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November 30, 2006
Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Troy Haaland and three fellow programmers in Chicago developed a tool called eSigma that aggregates Web-based business process software. eSigma has developed a global Web Service-based repository for business processes that provides process discovery, publishing, testing and management delivered over the World Wide Web. We are able to provide these services utilizing public networks, leveraging existing market services reducing the cost of participation significantly.
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A Microsoft employee named Anand Iyer recently founded an organization called the Global Network of Technology Evangelists (GNoTE) to catalyze technology evangelism, networking, learning, and tech agnosticism about the global technology evangelist committee. We here at Technolgoy Evangelist were, of...
November 29, 2006
Young switching off TV in favor of Internet: study - Yahoo! News "The rise of high-speed Internet and the explosion in online video content is fuelling a widespread decline in the number of people watching television according to a...
Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Justin Chen and John Li are two UC Berkeley alumni who love eating and coming up with new ideas and one of those ideas was www.menuism.com. After college they took detours through large corporations, but kept dreaming of the day when they could do something smaller that was their own. That day finally came earlier this year at the end of a weekend brainstorm session, where the idea for Menuism was born. Amped up on excitement, opportunity and caffeine, Juston and John both gave their 2-week notices the very next day at work, and they have been working at this ever since.
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November 28, 2006
Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Mary Beth Hughes founded Big Thinking By The Hour, Inc. in 2004. BigThinkingByTheHour.com helps users bring Internet video content to their web site to help their Internet marketing needs. Their objective is to "become the preeminent creators of strategic Internet video content, designed around the way people Web."
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November 27, 2006
EU says more than half e-mails are spam "The biggest culprit of spam remains the United States, which accounts for 21.6 percent of spam coming into the 25-nation EU. China is the second-biggest producer with 13.4 percent, while EU...
Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Phil Kruzel works for LiquidTalk Networks in Business Development. LiquidTalk Networks creates enterprise business applications for digital media devices (iPods, smart phones, etc.). Their patent-pending technology combined with professional services enable new ways for businesses to create, organize, and distribute business content for sales enablement and employee learning and communication. Digital media players are the ideal platform for employee knowledge transfer due to their portability, ease of use, and start-and-stop playing flexibility.
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November 26, 2006
Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Mike Evens and Matt Maloney are the founders of GrubHub.com. Around 2 years ago, Mike and Matt were working at a major Internet company in Chicago. They were just sick of ordering from <insert restaurant name here> and frustrated that one of the original promises of the Internet, ''Find out who delivers to you'' was still unfulfilled. It wasn't a eureka moment, it was more disbelief that no one had done this before. Matt started with,'' Grub '' and Mike replied, '' Hub. ''
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November 25, 2006
Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Kris Smtih is the founder and owner of Palegroove Studios, the first podcast production studio in the world.
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November 24, 2006
Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Jason Jacobsohn is an entrepreneurial business professional with cross-functional expertise in consulting, research, strategy, relationship management, due diligence, and financial and business analysis
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November 23, 2006
Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Dan Green is a widely-recognized mortgage expert among national press and his wildly popular mortgage industry blog, The Mortgage Reports, has been featured by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
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November 22, 2006
Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. Eric Olson and Frank Gruber are the two behind the event and in this video we get a quick little peek into their mind.
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November 21, 2006
Technology Evangelist went to Tech Cocktail 2006 in Chicago, IL to interview some of the interesting people attending. This video is the first in our series on Christopher Monaghan from Time59.com
Christopher Monaghan, a Chicago-based self-employed programmer/analyst, developed Time59 in response to his own timekeeping requirements. "I needed to track hours for each client so that I could produce invoices each month," he recalls. "My goal was to create a timekeeping system that was as quick and easy to use as e-mail."
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November 20, 2006
Benjamin Higginbotham takes a look at the remote desktop and file sharing tools from LogMeIn.com including LogMeIn Free, LogMeIn Pro and LogMeIn IT Reach. Higher resolutions available in iTunes, Democracy and FireAnt, subscribe below or watch via Flash:
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November 19, 2006
1 year ago today the Technology Evangelist blog was born. It has been a great amount of fun thanks in no small part to our readers and everyone who helps contribute through comments.
We have a very exciting 2nd year planned with a lot more great content. To celebrate we will be releasing a video every day from now until the end of the month.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
November 17, 2006
Back in January, I experimented with selling digital cameras on Ebay that I didn't own. I'd simply list a camera for sale at a price I knew I could find it for online. If someone purchased it for that price...
November 16, 2006
This week we celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Intel 4004 customer programmable microprocessor. It was the first processor on a chip and was the beginning of the revolution in personal computing, ultimately impacting practically every electronic device made. Curiously,...
Dear Microsoft, If I promise to listen to only independent artists, podcasts, and music ripped from CDs I own, can I get a discount on a Zune? "Microsoft is working with all major and independent labels to establish similar revenue-sharing...
Terry Ng of Kineda.com decided to have a little fun with a stat from David Sifry's October 2006 State of the Blogosphere report where Sifry explained Technorati's standards for authority rankings. Technorati bases their authority rankings on how many unique...
November 15, 2006
Resources cited during the Metro Brokers Technology Seminar Technology Evangelist Treo 700 Phones Treonauts Blog Fujitsu Fujitsu T-4215 Tabnote Computers Fujitsu S500 Scanners Pricegrabber Google Google Docs Google AdWords Gmail iTunes Skype Garmin Nuvi Kodak v705 Camera Bloglines Sprint...
Disclosure: This post is a paid review of axosoft OnTime 2007 offered to me through Reviewme.com. As I understand it, axosoft paid $250 for this, and I'll receive $125 of that while ReviewMe takes the rest. I'm being paid...
I see TiVo has been reading some of my articles. From News.com, "TiVo enthusiasts will soon be able to use their devices to watch Internet video content on their TV set, the company announced Tuesday." Clearly TiVo has been working on this a lot longer than just a few days and my article had no impact on them, but it's a great first step to the future of television. Why only a first step? TiVo's offerings are still too small and closed.
I recently started having a nagging problem with FireFox on my Macbook Pro where FireFox would randomly freeze and serve up the spinning beach ball of death. I could force quit out of it and generally start back up where...
November 13, 2006
Maintaining control of my inbox is an ongoing challenge for just about everyone, especially in business environments. One of my biggest email challenges if figuring out how to deal with non-urgent emails. The first challenge is determining what emails are...
November 12, 2006
I'm turning into a big fan of Smart Playlists in iTunes 7. Here is my current iTunes situation: 2500+ songs Wide range of genres Lots of podcasts Lots of podcasts improperly labeled as music after initial import of MP3s. This...
November 11, 2006
I just listened to a podcast that you'd really enjoy. It's an hour long, so you probably can't drop what you're doing right now to listen to it, but if you agreed that it sounded interesting, you'd probably click on...
November 10, 2006
I have had a Slingbox for a long time and now that Sling Media has the new Slingbox Pro with an HD input, I'm thinking of upgrading. I was hoping that the maximum resolution would have increased to something above the 640x240 (originally 320x240) maximum, and it did but only to 640x480. 640x480 is about acceptable for Internet video, but the CODEC they went with can be improved upon. For reasons I don't totally understand Sling Media decided to stick with the Microsoft VC1 CODEC for streaming. I can get much better results with h.264 or even On2's VP7!
November 9, 2006
After experiencing the Apple iPod Nano commercial in HD and 5.1 surround sound I got to thinking about web video and the experience it brings. Many have said that the web will be the death of television and DVDs, but I highly doubt that. I think online video will kill television just as much as satellite radio killed terrestrial radio. No, I believe that online video is a completely different medium that will supplement traditional television and will start to actually merge into your home set-top-box.
November 8, 2006
Reuters, via CNET, has published an interesting article about Google's latest moves into radio advertising. Google bought DMarc Broadcasting back in January, but hasn't integrated the radio ad service into their ad console to date although it sounds like they're...
I was sitting at home a couple nights ago watching television with my new Series 3 HD TiVo recorder. Unfortunately the wife was watching Desperate Housewives live so there was no ability to fast forward through commercials. I was sitting next to her working on my MacBook, not really paying attention when all of a sudden the 5.1 surround kicked in.
November 7, 2006
Today is Election Day in the United States, so I thought it would be a fitting day to take a look at where we'll be sending our elected officials to: Washington, DC. Or more precisely, the US Capitol. That's what...
Until recently I used Enom for all of my personal domains. I am in the process of moving everything to GoDaddy.com. Why would I do this? Price? Features? Performance? Nope, Go Daddy has a mobile site that I can use to look up and purchase domains from my Treo smartphone.
November 6, 2006
John C Dvorak is not a fan of GPS systems: The Nokia promotions for the company's new GPS phone, not to mention that every new car is being equipped with GPS, should give the technology a boost, yes? Maybe, but...
I'm a Macintosh user, so for years I have used Safari as my primary browser. Firefox 1.5 was nice but OmniWeb and WebKit, in my opinion, were just faster and better. When Firefox 2.0 was released I decided to give it a shot and play around again. It's a bit faster, although my non-scientific, Steve Jobs 'Boom' test tells me it's still slower. Speed is only part of the browser and Firefox came at me with extensions and better tabbed browsing.
November 5, 2006
There is a "feature" of Mac OS X that allows me to control the way my tab key works. By default when I hit tab it will only scroll between text boxes and lists. This is fine unless I'm using Firefox and trying to fill out an online form that has a drop-down field, at which point the tab key will not select it. For example: I want to buy the domain bengasm.com from Go Daddy and when I enter in my credit card info I can not tab to the State field, Credit Card type field or Expiration fields, it just jumps right past them. In the Windows and Linux builds of Firefox this is not an issue, when I hit tab I will jump from field to field including the drop-down fields. Take a peek at the video below to see how when I hit tab, I just jump right past the drop down boxes.
November 4, 2006
Minneapolis is officially going wireless as of Thursday, November 2nd, when the city signed a 10-year agreement with a local Internet service provider to build out the network. Here is the announcement from Mayor R. T. Rybak's email newsletter:...
November 3, 2006
As I understand it, one of the supposedly great features of Apple's MacBook Pro notebooks is the magnetic power cord attachment to the computer called MagSafe. Using a magnetic allows the cord to break free of the computer if someone...
November 1, 2006
Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites - CNN.com "Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that represents the active sites, which are at about 47 or 48 million," he said. (tags: internet...
Top Blog Posts for October How Blogs Hurt Google News Google Rebrands Writely to Launch Docs & Spreadsheets How .Mac saved my computer Why Would WalMart Need a Fake Blog to Communicate with RV Travelers? A Few Perspectives on Internet...
VentureBeat is reporting that Wired has acquired social bookmarking site, Reddit: The purchase price is unknown, suggesting it wasn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t for much, but the Boston start-up was founded only last year, and was built on a mere $100,000 in funding. It...
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