EMC WORLD
This year’s EMC World, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas May 19-22 promises to be the event to showcase EMC’s products around hardware, software and solutions. Having attended last year, it’s the best place to get access from EMC’s engineering, marketing and executive staff. Expecting about 10,000 attendees, the exhibit floor will showcase solutions from EMC and Partners.
I’ll be in attendance this year, blogging about what’s hot from the keynotes, sessions, and entertainment.
An added bonus will be the Sunday evening concert with the Goo Goo Dolls, and Wednesday evening’s event with comedian Billy Crystal.
Will there be a test? If you want, EMC Education Services will offer discounted EMC Proven Professional exams right onsite.
Come along with me.
I love movies, and I love the Academy Awards show. I’ve watched it each year for decades, but I did something this last Sunday that I’ve never done before. I tracked comments on the show via Twitter. There were about a thousand “tweets” on subjects related to what people were wearing, what jokes worked or didn’t, snarky comments about acceptance speeches, critiques of commercials, etc.
As you may know, Twitter is a “micro blogging” technology that I like to call a “presence management” tool. Think of it as “broadcast instant messaging” where you send out 140 character messages to your “followers” people who subscribe to your Twitter feed. I usually write about where I am in my travels for work and what I’m speaking about. My feed can be found at: http://twitter.com/billpetro
I have about 70 people who follow me, and I follow about the same number, it’s rather symetrical. But Sunday night, people used a feature of Twitter in an innovative way: by flagging your “Tweet” (message post) with the string “#aa08″ they could be tracked by various other tools, like “Twemes” at http://www.twemes.com/aa08 that show just post related to the Academy Awards 2008 show.
It was like a real-time “Mystery Science 3000″ event where your buddies are sharing sometimes hilarious comments about what’s going on. One I laughed out loud for in particular was “Ron Weasely wins best Supporting Actress award” referring to the red haired character in the Harry Potter movies. Briton Tilda Swinton won the award, and has bright red hair (though you’ll remember her as the White Witch in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.”)
What’s amazing is the ecosystems that are growing up around innovative technologies like Twitter. This tool has often been called a solution in search of a problem. I think we’ll be seeing other applications of this kind of social technology.
Zooomr
Here’s an interesting new social networking photo sharing site you might want to check out. It’s called Zooomr. My friend Brian Berliner points out that Zooomr is offering 12 months of FREE Zooomr Pro account access to (Google) Bloggers. This FREE upgrade includes 4GB of photo uploads each month.
What does it look like? For example, if you click on the photo here, it will take you to my account on the site:
How would you get this free upgrade? Simply follow these instructions. Zooomr currently supports both OpenID authentication and the Flickr API for uploading photographs to their site.
Check it out.
WELCOME!
The purpose of this weblog is to provide observation, insight, and analysis of new trends in technology to people who can benefit from it.
The audience is intended to be those who are technically literate, without having to be on the bleeding edge of the digerati. The approach will be introductory, rather than how-to, showcasing some of the latest emerging technologies.
Out primary focus will be on information. So much of our modern lives and business dealings involve the quick, efficient, and effective use of information. And with the amount of digital information growing exponentially, today’s challenges around information include:
- Where to find the right information?
- How to make sense of it?
- How to store and manage it?
- How to communicate it to the right people?
Our approach will include observation about the trends, some analysis of its velocity and likelyhood of mass acceptance, and finally some potential practical business application of the technology.
Some of the topics I’ll cover in this blog will include:
- Blogs (web logs): what are they and is it catching?
- RSS (Really Simple Syndication): just another TLA or the start of something big?
- Virtualization: why is this one of the biggest trends in computing?
- Social Networking: How are people using sites like LinkedIn and Facebook?
- Podcasting: you don’t have to be a DJ, but you can play one on the Internet.
- Wiki and Wikipedia: collaborative content and the free encyclopedia.
- Answers.com: ask Mr. Dictionary/Thesaurus/Encyclopedia/Web.
- Smart Phones: cell phones meet PDAs
- PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants): Palm and PocketPC
- Search Wars: you’ve made it through the Browser Wars, now what?
- Mapping: how does Internet mapping suggests location based services?
- Malware: Spam, virus, adware… oh my!
- IM (Instant Messaging): the new e-mail?
- SMS (Short Messaging System): the new IM?
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