The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment. ~ Tony Robbins
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Breathe!
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Why is it we get more accomplished late at night or real early in the morning?
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
Where is your focus?
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
How can you help others?
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
What's inside you?
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
If you won $500 million dollars what would you do with your time, money and who would you help?
If you won $500 million dollars what would you do with your time, money and who would you help?
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Forget the Ultrabook — Go With the New Commodore!
Why buy a modern computer with a standard operating system, keyboard and display, when you can buy a Commodore Amiga?
Commodore USA, the Florida-based start-up company that has been producing replicas of the popular Commodore computers of the 1980s, has introduced a new Commodore Amiga Mini, a 7.5-inch by 3-inch computer with an Intel i7 quad-core processor. Unlike the much, much earlier Amiga models, this one features two Wi-Fi antennae and Bluetooth capabilities.
This is clearly a product for, shall we say, enthusiasts. As with the original Amiga, the new version doesn’t come with a keyboard or display screen. It runs a Linux OS, and ranges in price from $1,995 to $2,495.
Commodore USA says it plans to serve up more nostalgia in aluminum housings. It will put out more Amiga models in the next month or so, timed around the anniversary of the release of the Commodore Amiga 1000 in April 1985.
In addition to the Amiga, the company has announced a new “supreme” C64x, with 4 gigabytes of memory, an Intel D27000 dual core processor and an Nvidia GeForce GT 520 graphics card for “enhanced gaming capability.” This one comes with a mechanical keyboard, WiFi and Bluetooth capablilities, and HDMI and USB ports, so there are some modern touches to this retro piece.
In 2010, Commodore USA put out a replica of the popular Commodore 64 computer due to “high demand” and lots of emails from C64 fans, Commodore USA CEO Barry Altman said at the time.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Courage, Quality, and Honor
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor......James Allen
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
What's Really Important???
Friday, March 16, 2012
Why not you?
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? ~James Allen
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Rising up every time
Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail..... ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Social Apps Don't Need SXSW to Break Out Anymore
Social tech services don't need SXSW to break out.
Twitter and Foursquare famously launched at SXSW, and built huge user-bases on top of these geeky early adopters. There were certainly a host of fun apps that launched at SXSW this year, mostly focused on combining social and mobile (aka So-Mo) to help you find friends and flings. Most of the attendees were experimenting with Highlig.ht, Glancee, Ban.Jo and a handful of other oddly named programs. These apps weirdly mine your Facebook and Twitter lists to locate friends of friends, and then pop up their photos when you're nearby.
Setting aside the privacy implications, which are all too real, none of the apps seemed poised to take the world by storm. Each tends to drain precious battery life from mobile devices, which renders both the phone and the app useless in short order. In aggregate the category seems fun, but hardly critical.
Absent a breakout, instead everyone was talking about Pinterest, the shiny new social site that began its meteoric rise to prominence this summer. And as it turns out, Pinterest didn't need the geeky set to start its rise. I shared a drink with Time magazine's tech guy, Harry McCracken, and StripedShirt.com CEO Laura Beck as we discussed what kicked off Pinterest's success. Laura pinned it on Harry, pointing out that the company's almost vertical ascent started almost immediately after he picked it as one of the "50 Best Websites of 2011" last summer. If true, this would seem to indicate that mainstream press, not geeky hipsters, are the new path to stardom. (Harry, however, passed on the credit for discovering Pinterest to a 20-something co-worker, so perhaps the pathway to glory still runs through Gen Y after all.)
The Apple monoculture has eased, a bit.
Over the last few years, I felt like an SXSW outcast with my Android phone and Windows notebook. This year not so much -- as more and more visitors were sporting one of the new big-screen Samsung and HTC phones. That turned into a benefit for the top two So-Mo apps, as Highlight and Glancee duked it out. Highlight probably would have been the hands-down winner in previous years, given the outpouring of love from many techno-elite. But without Android support, lots of attendees were shut out. Glancee, by contrast, was available on both Android and iPhone, which broadened its potential installed base significantly. Apple still holds the notebook crown, though, as I was still one of the few Thinkpad toting attendees. But the mobile tide has turned.
Worst Case Scenario, mobile edition.
What happens when you take 70,000 mobile devices, 30,000 geeks, investors and developers, and copious amounts of free alcohol into a square-mile area? You get the Mobile version of The Worst Case Survival Guide. AT&T's network reportedly crashed frequently, T-mobile dropped voice and data connections with alacrity, and even the local Yellow Cab computers couldn't handle the load.
But all that chaos can be put to good use. I spent some time with a venture capital pal of mine, who simultaneously stress-tested nearly 20 apps across two different phones. Although somewhat disjointed, we did end up having a somewhat intelligible conversation as the needy objects in his pocket frequently begged for attention. His thesis: Survive this overloaded petrie dish of users and data, and you'll be well positioned to work just about anywhere. So maybe you don't need to launch your apps at SXSW, but you'd better be prepared to work there without crashing and burning.
Yogi Berra wouldn't go.
Although I ran into lots of old friends, PR folks, journalists and marketers, there was a dearth of high-level execs from brands, agencies and media. Last year it seemed that every CMO, president and venture partner needed to be at SXSW; this year not so much. A very nonrandom sample of some of my high-level friends found that most of them were passing on SXSW this year, because they had "too much work to do."
Austin bursts at the seams during SXSW. Hotel rooms are impossible to find, the best panels were routinely so overcrowded that hundreds were turned away and it was impossible to get around during large parts of the day. When high-level execs start to believe that "no one goes there anymore, it's too crowded," that's likely to trickle down to staffs as well.
Face-to-face still matters.
It's ironic that a conference so focused on using technology to connect people is, in the end, most useful when it brings people together face to face. The chance encounters and scheduled meetings I set up were extremely useful, even though many of the folks I'd hoped to see stayed away. And that's why I'll go back next year, but for 3 days instead of 5. I love Austin, but five soggy days were two too many.
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Do you have power
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tell your fears to "shut up!"
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Are you happy or unhappy?
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Why are you in the fast lane driving slow
I was on the expressway this morning and there was lot of traffic but I couldn't figure out why. As I changed lane from lane I get to the front and see someone in the fast lane driving slower than the speed limit. I was wondering why someone would drive so slow in the lane that is designed for people driving faster. The funny about it was I was going to pull up next to the person and signal for them to get in another lane but I didn't. When I got to my destination about 15mins later the same person driving slow walked in my office. I was shocked to find out this is a major paying client. Good thing I didn't act a fool on the road but I wanted to say so bad "Stay out of the fast lane if you are going to drive slow".
Monday, February 27, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Dream Big!
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
First State Gives Green Light To Driverless Cars
The concept took a big step when Nevada became the first state to approve regulations that spell out requirements for companies to test driverless cars on state roads.
"Then they have to take us out and prove that they can do it," Bruce Breslow, director of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles, said of the autonomous vehicles. "They're not ready to go to market yet."
But Nevada intends to be ready when they are, and officials hope to stay ahead of other states such as Florida and Hawaii that are considering similar testing regulations, Breslow said.
Gov. Brian Sandoval took a test ride in a self-driving Toyota Prius in July. The car being developed by Google Inc. uses radar, sensors and computers that allow the vehicle to drive itself, though human drivers can override the autopilot function.
Companies that want to conduct testing in Nevada will need a bond of $1 million to $3 million, depending on the number of cars they plan to test. Firms also must lay out their specific intentions, such as testing a vehicle on urban roadways, or its ability to operate in the fog, rain or snow, and provide testing data to the state.
The cars must have two people in them at all times, with one able to take control. The new regulations approved last week also require companies to detail license requirements for people to operate them when they become available.
Cars must be equipped with separate data collectors –similar to the "black box" on an aircraft –that will "capture and store the autonomous technology sensor data for at least 30 seconds before a collision."
The regulations go beyond testing procedures, anticipating the day when driverless cars become a reality on highways.
If a vehicle is certified as capable of being driven in autonomous mode without a driver, a person can operate the vehicle "without being physically present," one provision says.
Whether there's a human driver or not, the regulations hold the operator responsible regardless of whether the person is physically present in the autonomous vehicle.
The only exception to traffic laws is texting or talking on a hand-held cellphone. A law passed by legislators last year to ban texting while driving included a specific exemption for operators of self-driving cars on autopilot.
But the vehicles won't be a substitute for a designated driver after a night on the town, Breslow said.
"There is no exemption for drinking and driving," he said.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/17/self-driving-cars-nevada_n_1284228.html
Monday, February 20, 2012
What do you think?
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
What will you create with your hands?
Friday, February 3, 2012
Do you like traffic cameras and are they good?
States split over traffic cameras
Drivers who want to know about traffic cameras face a hodgepodge of laws across the country concerning their use. From coast to coast, laws concernin... click on link to read more about this story:
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Apple Versus Samsung: Win Some, Lose Some
Apple's celebration of a recent German court ruling upholding a sales ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablets was cut short when a... click on link to read more: http://allthingsd.com/20120202/apple-versus-samsung-win-some-lose-some/
Monday, January 23, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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