and security.
Most people in the area probably think of Mrs G’s at the building off Route 1 where you can get a good deal on quality refrigerators, high-end ovens and stoves, and large screen TVs. But inside that nondescript building something else is going on. Mrs G’s is actually a sort of community — a “hub” — for local and women owned businesses to gather and collaborate.
Earlier this week, I had an opportunity to attend a small gathering of business owners at the Mrs G’s in Lawrenceville hosted by Debbie Shafer in collaboration with Hillary Morris. Hillary had invited me to attend the Mercer Area Small Biz Coffee Talk; an opportunity for small business owners to talk about how business was going and perhaps find ways to help each other.
I’m not a business owner. For a few years (2000 — 2003), I was the principal for web development and systems integration consulting firm but for the last eight years I have worked in the information security department of one of the areas biopharma companies. It was interesting to learn about how small business was leveraging the Web especially social media.
Maybe this is how Debbie Shafer meant it to be. Perhaps this is her way of maintaining tradition — her grandmother’s founding principles — by bring people physically to her showroom but also using social media to form relationships as well.
I met, Krystal Knapp the writer behind the excellent local blog Planet Princeton.
[Planet Princeton] was created out of an awareness that the Princeton community needs a central place on the Internet where we can share news, events and community concerns.
I also met Travis, writer for the Genius Country blog. Genius Country wants to highlight the incredible talent of the Princeton area’s residents — past and present. The site features large beautiful images with short descriptive text.
Georgianne Vinicombe, owner of Monday Morning Flowers, talked about how she used social media marketing tools to promote her business and get intelligence to improve sales. She also gave me a great tip for Valentines Day. Guys, women prefer orange roses.
We had social media expert and wedding photographer, Jay Bryant, in the room offering some tips on the use of Facebook Edgerank. Jay is the Vice President of Sales at LiveWorld.
We heard from Joanne White, a writer for the Princeton Patch. The Princeton Patch offers hyper-local news about the area and encourages user content submission.
I met an etiquette consultant and event planner, Mary Harris, who reminded us to be on p’s and q’ when hanging out online.
Nirit Yadin manages the online present of the Terra Momo Restaurant Group but is also a writer for Princeton Eats, and it was because of her that I had the opportunity last November to attend a charity bread making event at Eno Terra in Kingston. My kids got to experience the joy of making bread while listening to Nadezhda Savova tell us stories of how this simple act has united communities around the world.
My friend and fellow foodie Deboleena Dutta told us the story of why she started her business, HerbNZest, LLC, to sell high quality gourmet condiments.
Cristina Fowler, a marketing manager for non-profits and writer for the Jersey Moms blog. The blog is a great resource for professional moms.
We heard from Sally Jones, an Empowerment & Life Coach, and owner of See…Believe…Achieve. What a wonderful name for a business!
Also in attendance was Robin Broomer, Advertising Director for Princeton Magazine/Town Topics. Robin talked with the group about the changing world of print and how online news has affected that industry.
Despite the constant stream of depressing news I read about the economy, surprisingly no one in the room talked about that. Instead there was an air of enthusiasm in the room. Perhaps that is why these businesses are successful.
So gathered around this table were local small business entrepreneurs who have a love of the region and a hope that they can work together for mutual benefit and prosperity. The general theme appeared to be how to use online tools like Facebook, Google+, Twitter — even Pinterest — to engage with their customers. How is Facebook different from Google+? Can Pinterest be used to reach a broader audience for products and services? How? How can I get more people to like my Facebook fan page?
If you have answers to those questions or if you have one of your own, please let me know in the comments section below.
If you try to create a Google account from Google’s homepage, you’ll notice that Google redesigned the page, but that’s not all. You’ll now have to create a Gmail account, a Google Profile and you’ll automatically join Google+.
New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+ (via Google Operating System)
I don’t have an issue with these changes at Google. I already use so many Google services — Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Analytics, Photos (formerly Picasa) Google+ etc — that it only makes sense that my Google+ and my other Google account are integrated. I’m more engaged on that platform than anywhere else. I love that Gmail now includes circles; a natural extension of Gmail filters. I want to give priority to responding to email from my family. One click on the Family circle and I can focus on doing just that.
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Look at the Author EULA in the light of a publisher’s agreement. It’s pretty generous. This is a tool that Apple gives you for producing books to sell through Apple. Perhaps they’ll change that in the future but that’s the agreement for now. In addition, if you want to give your book away you can use Apple’s tools to produce a book that you distribute any way you want. I don’t have those rights when I write for any other publisher. Author is not a standalone piece of software. It’s part of a publishing strategy.
(via Dim Sum Thinking)
It’s great to read the opinion of a published author.
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With all the fuss over the iBooks Author license agreement, what has been missed is that Apple is focusing the entire initiative on the education market, which is rather different from the publishing world in general.
TidBITS Opinion: Examining iBooks Author from the Publisher Perspective
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The New York Times has a clever and long feature article explaining why Apple (and other firms) manufacture in China for a host of reasons of which low wages may be a relatively small portion.
As recently as 2002, most of Apple’s products were manufactured in the USA. What happened? Why is nearly everything, from Macs to iPhones, made in China now?
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{EAV_BLOG_VER:58ff1b81f38fa2c9} I’m a big Google Services user but some of my friends and colleagues prefer Yahoo! I’ve written about how to integrate Google Services with my Mac, iPhone and iPad but I’ve remiss in writing anything about Yahoo! Enabling Yahoo! Services on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) is fairly straight forward. System Preferences The direct [...]
One of the least mentioned features of the new Mail app in iOS 5 is encrypted email. iOS 5 allows the user to send digitally signed or encrypted email to protect your electronic communications. I’ve written about digital certificates before on this blog. The idea is to use a special key — a digital certificate [...]
iOS 5 was released this week with a large list of improvements and new features. One new feature that I’ve come to love immediately — I have used the iOS 5 developer beta — is the PhotoStream feature of the update Photo app. Smartphones have grown in popularity and so along with the resolution and sensitivity of [...]
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People who know me, also know that I’m fan of neither cold nor snow. I grew up in the warm climes of the English speaking Caribbean (the West Indies) and had my first experience with snow when I was almost nineteen. I it was my first semester at college and I had made a few new aquaintances. One of them came banging on my door yelling “Snow”! I stepped outside with him to experience this wonder of white stuff falling from the sky. I remember enjoying the cold wet fluff in my hands and was told to try and catch a snow flake with my tongue. It seemed wonderful and magical. It was only later that I came to understand the true meaning of a snow fall.
It meant truding out in the cold and wet to a class. It meant that my shoes were full of sand and salt. It meant that I had to spend months uner a blanket. Yeah, I’m not too positve about snow. Today’s snow fall means my back will get a real work out. It means the roads will be full of incompent idiots in SUV who think they are invincible (thank goodness Montgomery Martial Arts is closed today). My wife, Bhavna, wonders how I managed to survive the winters in Michigan while attending the University of Michigan. I did it because I wanted an advanced degree. She’s right; I survived it.
But now … I’ve got kids. The first words I heard from my eleven year old daugher this morning were, “It snowing! It snowing!”. My almost thirteen year old son says he won’t let us move to California or Florida — I keep threatening to do it — because it doesn’t snow. Perhaps I need to see this through their eyes. Perhaps, it’s time to put away adult thinking and just enjoy what is. “It snowed!”
Tomorrow, along with many other websites, my blogs – Island in the Net, Khürt/photos, Khürt/blog – will go dark in protest of the Stop Online Privacy Act. There is a lot written about SOPA online – search Google – but from my understanding it will pretty much censor the Web.
If you want to learn more come back to blog after 8AM tomorrow (EST).
Location:Grant Way,Skillman,NJ
This is my first submission for my 52 week photography project. Her name is Sasha. I took the photo late last night at a dinner party hosted by my wife’s employer. Not much of a story here. Sasha had the run of the house and decided to spend her time trying to eat the ribbons sitting under the Christmas tree.
Last January I kicked of my first 365 project. I decided that I could learn more about my camera and about photography by forcing myself to take a photo every day for the year. I succeeded — I’m choosing to focus on the positive — on taking about 277 photos during the year; just 88 photos short of 365. I’m not a fan of cold and wet so the Winter and early Spring months were my least productive months. I say the project was a success because I learn how to use my camera better and I did learn a bit about composition and lighting. But I don’t think I have the discipline or time to pick the camera up each and every day. So starting this week I’ll be kicking off my new project — Project 52. I’ll have a whole week to plan my shoot and I hopefully will have an interesting photograph to share each week.
What ever your tradition for this time of the year — Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas, Pancha Ganapati, Festivus — may you have the company of friends and family.
The air was warm for December and with all that is going on at the office (I’m on vacation but there were some organizational changes) I decided to take a walk along Route 27 in Kingston. I had hoped to get some photos of the Mill House but the river water was quite high and rapid and the path through the forest was under water.
I continued walking along through Kingston until I got to the little mall housing some local shops one of which is Osteria Procaccini. My wife and I had attempted to eat here a few times before but we always seemed to come by when they are closed. I walked in an looked at the menu. I decided to sit and order lunch — it was about noon — but then changed my mind and decided to take my order to go. I had a chance to talk to the wait staff about the restaurant. It’s not a pizzeria. So what is it?
The restaurant’s menu describes an osteria thusly:
>osteria: a humble village eatery where a warm welcome awaits you
Well that’s true. The inside is non-pretentious — a welcome break from the stuffiness of Princeton — and the wait staff were quite friendly and tolerant of the many questions I had. The restaurant is family run and from the looks of the menu, they take great care to choose local organic and fresh ingredients for the food.
So what did I order and how was it? I ordered Tino’s Margherita Pizze and ate half the pie. I saved the other half for my kids. I enjoyed my pizza and I’ll be back to try the Ruchetta e Prosciutto. I expect I’ll be FourSquare mayor soon.
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Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
Sarah Lacy, pandodaily.com
I found a comment by Takeshi more useful than the article.
Over time, as Google builds its own social graph and picks up millions of users, it will use the information to deliver even more relevant search results. Links as the sole source of relevancy signals is going the way of the dinosaur, and G+ is their attempt to tap into the power of social connections.
Plants need sunlight and carbon dioxide for growth. There is quite a lot of the latter inside the typical corporate office and not enough of the other. (Taken with Instagram at Bristol-Myers Squibb)
The Huffington Post News Editors, huffingtonpost.com
After serious rumors starting swirling about Paula Deen’s diabetes diagnosis, reactions were swift and of the “well, duh” variety. No one could have been that surprised that a woman who pushes butter- and fat-heavy recipes for a living…
MPAA Chairman Christopher Dodd, the former senator from Connecticut, called Wednesday’s protest a “stunt” that will hurt consumers.
“It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services,” Dodd said in a statement. “It is also an abuse of power, given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today.”
January 18th, 2012
I want a blog that doesn’t require maintenance. Simple as that. The content on this site will not be ported over. Mostly because it’s a pain in the ass to get the content from WordPress to Tumblr but a little bit…
Hmmm … for similar reasons I am considering a move back to Wordpress.com from a self hosted Wordpress.org blog. Only thing missing from Wordpress.com is Markdown support.
- You can’t be oversensitive about your work, especially if you’re just starting out. It’s ok to embrace the memories and feelings you felt when you took the photographs but along with that should come the confidence to share them regardless if they’re praised or criticized.
- Stop glorifying every…
After refusing for weeks to release his taxes, Mitt Romney now says he’ll do so — by tax day, April 15. But the real news is what Romney has now admitted about his taxes.
It’s not how much Romney earns. Everyone knows he’s comfortably in the top one-tenth of one percent.
It’s how much he pays of…
Most business models are rigid, focused on operations, efficiencies, growth opportunities and P&L. This view has worked well for decades. However, now in a new era of digital influence, connected customers, and customers in general, are clamoring to be heard and to become part of the business ecosystem. As a result, leaders must embrace new methodologies, technologies, and systems to engage stakeholders and work together to build a new framework that upgrades the dynamic for stakeholder engagement and collaboration and the resulting experience now and how it’s reinforced over time.
( via WorkShifting)
I recently read the Pope’s latest homophobic statements with disgust, though not with surprise.
Pride of place [among proper settings for the education of children] goes to the family, based on the marriage of a man and a…
And to religion, I offer the language of my own ‘faith’, that of science: evolve, or die.
… How many times have you seen someone doing a video call from a tablet? How often have you seen someone hook up a tablet to a 50-inch HDTV and use it to play HD movies and games? How many people do you know who have hooked up a keyboard to their tablet and completely ditched their laptop?
CES 2012: The Power2U AC/USB Wall Outlet Is The Next Best Home Upgrade For Your Digital Family
Casey Tschida, appadvice.comAt this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Newer Technology decided to show off one of their more unique products, the Power2U AC/USB wall outlet. This combination power outlet is the perfect way to keep all of those mobile gadgets…
I’ve had something like this in my home for a year. What’s the big deal?
Climate change castaways consider move to Australia @ Sydney morning Herald
To Escape Rising Seas, Maldives President May Move His Entire Island Nation to Australia @ TreeHugger
We are a planet of selfish assholes.
Many new PCs come filled with lots of trialware and sample software that slows your computer down—removing all that is a pain, so we do it for you! Every PC the Microsoft Store sells is put on a software diet and performance is tuned to run the best it can.
We call this process Microsoft Signature.
Mac users, on the other hand, call it every computer we’ve ever bought.
From Cerf’s op-ed in the NYT:
There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience. It is a mistake to place any particular technology in this exalted category, since over time we will end up valuing the wrong things.
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Hi, I'm Khürt L. Williams. I write about technology on Island in the Net, but post random thoughts on Khürt/blog. My background includes multimedia research and development, IT security, and consulting. I’ve been a Web Developer, Web Master, Technical Lead, Project Manager, Service Delivery Manger and Systems Security Manager. You can sometimes find me sitting with my iPad drinking coffee in one of Princeton's cafés.