Bytemarks

This week has been one of those crazy weeks with something happening almost every day, tweetup with @sukhjit, another in-studio dry run for Bytemarks Care, Manoa Geeks, North shore twitter lesson and a Hawaii Public Radio year-end dinner. It’s times like these that make the short form posts more appealing. For example, posting a tweet [...]

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There was quite a monumental change in policy at work this week worth noting. After years of being banned, the corporate powers that be, opened up the company Internet to sites like Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, Bebo, Google video and my favorite Twitter. This seachange in corporate policy is quite refreshing and an indication that upper [...]

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Monitoring the tweet flow on Sunday morning I started to see postings about the Phoenix Mars Mission live webcast on NASA.TV. They were going to show the live play by play of the landing of the Phoenix payload on the Martian surface. At the time of separation and landing most of the video action was [...]

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Last week’s Hawaii Broadband Task Force meeting was held in the swank 30th floor dining room of First Hawaiian Bank. They also provided an excellent Internet connection as compared to what I have been used to at the State Capitol. Unfortunately I did not get any shots of the view and the shades were down [...]

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Probably one of the more intelligent things I have done is to maintain the Bytemarks lunch gatherings downtown. It’s a monthly lunch with no agenda and no expectation on who will show up. It wasn’t rocket science either, just consistency, sortof. Usually it is the last week of the month on either Wed, Thurs or [...]

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January 25, 2008, was my last day of employment at Hawaiian Telcom. But it was yesterday that almost 50 management people were processed and removed from the premises. I will admit it was a very strange day. When I arrived in the morning we had heard that our boss was already let go the evening [...]

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Wow, now that the Unconferenz has come and gone I have to admit IMHO it was quite an enjoyable experience. The fun part of leaving things to chance is to find that balance between chaos and serendipity. It’s a challenge at times but when it comes together as it did at the Unconferenz it is [...]

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It’s just a couple more days before the inaugural Unconferenz kicks off. I can go into a description of the event but I thought Erika Engle’s article in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin did a swell job. Be sure to stay tune as the event unfolds. I am sure there will be several Ustream feeds covering the [...]

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Lunch 2.0 at the Chipin offices at the Manoa Innovation Center. This lunch style meetup that started in Silicon Valley has migrated across the Pacific to the MIC. In this first lunch (for Hawaii at least) Chipin demo’s their new widget maker called Sprout. We are under a friendly NDA but I was given permission [...]

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The final task force meeting for 2007 was held on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007. Brent Legg from Connected Nation was invited to do a presentation on the work they did to map and summarize the broadband connectivity in states like Kentucky and Tennessee. Brett presented an overview of their services in a presentation to the [...]

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