August 2012
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#Tumblr Can Be Funny.
I like the Tumblr folks. Great platform. Great Themes support.
They seem to be a great bunch of folks. With a funny bone.
This AM’s follow “alert” gave me a chuckle. LOL. Thanks guys for having fun.
A BIG THANK YOUto Andy Klein Schmidt for the follow! No whatever on this side. :-)
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“Alfred. Gordon. Lucius. Bruce … Wayne. Names that have come to mean so...”
– Source: The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy
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[SHOCKING] Batman Film Economics Under Christopher...
Christopher Nolan is the NEW Bruce Wayne billionaire. The Dark Knight Rises is only 40 days in release and it about to hit the $1 billion dollar mark with worldwide gross.
Look at the numbers between all three films:
Get the PDF from my dedicated Dropbox folder.
Christopher Nolan created The Billion Dollar Batman with the Dark Knight. That movie went on to be the fourth largest with...
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[Photo] Guess What I Am Doing for Halloween?
@TorontoBatman, eat your heart out.
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[PHOTOS] The Promise :: The Reality :: Our Only...
Ah yes, the joy of a WiMax future. “Enabling” wireless clouds to power the creative process through “connectedness”. Look at those beautiful smiles. Aaah…
WiMax - The Promise
WiFi Today - The Reality
Powered by Canadian telecom providers, your “connectedness” feels crammed like a tiny phone booth. LOL. Yes, I thank Bell and Rogers for partnering...
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#Curiosity Cam. Go #NASA!
Video streaming by Ustream
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[IPO Visual] Google vs. Facebook.
Have you looked at Google’s Dashboard lately? [http://www.google.com/dashboard] Google is big data. They’re much bigger than Facebook period. Don’t be confused by Facebook and Google+
Google’s API and Developer Products page from January 2011 is no longer but here’s a cool periodic table of their products from back then. Here’s the full list on...
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“Team: Today was an important day for Apple and for innovators everywhere. Many...”
– Tim Cook on the patent victory with Samsung.
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Best Buy's Real Nemesis: AMAZON.
Read Jeff Bezos’ statement below. In fact, Amazon’s mission statement is explained in one sentence in the first line.
Best Buy’s statement below is shared with employees and investors. Not officially a mission statement, it still doesn’t sell me.
Maybe this has to do with their “Geek Squad” program. ‘Nuff said.
Jeff Bezos is laughing all the way...
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Best Buy: How it Fails Consumers and Why It's A...
When a company reports a 90% drop in net income due to weak sales, you know they’re in trouble. Yes, Best Buy is in the crosshairs today.
In the past two weeks, I’ve had people close to me report about the pathetic extended warranty programs that Best Buy promotes like a cheap pimp to unsuspecting consumers. In Best Buy’s world, a sold warranty is a “profit...
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Silicon Valley: Wags The Dog in Social Media.
It’s fun to watch Silicon Valley media pump their own propaganda onto the masses.
The above reporter doesn’t appear to have any inside knowledge about RIM’s future prospects but “carefully” dishes it out. Is it fair for the rest of us to be influenced by such careless commentary? I don’t think so. Unless tech media is in the thick of things, we really...
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[APP REVIEW] Wow. Facebook's new iOS App FAST!
Well, they finally figured it out. A lot of people were starting to use Facebook’s mobile app far less. They’ve gone back to basics and gone native! To be honest, I was close to nixing its use completely because I couldn’t stand how slow it was.
DEFINITELY A MAJOR IMPROVEMENT.
It is so shockingly fast that I can’t believe how long I endured using the iOS app in previous...
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Rare 1983 Steve Jobs Talk on Building Better...
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[VIDEO #3] Does Size Really Matter? A Tablet...
In Video #3 of our ongoing “What Would Alex Bosika Do?” series with guest host, Roger Beharry Lall, we break open the floodgates on tablet dimensions and beer. There’s enough laughter and innuendo here to freak out the CEO’s from RIM, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. Watch our random walk down tablet lane. ;-)
So we ask, “Does Size Really Matter?”
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[A CALL FOR APP DEVELOPERS] Join our growing...
Dear App Developers:
We know you’re out there. We found some of you at our MoMo Toronto events which we host for the GTA (www.mobilemondaytoronto.com, twitter: @momotoronto) tech community.
But we know there are more of you out there….somewhere…
Here’s the problem. The world is kind of…well, large. And you…you maybe are large or just small and starting...
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Worth a Look. GetPrismatic Improves Content...
Get Prismatic.
I discovered Prismatic through Robert Tercek a month ago and have since used the service to review news based on my personal interests. In a nutshell, the darn thing works. I have found some really interesting chunks of information in places I’d never find through RSS feeds or Google News curated.
Robert Tercek (Photo credit: tedxmarin)
IN A NUTSHELL
Worth a look if...
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{FULL VIDEO} Tim Cook at #D10. He Sold Me.
I’ve said it before. I LIKE TIM COOK. This video confirmed that he’s in charge and can run the ship the right way for the next ten years.
Thanks to MacLife.com for the Tim Cook graphic below. (I subscribe to their digital newsstand subscription — 99c per month, what a steal for a great publication!)
TIM COOK IS ALL SMILES
“We have one (industrial design) organization....
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[PIC] International Law and the Ecuadorian...
Given the “Hollywood-like” events of the past week, it is amazing we didn’t discover a “trip-wire” of sorts that could cough up or “trip up” the famed Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame landing him safely in the hands British, American and Swedish law enforcement.
Apparently, British authorities had helicopters flying overhead with video cameras to capture...
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ALTERNATE ENDING: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES →
Behind the Scenes with “The Dark Knight Rises” scriptologists!
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[Graph] How U.S. Corn Gets Used @CBCNews
There are about 2,500 supermarket products that contain corn, plus over a thousand other products not normally sold in supermarkets, such as fireworks, carpeting, cardboard and fibreglass.
Related articles
Survivalist congressman is ready for ‘doomsday’ (investmentwatchblog.com)
Supermarkets Are Designed to Malnourish Us (alternateeconomy.wordpress.com)
Can Fresh &...
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Research in Motion BB10 Exec Roadshow Push with...
…developing…
News and other sources confirm that a big push took place today. That is, a BB10 Executive Roadshow with telecom providers.
This is great news!
For all those naysayers claiming that BB10 “will be late” again, this is proof-positive pudding that the company is on track to release the new platform and devices. Hopefully, Q1 2013 is the definite...
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[VIDEO] Alex and Roger Discuss Microsoft's...
In my next installment of our video series with Roger Beharry Lall, we talk about Microsoft’s Worldwide Developers Conference held in Toronto held July 9-12, 2012.
Keywords:
Windows 8
Windows UI/UX
Surface
Data and immersiveness
Ontario Premier
Dollar influx
Mayor Ford
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Microsoft Releases Worldwide Partner Conference 2012 App For Windows Phone (wmpoweruser.com)
Live...
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“People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as...”
– Bruce Wayne, Batman Begins
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6000 Tweets!
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Facebook Sell-Off Bomba. Peter Thiel Unloads!
The 007-style #skyfall feels more like a #freefall.
Peter Thiel decided it was time to sell off a majority of the shares. We’re talking 20.6 million of his 26.2 million Class A shares.
If you look at the photo above, Peter is probably chasing Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen, among others, that have lost faith in companies expected to drive YET ANOTHER but new Internet boom. Marc...
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Why #Blackberry is Perfect for Mobile / Social
A great presentation from my colleague, Volker Hirsch. Great slideshare as always. ;-)
Mobile + Social: Why BlackBerry is Perfect - GDC Europe 2012 from Volker Hirsch
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LONG WAY ROUND: Grosse Problem. {LOL}
Outside of being a fan of Ewan McGregor’s work, I am a huge fan of this documentary series. By far, one of the most entertaining clips and naturally for some good causes.
In this clip, their drive through Ukraine results in some unexpected but disturbing information. It all starts to go downhill around 0:23 seconds into the YouTube clip. LOL
For more information, IMDB.com and...
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#Google on Google #Adwords by Howie.
This snippet from Howie’ ER report says it all. I’ve heard the same when Google “called” to optimize campaigns for people. Howie’s book is one of the best I’ve read on this subject. Goes beyond Google Adwords.
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#Yammer CEO Fills Mouth With Silicon Valley Foam
On the way to a meeting this AM, I caught the TechCrunch article discussing David Sacks view that the “End of Silicon Valley” is near. David was Yammer’s CEO before selling his company to Microsoft for a cool $1.2 billion.
My thoughts mirroring his points:
(1) Hogwash. Plenty of ideas out there that the big wigs haven’t caught. Why would they be snapping up the IP...
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Why #NASA Needs Funding & #Telecom Deserves Our...
Funny.
I remember the zany stories from a product lead about the WiMax modems his telecom company was selling to rural communities in Northern Ontario (cottage country).
Project Inukshuk was a joint-effort between Bell and Rogers to supply northern communities with connectivity through WiMax modems.
Sadly, complaints were common. One was particular comical. A cottage customer...
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Zuckberg Selfishly Promotes on Facebook? [PIC]
Personally, I think this is pretty lame. Focus on your platform. Stop promoting the ad agenda just because McDonald’s has a big budget with Facebook. Why not “like” something healthier? Might influence a lot more folks than this.
#boo
What do you think? Your comments welcome.
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Amazon Reviews Bordering on Strange [PIC]
I can’t add anything more to something that was weird and funny at the same time. Joke, real or just confirms the world is full of interesting people.
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Social Media Gone Wrong? [PIC]
I’m told this was a legit thread on twitter.
Surprising…really.
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[VIDEO SERIES] Yammer, Canadian Tech and Media: #1
This is the first installment of many…hopefully…additional videos to come.
Roger Beharry Lall (guest - man on the right) and I talk abut technology topics of interest to us. We’ll share some insights which we hope are interesting to you. Find us on twitter @abosika and @artful_roger.
Talking YouTube points [4 min]: Yammer Acquisition by Microsoft, Rypple, Igloo, Canadian...
