Tao Student – A Personal Site for Gary Ardito

I know that I must seem awfully narrowly focused these days with all my commentary on Apple but they are the ones making the most noise. This blog by Ed Bott of ZDNet really raises a curious angle on what Apple may do to sell more hardware and why they recently announced Safari for [...]

Folks,
This news report is interesting. Looks like Apple’s exploration of different marketing and client adoption methods is still in full force. I think that this move is very significant to our business. Very simply, any move by a mainstream company that promotes the community building and collaborative nature of the web [...]

Apple has announced that sometime in June, we will be able to stream YouTube directly to our tv’s using Apple TV.  I think this is a very significant step in the continued evolution of the community oriented content/collaboration being driven by web sites like youtube, myspace, flickr, etc.  For the first time, this takes it [...]

I will not repeat the bubbling over of positive energy that I promoted on an earlier post about baseball and watching my kids play but since I got a chance to see them both in action again this past weekend, I just have to say – what a great game!A weekend of baseball, movies, swimming [...]

Ok. I admit it. I am an Apple guy. I use a MacBook and am about to upgrade to a new MacBook Pro. Long before Apple TV was announced, I was using a Mac Mini to do the same thing and more. Most people think of Apple and think [...]

Anybody who has been remotely involved in the open source community over the past year knows about the uproar related to the Novell – Microsoft deal put together last November. Novell has been called out and called many things because of this deal. I have maintained from the beginning that this deal was [...]

This is real interesting.. Attending conferences usually seems so uni-directional, not really social or interactive. This software, expectnation, is meant to change all of that by better managing and opening up the workflow. The tag line is turning a conference into a community… I wonder how this would work for Novell’s Brainshare.. [...]