so i became a fb developer today, create a new integration for Nerdfootball and with that
I have access to Timeline. uhhhh... wow. they really hit a homerun here. as far as I can tell,
my news feed is just the same as it was earlier today, however, now on MY profile, its the
new Timeline view. looks like they will open it for all on Sept 29th.

THIS IS A GAME CHANGER FOLKS.

Either Google is revealing it's new social network, one tweak at a time, or something else is going on. Either way, after I updated my CR-48 today with the new Chrome OS, I had this new little tweak on my Google home page.

UPDATE #1 - it's definitely NOT just on my google home page... it seems to follow me all around, to all sites within the google ecosystem.

Update #2 - there is also new GMAIL Mail settings under a gear icon.

Update #3 - the new +1 tweak does not show up in google docs

Cool stuff, I can wait to see what they build into their new social platform.

i just saw this tonight on facebook. appears to be a new image viewer in testing, or pre-release as it does not show up every time, on every person's images. cool feature tho!

At Navtrak, we've found that as our service evolves beyond merely tracking vehicles on a map, our customers increasingly report that their people have come to depend upon us and appreciate the efficiency tools we provide.
As one Navtrak user, the Service Manager for a large fuel delivery and service company, put it: "Once they got used to it, our people have been happy with the system. It saves them paperwork and time both in and out of the office, and they like that. And, more importantly, they see how it's helping us to stay successful."
Read the whole article here

Accountability: an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility.
Sounds simple enough, doesn't it? But how does the concept of accountability transfer into the corporate world? Specifically, in high-tech companies like ours that offer GPS tracking services, -where promising "immediate" ROI's and "free trials" is the norm?
We've been around since 1990 (and our sister B2B communication companies for 30+ years), which makes us, , "industry veterans," and as such we've seen countless vehicle tracking companies come and go. The ones that make it, like us, do business the right way – by treating each customer as a partner, and realizing that if the customer doesn't succeed, we don't succeed.
Read more: http://navtrak.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/gps-tracking-video/

this is TOTALLY snagged from Ray Camden's post on this topic...

Pardon the brief, probably overly dramatic title, but I wanted to get your attention. ColdFusion Community member Aaron West is one of many people suffering with due to the Nashville flooding. A Paypal donation site has been set up to help him out: http://friendsforaaron.blogspot.com/ This is 100% legit. If you've been a user of any of my open source stuff and have been looking to visit my wishlist, I'd urge you to send a donation to help Aaron and his family out. They are close to half way to their goal of 5K. Please give what you can!

And yes - the blue arrow is his house:

Although it's not quite the tsunami they may have hoped for *yet. I believe it's gotten one step closer with Notifications to your email address of Wave activity in your Wave account.

Here's a great blog post by the Wave team on how to turn these notifications on. I turned mine on, and I hope that we can use Wave to our advantage at Navtrak.

I don't know how many times I've tried to explain this phenomena to people in my company, or others who work with/for programmers, but the truths espoused here are so very self-evident to us programmers, but maybe not so much with everyone else. Anyhow, great article and here is a link to it: "Programming is like a dream"

Here's my favorite excerpt:

While this article "10 things google has taught Us" originally appeared on cnn.com today, I thought it was a great read, and I didn't want to forget where I could read it, and show it to others. The 5th thing that Google has taught us really struck home for me :) (i wonder why)

The rest of the article is filled with 9 other great tips and things to think about and it was well put together by Ken Auletta. Hop on over to cnn.com to view this interesting and thought provoking article. Hopefully I can help permeate some of these things into the culture of Navtrak, although I have to admit... we really happen to be quite like the points described here, we are very lucky!

And one more, the last point in fact is also good to ponder:

So, yesterday my company launched it's 6th or 7th incarnation of our website. Here's a link to the first one :) Starting back in 1999 we had this crazy idea to start tracking vehicles on the internet, and now here we are 10 years later and still kickin!

Things have come a long way, the product has matured into a VERY stable platform complete with a tracking API, a newly released AIR Application (interface designed by me), Flex application and a Coldfusion driven reporting system (done by your's truly.)

So go check it out, and if you or someone you know could use vehicle tracking for their company, give 'em my name, and our website http://www.navtrakgps.com