Archive for July, 2009

IT Strategy Trends: Open Source, Cloud, Mobile, Synchronization, Localization

There at least five important Information Technology (IT) trends which should be viewed strategically. By this I mean that these trends will have a significant impact on markets and competition, and should be included in strategic planning for Corporate IT. These are:

Open Source Cloud computing Mobile computing Data synchronization Internationalization and localization

One thing useful about strategic trends is that [...]

July 27, 2009 • Posted in: flickr • No Comments

Google Calendar Sync Options, One More Time

The recent issues I have had with Nuevasync …

http://twitter.com/jeffmcneill/status/2607025482 http://twitter.com/jeffmcneill/status/2607056987 http://twitter.com/nuevasync/status/2616219283 http://twitter.com/jeffmcneill/status/2641490694 http://twitter.com/nuevasync/status/2643635331

… have forced me to look at the options once again. And so, without further ado:

Googsync

This client works on the S60 platform, and connects directly to the Google or Google Hosted Apps Calendar

A bit slow, but works. Happy to say that clarity on price and email address [...]

July 19, 2009 • Posted in: Uncategorized • No Comments

Labs for Google Calendar

Also mentioned on the Google Enterprise blog, there are six new items under the Google Calendar Labs to enable as you see fit:

Background image Attach Google Docs World clock Jump to date Next meeting Free or busy

Contact sharing

It should be mentioned that one significant feature of Google Apps is contact sharing:

Enable contact sharing About contact sharing

Google Apps and Enterprise Twitter and [...]

July 17, 2009 • Tags: , • Posted in: cloud • No Comments

Let’s talk about ‘Blank’ – social media brand advocacy

July 15, 2009 • Tags: , • Posted in: brand, socialmedia • No Comments

Startup Metrics for Pirates – June 2009

An updated version of the classic presentation on web analytics

Startup Metrics for Pirates (Startonomics Beijing, June 2009)View more presentations from Dave Mcclure.

July 14, 2009 • Tags: , , , • Posted in: analytics • No Comments

Resume in Wordle for July, 2009

Jeff McNeill Wordle for July, 2009, originally uploaded by jeffmcneill.

As we can see, “university” still dominates the landscape, though I expect that to wane over the coming months and years.

July 10, 2009 • Posted in: flickr • One Comment

Augmented reality on a mobile phone

Thanks to Bob Morris for his tweet and blog post

July 10, 2009 • Tags: , • Posted in: mobile • No Comments

3 Fonts with good Thai-Roman character support

One challenge for using Thai script on a computer is that Thai characters are more vertical than roman alphabet characters. If one is mixing roman and Thai characters in a document, the Thai characters tend to be much smaller (and therefore illegible if the roman characters are optimized for space and legibility).

At this point I [...]

July 10, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: typography • No Comments

The Sixth Sense, an Augmented Reality Interface from MIT Labs

Note: added this to the Time Horizon document at the 8 year cognitive time band.