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Archives for September 6, 2012

The New Kindle Fire HD Family from Amazon Starting at $199

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Yes Sir, Amazon did indeed officially announce and make available (for pre-order) today the new, Amazon Kindle Fire HD. For sub $200 you’ll get this nice little 7″ unit, Dolby Audio, Dual Antenna (fast) WiFi, and 16GB or 32GB flavors – the 32 GB is $249. These are just 2 of the offerings in the new Kindle HD series.

Some of the noteworthy features:

  • 1280×800 HD display
  • Dolby audio and dual-driver stereo speakers
  • Dual-antenna WiFi (apparently 40% faster)
  • dual core 1.2 Ghz processor
  • front facing camera- think Skype calling
  • unlimited cloud storage for your Amazon content (think 22 million movies, audio book, e-books etc…)
  • access to Kindle owners lending library and more
  • X-Ray for books now extended to the Kindle Fire HD lineup – with X-Ray see all the passages across a book that mention ideas, fictional characters, historical figures, places or topics that interest them, as well as more detailed descriptions from Wikipedia and Shelfari

WOW! umm yah, I’m liking this…

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10 Must Consider GIS/Geo Tech Job Opportunities

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Yes indeed, even in this economy there’s been loads of activity in our career center at GISuser.com. Check out these recently listed opportunities and more… good luck!

  1. Project Manager – Integrity – New Century Software’s mission is to provide safer energy transportation through the application of GIS technology. Since 1994, the company has employed successful approaches to improve our client’s data management, including solutions based off of industry regulations. Located in Fort Collins, Colorado
  2. Support Analyst – Database – Do you have a unique combination of strong technical and customer service skills? Learn about the latest Esri technology in this consultative support role while providing timely, expert assistance to our customers by phone, e-mail, and chat. Join the team whose mission is to put into practice Esri’s long standing commitment of servicing and responding to our user community (Redlands, California)
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Opportunity – Get Some Open Data and Build a Mobile App! The Gone Fishing Example

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I’m loving this one from the Timmons Group as the company has announced details of a mobile app (iOS and Android) that they’ve developed for the Missouri Dept of Conservation. This is exactly the kind of opportunity that any developer can embrace and look at for a business opportunity! I’d have to think that just about every State and Province has massive amounts of data, imagery, and related information available to enable anyone to create a cool mobile hunting, fishing, birding, camping or similar mobile app. Sure you can hang out on business opportunity pages and wait for an RFP to show up soliciting requests from consultants to build an app for them or you can start digging up data and records for yourself and go and build one!

About the app… Using the Find MO Fish application, a user can view a map of Missouri populated with the locations of the major lakes, rivers and streams. Users can also use the application and generate fast and accurate driving directions to boat ramps across the State of Missouri.    See more details HERE

With increased demand for more civic engagement and more mobile from Government this is the perfect opportunity! Think about it…

HootSuite Grabs Seesmic as The Owls Add The San Fran StartUp to the Nest

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I follow a number of HootSuite “owls” on Twitter and I’m pretty sure I stumbled onto details of this minutes after the news broke last night as details are now emerging about Vancouver StartUp, HootSuite acquiring competitor Seesmic. HootSuite is the grand-daddy here with Seesmic having a much smaller user base, however, the pickup is still quite relevant to the social media user community, particularly is this will likely shrink the number of available options for users in selecting a social dashboard solution. I’m a long time user of both services, having been a user of Seesmic likely since it rolled out in Beta and have been a fan of founder Loic Le Muir since watching him in the popular LeWeb event each year since it rolled out.

Seesmic has terrific mobile mobile apps, I’m a huge fan of the Android and iOS builds and they were an early leader in that space in my mind. Much leaner than HootSuite in functionality, the app “just plain works” and is a perfect tool for any user, particularly the novice. The PC dashboard is feature rich although one now requires Pro functionality to make is useful at all, thus eliminating it as an option for anyone not willing to pay a monthly fee – that was a mistake in my mind. HootSuite, however, is robust, is growing fast, and has become THE social media dashboard of choice for the enterprise user – if you or your company need a solution to help manage your social marketing efforts HootSuite is hands-down the tool for you! HootSuite will continue to support Seesmic users, however they will be transitioned over time according to the company.

From HootSuite…

It is a logical step in the lifecycle of both companies, who have shared many similarities since they were founded four years ago. Seesmic is a cross-platform application that was founded in 2008 by super entrepreneur and blogger Loïc Le Meur. HootSuite’s acquisition of a major player is yet another milestone in the company’s recent hyper-growth. HootSuite focuses on the needs of power users, so Seesmic’s business and enterprise customers will further reinforce HootSuite’s position in the upper left quadrant of the Twitter Partner graph:

Twitter partner quadrant
Twitter’s recent changes to its API and the launch of the Twitter partner program means a more concerted effort in tools and services for business users- the upper left (Diagram source: Twitter)

See details on the HootSuite blog

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