Another broken music service
Much fanfare announcing Puretracks today, a Canadian service that offers tunes for sale. I won't sign up. Why? You can only listen to tunes through Windows Media Player…
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Another keynote for SAP -- next week in Chicago
I received an e-mail from SAP this morning: "...thank you very much for the excellent presentation that you delivered for us last week at the SAP Business Forum in…
Keynotes & Events
Smart frogs ....
Today is my keynote at the SAP Business forum ... with the key message being that it is the "smart frogs" who are continuing to streamline and re-engineer their internal…
Keynotes & Events
Traditional offices -- Boring as sin!
I'm quoted in the Edmonton Journal today in an article about an innovative, new, cooperative office space. No link to the full article yet, but I'm working on it. Jim…
Media & Press · Megatrends
I'm digitizing my life .....
Well, at least all the photos. For the last two weeks, I've scanned about 2,000 old photos using an HP photoscanner. These photos are added to the 7,000 digital photos…
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Go to a bar -- and be tracked!
Vancouver Sun article: "Vancouver bar patrons will soon have to produce identification and have their photograph taken every time they enter clubs or bars connected to…
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Unreal ... another digital camera advancement
A company has come out with 4.8 gigabyte compact flash cards --- which you can use in a digital camera. My math tells me that if I used this in my Canon G2, doing…
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Ten years of change
Ten years ago today, I was approached by a major publisher, asking if I could write a book about the Internet and the online world. By all means -- I'd already been…
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Look up!
Went to get the morning paper just now .... and it's a crisp, cool October morning. The stars are awesome -- and so are the satellites. That's why you need to check out…
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"The curse of the information age .....
.... is information." Great line from a novel I was reading last night.
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I'll keynote the American Federation of Teachers conference
Just in ... I'll keynote their annual I/T conference this December, examining a number of leading edge trends ... in Washington, DC
Education · Keynotes & Events
"THIS IS A TREND AND COMPANY TO WATCH"
My Vonage IP phone arrived today. I simply plugged it into my home network -- waited two minutes -- and can now make calls using a regular telephone handset anywhere…
Megatrends