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We are going to say something that will irk you, right now. Why not? It irked us. If you have a laptop/PC which has a single core processor purring laboriously under the hood, it is officially lined up for extinction. You are really working on a dinosaur. Guess what’s commonplace now-a-days? Quad-Core Computing; some of the modern laptops have 4 cores today.
Well, that isn’t over yet. Before we flap our arms in glee, these will be puny little things compared to what’s coming and Intel Vs AMD wars are just beginning to warm up.
So what’s coming?
A gigantic, monolith PC? Nope. However, a nice little laptop with enough power to shame all the computers together. A super computer at home? Possible. As both AMD and Intel trying to cram more and more cores into the PC, this is just going to get better. Improved processing power and advanced multitasking is now being made possible thanks to all this cramming. Also, as chip sizes get miniaturized, more can be crammed together. For instance, Intel’s 45nm( nanometer) chips will be soon replaced by 32nm chips by next year probably.
As you are reading this, Intel is on its way to launch a 6-core processor based on the Itanium design. A brand new architecture called Nehalem (Core i7) will feature upto 8 cores which might be made available by 2010 (Montreal, a similar architecture for AMD by the same time). So what’s more? ( By God, isn’t this enough? Are we traveling to space to telecommute from there or what?).
Here’s the bomb. Although the time lines are fuzzy, 16 -core processors and 32- core processors have been reported to be on the drawing boards of these companies and the project, apparently got scrapped due to the complexity of the project itself. However, it won’t be too long before this is a reality and there you go, ultra-super-duper computers right in your hands.
With that much of computing power, We wonder what’s going to happen to mankind 
Virtual Office / Digital Home Office
With the financial difficulties most businesses are going through nowadays and people’s efforts to reduce on rising energy and travel costs, we recognize that the number of home workers and companies allowing virtual work is growing rapidly. Therefore we have put a package together to help independent contractors and virtual companies to set up their home or offices and get to work very quickly.
We will do all the work for you and provide training and video tutorials so you can manage the network and tools later easily. We will take care of purchasing all the hardware and tools that you need to do your business efficiently. Our solutions can be tailored to your type of business and industry.
Benefits of Virtual Office
Why You Should Hire Us
Because we are expert at this and can save you hundreds of dollars and tremendous time by using proven solutions and products. So while you stay focused on your core business we get your office ready to start doing business.
Available Services
Wired/Wireless Network: Setting up a router to allow access to the internet, communication between all network devices in the office, and wireless access in the house
Security: Setting up a firewall to allow secure access to the Internet and Anti-Virus to protect against viruses and malicious attacks
Virtual Private Network (VPN): to enable secure access to the office network from the outside
Backup and Storage: Enabling automatic backup for your critical data
Voice Over IP (VoIP): Setting up either Vonage or any other VoIP service and integrating that with email to enable receiving voice messages via email. Also installing a Soft Phone on the PC to provide the flexibility of making calls on the road
Video: Setting up a WebCam and a free account to send and receive video messages. Training on how to make and publish HD videos for your website is available.
Email: Setting up an email domain, email client (i.e Outlook), and allowing it to sync with your BlackBerry smart phone
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Website Design: Building a website for all business needs. Some of our Ready-to-Go designs include eCommerce (integration with PayPal or other), social network, and general business websites. SEO and Blog services are also available
Web Conferencing: Setting up a free web conferencing account with Audio and Video capabilities
CRM: Set-up and training on Salesforce or other free CRM tools
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Video is the all-new rage. It seems like the entire stretch of the Internet super expressway is now glittering with video billboards displaying information for the passers by. If you aren’t using this from any angle, you are losing a lot, we reckon.
For the information gatherers, apart from the fact that you don’t have to work that hard in obtaining information when you have a audio-visual when compared to reading text, it is simply a matter of convenience. For a publisher though, Video establishes itself as a medium that has the power to render more information than plan text can possibly can. How do you, as a publisher leverage this? Here are 3 simple steps:
1. Create Video: There are tomes written on how to create video for your needs and the best we had found so far is Camtasia which enables you to capsule whatever is being done on your computer screen straight into an instructional video, for example. The other best way, of course, is to use a high-end digital camera or video recorder and edit the videos later.
2. Distribute Video: With numerous video sharing and distribution sites sprouting up like wild mushrooms, there are too many options for you to get drowned in. After you create the videos, you can choose how you want it to be distributed. Free distribution services like tubemogul.com are great to start with and if you need this on steroids, you could consider trafficgeyser.com. If you would like convert them into CD or DVD to be drop shipped, delivered and do it all automatically, you could try using kunaki.com.
3. Storing video: Internet has changed everything, hasn’t it? You don’t even have to worry about sky-rocketing costs that come with storing huge amounts of video content anymore. Have you considered Amazon’s S3 Servers?We think they are really inexpensive.
4. Find Utility for that Video: Of course you’d wonder why you should be going through the whole ordeal if there was no utility for your video. You see, videos can be great instructors – use it anyway that might benefit you. Provide information; instruct your potential customers; elicit leads; provide tutorials and much more. Some businesses have seen some earth shattering results by placing their videos on YouTube. Try that!
What appeals more to you? Spiders( the eight legged freaks) or people? I am sure you answered the latter category. People are central to everything we do and that fact alone gives us the justification to saw something that might antagonize a lot of Search Engine aficionados here. It is highly probable that the search engines don’t have everything going for them in a few years to come.
So what will dominate? Social Media.
We are not saying that every social Media , social marketing or web 2.0 site is going to be outrageously successful and dominate the Internet and neither are we stating that Google’s domination with Yahoo and MSN as its faithful cohorts, would end. All we are saying is that the raging importance given to this SEO and SEM thing will fade. Writing content for SEO isn’t content at all; It is manipulating the spiders to find you.
Content should educate or be used to voice out an opinion( like blogs do). Content purely designed to bring in search engine traffic won’t get anyone much. Here are couple of reasons why we believe that social media or web 2.0 as we know it is going to be powerful tomorrow:
1. People trust people more than technology. If we were looking for a web designer and if we 1) Asked our friends if they knew someone who could do it for us and 2) Did a web search to land on a few prospective web designers, who do you think we would pick? The former. That’s because we love our friends and we tend to believe them more than SE results.
2. Search engines can be manipulated, people thronging at social media havens cannot be manipulated. Even if you were successful in manipulating them, you wouldn’t last.
3. As more and more people get online and link, share, communicate with each other, information would be spread more through the virtual word of mouth than anything else. It might not be as big as search engines, but it will be significant.
4. You might never make it to the top of the SERP and even if you did, you don’t know how long you’d last. Google could even slap you( like it does to those squidoo lens) However, if you build a reputation, fame and respect in your web 2.0 community, your traffic is going to increase or worse case, stay consistent.
Michael Martine, a blog consultant recently write in his post Do you Hate Social Media? about how easily the world can split into two when it comes to social media haters and lovers, although the post wasn’t really about that and makes the case that you can’t really hate or love it and if you do choose to, you’d have your reasons.
Each passing day brings a new threat that seeks to derail a company’s network, computers, users or even reputation. Digital vermin is getting lethal, to say the least. Equipped with nothing but bare arms, we seek to wade through the dirty waters to combat with these ever burgeoning threats. Are we getting anywhere? Has any progress been made?
While you are busy ruminating, we’d like to come to the point: Should companies espouse web 2.0? Should they embrace the all-new-but-hugely-distributed power of the socially conscious, network leveraged, all-new Internet?
It’s tricky, really. If the companies give in and embrace social networking, web 2.0 and all else that is the rage today, they would be inviting more trouble. Or would they, really?
According to a press release from message labs,
” Facebook now has 61m active users world wide and Australian membership almost doubled during 2007. This extraordinary growth is part of the problem. Companies risk being caught off guard.”
Web 2.0 and Social Media: A case for Individuals
Even as individuals, we are told to stay away from suspicious looking profiles on myspace or facebook. You wouldn’t stumble upon a site unless you really find it worthy and you won’t twitter away your credit card details. It is presumed that individuals can take care of themselves and that they know where to draw the line.
That’s a point well-made in favour of social media and networking for individuals using the Internet at large.
So, what about companies?
A split approach will be necessary as we see it. On one hand, companies just can’t stay away from the lure and power of the web 2.0, because it is the future. People have always been central in anything we do and the Internet had to come to this. It is logical, isn’t it? It can’t remain this browser-ME-web page thing forever. Sooner or later, people will walk in through your virtual doors, chat with you, poke you and twitter you — well, they are doing it now.
Companies will have to stand up and face it. The future beckons them. They can’t hide behind their thousand computers anymore. Corporate blog posts will have to be answered; customers will tweet their problems; your helpful articles (if you did post any) will be bookmarked, digged, reddit-ed and much more.
So what about security?
Well, we must go back to our network design drawing boards and incorporate this aspect. This is here to stay and companies will need to figure out a way to help achieve security in spite of crowded internet traffic sharing everything you put on your website — form effective policies incorporate the use of web 2.0; help spread information about the possible pitfalls and dangers associated with web 2.0; define what can be done and what cannot be; monitor network traffic and take all necessary precautions.
Cisco has jumped in and embraced web 2.0 and social networking as a striking example, showing that it can be done. Cisco marketing executives are prolific bloggers and Cisco’s acquisition of Five across, a company that builds social platforms, is a terrific move albeit an understandable one. According to Venturebeat, in an article titled Cisco Dives into Web 2.0 :
“…it is clear Cisco sees social networking and the wider Web 2.0 phenomenon as ways to drive Internet traffic, and thus traffic over their routers and other networking gear — and, it follows, more revenue for Cisco.”
Bottom line : Web 2.0 and social media is here to stay. The Internet just decided to get gregarious. Companies just have to catch up, re-design networks and customize their security.
We really got into this quirky habit of manipulating proverbs — “Keep Your Friends Close; Keep your enemies even closer; Hell, don’t even think of letting go of everyone else” – is something we were thinking about. Please allow us to explain.
In times of uncertainty, with recession hitting on your face, business owners contemplating their next strategic move and companies wondering what the next year would bring in — the lack of strategy is like a big widening hole tempting you to take a peek beyond. If you do, then what do you see? Vast emptiness and the lack of one of the most fundamental backbone any organization needs — Collaboration.
We are firm believers in Change and we also fathom that if we don’t change, our bottom lines almost certainly would (it could plummet) . Collaboration is the genius of getting a couple of people do something much more remarkable than what one person could possibly do. While we will talk about the technology part in a while, we came across an intriguing blog post about Abraham Lincolns Capabilities to bring his political rivals to collaborate. On Cisco’s Blog Post, titled Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin details how Abe Lincoln could leverage the political will of his rivals and manage to wade through some of the darkest hours in American History.
In economic times like these, like we mentioned before, we have come to believe that some changes must happen: you don’t just compete — you collaborate. You don’t try to disparage your competitor’s products, but you would try to your core competencies together to create something even bigger.
Technology, of course, is at the forefront steering this change. See how collaboration is at work now — web services enable you to work on your study with someone located in another part of the world; web applications allow you to manage a virtual organization ( remember basecamp?); Internet has flattened the geographical confines; virtual meetings, telepresence and webinars enable you to broadcast to the rest of the world straight from wherever you are — technology is at the leading edge of applying collaboration now.
Abe Lincoln’s “collaborative Magic” was mentioned here because that is really the path that ought to be taken by businesses today to forge deeper, more meaningful and profitable ventures. Their strategy takes root and their application is visible through technology.
Cisco is really at the forefront trying to bring the latest of this collaborative edge to technology to even developing nations such as India (Taj Group, India’s leading business house, now has plans to introduce telepresence centers in India, in association with Cisco). In his Blog, Evan Rosen a.k.a “The Collaborative Guy” talks about the very thing we are discussing about in his post titled “Cisco, Tata and Taj Hotels Bringing Telepresence to Smaller Companies and the Public” .
It is now a reality; The dreaded commute to work is really a bane. There is no point in wasting energy, time, effort and adding to pollution and congestion on the roads by sauntering out to work — embrace virtual meetings, telepresence, wireless networks and telecommuting.
Such is the order of the day; pajamas are your best corporate wear, if you may.
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