Google Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information — from videos to presentations — and share your site with just a few people, your entire organization, or the world.

Google acquired JotSpot a wiki company along time ago and we almost forgot about it.  Now Google finally shows why it bought the company many moons ago.

Watch for tomorrow’s Freaky Friday Link Love and I will show you other tools that do the same thing as Google Sites.  They are not the first to offer an online collaboration but will they gain momentum or just be the headline of the day?  We will have to watch and see.  In the meantime watch this video to see what Google Sites has to offer.

Google Sites

Just had to share this press release about Starbucks and AT&T working together to provide Wi-Fi at Starbucks locations.  This boast to be a good thing for AT&T DSL users, such as myself. I look forward to taking my laptop into a Starbucks and connecting, for free, as part as my DSL package at home.

Press Release:

SEATTLE and SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 11, 2008
MORE THAN 12 MILLION AT&T, STARBUCKS CUSTOMERS TO GET FREE WI-FI ACCESS FOR A RICH IN-STORE EXPERIENCE

New Offering Includes Two Hours of Free Wi-Fi Service  Per Day for Starbucks Card Holders Beginning this Spring 

All 100,000 U.S.-Based Starbucks Partners to Receive Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks Stores

SEATTLE and SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 11, 2008 — AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) today announced plans to deliver AT&T Wi-FiSM service at more than 7,000 company-operated Starbucks locations across the United States. The initiative brings together two of the most recognizable global brands to create a powerful and convenient online experience for consumers and business customers. Starbucks and AT&T will offer a mix of free and paid Wi-Fi offerings at Starbucks stores to meet the needs of both frequent and occasional Starbucks Wi-Fi customers.
The initiative further expands the AT&T Wi-Fi network, already the largest in the United States, to more than 17,000 U.S. hot spots and more than 70,000 globally.
Beginning this spring, Starbucks Card holders can enjoy up to two hours of free Wi-Fi service per day at Starbucks locations offering Wi-Fi access, while more than 12 million qualifying AT&T broadband and AT&T U-verseSM Internet customers will have unlimited free access to the Wi-Fi service. In addition, more than 5 million of AT&T’s remote access services business customers will be able to access Wi-Fi service at Starbucks locations. AT&T will soon extend the benefits of Wi-Fi at Starbucks to its wireless customers.   

“People want to stay connected to their world 24/7, and Wi-Fi hot spots, broadband and wireless make that mobility possible,” said Rick Welday, AT&T chief marketing officer, Consumer. “Laptops and smartphones give us the online mobility we crave, and now millions of AT&T and Starbucks customers will get Internet access free from the comfort of their neighborhood Starbucks.”

“This is what our customers have been waiting for — free Starbucks-quality Wi-Fi,” said Chris Bruzzo, chief technology officer, Starbucks Coffee Company. “Through our new partnership with AT&T, we also welcome their millions of current customers who can now come in and enjoy free Wi-Fi as part of their daily Starbucks Experience.”

As an added benefit for the more than 100,000 Starbucks partners in the U.S., all Starbucks partners will receive free AT&T Wi-Fi accounts allowing them to use the network in Starbucks company-operated locations offering Wi-Fi access.

“Our new relationship with AT&T gives us the opportunity to expand and enhance the range of digital entertainment experiences for our customers as well as our partners, including the continued rollout of the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks,” said Ken Lombard, president, Starbucks Entertainment.

In addition to the free Wi-Fi access for qualifying AT&T customers and any Starbucks Card holder, customers will be able to purchase tiered access to the AT&T Wi-Fi network at Starbucks at attractive price points. For a two-hour period, customers will pay just $3.99 per session. Monthly membership will also be available for $19.99 per month, and will include access to any of AT&T’s 70,000 hot spots in 89 countries around the world.

AT&T business customers who subscribe to remote access services can also enjoy unlimited, flat-rate access plans at any Starbucks location offering Wi-Fi service or at other AT&T Wi-Fi hot spots.

Additionally, AT&T is providing Starbucks an enterprise-class network with increased bandwidth and redundancy. AT&T’s underlying network technologies will enable 
a wide range of business applications and help Starbucks stores operate more efficiently.

“Delivering networking capabilities to help a world-class company such as Starbucks achieve greater business velocity is what we do,” said Welday. “Our work with Starbucks is collaborative innovation at its finest.”

The availability of AT&T Wi-Fi service at Starbucks will take place on a market-by-market basis with store implementation beginning this spring and completed by the end of the year.

Note: This AT&T news release and other announcements are available as part of an RSS feed at www.att.com/rss.

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About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world’s most advanced IP-based business communications services and the nation’s leading wireless, high speed Internet access and voice services. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as communications equipment. As part of its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com.

© 2008 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other AT&T marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. For more information and detailed disclaimer information, please review this announcement in the AT&T newsroom at http://www.att.com/newsroom.

About Starbucks
Starbucks Coffee Company provides an uplifting experience that enriches people’s lives one moment, one human being, one extraordinary cup of coffee at a time.  To share in the experience, visit www.starbucks.com.

All the hype in the news in recent months was Bill Gates was going to be taking on Slash of Guns N’ Roses to a Guitar Hero battle.  Well here it is CES time and there was a duel and this video proves it.  Rock on Bill, Rock on…

Who is this Kelly "Tipperqueen" Law-Yone?

She is a 20 year old college student studying game designing at the University of Texas at Dallas.  In her spare time she jams to guitar hero.  When not playing guitar hero she is in front of a keyboard composing music and rocking out on her real electric guitar.

Accomplishments

* Meeting Kov (lol)
* 1st place at UTD Intramural GH2 Tournament - June 2007
* 1st place at Waterview Park Apartments GH2, Hard difficulty,
  winter of 2006
* 3rd place overall in Midnight Gaming Championship Qualifier
* Tournaments for GH1, winter 2006
* 2nd place co op at Frets on Ice Tournament of January 2007
* GH2 5 starring Jordan (haha).

This post is dedicated to my Father-in-law Loren.  Recently he took on a new job that requires him to use a computer with it email.  I sent him an email and he was having a hard time replying back.  I told him how to just hit reply and type me a message in the blank area and then hit send.  Here are 5 must know’s for newbie’s.

1. How to compose an email: All programs have a few things in common.

• To:  This is where you put the email addresses you want to send to.  Email address have an @ sign in it for example hiphop@pattywack.com.
•  Subject:  A subject line is where you put a brief explanation of what is to follow.  One of my favorite post on this subject is Do Your Emails Suck- How to Write Emails That Get Results.
• Body: This is the larger blank area you compose your email or information you want to say to the person your sending the email to.

2. How to send an attachment: Their are times when you need to send a file to someone.  Most email programs have a way to attach a file.  A paper clip is normally associated to attaching a file or it will say attach a file.  Once you click on Attach a file you will be asked to browse to the file you want to attach.

3. How to reply to an email: The easiest way to reply to an email is to click on reply this will populate the To field with the persons address that originally sent you the email.  You can always add more addresses in the To field if you choose.

4. What links are and what they look like in emails:  Links or hyperlinks are electronic pointers that help a computer jump from one website to another by simply clicking a link.  These are generally blue and underlined.  Sometimes they are red and underlined.  Blue means you have not visited the link and reds mean you have clicked on it before.

5. What to do with attachments: Just as you can send an attachment/file you can receive them.  These are files with information the person sending you the email would like to share with you.  They can be Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or pictures like JPEG.  There are endless number of file attachment possibilities, click here for a great resource of file extensions.

The same paper clip used in sending attachments can show what attachments are in an email.  You can click on the attachment name and either open it or download it to your computer.  You can then open it and view what the person has sent you.  Word of caution, if you do not know the person  sending you the email and attachment DO NOT open it.  Attachments can carry viruses that may be harmful to your computer.

Subscribe to my RSS Feed (What is an RSS Feed) to keep an eye out for other post for new computer users.

How to interact with a blog is a great resource for those that maybe new to blogging.

It amazes me how much Telnet is still used these days.  I personally have not used it a lot.  The corporation I work for uses it a lot to remote into routers and switches.

Wikipedia says

TELNET (TELecommunication NETwork) is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area network (LAN) connections. It was developed in 1969 beginning with RFC 15 and standardized as IETF STD 8, one of the first Internet standards.

If your an IT person and have not had the pleasures of using Telnet.  I recommend that you get some training so that you can be competitive in the industry.  With the new year upon us I think that should be a goal of mine.  Get back into telnet commands to have a competitive edge in this over crowded industry called information technology.

What about you, do you have a need for Telnet? 

HAPPY NEW YEAR

May 2008 be your break out year.

Instead of talking about new years resolutions and what we are or are not going to do in 2008.  I thought I would take a minute and wish something a very Happy Birthday.

January 1, 1983 is the official birthday of TCP/IP according to Google’s TCP/IP Logo.

TCP

is a “protocol” built on top of IP (every TCP/IP packet has an IP portion). TCP’s entire job is ensuring that the connection occurs in an organized matter. To understand TCP’s purpose, let’s reconsider the package analogy. Say you have to send a script over the “normal” snail mail, and for whatever reason you have to send it in 2 separate packages. This occurs in TCP/IP all the time. So, it’s up to the receiver to arrange the individual packages into one whole package. TCP/IP connections have been handled with TCP/IP handshakes since January 1, 1983.

TCP - is responsible for verifying the correct delivery of data from client to server.
IP - is responsible for moving packet of data from node to node.

Layers on top of TCP/IP are:

HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (for requesting webpages)
FTP: File Transfer Protocol (for uploading files to websites)
SMTP and POP3: For sending (SMTP) and receiving (POP3) e-mail
IRC: For chatting online

HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY TCP/IP!!

Looking through my Entrecard dashboard and found this video on JoeTech.com.  It’s about the highly anticpated Gphone, oh wait, I mean Google mobile platform called Android.

Steve Horowitz, Engineer Director for Google said

there is actually NO GPhone. 

He does go on to say

they hope the (Android) platform will enable people to create thousands of GPhones.

So which is it, no gphones or gphones?

These are the times I wish I was a developer.  To maybe collect on some of that $10 million Android challenge.