Kaiyzen Group

Its now been.., (cough).., over a year since I put up a post on this site.

Its hasnt been all due to laziness on the posting front, for the most part I have been very active over the past 14 months covering the Enterprise IT, Mobile, and IPTV sectors, as well as working on, and advising to some startup projects in those same sectors.

Its been a great treat to see all the rapid changes and innovation that is happening on all fronts.  From connectivity, advancements in hardware, which in turn causes software to revamp, as well as massive cultural shifts both at the consumer and business levels, there has been no better time in the past 20 yrs to take advantage of the changes.

My hope is to finally get my arse in gear and tend to this site a little more over the up and coming months, hopefully a post a week or so reflecting on the diferent start up and industry experiences I am going through.  Hopefully these will be interesting to some, and informative to others.

Tops on my list of “TO DO’s” for the site is to work on implementing some of the content categories which I started but never spent the time to fully round out.  The best example is People I Want to Spend An Afternoon With…, I got one of these done and that was it.., pretty piss poor, but good intent.

Some other stuff I plan on working on is morphing this current WordPress site into some more functional, and platform-esque.  Over the past year I have spent here and there working away on some PHP framework stuff, and am now starting to put it to use in some first projects.

First of which is the Television Developer Hub, or TVDH for short.  This is a pet project with some friends to make a kick ass central hub on the interwebs to cover and house all things Television and Developer related.  Its in its early stages, but evolving/growing pretty rapidly.

TVDH is just the first of many projects that are finally ready to see the light of day.  After having many irons in the fire since leaving my post at SugarCRM I am finally ready to start taking the wraps off these various projects I am directly, or indirectly involved in.

You can continue to check out SiliconAngle for a great community of tech related content, I will continue to be involved in that community for all my general tech coverage, this site will remain more personal in nature which was how it was originally intented when I started it a few years back.

I have got to see what the deal is with Twitter.  After months and months of wondering why the hell people rave so much about the site I am going to try it out and see if it really generates the value add people say when it come to broadcasting and gaining followers.

You will notice going forward.., at least during this trial period that I have placed my twitter feed into the Feed On section on the sites side bar.

Let the experiment begin

I really do not like to make my own predictions but with a bunch of activity of late I figured I would throw out a couple thoughts/ideas I have been having:

1) FIM will purchase Pandora sometime within the next 12 months.  Pandora has continued pressure for lack of revenue and high streaming costs and with MySpace Music’s launch their IP is a perfect fit especially once their figure out the syndication issues

2) Amazon will continue to dominate the “cloud space” and pull in some big name enterprise customers with some nice PR around them and pull in Microsoft as a partner to offer their solutions on AWS.

3) Palm will turn heads in the first half of next year with their new devices and platform that will be coming down the pipeline

4) Android will get ~5% smartphone market share by the end of ‘09 and wireless devlepment will continue to be a huge pain in the ass till sometime in 2010

5) On their way to the $1 billion revenue mark Facebook will face some serious pushback with their Facebook ID program and continued efforts to push/pull activity stream info everywhere…, possibly also look for them to become a wrapper for LiveID to help move things along on the unified login front.

Doing some dev work for a little facebook application.., appears that the login service is down:

Have finally finished up the four weeks of straight travel time.., been back into the swing of thing going into next week and will begin posting again.  I have lots I want to write about my business travels and trends I am seeing in a couple spaces.

Been on a long break from the postings.., have waaaaaaaaay too many things going on right now.

Preparing for little trek around Asia starting this weekend.  I will be attending the CRM Expo out in Tokyo and spending a week there with partner meetings.  From there its on to Singapore then Phillipines.

I will be ramping up a bit on the postings in the next few weeks while traveling.  Also, I have started to write for some other sites.  Over the next few months I will be shoving more of my writings on the tech sector to other more maintstream sites so that I can get this site back to more personal musings.

So, hopefully I will power through this mind meltdown I have going and get a bit more rejuvinated during and after the trip.

Picking things back up after a little posting break, I took the weekend off to relax a bit.  Wrapping things up this week with the beta 1 release for my product so will be getting some postings going again.., lots of doins a happenin.