I promised to be prolific, but I also never said it would be here. The first week of January I had been busy writing my articles for the new M2M Evolution Magazine. It was pretty intense getting enough information on Fleet Management. It resulted in my M2M newsletter article being about ROI.
The Article in Mobility Techzone was about the use of Opticals for Ethernet in support of backhaul. It also mentions the TV Incentive Virtual Event we ran with TMC.
These were the articles of the week.
To be candid, I have had a hard time writing in real time, I find that in five hundred words I normally can give a good circular article that provides some insight, takes a point of view, and if you read it makes you go “hmmmn” as Arsenio Hall used to say.
The problem now is that I have about 8 blogs to keep active as well as obligations to write 10 articles a month and then there are those damn tweets and posts. What are they suppose to be about.
Worse the articles and blogs are suppose to be easily compartmentalized. HTML5, Mobility, M2M, Small Business, etc. However, I am eclectic and as Richard Bach said to his wife, ”It’s all One”
Take the interviews I am working on right now for M2M, with Jerry Coumo and Gari Singh of IBM. We hit mobility, Instant Messaging and JavaScript. And that was just in an hour discussion. I am working on breaking it up for easy reading but its like that.
In this SEO world, I am suppose to find the metatag subject and make Google and Bing happy with the content so it bubbles up to the reader’s interest.
But as Gari Singh said in the interview, its a Pub/Sub world. So my strategy now is to be prolific and hopefully the sub side will dominate the pub side.
Anyway, if you are still reading this after me pushing out most of my blogs on other sites. thank you. I intend to write here daily on what I am doing everywhere else.
It’s new year’s the mayans were wrong, and absent a stray meteor, it should be a good year.
G-d bless us all, everyone.
I have just created a new id on Linkedin for the simple reason that Linkedin has not been paying attention to the explosion of groups. As a conference guy I have an interest in a lot of places. The linkedin groups are one place that I like to monitor. But the groups are all over the place and tracking the right ones to connect to has become painful. Big numbers does not mean good ideas and for industry country based groups are sometimes restrictive in how they post.
But rather than be stuck trying to choose do I want to track Smart Grid more than Green Initiatives I have decided my solution is in multiple email accounts.
I would rather have a curation tool, but alas that is not in the cards right now.
I am waiting for the plane and everywhere I turned I saw the iPhone. Everyone has one, kids, parents, and grandparents.
Apple has made the device franca. No wonder Microsoft is treading lightly as it figures out how to compete with the iPhone and iPad. Nokia and Surface are the brands of record and not Microsoft. Not wanting to over promise everyone is staging and trying to find their path. Microsoft takes the surface out of the box to gauge if they will have demand. RIM’s inventory problem which has led to its stock slide shows that marketing needs to step up and guide how the design to match the demand of the future.
The West Coast players of Apple, Amazon, Cisco, Google, Microsoft and Oracle all have the capital to buy a network. However, I still have a hard time believing that a device company should buy a telephone company. But let’s talk it through with our Stock Market friends on August 16th. You can join us for the DeviceTel conversation you can join us . However, calling Apple the device franca ignores an important aspect. No one is making phone calls on the device.
“What is everyone doing on the device?” Unfortunately Mary Meeker seems to be the only one with a clue given the recent Bureau of Labor and Statistics use of time analysis .
According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, which needs to find a way to associate the Internet with its time use study, after sleep and work our next biggest chunk of time is spent watching TV. I am not sure if this survey has been changed since Lawrence Welk was first taken off the air (as opposed to being on PBS in rerun).
So let’s do our own study and let’s get a better picture of what we do .
And let’s look beyond the device and to the life style. I tweeted that I feel like we need to update Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance .
Perhaps you will join us tomorrow at IMTC’s 2025 .
From an operations standpoint we have SIPNOC going on this week. If the device folks want to be a telco should join us in Virginia.
I interviewed Carol Davids while we together at IIT’s RTC event in Naperville, IL.
The discussion quickly got on to the driving force for adaptation of communication. As we talked about the twilight of the POTS, SIP and Mobile are being driven by the consumer’s expectation for rich media.
Texting and videos to 911 are assumed even though no process is in place to accept them. SIP is being pushed into the Web with RTCWeb and the rich media opportunities that provides. The team did a great job of running the event and I look forward to seeing participating next year.
I should also mention that the Lab is a great resource for companies to connect with students by donating equipment that can be then used to research new opportunities.
Google+ Envy
Unlike Facebook where I am victim of my personal life bleeding into the pages and my two personas having no distinction between each other.
Google+ so far has been very professional. And what has been really great is the ability to add into my circles people of interest for my various activities.
For example, for circle following I am putting in a general basket of people who show up in the people I care about.
I have a circle for everyone one of my events and also for my personal interests and I move from circle to circle to see what the difference is in the walls. Buy in large no one is in more than one circle that gives me the most coverage of what people are saying.
However, certain friends are clearly the “A” team of Google+ Om Malik has almost 30,000 followers and even though I am in his circle, I feel a tinge of envy.
Rob Scoble has over 100,000 people following him, while Ashton Kutcher has a little fewer than 37,000.
On Twitter, Ashton has over 47,000 fans, Rob has almost 200K and OM has over 1.4 million.
Obviously the question needs to be asked what do the demographics look like and are these device dependent or post dependent stats.
For me as my favorite New Zealand Poet has written http://bit.ly/q5Xqfu Boldly Bring I up the Rear. If you are interest in being just a follower, I have to warn you I strive for perfect symmetry where I follow as many as follow me. However for now, I seem to be lagging in the followers.
Hence the envy; we could even call it “Envy+”
Obama is praying to G-d and his prayer is answer by the ghost of Moses who says to Obama, “Have Congress ratify the Ten Commandments”
Obama brings the leaders of congress in and tells them he wants to ratify the Ten Commandments.
Well the democrats consider this a violation of church and state and say they don’t want like the G-d part, but maybe they can go along with the rules about personal property.
The republican like the G-d part but think the killing part is some sort of back door against the military so they want to modify that it only applies to the murder of unborn babies and police officers.
The tea party is upset and refuses to participate because they would like additional commandments about marriage, balanced budgets, and the right to bear arms.
Obama then goes on TV and tells the people he needs their help and cable networks blast him for his inability to compromise. After all he only talked about the commandments in generalities he never wrote them down nor referred to a specific bible.
Obama turns to Michele and asks her for support when he goes back to tell Moses what has happened.
Moses listens and is about to raise his staff when Michele steps in and says. Look, if you can do that Red Sea thing on Capital Hill, we won’t have a problem.
Moses thinks for a moment and says you’re right. I only had one Pharaoh to contend with you. You have two rooms full of them.
And so our prayers go unanswered.
I am suffering from friend envy on Google+, I recognize that unlike Mike Arrington, Om Malik, Jeff Pulver, and Rich Therani I do not play the social network game correctly.
I find it hard to engage in large audiences of unknown people. In a crowd I like to pick them off one by one and learn about them.
So as I browse around Google+ I am amazed to see the numbers of people following the gurus and the fact that I am inviting more than I am invited.
Perhaps, this is a sign of my issues with Social networks. Or perhaps its opportunity for me to change.
I also noticed that my buzz posts were dated and my recent writings are missing.
So clearly, I have some issues.
But thanks to Google+ I think I may have a feedback system. Like a Skinnerian Box, I can press the bar of submit and see what happens to my posts.
Of course if this does not happen, the paranoia will set in.
If you are on Google+ and want to make feel better please feel free to connect with me.
It’s time to submit.
At the beginning of the discussion on open White Space a lot of interesting background noise was happening. Particularly exciting were the thoughts of Brough Turner , who speaks regularly at our 4G summit. Those of us who have been trending with the Internet have watched shifts in design take us to new paradigms of service (often thwarted by archaic regulation). One place where the Internet has changed the wireless landscape forever is with WiFi.
Every carrier supports a WiFi offload strategy and some have the understanding that WiFi can be the wireless backbone of their future.
Just like the days when ATM was suppose to be the next wave, there is good reason to suspect the innovator’s really have a dlilemma. However, as Tom Evslin has pointed out. If you can do so much much with the poor spectrum allocated to WiFi, image what they can do with White Space.
Additionally, a friend at the FCC was very excited about some of the processing strategies associated with 5G that may apply to White Space in the near future.
The article from Lynnette Luna in FierceBroadband reflects the concerns of some in the marketplace who have legacy. Lynette, here is an open invitation to come and see that the innovators are moving past the dilemma.
If you are employed by Facebook, Groupon, Skype, Twitter and Zynga and have some stock in lieu of payment, I would declare them this year. As the stock market has been stagnant the NY Times suggests that 2011 will be the year of the IPO.
I am sure the IPO will be a success like Yahoo and Google were initially. Long term I will take a more skeptical view, but I expect that given how many lives are impacted by these technologies the IPO’s will become darlings and raise the value of the company.
Personally though if you were given stock as a consultant, then the stock’s value is based on when you declare it.
The purchase price for you will not be as relevant as the date you declare it, So I recommend you do it this year.
Otherwise you may find yourself having to sell of your stock to pay your taxes.
Unfortunately, I speak from experience.
Learn from those who went before.
