Robert E. del Sol
Technologist, Social Era Analyst
Occupation: Technologist, Professional Cloud Services Provider
Location: San Diego, CA
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2013-05-29 15:42:11 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)
Water Powered Rocket Boots
Great shot by my good friend +Cliff Gonshery taken just as the flyer shoots out of the water at Harbor Island, San Diego.
This is something similar to a 'Flyboard' but don't know the exact brand... See 'Flyboard' info below.
The Flyboard lets you leap in and out of the water like a dolphin all while floating around in what appears to be a water-powered Iron Man suit. The Flyboard works in a very similar fashion as the water-powered jetpack: water is pumped from a large body of water through a small boat-like device that allows large blasts of water to propel the user into the air. Although the device looks like a pair of rocket boots, the Flyboard is actually more like a hoverboard that is attached to the users legs. In addition to the hoverboard-like device, extra nozzles are setup on the arms for extra control and awe... more »
2013-05-26 22:14:20 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)
What is it?
It is...
The art of science Princeton University's Art of Science Competition highlights images produced during the course of scientific research that have aesthetic merit as well. The competition is open to the entire Princeton community. This image, "East-West, West-East," won first prize in the 2013 competition. Here's what Martin Jucker (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) says about his winning image: "The winds around our globe are preferentially directed from west to east, or east to west, and much less so in the north-south directions. As a result, atmospheric phenomena can travel around the globe, exchanging information even from remote places of the Earth easily. We see in the picture surfaces of constant wind around Earth, averaged over time. Blue is east-to-west, red west-to-east directed wind."
Martin Jucker / Princeton... more »
2013-05-26 21:22:25 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)
Sail off Point Loma
Wonderful time with great friends made for the perfect day on the water.
2013-05-09 21:59:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
A bit of Bela for a Thursday afternoon in the West Coast..
2013-05-09 18:57:38 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)
Technology: Collaboration vs email trees
ht: +Phill Hocking & +Paul Simbeck-Hampson
The email tree is indeed a problem that refuses to die. This video defines the problem well but falls short on the solution, imo. There are several different solutions out there, but with Google Apps for Business email trees are truly a thing of the past. Group collaboration is on the document itself, in real time. The link below shows you how in detail.
Free Video Tutorial... http://goo.gl/umrDH
2013-05-09 17:01:57 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 16 +1s)
Ok, so this is the umpteenth time I've watched this video but in case you haven't, here is your chance...
http://www.code.org/
2013-05-04 16:31:43 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)
The Knowledge Cost
Knowledge has a value and a discovery cost, each to be counted and weighed. In order for the former to make sense the latter has to become 'democratized'. The social media revolution, not to mention search, has brought the discovery cost of knowledge down significantly. When knowledge is easy to discover we are partially defined by the way we use it to do something more with it. What we then become is not the result of what we know (that is now freely available to all) but how we use it to generate greater value.
2013-05-04 08:46:59 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
I haven't shared this circle in quite a while ... 136 Awesome Gentlemen
Here are guys who reside in my inner circle. Given that I have about 2,000 guys in my circles, this is special, but in now way diminishes any dudes I may have left out.
These are the men who interact with me regularly and nourish my soul.
Thanks guys!
2013-05-02 15:49:04 (7 comments, 4 reshares, 9 +1s)
The Social Era: Invest in People, not Companies!
As paradigm shifts go, social business is THE game changer that can right many of the business wrongs we've experienced in the past 30 years. Symbolically, Gordon Gekko (http://goo.gl/QlXr) may have simply laid the rotten egg (not so golden after-all) that spiraled a global economy down to its knees as a result. Social Business itself is a debated term (see +Gideon Rosenblatt excellent piece, http://goo.gl/Ue6nQ). Regardless of all the socio-political-fiscal-rhetoric when we invest in things (ie. a company) the ROI (Return On Investment) is dicey at best where only a very chosen few actually gain significant benefit. In contrast, history shows that when we invest in people, more benefit across the board. The notion of doing well by greed must be replaced with doing well by doing good. So, when will humans stop exploiting each-other and b... more »
2013-04-30 12:13:54 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Cost and Effect
Activity based management establishes relationships between overhead costs and activities so that overhead costs can be more precisely allocated to products, services, or customer segments. Using analysis that helps establish the value of specific activities it answers the seemingly simple question: "Is it worth it?".
To quantify the importance of the approach consider that Charles Babbage (the spiritual father of computing) looked at the mail system in place in Victorian England and wrote: "...dispatched nightly from Bristol,a mail pouch weighed less than one hundred pounds. To send these messages 120 miles, “a coach and apparatus, weighing above thirty hundred weight, are put in motion, and also conveyed over the same space." The seemingly exorbitant effort that was required in order to get a simple letter from point A to point B was dee... more »
2013-04-28 01:36:28 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)
Boat Cleaning day.
Finally got a chance to go and spend a few hours doing hard work.
2013-04-04 16:18:38 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)
Great evening with +Shaker Cherukuri and family!
After over a year of G+ collaboration and friendship this long awaited "hirl" finally happened at Felippi's Pizza Grotto in Little Italy, San Diego last night. Great food and conversation where I learned that Shaker and his wonderful wife and beautiful 2 children are the poster family for the meaning of the American Dream. Dinner was followed by a brisk tour of San Diego Bay, Downtown Gaslamp Quarter nightlife, then over the bridge to Coronado Island and a walk-trough the legendary Hotel Del Coronado - all done before midnight! It was a great time! Thanks Shaker for taking the time from your busy travel schedule for the swing to San Diego to make it finally happen. Cheers!!!
2013-04-03 16:46:05 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)
Google Plus PageRank - Executive Summary video...
If being found in Search matters to you, please take 9 minutes to watch this video by +Joshua Berg +Mark Traphagen and myself. It is a short summary of an info packed hour long HOA Discussion we had yesterday about Google Plus PageRank and the impact it has on Search.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and PageRank go hand in hand... follow along as we 'peel the onion' just a bit and help you get a better understanding on how PageRank and your work on Google Plus can make a real, measurable difference in the discoverability of you and your message online.
We even include some very actionable tips about optimizing GPC (Communities) on Google Plus.
After you see this 9 min. version, you can click on the annotation link in the video or here http://goo.gl/CxteM to watch the full version. This is a must se... more »
2013-03-31 22:59:01 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)
Happy Easter! - Quiet time this year with family and friends. Have plenty of ham leftovers!
2013-03-20 21:23:24 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)
Project Acceleration Services. Hi everyone, I wanted to announce a new service I am offering, and to ask for your help. I haven't made any secret of the fact that I am struggling in this economy, but I believe I have something of value to offer so maybe you could help me get the word out.
I have become fascinated with the process of business acceleration - simply making things go faster. This service combines my experience in program and project management with with modern team scheduling tools and brainstorming techniques to help people and businesses complete their projects more quickly. With the invaluable help and support from the VBT and others here, I have produced this one page summary of this service which is attached to this post.
Please let me know if you or any of your associates might need a service like this. I am totally open to collaborati... more »
2013-03-04 17:23:43 (33 comments, 16 reshares, 27 +1s)
9 Out Of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This Fact
Yes, one more short video you need to watch. This pretty much speaks for itself. At 1:05, I get a rude awakening. At 1:41, he starts talking about you. At 2:24, he says a "bad" word. At 3:50, he kind of breaks my brain. At 4:50, he lets you know how broke you really are. At 5:20, he rubs it in. And at 5:50, he points out that reality isn't close to what we think it is.
Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.
h/t Upworthy http://goo.gl/tU8cV
2013-02-28 18:57:45 (9 comments, 4 reshares, 13 +1s)
Perspective (from Latin perspicere, to see through) in the graphic arts, such as drawing, is an approximate representation, on a flat surface (such as paper), of an image as it is seen by the eye.
A preferential attachment process (as perspective) is any of a class of processes in which some quantity, typically some form of wealth or credit, is distributed among a number of individuals or objects according to how much they already have, so that those who are already wealthy receive more than those who are not. "Preferential attachment" is only the most recent of many names that have been given to such processes. They are also referred to under the names "Yule process", "cumulative advantage", "the rich get richer", and, less correctly, the "Matthew effect". It is related to Gibrat's law. The principal reason for scientific interest in ... more »
2013-02-13 21:22:50 (15 comments, 17 reshares, 9 +1s)
Awesome Folks #5
I don’t always share circles.... But when I do, they are Awesome Folks! These are recommended to grow your channel and circles and enhance your G+ experience. What makes Google+ special is finding new and interesting people, thoughts and perspectives that span the globe in interest and scope. Here they are... Why I love G+
2013-02-13 21:13:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Awesome Folks #4
I don’t always share circles.... But when I do, they are Awesome Folks! These are recommended to grow your channel and circles and enhance your G+ experience. What makes Google+ special is finding new and interesting people, thoughts and perspectives that span the globe in interest and scope. Here they are...
2013-02-13 21:12:48 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Awesome Folks #3
I don’t always share circles.... But when I do, they are Awesome Folks! These are recommended to grow your channel and circles and enhance your G+ experience. What makes Google+ special is finding new and interesting people, thoughts and perspectives that span the globe in interest and scope. Here they are...
2013-02-13 21:12:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Awesome Folks #2
I don’t always share circles.... But when I do, they are Awesome Folks! These are recommended to grow your channel and circles and enhance your G+ experience. What makes Google+ special is finding new and interesting people, thoughts and perspectives that span the globe in interest and scope. Here they are...
2013-02-13 21:10:39 (12 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)
Awesome Folks #1
I don’t always share circles.... But when I do, they are Awesome Folks! These are recommended to grow your channel and circles and enhance your G+ experience. What makes Google+ special is finding new and interesting people, thoughts and perspectives that span the globe in interest and scope. Here they are...
#sharedcircles #sharedpubliccircles #sharedcircleoftheday #sharedcircleday
2013-02-03 22:13:13 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)
Collective Intelligence
Smart Rooms Trump Smart People
My eclectic source of people that help make me "smart". It is a diversity of views and resources that cover everything from G+ and it's adaptation, to science, to philosophy, to management 2.0 and organizational theory, with some dabs of religion, politics and sex thrown in (just to keep it interesting!), and much other etcetera.
Many, if not most of these people are wickedly smart, well read, social, intellectually curious, and in general might be the sort of tribe you could and would seed a new civilization with, what I would call my Deserted Island people.
Warning
May cause cognitive dissonance, learning, expansion of mind, and other weird side affects.
2013-01-28 14:26:40 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
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2013-01-25 19:24:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
TMIIIPOGPIMHO! Shared Circle
The Most Interesting, Important, Interactive People On Google Plus, In My Honest Opinion!
#TMIIIPOGPIMHO! = My daily read circle!
#circleshare #sharedcircles #followfriday #ff #sharedcircle #plusketiers #sharedpubliccircles #cirkels #kreise
2013-01-25 18:03:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
Heilmeier’s Catechism
What are you trying to do? Articulate your objectives using absolutely
no jargon.
• How is it done today, and what are the limitations of current practice?
• What’s new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful?
• Who cares? If you’re successful, what difference will it make?
• What are the risks and the payoffs?
• How much will it cost? How long will it take?
• What are the midterm and final “exams” to check for success?
2013-01-23 18:16:45 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)
If you can do one important thing today, then watch this
2012-12-02 23:07:26 (7 comments, 20 reshares, 19 +1s)
Social and Economic Inequality
The real thing... A must view... Reminds me of a Beatles song "Everybody's got something to hide except me & my monkey..." http://goo.gl/Zva8A
2012-11-14 21:42:50 (7 comments, 6 reshares, 13 +1s)
Likely my last political comment for the season... After a steady diet and exposure to Republican ideology over the past few months, I've taken the liberty to offer a revised definition.
re·pub·li·can ( /riˈpəblikən/)
NOUN: An ethnocentric conservative segment of American society with a pathological sense of nationalistic entitlement adept at morphing reality through poli-thematic dilutions and self-serving contrivance veiled in narcissistic patriotism and religious righteousness, always at the ready to vilify, disparage and discredit (at any cost) a fact, idea or person who does not agree with their manufactured illusion.
Feel free to share...
2012-10-30 00:35:30 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)
nannette1094 @nannette1094 tweets:
This is a powerful video....before I even watched it, I thought to myself, For the love of Pete, God isn't even... http://fb.me/1FDxn4s9T
2012-10-15 19:57:57 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)
HOT TOPIC - Windows on a Chromebook / Chromebox?
Using Chromebooks for Business... If you've not tried this yet, please take a close look and tell us what you think!
CC: +Melissa Daniels +Chromebook Gurus +Chromebook Wizards +ChromebookHQ
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2012-10-07 21:17:38 (11 comments, 13 reshares, 20 +1s)
Social Era: The Prison Industrial Complex
#socialera
Listen, watch and laugh at how the Brits see us... But, it's no joke. If you take the time to read and watch from the links below you'll understand how much of our own lives get re-shaped by the very forces we empower and entrust with our freedoms. They do this right under our noses and we let them...
"Prison Industrial Complex" (PIC) is a term used to attribute the rapid expansion of the US inmate population to the political influence of private prison companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies. (http://goo.gl/npwyG)
As more and more prisons are "privatized" to corporations these private entities exploit prison labor as in the eyes of the corporation(s), inmate labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest to maximize profi... more »
2012-10-07 20:34:08 (9 comments, 5 reshares, 19 +1s)
Social Era: Only in America
Smart guy steals money from wealthy clients, gets caught and is unceremoniously tarred, feathered and dispatched to jail.
Same wealthy clients run banks and financial houses that manipulates a $600 trillion market by rigging the LIBOR rate for profit causing the largest global financial collapse of our time bilking millions of Americans out of their homes, life-savings and financial future No criminal charges, no trial, no jail time. And we quietly stand by...
HERE IS VIDEO COMMENTARY: http://goo.gl/8ciJo
2012-10-06 22:27:09 (459 comments, 678 reshares, 1915 +1s)
New Medicare Part G Program
In case you missed the announcement.
You're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you. So what do you do?
Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot four Politicians.
Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need!
Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That’s great. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They’re all covered.
As an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now.
And who will be paying for all of this? It’s the same government that just told you that you they cannot afford for you to go into a home.
And you can get rid of 4 ... more »
2012-09-22 14:06:59 (23 comments, 19 reshares, 17 +1s)
Social Era / Culture: The Rise Of The American Ignorati
#politics #culture #socialera #ignorati
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” -- Benjamin Franklin. Others say, “stupidity is a condition while ignorance is a choice.” If so, in 21st Century America, there is an epidemic of the condition and a mass stampede towards the choice. There’s even a new name for for it! Ignorati - not to be confused with its Italian literal translation meaning of “ignored”, ignorati is closer to a pop culture antithetic play on on the word “illuminati”.
īgnōrātī -- “a person or group that is willfully ignorant, or woefully uninformed and forces their ignorant views on others regardless of fact, in spite of evidence.”
In general, the ignorati are described as individuals who, despite their education, power, wealth, or influence, ... more »
2012-09-15 02:22:51 (1 comments, 6 reshares, 8 +1s)
Technology Fix: Brain-drain & the future of business in the USA
The global competitiveness environment has changed dramatically and the US keeps falling behind. Why? One reason is that both Americans and foreign innovators can apply for patent rights under U.S. law and as a result foreign entities outpace U.S. patent submissions and awards. U.S. entities receiving patent awards fell to 49.1 percent—its lowest share in nearly 50 years. (Source - http://goo.gl/lExwX ) American inovation and manufacturing has fallen behind the rest of the world and as a result pressures on jobs, wages and living standards will only grow accordingly for some time to come. What must we do to fix this?
2012-09-13 16:51:37 (14 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)
Politics & Culture: News for Monday, August 8, 2011
2012-09-12 05:59:22 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
Anticipatory Computing
...unlike other semantic efforts that analyze usage history, their approach is to look at the past 10 minutes and then anticipate what users might need in the next 10 seconds.
“We have a predictive model that changes second to second and surfaces relevant information without searching,” says Tuttle. He calls it “anticipatory” computing, and as far as I am concerned, “predictive” is the future direction of computing.
http://gigaom.com/2012/09/11/new-app-mindmeld-heralds-the-era-of-anticipatory-computing/
2012-09-12 05:42:37 (19 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)
This essay, written in 2001, is the primary basis of the singularity movement. A lot of people disagree with some of its premises... mostly about the timeline, and there's some talk about Kurzweil cherry picking his examples and ignoring counter examples.
I'm still on the fence, honestly.
but any essay with this quote, needs to be grokked.
"You will get $40 trillion just by reading this essay and understanding what it says. For complete details, see below. (It’s true that authors will do just about anything to keep your attention, but I’m serious about this statement. Until I return to a further explanation, however, do read the first sentence of this paragraph carefully.)"
2012-09-11 12:26:12 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 1 +1s)
10 Google+ circles marketers should follow according to +Mashable
Posted by +Natalia Cano:
+Mashable has recently published a list of 10 Google+ circles with insights about marketing, technology, digital branding, social media, and blogging. Adding key people or businesses to your circles and following the shared circles others have curated on Google+ can help you follow your interests and access relevant content that’s worth reading about.
2012-09-08 16:35:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Social Business Design
h/t +John Kellden
You must go play at ConversationLab
2012-09-05 19:29:35 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)
Social Era: The Social Economy
Some say social is dead; others say it's just beginning. According to a soon-to-be-published McKinsey Global Institute report, The Social Economy: Unleashing Value and Productivity Through Social Technologies, the value creation potential of social technologies within and across enterprises and the consumer landscape is largely untapped—with eye-popping possible gains. Where will it have the greatest economic value -- enterprise or consumer? What is its potential for making knowledge workers more productive? What will it take to get there?
2012-09-12 05:43:07 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)
Social Era: Employee Productivity
McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) finds that twice as much potential value lies in using social tools to enhance communications, knowledge sharing, and collaboration within and across enterprises.
h/t +Robyn Miller
via +Kevin Jones
Source: http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/mgi/research/technology_and_innovation/the_social_economy
2012-09-04 23:42:27 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)
Chromebook/Chromebox: Run Windows On Chromebooks - Here's How!
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2012-09-04 18:43:26 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)
"The S-curve mental model makes a compelling case for personal disruption. We may be quite adept at doing the math around our future when things are linear, but neither business nor life is linear, and ultimately what our brain needs, even requires, is the dopamine of the unpredictable. More importantly, as we inhabit an increasingly zig-zag world, the best curve you can throw the competition is your ability to leap from one learning curve to the next." by +Whitney Johnson
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