May 2009
15 posts
QR Code Business Cards
Now that I’ve showed you modern digital art, lets look at a cool use of this technology - the QR Coded Business Card:
or even more Web 2.0:
This puts a stop to the tedious necessity of digitizing (storing, or losing) business cards. Just snap a photo with your phone, and it can link you to a phone number, sms, email address, url, contact info (vCard etc), personal message…...
Mobile Tagging
I expect mobile tagging to explode in the U.S. at some point:
My first haiku as a QR Code:
Try decoding this with a QR capable phone; I just installed BeeTagg for the iPhone.
Art + Technology in Perfect Harmony
My First Haiku
Watching the bright sky The sun brightening my heart Melting any fears
Jesus is watching you (Christian Joke)
A burglar broke into a Christian family’s home one night. He shined his flashlight around, looking for valuables when he heard a strange voice echoing from the dark saying, “Jesus is watching you.”
He nearly jumped out of his skin, clicked his flashlight off, and froze. After awhile when he heard nothing more, he shook his head and continued. Just as he pulled the stereo out so...
Three New Amazon Web Services (Only 3-4 Hours...
As many of you know, I’m a huge supporter of Amazon Web Services. It is with great pleasure that I’ve stumbled onto their three new services: CloudWatch, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), and AutoScaling.
CloudWatch “provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources, starting with Amazon EC2”.
Elastic Load Balancing “automatically distributes incoming application traffic...
“If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
– Isaac Newton
GoogleLookup: do things you never thought possible... →
…a serious contender for coolest Google product feature: GoogleLookup. GoogleLookup is a Google Spreadsheets function that attempts to return the value of any attribute for any entity that you specify. Here’s the syntax: =GoogleLookup(”entity”; “attribute”).
So what makes GoogleLookup really cool is that it references data not just from your spreadsheet (as with functions like...
How to Interview and Hire the Right Employee →
Peter Bergman at Harvard Business says the interview question you should always ask is “What do you do in your spare time?” He believes that’s the key to unlocking a candidate’s obsession, which, according to him, is actually a good thing:
“… people are often successful not despite their dysfunctions but because of them. Obsessions are one of the greatest telltale signs of success. Understand a...
Why BSers Get Ahead.. →
When I was a young engineer at Texas Instruments, I quickly learned that accepting responsibility is the way up the corporate ladder. If you boldly say, “Yes sir, I can do that, no problem,” then scramble like crazy to figure out what to do, your responsibility increases. But if you whine, “Well, I can try, but I don’t really have any experience with [fill in the blank], so I’ll have to take some...
Tips on Managing in a Recession from Tom Peters →
Tips on Managing in a Recession from Tom Peters
a long list of things you need to do during a downturn, here are a few of his key ideas:
You work longer.
You work harder.
You may well work for less; and, if so, you adapt to the untoward circumstances with a smile—even if it kills you inside.
You volunteer to do more.
You fake it if your good attitude flags.
You literally practice your “game...
Tips for Minimizing Meetings from Seth Godin →
Tips for Minimizing Meetings from Seth Godin
Understand that all problems are not the same. So why are your meetings? Does every issue deserve an hour? Why is there a default length?
Schedule meetings in increments of five minutes. Require that the meeting organizer have a truly great reason to need more than four increments of realtime face time.
Require preparation. Give people things to read...
John Chambers on Managing for the Upturn →
John Chambers on Managing for the Upturn
It was hard for me, because I am very comfortable with command and control. So moving away from what was working was hard. At first it was frustrating. I’d get my team together and watch them work on an issue, and I’d usually know what the answer would be within the first 10 or 15 minutes. But over time, they [began getting to] a better decision than I...