Chris nails several great tips about Internet and business. Good things to really understand if you are interested in leveraging the Internet for your business.
I have to say that I’m getting really dissappointed in Bill Gates lately. He’s turning into the person that many have described him as for years. Its all about Microsoft and its solutions. Yes Silverlight is neat, cool, and powerful. Can it run on OSX
Well Microsoft finally released the new “Live” version of Hotmail. Since I’ve been using it for several months, I haven’t been able to talk much about it. Not that its features have been much of a secret, but I’ll hit the highlights here and let others offer up true reviews of the service.
It pretty much matches up the features that GMail has had for several years, and give users a full 2GB. Yeah, GMail still offers more but who really is using that much more space for emails? Archive & purge – that’s my motto.
The interface is quite familiar to most Microsoft customers – it mimics Outlook in a remote way, using AJAX techniques to it’s benefit. The interface usability is a winner over GMail for the average user. GMail is much, much faster however, because of the simpler mostly text-based interface.
Since my Hotmail account is the one account I’ve had for well over a decade (can’t remember exactly), it had been relegated to junk-mail duty for years. Meaning when I didn’t trust an online form – I used my Hotmail account. Since the service has been revamped, spam protection built in, search capabilities (quite good), and much needed space upgrade – I may find a new use for this account yet – or possibly move my hosted GMail accounts over to Hotmail… don’t know on that one yet.
While I’m stunned that Gartner figured this one out (I’m not a big Gartner fan), it is very true that server virtualization is one of the fastest moving technologies in the enterprise data center. Desktops will follow once a real business need is found.
It seems that Microsoft is readying the next releases of their systems and operations management tools, mixing in their security products as well for the mid-size corporation.
If this rumor is true, and the deal actually goes through – the results will be quite impressive. Microsoft and Yahoo have partnered many times in the past and this would actually be a really good pairing to challenge Google.
So many times when I was in the corporate world, several co-workers and associates would tease me about my blog. Or mention as a point of humor about how you can Google my name and all the results are about me. For quite awhile I didn’t really know how to answer these folks or how best to describe why I blogged.
What I’ve figured out is that most people are still afraid of the Internet. More specifically, that their personal information may get distributed on the Internet. The reality of course is that for a small fee, anyone can get all the background information we want or need on anyone else.
The hardest part for me was to overcome my fear of having the world know who I am. I had gotten past that stumbling block before I consciously knew it – seriously, if you go back and read my two earlyblogs (I don’t count MSN Spaces), you’ll see that I really hadn’t an idea of what I was getting into.
So here are some reasons I blog:
My personal space on the global stage
A platform for voicing my opinions, viewpoints, ideas, thoughts
A place to get feedback from anyone in the world (I don’t delete negative comments – only inappropriate ones)
A place where people can always find me – from new contacts to old friends (my email address and phone number are always here)
A portal into everything that I am – from here you can find my resume, my consulting company, my online professional links, my social networks and more
A permanent place for all the search engines to find me (yes I want that)
At any rate, the main thing I’ve learned is that you can’t be afraid of people learning who you are. With a blog, you have some control of that, you have the ability to craft yourpersonalbrand which is much more than just your reputation.
By the way, today I found another tool to promote myself (or yourself – way wait?), called Ziki that is kind of an online self-promotion aggregator. It looks like a fairly interesting site for combining your important online bits and getting them rated higher in Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
Every American should ask all politicians running for office one simple question: Would you support a nationwide ban on Sharia Law? Their answer will tell you everything you need to know when you hit the voting booth.
I asked @KenPaxtonTX and he responded: “Absolutely. It’s
Today, Democrat candidates for governor are calling for mass amnesty, ending immigration enforcement, and turning Wisconsin into a sanctuary state, where criminal illegal aliens are released back into Wisconsin.
