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Barcamp Sarasota Oct, 9th
Posted by: | CommentsWhat is Barcamp Sarasota?
BarCamp Sarasota emphasizes the intersection of technology, education, and economic development. The open forum format focuses on business solutions, and people who specialize in application development and programming languages, web and graphic design, social media, film, marketing, and other areas where business and technology come together.
BarCamp Sarasota is part of an international network of user-generated conferences and participatory workshop events. BarCamps are ad-hoc gatherings born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment, and the belief that the best learning at any conference takes place while networking with other professionals between scheduled sessions.
Join BarCamp Sarasota, learn more about the BarCamp Sarasota conference event, and find the LinkedIn group. Join and get involved to help grow and promote our community’s technology, education, and business strengths. You can learn more about the spirit of BarCamp at the BarCamp wiki page.
Register for free for the Oct 9th Barcamp Sarasota Event
Don’t Be Evil Google
Posted by: | CommentsAs much as I love using Google’s products this definitely makes me think about that phrase “Big Brother is Watching You.”
Here’s something that will make you think
thanks to Ed Dale for pointing me to this video
*** Update 4/23/2010 ***
I noticed that the video above had quitely been removed from YouTube no doubt not by the user as the screen shot above indicates. I found the video elsewhere and have included it below.
Google Buzz: Hit or Miss?
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I had a nice surprise when I opened my email yesterday. I was part of the first wave of emails to get the Google Buzz update. I quickly checked to see if there was anyone that I knew who had it but soon found out I was the only one so far.
After playing around with it for a bit I checked out what some of my favorite people were saying about it. Here is a short list of the best reviews and comments.
- Google Buzz: The Missing Features by ReadWriteWeb
- Google Buzz is not a Facebook killer by Jason Falls
- How to do everything in Google Buzz (including turning it off). http://bit.ly/bfQTQH by @sspenguin
- WARNING: Google Buzz Has A Huge Privacy Flaw by @alleyinsider
If you have any others to add just leave them in the comments below.
Cool Update to Google Reader
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So here I am reading in my Google Reader account scanning through the few hundred updates that I have today since I last checked it and what do I see… Mashable is reporting that Google made a tiny little change to service.
I raced over to the Google Reader blog to check it out for myself. Before the change if you wanted to add a subscription to your Google Reader account it required that the page had an RSS feed, but now thanks to this cool update that is no longer the case.
I’ve been using this feature for a number of years to keep track of cool sites so I don’t have to keep checking my favorites all the time. It has gotten to the point that I rarely even check my bookmarks…and there is a TON of them.
With the sites I check on a regular basis I have them come to my reader account then if the content is good I’ll go visit the site and finish reading. It saves me lots of time of endlessly going from one site to another. Now they don’t even need to have a RSS feed for me to add them.
Now it’s time for me to run out and check out all my favorites and see what I can add to my list.
Today is a GREAT day! Thanks Google
[img credit: filiph]
the Universe of Will Smith
Posted by: | CommentsThis post is a little different that what I normally do, but I felt a strong urge to share something that resonates to my core. Will Smith speaks about many of the same beliefs that I hold myself.
Will Smith is one of the actors that I have always looked up to both professionally and as a person. I’ve been watching him on screen for the better part of two decades. His personality is such that it attracts you both on screen and off screen.
In this short video Will shares with us some of his basic beliefs that have enabled him to become such a great success. In life and in business if you have such strong beliefs there is no way that you will fail. In the end what you believe makes all the difference.
What do you believe? Share it with me below.
