I manage a number of sites and I have lots of images that I use. I have, until now, stored these photos in my computer on my hard disk and uploaded them to the various sites when required. Now I am creating of online stores on Etsy and eBay and I think it would be simpler to store the photos on a site that would assign a URL, so the image could be reused on a number of different sites.
Here is what I have done so far, I have three possibilities that I am experimenting with: Picasa, Flickr and Box.net. Each assigns a URL so that I can reuse the asset. Who has experience doing this? Are there other suggestions for sites that have greater flexibility???
Disk Cleanup has probably always worked this way, but I have been having fits figuring out how to get rid of Windows.old, which contains the previous operating system and files from my Vista implementation. I got some things I needed from the .old directory, but administratively it is very difficult to delete.
Disk Cleanup a utility that comes with the operating system works. I got the directions from How to Delete and Remove the Windows.old Folder. Here are the instructions:
Step by step use of Disk Cleanup to Remove Windows.old Folder
Click on the Start button on the task bar for our task to windows.old removal.
Follow the "All Programs - Accessories - System Tools" path on the Start menu.
Click and select "Disk Cleanup".
When the Disk Cleanup Options dialog screen is displayed select Files from all users on this computer option.
Select the hard disk Drive where the Windows.old folder resides.
The Disk Cleanup utility will scan the driver for not used and unnecessary files.
When the scan is completed check the "Previous Windows installations".
When the wizard requests your confirm to delete the Windows.old folder and its content files, select Delete.
In discussions about social media and its value, the question of the business case for social media often comes up. This short presentation form SpinWeb describes the benefits of social media for business.
FT.com: Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world – this is an excellent article on how to fix this financial system by not resorting to the solutions of the past which failed. It makes perfect sense but is largely ignored.
Jeff Bezos worked in Amazon’s distribution center in Kentucky for a week recently. This was not a press stunt; he actually worked with the hourly employees. Bezos is reportedly a micro-manager and the company culture is fast lean and frugal. But, he is able to achieve good results by paying attention to details. I am sure he was find new opportunities for improvement which is especially important in a recession.
The White House - Blog Post - Weekly Address: Toward a Better Day: Barack Obama continues the good practice of talking to American’s about the economic crisis and his plans to stimulate the economy. Even if all his plans do not work, he his moving quickly to solve problems.
The stock market is falling faster and farther than the market did in 1929. As of today the Dow is down –56%.
from Clusterstock
The government, as of market close on Friday, had lost 54.9% on its original $195.5 billion in capital investments through the Troubled Asset Relief Program. So much for making money on these assets as some in congress pledged. All of us taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street’s innovation!
Wow, I have seen all these mistakes and more. Do you think the laugh track makes the video funnier?
Beware the killer robots posted in global post by Tom Abate explains how warfare technology will change to include weapons design to fight on their own. It is not far fetched. The growing use of semi-autonomous military robots has occurred, but when will robots make the life and death decisions?
‘Nationalize’ the Banks Again, my favorite economist is talking sense. Nouriel Roubini advocates a temporary nationalization of banks to clean them up and then sell them back to to the public Sector.
SlideShare has introduced a number of new features that makes the platform even more useful for publishing and distributing presentations.
1. SlideShare will now allow users to embed YouTube videos into their Flash-based presentations. This provides a way to include video that enriches the content in presentations.
2. SlideShare has launched a cloud-based feature that allows users to tie their native Microsoft PowerPoint client to your SlideShare account.
, a fancy photo sharing thing.
I still read the Boston Globe and the New York Times every morning. I don’t read news online unless it is very current. I still find the serendipity of newspapers satisfying it is hard to get the same experience online.
But, Patrick Smith’s article on paidContent:UK entitled Online Or Bust: Why 2009 May Be The Nail In Newspapers’ Coffins makes a convincing argument that the current business model is broken and that classified advertising is evaporating.
This trend may present good opportunities for online journalism.
This little video from Beyond the Edge demonstrates how Google docs is used to make collaboration on documents easier. Even for people who use other collaboration tools, Google docs is sooo much simpler!
I like the fact the the Obama transition team is having real people, working on the team answer questions. This is Heather Zichal, who takes the bus to work, not some powerful person. Obama delegates to people well and makes them part of the answer. I like his kind of leadership. I hope we can improve our energy policy and continue to build enthusiasm for change.
Will Barak use Twitter, Plaze, or write a blog? He has demonstrated that he can master the web during a campaign. His campaign was probably one of the most successful large scale use of the internet and especially Web 2.0 apps. I wonder how he will approach it.
See this article in the Washington Post on the expected electronic approach.
Venkat’s hypothesis in Enterprise 2.0 blog is that their is a hidden corporate war going on between KM practitioners and social media advocates rings true. I have seen it in the way Microsoft SharePoint, with minimum Web 2.0 capabilities, is embraced by IT departments while open source web 2.0 are shunned. He has identified 5 social dimensions of this generational war:
- Gen X is Currently Neutral
- KM is about ideology, SM is about the fun of building
- The Boomers don’t really get or like engineering and organizational complexity
- The Millenials don’t really try to understand the world
- Boomers speak with words, X’ers with numbers, Millenials with actions
And 5 technological dimensions:
Expertise locators are not social networks
Online Communities are not USENET V3.0
RSS and Mash-ups are Gen-X ideas
SemWeb Isn’t Next-Gen, it is Last-Gen
SOA and SaaS are Gen X; Clouds are Millenial
“How the War Will End
It takes no great genius to predict how the war will end. The Boomers will retire and the Millenials will win by default, in a bloodless end with no great drama. KM will quietly die, and SM will win the soul of Enterprise 2.0, with the Gen X leadership quietly slipping the best of the KM ideas into SM as they guide the bottom-up revolution.”
Another sobering video by my favorite economist.
Via my feeds on Google Reader, I found a link to Alex Payne’s blog al3x.net in a post by Louis Gray. Alex’s recommendations for Computing Happiness are brilliant. Unfortunately, I have a windows machine, but everyone else in my family has a Mac. Knock on wood, the Mac’s always work. I can’t say the same thing about my Windows machines, which I am tinkering with all the time. He provides rules for software, hardware and file formats. Here is a taste:
Software
- Use as little software as possible.
- Use software that does one thing well.
- Do not use software that does many things poorly.
- Do not use software that must sync over the internet to function.
- Do not use web applications that should be desktop applications.
- Do not use desktop applications that should be web applications.
“There he goes, Dean Moriarity”
