Category Archives: Free
Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options*
The above is the lead article title, for the May 12, 2010 “The New York Times – Business Day” section. An illuminating article that documents in detail Facebook’s ”… 50 settings with more than 170 options…” configuration elements used for … Continue reading
Do you know what Facebook knows? (About You!)
FACEBOOK, the enormously popular and famous Internet based data sharing and personal profile system holds extensive information on over 400 Million people. Fifty percent of whom log on to their account daily and have an overall average of 130 friends … Continue reading
I lost my Mobile phone! What now?
We live and die by our mobile phones – so how mobile can you be when that phone is suddenly gone? With IP (Internet Protocol) technology and cloud computing – a lot! There are 100s of reasons why we might … Continue reading
With Cloud Computing – “Everyone Can be a Business”
There is a lot of talk about “cloud computing” these days. Multiple top companies provide cloud based offerings: IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon – even Apple (iTunes Music and iPhone Apps stores are cloud computing examples). But what is the significance … Continue reading
Google Maps Biking Directions – in time for Spring!
I’ve been riding bicycles since a very young age – it always meant Freedom to me, today it still does. As a Denver resident living next to the Rocky Mountain foothills, I can pedal out of my garage door and … Continue reading
Recession & the Taxation of Business Software
FOR UPDATED STATUS on this topic CLICK ON CSIA – Colorado’s Technology Association. On Wednesday Jan 27th 2010 Colorado’s 67th General Assembly will be holding initial hearings on at least 10 bills. One of them being – House Bill 10-1192: … Continue reading
Would you like WiFi with that?
MacDonald’s is famous for various things other than hamburgers. One, is the phrase “Would you like Fries with that?” instituted back in the mid 1980s. A simple, yet acceptable and thus effective technique for adding high profit margin revenue to … Continue reading
Mobile Search goes visual with Google Goggles
We are only 2 weeks from closing out the first decade of the 21st Century! Ten years since the Y2K celebrations – and look at all that has happened! I’m continually amazed at the blazing pace of technology advances – … Continue reading
Power of Collaboration – gaining competitive leverage in business
Collaboration(*) everyone is talking about it – but who is really doing it? ANS: huge organizations whom you’d think could afford to do anything on their own. Yet they are smart enough to know it’s better to leverage by partnering … Continue reading
CSU + Google + Philosophy = Many Saved Dollars
CSU (Colorado State University – Fort Collins, CO) of which I am an alum, is a long established institution, soon to reach the 150 years in existence mark. Today with over 22,000 students, a Carnegie Class I research institution, 8 … Continue reading
