Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Facebook becoming evil?
A lot of bloggers are starting to think so…I’m sot sure myself. I do agree that they need to be clearer up front on what they are going to do with my data and stop changing policies so often. I also agree that their obvious “let’s drive page views” model that makes you go to…
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Design your own car…for $19.99
Just imagine if the PR firm that ran the recent Mazda Design Challenge on Facebook had given the participants a tool like this (for free of course). How many hundreds of additional ideas would have been captured? What additional analysis could have been done on the submissions to figure out the core commonalities (and just…
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Great instructional videos
Anyone who wants to create instructional videos for their software should head over to the Youtube Channel I link to below. This set of videos was created by the SketchUp team and really showcases the power and simplicity of online, streaming video training. I’m not sure what capture tool they used to create these, but…
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Will facebook self destruct?
.!. “Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people youre looking to avoid.” While I have been lucky so far and avoided all facebook stalkers (no this isn’t an invite!), it seems that there are some (and Cory…
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Wow…we work on interesting stuff here at Siemens
Where do I put in for mid-20’s female Harvard grads for all my tech support and travel calls? Siemens developing call center voice-recognition software that determines age and gender – Engadget
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The sunset tonight
.!. The sunset tonight Originally uploaded by aakelley
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Everyone who will ever use Powerpoint should have to click through this before it starts
.!. Personally I have been trying to avoid using Powerpoint, instead looking to Mind Maps, or just plane old notes. But despite my efforts, PPT seems to be the predominant attachment to every email that comes into my inbox. Maybe I should just give up on email? No there’s an idea! Well, until I do…
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A little late for Halloween
But still this is funny…the creativity out there continues to amaze me. Brainz…. YouTube – The Zombeatles – A Hard Day’s Night of the Living Dead Under Siege 2: Dark Territory hd
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Building up
It’s been a while since I have done an update on our SL island (now called Siemens Innovation Connection), so I thought I would run through a few of the thinsg we have been up to: We’re playing around with a few different widgets to track traffic and figure out what people are actually interested…