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Here’s the 4 blogs you might find useful:

Connectivity concerns for Netbook applications

http://appdeveloper.intel.com/en-us/blog/2009/09/16/connectivity-concerns-netbook-applications

Developing for power and performance on a Netbook

http://appdeveloper.intel.com/en-us/blog/2009/09/16/developing-power-and-performance-netbook

Adapting your application to Netbook hardware

http://appdeveloper.intel.com/en-us/blog/2009/09/16/adapting-your-application-netbook-hardware

Creating a Netbook UI for your application

http://appdeveloper.intel.com/en-us/blog/2009/09/14/creating-netbook-ui-your-application

Years ago I worked on a product called InfoCentral.  It was a wonderful database that gave as much power to the connections as the objects the connections were between.  You could manage your connections, including possibly multiple connections of different types between objects.  It gave you the ability to realistically map life’s complex realities into a software metaphor.  I really enjoyed that program and have been unable to find anything even close to its power in the years since.  Hopefully something like that can evolve from the successful roots of Facebook.

Currently there’s a way to avoid seeing news from specific people posted to your main page, but even that nice start needs to be improved.  Here are a couple of suggestions that would really help in connection management.

1.      Be able to prioritize, perhaps with as few as 3 levels you could group people into for news you would rather see first… priority level A, B and C.

2.      Be able to block anything having to do with, showing or related to specific individuals (without them knowing)

3.      Be able to “drop” someone from your relationships and yet have them continue to think its still there.  A stealth mode.  Someone you don’t want to offend but perhaps this relative posts updates a little too frequently for your tastes.

Small changes add up to big differences in what you see and experience when using social networking software.

12/3 | 4PM | 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science

UPCRC Illinois Research Seminar: A Structured, Unified Approach to Multi-Core and Many-Core Computing - with Applications by Michael McCool, Intel & U of Waterloo

Out Of Band KVM is no triviality. Imagine your PC user calls you with a connectivity problem: You can ask her questions about the system... or you can use Intel KVM to control her system, seeing her screen and controlling her mouse -- discovering that the network driver isn't installed is a breeze, and fixing it is as simple as inserting the installation disc in your own machine and executing it through IDER (previous Intel AMT features are, of course, available concomitantly).

Intel KVM will show you the entire remote desktop in any case, even in a BSoD, or with a missing hard-disk or CPU.  As much as this is exciting, this sounds scary: what if users want some privacy?
Well, all and any KVM connection starts with a secure graphic output containing a secure password, and this password is required in order to make the connection. This means that there is no Intel KVM session unless the computer user is now in front of the screen and willing to give control. The remote session is indicated to the user, and he has also full control to halt the session at once at the press of a mouse. Reviewed by an internal privacy review board, the technology is planned to be friendly to IT Managers and users alike.

This new feature will be available in some of the 2010 platforms, and is an incredibly useful addition to the other manageability (and remote desktop or KVM) solutions IT shops already have in their toolbox.
In a recent demonstration I performed for local IT Managers, the reception was overwhelming! Instead of performing this full demo on the web, I'll let you with this teaser.

We'll be soon posting on this blogs new information about this technology (with videos!). Stay tuned, it is going to be an exciting topic!

One of the demos I saw, which really made an impression on me, was an app that used twitter to make phone call with some text to speech tech, and then allowed the person who answered to say/record something that was then posted back to twitter as an audio file.
During the demo, Travis Spencer (his blog post here), had his app call his cell phone, he left a message, and then played it back to the audience when it showed up on twitter (here).

Aside from the fact that it all just worked (and we all know how demos can go wrong), this was cool to me because of the connection between social media, the twillio APIs and the *mobile device*.

Smart people are spending time making the web - the social web - do really cool things with our devices.
Exposing capabilities of the device to web developers will help that kind of innovation flourish.

It starts here and now on the blog and this evening face to face when I attend this month’s PDX Web Innovators Demolicious event.
Props to TIE Oregon for hosting a “Cloud Computing” event last month that turned me on to PDX web innovators in the first place.

Okay, “web apps” a big subject area, so let’s narrow it down a little.

I’m very interested [read: my day job] in finding ways to provide web developers with *web browser access* to the kinds of cutting edge capabilities that exist on modern, web connected devices like netbooks, smart phones, mobile internet and gaming devices.

Almost all of our devices connect to different types of networks – cell networks, wifi networks, bluetooth device networks. We frequently use GPS / location awareness to find things. We share our lives with cameras on our phones and laptops! More and more devices are including 3d acceleration and support user input from accelerometers.

OK, deep breath. The point is that these kinds of capabilities are not simply available to web developers through the browser. The key word there was “simply”. Some software teams could certainly write a whole software stack with native plugins and all – but that’s a pretty high bar for many projects.

So, my sense is that better access to device capabilities, done in a way that caters to web developers (i.e. javascript and html embedding) would be great for web developers.

What do you think?
Is there a particular device capability that you could have made use of in your web app?
Are you trying to figure out how to access some capability in a project currently under development?

In my next post I’ll share some technology and thoughts about bite sized APIs, widgets and mashup demos that expose more platform goodness to the web developer. Just as important, I'll be asking for your thoughts.

We have talked about this IT game in previous posts (here and here), but much of the renewed interest on the game comes from its newest feature: Crisis!
"...the management suddenly slashes your department’s budget. Your mission is to make the business case for upgrades..."
Nothing like a game that accompanies and simulates reality :)

you play the IT manager of a small company with global ambitions. Part of your job is ensuring that everybody’s desktop PCs, laptops and servers keep running smoothly, and the skills your characters acquire during gameplay include knowledge on virtualization, manageability and security. In case you didn't sign for the game yet, go to IT Manager 3: Unseen Forces and start having fun while you learn.

Here is the game trailer:
IT Manager 3: Unseen Forces on Intel's YouTube channel

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