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…blogging has been slow. I’ve been out of town, it has been all eZee, finalizing important steps, both strategy and tactical; it is all good. eZee continues moving forward. Our message is strong, our short and long-term vision and plans are strong. We have the team; I’m fortunate to have such a great team at … Read more

The Internet’s biggest vulnerability is not spammers, or hackers or viruses. But it is exactly the same vulnerability as it was more than 20 years go: Cables. See Cable damage in Mediterranean disrupts Internet in Mideast. The Internet Protocol (IP) is robust, and self-healing as long as it can find the appropriate (alternate) paths or … Read more

I remember James posting on Jaiku some time ago “Jaiku, blast from the past”… referring to how long it takes Jaiku to aggregate stuff; some times displaying items that are 2 days old already; amazingly slow, and getting worst. This must be very frustrating for the Jaiku team. Getting acquired could be both the best … Read more

Wow, two huge acquisitions, same day: Sun aqcuires MySQL Oracle aquires BEA ceo

Steve Jobs comments on Amazon’s Kindle (from NY Times The Passion of Steve Jobs): “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at … Read more

Posted below are the currently confirmed programming titles for the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival, for Mobility: Bio-Networks: Using Mobile Technology to Impact Healthstyle (Kate Bauer) Getting Unstuck II: From Desktop to Device (Liz Danzico) How Many Clicks to the Center of…? (Conleth O’Connell) Life after the i-Phone (Kate Ryan) Mobile Phones: International Devices of Mystery … Read more

If your Windows system performance suddenly becomes really bad without any explanation, continue reading this. I spent weeks trying to figure out why my laptop’s performance suddenly became really bad without any explanation. Hitting Google continue to returned the typical stuff of “you may have malware” or viruses or whatnot, which that was not the … Read more

The New Scientist has posted their summary of their top 5 science videos of 2007 @ YouTube: ceo

Benazir Bhutto 1953 – 2007. A brave and beautiful woman and leader she was. Extremism, left or right, and/or of any ideology, is wrong and illogical. Anything extreme cannot bring balance. Anything extreme is in the grand scheme of things, short-lived. Related to this, Howard Rheingold at SmartMobs writes Share your views about events in … Read more

Wishing you and your family a great and safe Christmas and New Year, And a prosperous and full-of-health 2008 (and beyond of course). Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year… ¡ Feliz Navidad y Prospero Año Nuevo ! ceo United States Patent 6512460: Christmas ornament