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  • Windows Live Writer

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    My blog entries as of late have been a little sparse. I’m sure that it has something to do with my attempt to get a life and relax. I’m also thinking it has something to do with the post editor thaqt comes with WordPress. Don’t get me wrong, it works great. It’s just not as…

  • Greg Gianforte on Bootstrapping Your Company

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    I just got the chance to listen to Greg Gianforte’s talk the 2006 MySQL User’s Conference. Greg has a great grasp of what it takes to bootstrap a company. I love the sell first, build second approach to product development. After all, if you can’t sell it, what’s the purpose in building it. Here’s a link…

  • Unified Messaging for the Masses

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    I just stumbled upon an interesting consumer voice mail business called GotVoice. They offer a free service to have your home of cell phone voice mail sent to your email in the form of an mp3 file. I had this years ago at Echopass called unified messaging. We had voice mail and fax all sent…

  • 400MHz Linux PC for your Back Pocket

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    Check out this 1″x5″ PC from Gumstix. It comes with 64MB of RAM, 16MB Flash, Compact Flash, and an Ethernet port. Add a wareable display from Microvision and a halfkeyboard from Matias and you can take your office with you.

  • Why Walmart will be the health care provider of the Future

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    It’s that time of year again to get a flu shot. Like every year I recently went down to my doctor’s office, and was reminded why traditional health care is so screwed up. Despite being organized with a special “flu shot clinic”, it still took me 25 minutes just to get past the waiting room.…

  • Next Generation Touch Screen Interface

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    Check out this video of Jeff Han from NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences as he demos his new touch screen interface that allows multi-touch input. Sign me up to the beta!

  • Bloggaps and Sabbaticals

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    It looks like we have experienced a bloggap here on this site. Actually I’m running an experiment this summer. I’ve been taking a sabbatical. Sure, I’m still writing my monthly InfoTech column with Landscape Management Magazine. (Check out the latest on Websites, Software Licensing, and Website Content) And I’m still working on some pet projects like my…

  • Google Spreadsheet, What will MS do now?

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    Good news for the web 2.0 world today. Google has released (via limited beta) Google Spreadsheet, their answer to Excel on the web. While it might not be as feature rich as people would like, that fact that it can read and write .xls files is a good start, not to mention the online sharing…

  • May CTO Breakfast

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    We had a good discussion today at the Phil Windley’s CTO Breakfast. A couple of items really stood out. Bruce Fryer with a new startup Digisense brought up the Amazon S3 web service is being used by JungleDisk.com to provide super low cost online backup. An interesting part of the discussion turned toward how to…

  • ASCII Maps and Poly9

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    Have you ever wondered what happened to the ASCII art phenomenon on the 70s and 80s? Look no further than ASCII Maps from Canadian based Poly9 Group Inc. ASCII Maps is a mashup between Google maps and ASCII art where the map data is dynamically translated into a text based representation. I’m not sure it’s really functional,…