JD Lasica Archives - Sky's Blog https://blog.red7.com/tag/jd-lasica/ Communicating in a networked world Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:31:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.red7.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/skyhi-wind-icon-256x256-120x120.png JD Lasica Archives - Sky's Blog https://blog.red7.com/tag/jd-lasica/ 32 32 Tech recap from Traveling Geeks https://blog.red7.com/tech-recap-from-traveling-geeks/ https://blog.red7.com/tech-recap-from-traveling-geeks/#respond Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:11:51 +0000 http://sky.dlfound.org/?p=1859 JD Lasica interviewed me (for socialmedia.biz) about some of the tech we used on the Traveling Geeks trip to London. Topics covered are connectivity using cellular modems (provided by BT), the FeedWordPress plug-in, Flip (Mino and Ultra) video cameras, video streaming (on Nokia n79 using kyte.com), Google Latitude… You can download and use Google Latitude […]

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]]> sky-studio-2009JD Lasica interviewed me (for socialmedia.biz) about some of the tech we used on the Traveling Geeks trip to London. Topics covered are connectivity using cellular modems (provided by BT), the FeedWordPress plug-in, Flip (Mino and Ultra) video cameras, video streaming (on Nokia n79 using kyte.com), Google Latitude…

You can download and use Google Latitude in the US, but you can’t download Google Latitude in the UK because it is “voluntarily” blocked by BT for privacy reasons (it discloses your location to others).

I just can’t say enough about how much use I get out of the little Flip MinoHD and UltraHD video cameras. I use them for all of my interviews now, and for shooting “trailers” to serve as proposals for projects.

My favorite part of the interview is when I wax poetic about the fact that the technology actually worked while we were on the road. I was really expecting much of it to fail. We really have a wired and wireless world today!

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]]> https://blog.red7.com/tech-recap-from-traveling-geeks/feed/ 0 1859 Reaching Advocates and Influencers https://blog.red7.com/reaching-advocates-and-influencers/ https://blog.red7.com/reaching-advocates-and-influencers/#respond Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:00:31 +0000 http://sky.dlfound.org/?p=1835 Rather than blasting out advertising indiscriminately to everyone, firms are finding they can target individuals who like their brand and can influence others to see the brand more positively. There are more and more ways to find out who your brand’s advocates and influencers are. That’s because software is now tying the data together so […]

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]]> Traveling GeeksRather than blasting out advertising indiscriminately to everyone, firms are finding they can target individuals who like their brand and can influence others to see the brand more positively. There are more and more ways to find out who your brand’s advocates and influencers are. That’s because software is now tying the data together so we can actively decide how to reach and, more importantly interact with, our passionate customers. Social media allow us to openly and transparently interact with and have conversations with our customers.

Susan Bratton, JD Lasica, Renee Blodgett and Robert Scoble discuss these aspects of marketing and customer relations in this roundtable in Cambridge as a part of Traveling Geeks 2009.

 

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]]> https://blog.red7.com/reaching-advocates-and-influencers/feed/ 0 1835 Netbooks and the Fragility of the Internet https://blog.red7.com/netbooks-and-the-fragility-of-the-internet/ https://blog.red7.com/netbooks-and-the-fragility-of-the-internet/#respond Tue, 12 May 2009 01:00:51 +0000 http://sky.dlfound.org/?p=1343 I am increasingly concerned about the fragility of the Internet. With our data living more and more in the cloud, we are vulnerable when networks fail. Without email, without the documents I’m writing or editing, I have to sit out any network blackout that takes place. This happens to me more often than I’d like […]

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]]> Cloud computingI am increasingly concerned about the fragility of the Internet. With our data living more and more in the cloud, we are vulnerable when networks fail. Without email, without the documents I’m writing or editing, I have to sit out any network blackout that takes place. This happens to me more often than I’d like – probably a couple of times a month in my home office. I’m on Comcast cable for my connectivity, and though I frequently get 10 megabits/second of bandwidth, and almost always have at least 1.5 mbs, there are times when it gets so unreliable it might as well not be there, and then there are times when it just stops working for a couple of hours.

ASUS eee PCWhat will happen in an age of netbook computers? When the computing power and the data live off in the cloud somewhere, and my little computer is used primarily to connect, and not to process?

Well, I think that ultimately the cloud is going to be partially collocated in your home or office, as well as off in some big server farm in Oregon (or pick any other state – you’re probably right). I think this will be solved by a combination of local storage (Network Attached Storage [NAS] perhaps, which is what I use right now), local processing power (I have a big computer in the studio and my portable computer can be used to control it), and remote processing and delivery of certain services that really belong out in the cloud closer to the customer.

Oh, and maybe I’d better look at the fine print in my Comcast contract – I am purchasing a “home” Internet service, and of course I am doing business-related tasks here every day. They probably don’t deliver the same kind of reliability to homes as they deliver to businesses. But I’m not the only one doing this, and if you combine the current rage for netbook computers and the current state of affairs in connectivity, it leaves us pretty vulnerable to outages.

Some netbook references:

  • Netbook on Wikipedia (this is not the best or most complete article it could be, but it’s a start)
  • Larry Ellison’s ideas about the network computer
  • The ASUS eee PC (I saw three teens opening the box and oogling a new one outside Best Buy yesterday on a warm afternoon – they couldn’t wait to get it going) – look at their web site – this machine is clearly for (young) teens – these kids in the ads must have an average age of 14
  • The OLPC laptop, which in many ways, but not all, is a netbook
  • Is the iPod Touch a baby netbook waiting to grow up?
  • Dick Tracy wrist-radio (is it a cellphone? is it a netbook? aw shucks, is it anything at all?)

This whole article is a precursor to a longer article about cloud computing’s role in our future, and inspired by a series of reports by JD Lasica.

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