David Dalka attends and reports business events and conferences to discover the future of business where technology, organizations and customer exeperience meet. Also serves as emcee, moderator and motivational business keynote speaker.
Chicago GSB MBA
I had a flawless trip in from Chicago on Southwest Airlines (with a bunch of people with Dell computers with flaws – mostly dvd and hinge problems) and am here staying with my good friend David Temple during Search Engine Strategies San Jose.
It’s a kinda different show this year in both the crowd and some of the content type.
Already have had great meeting with Jim Hedger, Bryan Eisenberg and many others. Bryan has a new book, Always Be Testing, which just came out. I can’t wait to read it!
A few weeks ago I was sent a Nokia N81 8GB mobile phone. This post will contrast it with Nokia N73 it replaced.
Image by tnkgrl via Flickr
Positives of the Nokia N81 8GB:
– The first thing you notice is new radically different navigation on N-series phones. The green and red call and hang up buttons are on the edges of larger buttons – it takes a few phone calls to get used to the new placement!
– I love the one click swipe to lock or unlock on the top of the phone!
– Now 1 click to writing a text message
– Battery life is really long, especially considering the extremely well lit back keys
– WIFI connection works well, I’ve been able to surf and test mobile web sites much more clearly.
Areas to improve on the next version:
– The Nokia N81 8GB is black background with white text – this can be hard to read in bright sunlight situations.
This phone should definitely serve me quite well until US version of 3G comes out.
I’d also like to give Andy Abramson special props for getting me in touch with someone at Tmobile regarding a coverage problem I’ve been having. Much appreciated.
I’d like to think thank Kevin Ryan for bringing in this marketing speaker and challenging the audience to think about this issue. Marty has a great summary of the session.
My follow up question to Kevin is how can the SES community be best utilized to be an activist catalyst for this?
Michael Arrington ‘is contemplating the meaning of “is”.‘ As per a recent Facebook message change (that has now been changed back).
This issue of the meaning of “is” seems to be a recurring problem in our society. You might recall this statement by former President Clinton:
“It depends on what the meaning of the words ‘is’ is.” –Bill Clinton, during his 1998 grand jury testimony on the Monica Lewinsky affair
Dictionary.com says it’s this:
–verb 1. 3rd pers. sing. pres. indic. of be.
—Idiom2. as is. as1 (def. 25).
[Origin: bef. 900; ME, OE; c. D is, ON es, er, G, Goth ist, L est, Gk estí, OCS jestĭ, Skt asti]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Why is the meaning of “is” such a frequent area of discussion?
Please let me know if it is or if it isn’t what you are using and what you are seeing. A few people have reported problems in the past 24 hours.
Thank you for your time and help in making my feed reading a positive experience.
There is a big discussion going on this morning regarding Blogger taking down the Facebook Secrets blog that posted the leaked Facebook code.
I’ve got a better and far more important question, why the major inconsistency in what the Blogger team takes down?
On May 11, I wrote a post about a large splog hosted on the Blogger platform. Why hasn’t the Blogger team removed this splog yet? Why aren’t they being proactive when my Feedburner panel clearly shows this as an uncommon use? Why is Blogger apparently only responding to the requests of companies with significant legal teams? When will Blogger protect the interests of all blog content equally?
UPDATE: For another point of view, please visit my recent interview with Barry Schwartz regarding splogs.
Yep. Making a note to block off 48 hours in 2008.