Mario Tapia

SBC will rebrand its wireline business to AT&T after the merger. They say the logo will be redone, I sure hope the DeathStar logo will be gone. I do like that they want preserve AT&T, American Telephone and Telegraph, a name of historical significance and part of Americana. I’m glad that they decided to preserve the name.

“According to SBC, the AT&T brand was chosen as the best platform because of its core strength in the enterprise market, and its “universal awareness as a communications brand” according to internal research which showed AT&T has 98% awareness among consumers and nearly 100% awareness among businesses, as well as high global awareness.”

…and so it goes.

My dream come true! Google Maps mobile app. I came across this guys site mgmaps and downloaded v1.18 (v 1.20 didn’t work on the 6682). Its a slick app, got downtown Seattle real quick. Although it still requires user defined location, its not a bad app if you know where you are and need a map. I used the points of interest search feature but found out that the app doesn’t display the POI, but it does pull up a map of the general area where your POI should be. I’m in DC this week and this should come in handy.

The Presidents of the United States (PUSA) released a Music Video recorded from an array of camera phones. Its pretty cool. An Australian production company, Film Headquarters the innovative music video for the Presidents of the United States of America, for their single “Some Postman”. This is the first music video in the world to be shot using mobile phones.

The music video was filmed in Seattle in just one day using an array of Sony Ericsson mobile video phones. The content was then blue–toothed to a Mac and composed like a jigsaw puzzle to form the basis of the edit.

The footage recorded by the phones was 1/3000 the quality of standard broadcast. The majority of the footage was shot with the band performing at half time as the phones could not handle the quick movements and as a result, could be blocky and compressed. The format used by the phone camera is 3gp.

The video can be seen at here, PUSA video.

–Cheers Big Ears

I went to the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest on Wed. The topic was Digital Social Networks - Two Degrees of Separation. The panel was made up of:
-Konstantin Guericke, LinkedIn, Co-Founder https://www.linkedin.com/p/kguericke
-Elizabeth Lane Lawley, PhD, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor http://www.it.rit.edu/~ell/weblogs/index.php
-Bill Bryant, Mobile Operandi, CEO http://www.mophone.com/mo_info/aboutus.htm
Moderator:
Mike Flynn, Puget Sound Business Journal, Publisher

The panel discussed some good topics, one that stuck with me is the use of etiquette on these social networking communities. For example with LinkedIn, I believe that if you are unsure or have reservations on publishing personal information on the web that you should be cautious. If you have close personal contacts and don’t want to have them residing somewhere other than your own PC then don’t publish them. Professional info, for those of us that are in consulting, sales, and service providers it is in our best interest to have our professional info posted.

Linkedin and Family Mafia:
I’ve been using linkedin for 2 years now and I have slowly started to trust it and also use it when I’m in need of a lead at a company or just keeping track of business acquaintences that you see once in a while, but not really in the close realm of family and friends.
I love linkedin, its a little like the mafia (not that there really is one, or that I ever seen one, but if one existed it would have protocols like linkedin):
-You can have family vouch for you and let you in to their group of friends.
-You can have family introduce you for business deals.
-You can leave good remarks about family and give them “Street Cred”
-You can deny people into the family circle because “I donta knowa youa soa wella”

–Peace out