Setlist: The Police 11/17

So I thought I had already posted this, but I didn’t. Was a good show, it was the Police in the round. The only thing I did realize is that [tag]Sting[/tag] or perhaps [tag]the Police[/tag] specifically have great deal of lyrics which are NOT words. Regardless a good show and one I never thought I would see.

Setlist the Police Atlanta, November 17, 2007 – Phillips Arena:

Message in a Bottle
Synchronicity II
Walking On The Moon
Voices Inside My Head
When The World Is Running Down – (Beer and bathroom run)

[tag]Don’t Stand So Close To Me[/tag] (The two couples next to use left after?!?!!?)

Driven To Tears
Truth Hits Everybody
Hole In My Life
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Wrapped Around Your Finger
De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
Invisible Sun
Walking In Your Footsteps (Probably the surprise rock song of the night)
Can’t Stand Losing You
[tag]Roxanne[/tag]
[tag]King Of Pain[/tag]
So Lonely
[tag]Every Breath You Take[/tag]
Next To You

The did have a brief break, but I wouldn’t say they had an “Encore”.  There were no telltale signs of lighters or the “open cell phone” phenomena which happens at “over 40” shows to encourage the band to come back.  Also, apparently folks think their phones take good pictures from 35 yards in the dark with lighting effects.

Relevant Quips: Technology Product Management

So I challenged myself to come up with a new slide theme and I unreasonably constrained myself to the “RQ” which I had already created as a category for my [tag]slideshare[/tag] quote [tag]project[/tag].

I just get a little nervous when I convert a category to a tag in [tag]wordpress[/tag].

Kindle: Jobs v. Bezo’s

Reading is still one of the most popular pastimes and [tag]Kindle[/tag] could bridge technology across generations. [tag]Jeff Bezos[/tag] and [tag]Amazon[/tag] are attempting to do for books with a new product, Kindle, what Steve Jobs and Apple has done for music with the [tag]ipod[/tag]. Could be a the next widget for all of us, I know I don’t like carrying books in my briefcase.

I saw an interview the other day with Bezos in which he equated a book to a type of technology, so is this just a upgrade? This [tag]YouTube[/tag] video provides an overview of Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device

The Blue Cloud – A Sign of the times…

IBM’s announcement of the Blue Cloud is another step in delivering on demand capabilities around infrastructure, not unlike Amazon’s AWS or Google’s applications.  This change in service delivery and managing a highly available infrastructure will radically change what was typically referred to as outsourcing in the data center space to be a new thing – [tag]service-sourcing[/tag].

Do you care where the computing, storage and integration services come from?  Probably not, you only care that it is available and scalable.   The combined capabilities of hardware, software, services and monitoring from IBM may ultimately represent a tipping point in IT delivery and Management.  A cloud deployment of shared services may deliver a new capability for B2B akin to social networking.

Think about it.  You consume the same platform as your customers, suppliers, channel partners and other key business partners represents instant interoperability.  With the leadership of key cloud providers soon de facto standards will emerge akin to OpenID for B2B.

The cloud platform will soon become platforms for development and provide an ecosystem for mashups and add-on apps similar to [tag]facebook[/tag] applications – in fact they could BE facebook apps.  Marketing campaigns will be able to quickly deployed via video, products will become mini and micro payments have the opportunity to level the playing field in the ISV landscape.  Under this new paradigm all you need is a compliant cloud app which drives value and scales on demand.

It appears we are quickly approaching a model equal to social media for businesses, are you ready for social integration?