Tales from the Techside

Let me say I wasn’t too happy when I had to take on the Windows Vista machine left to me because someone bought it while I was out of the office only to discover it would not work for their needs. Over the months I have slowly been won over by my vista machine and the regular […]

This is undeniably cool. It is not like most of us haven’t experienced a web conference on some level… but not something on this scale. According to their website announcement:
“Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world. Singularity is over 100 of the world’s top web visionaries, developers, designers, […]

As the de-facto statistics guru for the association I find myself getting tasked regularly to take large amounts of data and format them in a way which is easy to understand or to identify trends in data. One thing that I have found is by and far people don’t understand or underestimate is the value in […]

The National Association of REALTORS® put out a provocative new website last week. http://www.housingmarketfacts.com/.
I will address the ‘bad’ first.
It is barely a ’site,’ and can much more accurately be described as a launch page with a few paragraphs of new content and then a number of links to existing NAR services through their […]

This industry amazes me sometimes.
When I first traveled to a native fishing reservation off the northwest coast of BC in 1980 for the first of what was to be many glorious summers, I was immediately struck by the curious cultural echo. The music that I was really into 3 years before was popular there […]

Netscrape vs Internet Exploder. That was how aficionado’s of their various browser’s disparagingly referred to their competitors product in the mid to late 90’s. It was a heady time, evidenced by the hugely successful IPO of Netscape Corporation in 1995.
I recall when I first moved to Silicon Valley, working for a semiconductor fabricator […]

Ok, hardly worthy of Cartesian logic, but there is something to be said for the concept. If you are not creating content, and blogging is perhaps the best way to do so - as we have repeatedly stated on this site, then as far as the online world is concerned, you do not exist.
One […]

I start my commute nearly everyday asking myself the same question… why can’t I talk to my car and more importantly why can’t it talk to the internet for me?
Voice recognition has made huge strides. Cellular technology as well. And the internet is just there waiting. Yet the best I […]

 
Lately a lot of the buzz seems to be centered around the emergence of online games and virtual worlds as a great place to meet and attract new clients. I have had a number of agents who had never heard of Second Life before approach me ask me what I thought about the idea and […]

Live.com has released a very simple tool for providing translations for the content of your site. If you look to the right hand sidebar you will see a drop down menu to translate this page into several different languages.
While I don’t profess to be fluent in any language other than English several of my friends […]