Savannah W-ITS

Hmm, imagine this – The C-HACK! of 2009
Update (2/7/2010) – it will be interesting to see ‘the facts’ for this event – A post by Bruce Schneier (1/23/2010) on the CNN web provides some additional thoughts, i.e. Are we doing this to ourselves? (Do our national policies increase the chances that these types of events [...]

Please visit the RefreshSavannah Web site for details.
Speaker:  Jim Goodlet
Topic:  KPI

Update 1/5/2010 – the new, Nexus One Android Phone from Google is now available – I would love to see a review that covers the items below (as well as comments from my other posts about Android) – same problems present?, i.e.

can you connect to hidden WiFI networks?
can you empty the trash for your non-Google [...]

A recent cracking (an illegal access of computer systems and data) of Twitter related data-in-the-cloud (my reference when using tools where data is used and stored on a remotely hosted system) is in the news.
It seems that some bad person decided to guess the passwords of some users with Twitter relationships (employees or family members [...]

I was quite surprised when my post about the July 2009 cyber attacks seemed to attract a bit of attention.  The post contains general commentary and some basic suggestions for steps that you can take to reduce impacts from such outbreaks.
Avoiding a cyber attack is simply impossible (unless you unplug the wires…) – creating a [...]

The second meeting of Refresh Savannah was held tonight at Lady and Sons.  Phil Peterman gave an excellent presentation on SEO basics and some interesting discussions followed.  More info about Refresh Savannah…
A good reference covering SEO related topics is the book by Aaron Walter: Building Findable Web Sites.

If you missed the previous events this is truly a fascinating process to observe (many of the images on this site are from the last visit by monks from this monastery.)  I suggest visiting at least twice (once early in the week and once later in the week; there was quite a crowd at the [...]

Refresh Savannah – NG – nerd gathering and a bit more. [next gathering 6/16/06, topic SEO,  at Lady & Sons]
Last night (5/18/09) the 1st meeting of Refresh Savannah occurred at the office of Music Intelligence Solutions in Savannah.  It was a diverse gathering of folks interested in NN (nerd networking – opportunties to expand brain [...]

You need both value and values – or you simply won’t last.
Value = some positive experience/product for your customers.
Values = long term direction and convictions – things that you/your company truly believe in  and support.
Many of our current economic woes can be attributed to a lack of one or both of the above along with [...]

Hmm, everything is free? 

• email
• standard computer apps
• special computer apps (image editing)
• virtual PC (all your stuff from any Internet connection)
• free image/data storage (UGC, images sharing sites)
• free global/social publishing/advertising
• free search ???

 Who’s making money if everything is free?  (Who pays for all this free stuff?)

Google recently opened yet another service offering:  Knol (A Unit of Knowledge – A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.)