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How Business Can Learn From Obama

I came across an article which shows how a small company can use the methods Obama utilized in the election to help them compete with big players in the market. Some of the examples include how a small hardware store can compete on service not price.

Sadly the local hardware store near TMC was wiped away by Home Depot and they did provide superior service. Nevertheless, the ideas in the piece do make sense and it is worth a read.

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Gmail Gets New Features

Google continues to roll out new features in its services. The latest is Gmail which will get options allowing better linking, chat with embedded pictures, the addition of colored star icons, fixed width fonts, custom keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, signature tweaks, random signature additions, custom date formats, games, better use of screen real estate and more.

The company is becoming a force to be reckoned with in the software/services world and these improvements show how serious Google is at expanding its various service offerings.

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Tech Overload For Rich Tehrani

You may hear less from me than usual over the next week as I have a new Laptop -- a Dell M1530, a new desktop from Dell and a new HTC XV6800 (my old one had an unfortunate encounter with a toilet. )

I find that technology makes me productive. This is likely no surprise as I write about this topic so often. Tech allows me to communicate and work anywhere and everywhere. Admittedly I am a super-power user and I upgrade often. This comes with a price tag of lower productivity that will hopefully be made up with fast CPUs and disk drives.

The productivity hit comes from having to remember passwords and user names and the rest of the things you need to do when you get a new computing device.

My two new machines have Vista installed on them and I really hope this is not a detriment for me as I have heard both good and bad things about this OS. So far, I am not impressed with the speed of the operating system but let's see how the next week treats me.

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Amazon Outage

Amazon is out. They are down and I wasn't aware of it until I received an email from Greg Galitzine. This a huge deal and will likely reduce the company's revenues and moreover an outage of major proportions is extremely damaging for a company looking to be the cloud computing powerhouse of the future.

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This is the error message you receive:

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

Update:

The service came up around 3:15 PM EST.

 

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