27 July 2006
Firefox 1.5.0.5 - Upgrade
Wow! Another Firefox 1.5 upgrade to Firefox 1.5.0.5. This one fixes a whole list of security issues.
26 July 2006
Download Skype for Mac
Hooray! You can now download Skype for Mac with VIDEO!
If you have a USB video camera that came packaged with your headphones, you might have trouble geting it to work. MacCam is a driver that works not only with Skype, but comes with a component that you drop into your QuickTime library folder to get past the tricky issues of whether the camera is a Mac or Windows compatible USB video camera.
Download the latest release of MacCam. Just make sure you're ready for sharing that "look" with your Skype partners!
If you have a USB video camera that came packaged with your headphones, you might have trouble geting it to work. MacCam is a driver that works not only with Skype, but comes with a component that you drop into your QuickTime library folder to get past the tricky issues of whether the camera is a Mac or Windows compatible USB video camera.
Download the latest release of MacCam. Just make sure you're ready for sharing that "look" with your Skype partners!
19 July 2006
Lost your mobile phone?
Microtechnologies - a software company in Mumbai - has developed software to help you find your mobile phone. It's called "Lost Mobile Tracking Solution". For basically $8.00, you download this software into your mobile phone...not the SIM card. The moment someone inserts a new SIM card into your lost mobile, it sends you a text message or email.
Photo © Justin Lee
Now what?!
Ok, this is a GIANT service opportunity. With the millions of stolen phones now made visible through mapping, how do you get your phone back. Or, how can you swap it with someone else locally for theirs, now in your neighborhood?
Mark Edwards, CEO of mFormation, predicts that locking, erasing, and protecting smart phones will be a billion dollar business by 2010. (Thanks to International Herald Tribune 2 May 2006.) That's less than 3 and a half years from now.
Photo © Justin Lee
Now what?!
Ok, this is a GIANT service opportunity. With the millions of stolen phones now made visible through mapping, how do you get your phone back. Or, how can you swap it with someone else locally for theirs, now in your neighborhood?
Mark Edwards, CEO of mFormation, predicts that locking, erasing, and protecting smart phones will be a billion dollar business by 2010. (Thanks to International Herald Tribune 2 May 2006.) That's less than 3 and a half years from now.
4 July 2006
Social Responsibility
There is a movement for corporate social responsibility (CSR). There is a movement for socially responsible investment (SRI). Both of these movements have redefined and demonstrated how companies and individuals can generate value with more than just money.
As I posted last month, I have been working with my client - Economie - on Eco6, their conference about socially responsible value creation, which we need to get ready for in Zurich on the 9th and 10th of October this fall.
This has raised a lot of questions and dialogue about social responsibility. After all, this belief is driving the activities to our change behavior for value creation to something more than just greed for accumulating money and power and stuff. It asks us to explore what we believe in. It asks us to face the hard questions of how do we put this into practice and how do we continue to grow value. It also asks us to put our money where our beliefs are. This means investing in practices that support this way of generating value.
I am learning that this movement is unusual from other movements. It looks at the contradictions and practical issues of how to build socially responsible behavior into the financial practices of corporate development, value creation and investment. Brian Spence and Gwyn Jones are opening my eyes and shining the spotlight on how this works, and in different cultures as well.
There is legislation being put into place in many countries that will require a certain percentage of activities and investments meet specific criteria for socially responsible behavior. Did you know that SRI investments reach well over 3 trillion dollars globally?
In 2005, a thought leader study - (download) The Future of Socially Responsible Investment - assessed the financial trends and indicators for SRI over the next 10 years. They looked at the competitive landscape, the critics, the sustainability impacts, the consumer and products, the behaviors and practices like sustainability reporting (see Global Reporting Inititative GRI), rating systems and shareholder advocacy. This is no small movement. This is a global change in how we invest and how we create value.
I am more and more convinced that the virtuous value stream model of 4 levels of generative capital - human, social, creative, and transactional - need to build on one another for people to really perceive balance in value creation. This builds on our idea of socio-economic development.
I begin to see how this can unify many other efforts. If people can really see the value in these practices, companies and indiviuals will use them more and more until we evolve into a much more dynamic way of creating value for ourselves and our businesses.
As I posted last month, I have been working with my client - Economie - on Eco6, their conference about socially responsible value creation, which we need to get ready for in Zurich on the 9th and 10th of October this fall.
This has raised a lot of questions and dialogue about social responsibility. After all, this belief is driving the activities to our change behavior for value creation to something more than just greed for accumulating money and power and stuff. It asks us to explore what we believe in. It asks us to face the hard questions of how do we put this into practice and how do we continue to grow value. It also asks us to put our money where our beliefs are. This means investing in practices that support this way of generating value.
I am learning that this movement is unusual from other movements. It looks at the contradictions and practical issues of how to build socially responsible behavior into the financial practices of corporate development, value creation and investment. Brian Spence and Gwyn Jones are opening my eyes and shining the spotlight on how this works, and in different cultures as well.
There is legislation being put into place in many countries that will require a certain percentage of activities and investments meet specific criteria for socially responsible behavior. Did you know that SRI investments reach well over 3 trillion dollars globally?
In 2005, a thought leader study - (download) The Future of Socially Responsible Investment - assessed the financial trends and indicators for SRI over the next 10 years. They looked at the competitive landscape, the critics, the sustainability impacts, the consumer and products, the behaviors and practices like sustainability reporting (see Global Reporting Inititative GRI), rating systems and shareholder advocacy. This is no small movement. This is a global change in how we invest and how we create value.
I am more and more convinced that the virtuous value stream model of 4 levels of generative capital - human, social, creative, and transactional - need to build on one another for people to really perceive balance in value creation. This builds on our idea of socio-economic development.
I begin to see how this can unify many other efforts. If people can really see the value in these practices, companies and indiviuals will use them more and more until we evolve into a much more dynamic way of creating value for ourselves and our businesses.
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