Two New Books
Two new books arrived this week that may be of interest. Naked Conversation – How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel is very timely with all that is going on in the world of blogging. I know Robert from Microsoft. He has been active in evangelizing […]
Back From The Other Side Of The Globe: Part 1 (Introduction)
Thanks to readers for the emails asking if I had tuned out or given up writing at patrickWeb! No way! I still enjoy sharing points of view on various topics here in the blog. The reason for the lack of postings over the past few weeks is that I have been on holiday — reading […]
Back From The Other Side Of The Globe
The trip began with a flight from New York to Los Angeles and then on to Auckland, New Zealand. The eighteen hours of flight took us from 40° 45 minutes North latitude 73° 59 minutes West longitude (New York) to 36° 51 minutes South latitude 174° 46 minutes East longitude (Auckland, NZ) — nearly 9,000 […]
LinuxWorld – Boston
LinuxWorld in Boston this week reminded me of the Internet World of ten years ago. The show was buzzing with people and dozens of vendor booths. Nearly eight thousand attendees were there attending tutorials and pitches, testing what the vendors had to show and tell. When the attendance at a particular conference begins to wane […]
Demo@15
Of all the many conferences I attend each year, my favorite is Demo. Many conferences offer insight in various ways. All conferences offer a chance to network with friends and colleagues from the industry. Only Demo offers the chance to meet with the top couple of people from dozens of technology companies, see their product […]
