http://techtrends.billpetro.com musings on current and future technologies, by Bill Petro Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:48:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en iPhone and Cloud Computing iPhone represents a phenomenal growth in user-generated data, as Joe Tucci alluded to in his EMC World 2008 keynote, when he said that by 2010: 70% will come from individual creation 85% will become the responsibility of organizations: YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Google We know that since the advent of the ... http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/06/18/iphone-in-the-clouds-with-diamonds/ iPhone 3G: the Second Coming Last week, after an eagerly waited and much speculated upon announcement from Steve Jobs at the World Wide Developer Conference, we finally got the story on the 2.0 version of the iPhone, known as iPhone 3G. While it's really iPhone 2.0, we get the appearance ... http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/06/16/iphone-3g-the-second-coming/ EMC WORLD: DAY 3 RECAP Q: How can you tell a conference is a technical conference? A: When the ratio of PDAs to attendee approaches 2 to 1. The amount of IM, Twitter, SMS, email, and phone calls was amazing. All kinds of devices: iPhones, Qs, Nokias, and of course Blackberries. Lots of ... http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/05/23/emc-world-day-3-recap/ EMC WORLD: DAY 2 RECAP EMC World, in its 2nd day in Las Vegas, is by and for engineers. While there are more suits present than in previous years, nevertheless most of the presenters are usually not polished marketing presenters but often the software developer who wrote the code for the ... http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/05/20/emc-world-day-2-recap/ EMC WORLD: DAY 1 RECAP A full and rich day in the "city by the sand" Las Vegas. I attended a variety of talks during the day, but the best was: Virtualization Technology and Directions offered by David Black, PhD of EMC. He covered a discussion of a variety of virtualization techniques, ... http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/05/20/emc-world-day-1-recap/ LAS VEGAS AND EMC WORLD I'm in Lost Wages, Nevada for the EMC World event being held at Mandalay Bay. The first night's entertainment, the Goo Goo Dolls. 9300 attendees so far. While I'll be writing daily about this huge show on this blog, for the first time, another technology ... http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/05/19/las-vegas-and-emc-world/ 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 ... http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/05/04/emc-world/ 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 ... http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2008/02/26/to-twitter-two-twitters-to-tweet/ 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 ... http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2007/03/12/zooomr-for-photo-sharing/ 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, ... http://techtrends.billpetro.com/2006/02/14/welcome-to-techtrends/