Armen Chakmakjian's Blog, page 29
April 3, 2009
Non-Web Apps make a comeback
An interesting new technology superseding the current fad. This cracked me up so bad I needed to spread it widely…
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March 27, 2009
Buzzword (beta) vs iWork.com(beta) for Pages…
So on first case study for finance I had the team try out iwork.com (beta). On the second case study, we used buzzword to collaborate. I think things went much better since we were all able to edit the same doc. Apple has made a fundamental mistake in their approach. I’m sure it has something [...:]
March 26, 2009
Following…How Many?
Somebody asked me this last week about how many people I follow on twitter. I said “about a thousand.” He then told me that he was going to focus down the number of people he was following, because of all the noise (like the notables: scoble, kawasaki et cetera who are more personalities in the [...:]
March 24, 2009
Goodreads
So I joined goodreads.com. It seems like a great tool for both readers and writers. You get to put in all the books you’ve ever read, rate them, and write reviews. You can organize them into shelves. That’s nice and there are several services like that on the web that happen to attach to facebook.
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March 10, 2009
Social Media Jungle Wrapup
So I spent the day at the Social Media Jungle event today in Waltham. We had a great set of mostly non powerpoint discussions about the magic that is going on by companies and people leveraging social media for personal as well as business reasons. We started by having @jeffpulver and @cc_chapman about [...:]
March 6, 2009
A new venue for my book…
Got an iphone? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001J6OV1S now’s the time…
Now people aren’t limited to having a kindle device to read my book…you have to be a kindle service customer but you can read it on your iphone…
BTW please visit my new website for my book http://web.mac.com/armenchakmakjian/U...
There’s only one other thing I’m thinking of doing. I have a podcast [...:]
Now people aren’t limited to having a kindle device to read my book…you have to be a kindle service customer but you can read it on your iphone…
BTW please visit my new website for my book http://web.mac.com/armenchakmakjian/U...
There’s only one other thing I’m thinking of doing. I have a podcast [...:]
February 27, 2009
Video: IM, blogging, microblogging, and posting…
All social media from the early days of BBS and Unix News Groups and the rudimentary email (some of us remember cutting our teeth on VAX/VMS mail and VMS Notesfiles) all have a similar purpose to the oo wow things people are doing now on the web. Basically the VMS Phone utility was not dissimilar [...:]
February 20, 2009
Reflections on the path…
So, I just spent a most of a week in Mountain View. I was sent here a member of a cadre of leaders-in-development at Intuit. I had an awesome time. It was a week of soul-searching, learning, collaborating and networking. I couldn’t go into everything I learned, but I can get into some of the [...:]
February 2, 2009
A couple of new posts on the QuickBase Blog
Just wanted to point people to some new stuff on the QuickBase Blog. One of our team members did a poster session at New England Database Day
I also did a post on a little feature in my Quick and Dirty series that showed how to add color to a cell in a report.
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I also did a post on a little feature in my Quick and Dirty series that showed how to add color to a cell in a report.
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January 31, 2009
Ethnic Mashups…A Mariachi Band Plays Armenian Traditional Dance Music…
I like ethnic mashups. Chinese guys who speak Armenian, Dr. Suess’ Grinch who stole Xmas in Latin, Umberto Eco poking fun at Jorge Luis Borges in “The Name of the Rose” by making the blind head of the Library. Here’s a new one. A Mariachi Band from America playing in Armenia, playing a typical line [...:]
