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Keeping Google Keep (or using Evernote)

Posted on March 21, 2013 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

Google Keep Is No Evernote Replacement—Yet

Google, ever-more focused on being involved in every part of every one of our every moves, has released something new. Ignoring the issue of Google’s trustworthiness, or what happens when your stuff is in ‘The Cloud‘, Google Keep is . . . well, it might be a Keeper.

The idea behind Google Keep is simple. We all have ideas that strike us at all times of the day or night. Wouldn’t it be great if we had a way to get them into our computers, phone, or tablets immediately so we didn’t forget them and they were then available to use wherever we were, from all of our devices? Google Keep is brilliant! Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before? ... READ MORE of Keeping Google Keep (or using Evernote) at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (666 words, 1 image, estimated 2:40 mins reading time)

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Owning Your Cloud: What Does That Mean?

Posted on March 13, 2013 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

Influency is Owning Your Own Cloud

This week I was discussing a new tool called “OwnCloud” with a client and Answer Guy Central working partner. He’s one of the smartest people I know, and our conversation started with me telling him I had come across a way to get past the security worries that many people have when it comes to using services like Dropbox.

I’m pretty clear that I don’t really think there are security concerns in most cloud services. Sure, you have to trust the companies you do business with, and you need to have your own security rules in place. But Dropbox does a “good enough” job, and you can fill in the blanks when you need to. ... READ MORE of Owning Your Cloud: What Does That Mean? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (464 words, 1 image, estimated 1:51 mins reading time)

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Influency: When You Can’t Find Yourself, Who Can Find You?

Posted on January 17, 2013 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

All the tools in the world don’t matter, if you use them like toys.Having 50 GB OF FREE CLOUD STORAGE!!! isn’t meaningful unless you use it, any more than having more pixels on a screen than you can see.

I’ve just come across Otixo. It’s a great solution to a growing problem; we have “stuff” scattered all across the Internet in various “cloud” locations, but as soon as you use more than one you create questions about what got stored where. And good luck moving things from one place to another.

Otixo Cloud Computing and Easier Storage Management ... READ MORE of Influency: When You Can’t Find Yourself, Who Can Find You? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (521 words, 1 image, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Influency

Nothing is Free—Except Maybe Google (But Not Really)

Posted on December 11, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

Google. Monopolies. Free Service Gone Paid, Business Change

Nothing is Free. Nothing. Is. Free. NOTHING IS EVER FREE.

You knew that, right?

I’ve been sharing my ideas about business change with you for years, and one of the themes that’s recurred over and over is that Google—even if somewhere deep in their bowels they still believe in their old corporate ‘Don’t Be Evil‘ credo—has become and will continue to become more and more evil.

Of course, business is business; ‘evil’ no more belongs in a business lexicon than ‘justice’ belongs in a discussion about law. ... READ MORE of Nothing is Free—Except Maybe Google (But Not Really) at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (489 words, 1 image, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

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Underwater Internet Hosting

Posted on November 1, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 3 Comments

Computers, Storms, and Other Disasters

In the Face of Disaster, your business needs a disaster recovery plan. Do You Have One?

Being in New York City, I’ve had Storms and Disasters on my mind all week. I’m lucky; I’m in the part of New York City that this piece calls “The Third New York”—and honestly, there’s a fourth New York; just ask the residents of Staten Island, who don’t even have the luxury of walking a couple of miles North to get temporary relief. ... READ MORE of Underwater Internet Hosting at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (477 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

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Google Chromebook: Computer, Phone, or Toy?

Posted on October 25, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 7 Comments

The Exynos 5 Powers The Google Chromebook. SuperChip, or Mistake?

Little computer. Small, but in no way “little” chip running it. Look! Up in the sky! It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s . . .

Google wants you to think the Samsung Exynos 5-powered Google Chromebook is “Ready When You Are“. The question is: ready for what?

A couple of years back, I started carrying a Netbook-style portable computer. I paid all of $250 for it. Aside from when my little purple Acer Netbook died, it’s served me well; a full day’s battery, and it runs Microsoft Windows, albeit slowly (and Ubuntu, faster, although less capably). ... READ MORE of Google Chromebook: Computer, Phone, or Toy? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (1118 words, 1 image, estimated 4:28 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Development, Marketing, Media

Apple iCloud Equals Continued Upsell. This is Easy Computing?

Posted on October 12, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 2 Comments

Apple iCloud is a Data Hog

Once upon a time, computer users were either Mac People or PC People. You might think that’s still true, but “back in the day” the debate was contentious and continuous. PC users didn’t so much love Windows as they were used to it, and Mac users were firmly and staunchly pro-Apple for reasons that didn’t hold water, but before we had high-speed Internet differences in things like floppy drive capacity rendered the two platforms all but incompatible. You had to pick a side. ... READ MORE of Apple iCloud Equals Continued Upsell. This is Easy Computing? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (687 words, 1 image, estimated 2:45 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Marketing

DNS: A Company You Don’t Know Can Bring Down Your Web Site

Posted on September 12, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 6 Comments

GoDaddy? Try NoDaddy.

What do you do when all of a sudden, your web site disappears? After you stop hyperventilating, you pick up the phone and start screaming at everyone you know who had anything to do with it. The designer. The code team. The company that ”hosts” your site. Your plumber. OK, maybe not your plumber. But you might as well call him, because he knows as much about your web site as the culprit that brought down millions of web sites a couple of days ago. ... READ MORE of DNS: A Company You Don’t Know Can Bring Down Your Web Site at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (595 words, 1 image, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Customer Service

Censorship and Microsoft SkyDrive

Posted on August 20, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 11 Comments

This young lady is sitting on her back in my Microsoft SkyDrive Account. As you’ve probably guessed, she’s wearing nothing.

And if you can find the full version of her picture (taken this morning from the front page of sex.com), you’ll see a lot more of her. In fact, “what-is-pornography” debates notwithstanding, I’m pretty sure that the image I’ve buried in SkyDrive would be viewed in most places, by most people, as “obscene” (butt-covering disclaimer: others would see it as “art”). ... READ MORE of Censorship and Microsoft SkyDrive at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (645 words, 1 image, estimated 2:35 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content, Media

The Storage Wars and Google Drive

Posted on April 26, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 18 Comments

Yesterday I promised to tell you everything you need to know about Google Drive. GDrive is a subject that been tossed around literally for years; we all knew Google Drive would show up eventually, and if “storing your stuff on line” was the only thing that interested you, it’s possible that you figured out how to create a virtual “Google Drive” years ago by putting your files into GMail. ... READ MORE of The Storage Wars and Google Drive at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (1292 words, 5 images, estimated 5:10 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Development, Media

AT&T Pushes The Biggest Business Change in Wireless History

Posted on February 28, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

Thank you, AT&T, for saving us from the spectre of huge data costs when we go over the limit on our SmartPhone plans, and for instituting a business change that both makes sense and will be fair to everyone.

OK, strike most of that. AT&T has a new idea for wireless data pricing that, while absolutely qualifying both as business change and a business change plan that makes sense in its way, isn’t really going to benefit anyone except AT&T, and other really large companies.

Here we go again. ... READ MORE of AT&T Pushes The Biggest Business Change in Wireless History at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (856 words, 1 image, estimated 3:25 mins reading time)

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Perception, Reality, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Posted on August 22, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 7 Comments

Comedy comes from pain. Art, too. Sure, some people are so creative that amazing stuff just pours out of them, but just as  creativity springs from need, pain is the largest precursor to artistic expression.

So what alternate reality creates Service Level Agreements?

I came across this post at GigaOM, and something I’ve been telling clients for many years sprung to mind immediately: Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are Nonsense.

I even commented there, using my two personal favorite examples of the ludicrousness of SLAs and other numeric-based service guarantees. Pure and simple: you cannot adequately define customer expectations or the customer service contract by attaching numbers to them. ... READ MORE of Perception, Reality, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (628 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Customer Service, Media

Music, Clouds, Spots, and Messed-Up Computers

Posted on July 25, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 3 Comments

Last week, the most anticipated launch of a cloud music service finally happened here in the USA. Spotify, available for years in much of the rest of the world, finally got their licensing and server acts together and turned on their “listen to almost anything for free even if you don’t own it” music service.

And with that breathless couple of compound sentences, I haven’t even begun to tell the story.

“The Cloud” matters. I’ve told you this several times, and while music streaming might not seem all that important to you, it’s enormously popular and both a great test of cloud service capabilities and people’s adoption of new ideas. The Cloud is business change. ... READ MORE of Music, Clouds, Spots, and Messed-Up Computers at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (755 words, 1 image, estimated 3:01 mins reading time)

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The Cloud: Important. Cloud Services: Still Stealing

Posted on July 7, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

The Cloud.jpg

You’re in the cloud, right?

Well, of course you are. Even if you don’t think or talk about it using platitudes, there’s some application you use that works on The Internet instead of on your own computer or network. I’ve mentioned before that you need to start taking this “cloud” thing seriously.

When I wrote that piece on taking The Cloud seriously, I pointed out that I had set up my son with an Ubuntu installation that utilized exactly two pieces of software that didn’t come as part of his new operating system. One is Evernote, for taking notes easily, and the other is Dropbox, which gives you access to all of your important files from any computer. ... READ MORE of The Cloud: Important. Cloud Services: Still Stealing at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (529 words, 1 image, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content, Media

50 Gigabytes Later, The Music Wars Begin (iTunes Must Die)

Posted on June 6, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 25 Comments

iTunes has a problem.

Amazon and Google, probably the only two companies with enough business savvy and money to challenge Apple’s music-selling monstrosity, are in. For real. And while (in spite of cute tricks like their Lady Gaga 99 cent album debacle) it’s not clear whether Amazon will get their act together, Google Music is going to be huge.

Huge, by the way, might be the operative word. Verizon may not like me this month, as I uploaded my entire 7,000 song music collection to Google Music over the weekend—50 Gigabtyes of data sent, and 50 Gigabytes of data received over 26 hours of music upload at high speed. Yowza. ... READ MORE of 50 Gigabytes Later, The Music Wars Begin (iTunes Must Die) at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (1103 words, 2 images, estimated 4:25 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Business Change, Content




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