Samsung started their manufacturing lines running off the 1.8 inch 64GB Flash Solid State Disk (SSD).  This is twice as big in storage space as their current SSD product, the 32GB SSDthat retails for about $600.

The speeds on these hard drives are ridiculously fast, they consume low amounts of power, weigh less, take up less space and could soon start to own about 1/3 of the UMPC market and about 1/4 of the notebook market.

My mouth waters just thinking about how much of a performance boost I could get from the speed and how much more battery life I could expect without a hard drive to spin up.

The price is going to be high, but I’m looking forward to the day when that price and all the other component prices comes down to a reasonable level.  Then its off to the notebook races! 

Link to DailyTech - Samsung Begins Mass Production of 64GB SSDs

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Sometimes when you have worked for the same company for a long period of time, it gets difficult to listen to the same old corporate ‘go get ‘em’ speach from the same corporate SVP, COO, CEO, CFO, CTO, etc.

Their job is to take charge and keep the company running, but being a professional speaker is not always necessarily their primary talent.  That lends many companies to call in a switch hitter for motivational speeches and seminars, hiring in well known comedians, actors, motivational speakers and more.

You don’t have to have a friend of a friend in Hollywood to make these types of arrangements.  This is the world run on the internet.  You can make arrangements for your company to host entertainment speakers speakers easily by sourcing a speaker through InternationalSpeakers.com.  You can hire comedians like George Carlin or Keenan Wayans. 

Or you can go more business like and hire in Jack Welch or Jim Cramer through their opportunities to bring in speakers that also have recently released a best selling book.

You can even hire a former President such as Jimmy Carter.

Fees for speakers range from under $10k to over $50k (for Jimmy Carter for example).

You will definitely have to consider both your audience, your message and your venue, but if you can get the message across the results might be priceless.

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I came across this video tonight depicting what life would belike if SecondLife (a virtual 3D alternate reality type of place) were real.

If you have ever visited SecondLife online, you’ll see the humor in this.  If you have not, I’d suggest reading SnowCrash by Neal Stephenson and then get a free SecondLife Account and try it out.  It may be 5 years away, but this is probably where the future of the internet will eventually be.

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