Marc, Kelly, and I are at MacWorld in San Francisco and we are having a pretty good time checking out the exhibits as well as the new things coming out of this event. The only thing for me that was extra cool was I met Sinbad and he asked me if we do websites and so I gave him my card, I will also post the picture I took with him as well. I will blog more about this later so stay tuned.
A few weeks ago I was at a business development meeting at the Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce and during that meeting I quickly notice that many of the business people there when talking about technology lumped hardware and software together without very much distinction. Thus, my main problem when talking to business owner is this constant loop of reeducation of what we do. Kelly and I talk about this and I will use the analogy of breaking a bone and going to the dentist to get it fixed. We both know that does not make sense, however people still believe the same guy who writes code also knows how to fix a server. Not saying that he does not know how to, but there is an assumption that all technology folks are the same.
We just took our Christmas photos for our friends and family and it turned out great. I thought the park setting may not work, however with the right lighting it came out perfect.
Srey, Paul, and Me
Sometimes I wonder about things and ask myself, why is this not easier? Sometimes when I am surfing the internet looking for a phone number. I find it, then I have to dial it on a phone or in Skype. Which is one extra step I don’t want to have to do. I just discovered that there is a callto:// URL where one can specify a phone number in HTML. I figured there had to be some easy way to tag phone numbers so that they can be a clickable link. Everyone should do this to allow for easier connection via web to phone. Yet getting everyone to adopt a new idea generally takes time.
So, considering every web master in the world is not going to jump up and edit all of those pages with phone numbers. It would seem possible that maybe a grease monkey script would be able to recognize phone numbers and turn them into callto: links. Well someone has all ready created this. Callto Linkify (for Skype)
Gotta love the internet. Thanks to Aaron Boodman (you have saved me soo much time!) for Grease Monkey and Boris Yim for this handy Skype-ification!
I sat down today with a day care center that had a specific need to process a child from check in to check out, but it had to do hourly totals with diapers etc etc. I have to stop here because I thought of the title by Marc, “The world is flat and it spins damn fast” I realize that the world is as fast as a person can process information, however it must fulfill a need in their life for instance like paying bills, buying stuff, and of course the all mighty email.