Welcome to the Esenai Community! tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/1 2007-12-17T10:00:13Z Home of Esenai Corporation (Investment Asset Sourcing and Creative Commercial Real Estate Debt and Equity Financing) and the UNOFFICIAL Intellipedia, creiZ about Real Estate, Startup Events, eMarviews blogs (among others)! Movable Type 3.2ysb5-20051201 Dubai's Hospitality giant Jumeirah signs deal to manage Lost Faros in Panama tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/creiZ//8.684 2009-11-26T05:02:36Z 2009-11-26T05:02:56Z eMarv http://www.eMarv.com Jumeirah signs deal for luxury hotel in Panama - Travel & Hospitality - ArabianBusiness.com

Interesting news. Panama's still got much potential for hospitality. Congrats Los Faros!

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]]> The grassroots community rebels against the ugov.gov shutdown - Is Intellipedia next? tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/intellipedia//6.683 2009-10-12T13:06:54Z 2009-10-12T13:07:09Z In case you haven't noticed, here are some of the headlines regarding the ugov.gov shutdown: Shutdown Of Intelligence Community E-mail Network Sparks E-Rebellion - The Atlantic Politics Channel Spies Protest After Intel-Sharing Tools Shut Down U.S. Intelligence Pulls Plug On... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com Shutdown Of Intelligence Community E-mail Network Sparks E-Rebellion - The Atlantic Politics Channel

Spies Protest After Intel-Sharing Tools Shut Down

U.S. Intelligence Pulls Plug On Cross-Agency E-Mail System

Intelligence community email network to shut down

Intellipedia on the Block?

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]]> Tap the Collective event on Sep 2, 2009 - The Intellipedia Doyen will be there! tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/intellipedia//6.680 2009-08-27T15:55:02Z 2009-08-27T15:55:56Z Tap the Collective is a venue to discuss how collective intelligence – efficiently drawing upon diverse and distributed knowledge – can be used to help address government problems.Tap the Collective - Eventbrite In case you haven't seen this... This looks... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com Tap the Collective is a venue to discuss how collective intelligence – efficiently drawing upon diverse and distributed knowledge – can be used to help address government problems.Tap the Collective - Eventbrite

In case you haven't seen this...

This looks like it will be an interesting event and best of all it's free! :)

BTW, congrats to Don Burke, the Intellipedia Doyen. (Just saw this is his short bio on the event page: Mr. Burke is a finalist in the 2009 Service to America Medals (winners will be announced Sept 23) in the category of Homeland Security for his work on Intellipedia.)

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]]> Oooh, I wish I had an Intellipedia cup tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/intellipedia//6.677 2009-07-20T14:22:12Z 2009-07-20T14:25:57Z Check out Eric Kim's Intellipedia Mug. Nice and stylish... (I think I have mug-envy ;-) Intellipedia Goes Full Circle on Flickr - Photo Sharing!Blogged with the Flock BrowserTags: intellipediamug, intellipedia... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com Eric Kim's Intellipedia Mug. Nice and stylish... (I think I have mug-envy ;-)
Intellipedia Goes Full Circle on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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]]> Prez Obama checking out women's.... tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/eMarviews//5.676 2009-07-10T14:23:03Z 2009-07-10T14:23:09Z sandals... He is obviously looking at the sandals, right? ;-D Prez checking out sandals... Uploaded with the Flock Browser - http://www.flock.comBlogged with the Flock BrowserTags: barackobama, president, woman'ssandals... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com

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]]> Guy Kawasaki's Revenue Bootcamp - Because generating revenue is the best way to fund your business! tag:www.esenai.com,2009:/blog/StartupEvents//3.675 2009-07-09T13:18:18Z 2009-07-09T13:18:29Z I wish I could go! Revenue Bootcamp Conference: Because generating revenue is the best way to fund your business! July 10, 2009 8:30am - 5:00pm Microsoft Building 1 1065 La Avenida Street Mountain View, CA 94043 Garage Technology Ventures presents Revenue Bootcamp, a conference for entrepreneurs to energize their strategies for generating revenue. The conference covers maximizing traffic, generating leads, online advertising, non-traditional monetization strategies, and raising capital. Attendees will hear from industry experts and from entrepreneurs in the trenches, including Chris Anderson, author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Charlene Li, author of Groundswell: Winning in a... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com

Revenue Bootcamp Conference: Because generating revenue is the best way to fund your business!

July 10, 2009 8:30am - 5:00pm Microsoft Building 1 1065 La Avenida Street Mountain View, CA 94043

Garage Technology Ventures presents Revenue Bootcamp, a conference for entrepreneurs to energize their strategies for generating revenue.

The conference covers maximizing traffic, generating leads, online advertising, non-traditional monetization strategies, and raising capital. Attendees will hear from industry experts and from entrepreneurs in the trenches, including Chris Anderson, author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Charlene Li, author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital, and Garage’s own Guy Kawasaki.

This is a conference that will pay off!


AGENDA
Breakfast and Registration 8:30am - 9:00am
Panel Will Anyone Pay for Anything? 9:00am - 9:45am
This panel examines the mentality of people when it comes to, God forbid, paying for anything. What will they pay for? How much? When? Or does everyone believe that everything should be free at this point?
Noelle Chun - Internet aggregator, Editor, Writer Anastasia Goodstein - Founder and Editor-In-Chief, Ypulse Erika Schmale - Volunteer, Habitat for Humanity Guy Kawasaki - Moderator. Garage Technology Ventures
Panel How to Create a Traffic Jam by Really Trying 9:45am - 10:45am
This panel answers questions like: How can you increase traffic to your site? What are the best SEO and SEM techniques? How do you avoid wasting money on ineffective strategies?
Anita Cohen-Williams - Founder & CEO, MySearchGuru Sagar Kamdar - Product Manager of Webmaster Central, Google Dion Lim - President & COO, Simply Hired Neil Patel - Quick Sprout blogger Tim Westergren - Chief Strategy Officer, Pandora Charlene Li - Moderator. Founder, Altimeter Group
Break 10:45am - 11:00am
Keynote Chris Anderson Editor in Chief, Wired magazine Author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price 11:00am - 12:00pm
Lunch 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Panel Is the Advertising Model Dead? 1:30pm - 2:30pm
This panel answers questions like: Can you build a real business around advertising revenues? What does it take to optimize ad revenue? Are new ad techniques energizing?
Samir Arora - Chairman and CEO, Glam Media Neil Chase - Vice President for Author Services, Federated Media Tom Chavez - GM, Publisher Business Group, Microsoft Tim Kendall - Director of Monetization, Facebook David Kopp - Senior Director, N. American Ads, Yahoo! Bill Reichert - Moderator. Garage Technology Ventures
Panel Beyond CPM, Innovative Models for Generating Revenues 2:30pm - 3:30pm
What is the best model for your company? Explore the possibilities of using affiliate, freemium, digital goods, and other models.
Will Harvey - Co-Founder and Chairman, IMVU Scott Hintz - Co-Founder, TripIt Alice Lankester - Former VP Marketing, Photobucket.com Kerri Pollard - GM, Commission Junction Jeremy Schoemaker - Founder, ShoeMoney Media Group Joyce Chung - Moderator. Garage Technology Ventures
Break 3:30pm - 3:45pm
Fireside Chat Guy Kawasaki with Mike Moritz and Paul Graham 3:45pm - 4:45pm
Join Guy Kawasaki as he chats with Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital and Paul Graham of Y Combinator about the current fundraising atmosphere and the future of innovation.

Admission: $495 Special Pricing for Entrepreneurs: $295

 Revenue Bootcamp
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]]> For the folks that don't know what can turn your partner tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/eMarviews//5.674 2009-07-08T19:02:54Z 2009-07-08T19:03:03Z Looking to find out what turns your man or woman on, check the #turnon twitter trending topic: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23turnon NOTE: Parental guidance suggested for some tweets :) Some will have you laughing... Blogged with the Flock BrowserTags: turnon, twitter, laugh, turnons... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com #turnon twitter trending topic: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23turnon

NOTE: Parental guidance suggested for some tweets :) Some will have you laughing...

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]]> Improving Intelligence by making it LIVING tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/intellipedia//6.672 2009-07-06T15:36:18Z 2009-07-06T15:46:49Z I just saw this on Intellibriefs and without seeing the credits, I knew that Chris Rasmussen had to be involved. It is a great production, check it out!... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com Intellibriefs and without seeing the credits, I knew that Chris Rasmussen had to be involved. It is a great production, check it out!

]]> Did you feel the magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Panama? - terremoto en Panama tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/LoveAna_Panama_Crafts//12.671 2009-07-04T15:16:33Z 2009-07-04T15:20:45Z

It happened at 1:49AM, Saturday, July 4, 2009 according to the USGS. It was about 65 miles northeast of Panama City off the coast of the Kuna Yala province. This is the first earthquake I've been through. I actually didn't... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com

It happened at 1:49AM, Saturday, July 4, 2009 according to the USGS. It was about 65 miles northeast of Panama City off the coast of the Kuna Yala province.

This is the first earthquake I've been through. I actually didn't feel it though, but my wife, mother-in-law and son did. My wife woke me up because she felt the trembling and  ordered me to the kids' room because she felt as though the building might fall. Luckily, it didn't! :)

What was strange was that even though it shook things somewhat, nothing in the apartment was displaced. I wish I could have experienced it personally since an earthquake is naturally not something that I wish would happen again.

According to the USGS, there has been no report of human loss or property damage.

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]]> I know you've already read this, but - How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/eMarviews//5.668 2009-06-07T00:41:42Z 2009-06-07T00:41:58Z How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIMEI found the conclusion most interesting and inspiring: This is what I ultimately find most inspiring about the Twitter phenomenon. We are living through the worst economic crisis in generations, with apocalyptic headlines threatening the end of capitalism as we know it, and yet in the middle of this chaos, the engineers at Twitter headquarters are scrambling to keep the servers up, application developers are releasing their latest builds, and ordinary users are figuring out all the ingenious ways to put these tools to use. There's a kind of resilience here... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME

I found the conclusion most interesting and inspiring:

This is what I ultimately find most inspiring about the Twitter phenomenon. We are living through the worst economic crisis in generations, with apocalyptic headlines threatening the end of capitalism as we know it, and yet in the middle of this chaos, the engineers at Twitter headquarters are scrambling to keep the servers up, application developers are releasing their latest builds, and ordinary users are figuring out all the ingenious ways to put these tools to use. There's a kind of resilience here that is worth savoring. The weather reports keep announcing that the sky is falling, but here we are — millions of us — sitting around trying to invent new ways to talk to one another.

Enjoy!


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]]> The Intelligence Community Consumer's Guide - Are you informed? tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/intellipedia//6.667 2009-06-01T05:01:20Z 2009-06-01T15:09:46Z In case you haven't seen this, you may want to take a look at the Us Intelligence Community's Consumer's Guide (an 11MB PDF). I haven't gone through it, but just the fact that a consumer's guide exists, is interesting...... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com In case you haven't seen this, you may want to take a look at the Us Intelligence Community's Consumer's Guide (an 11MB PDF).

I haven't gone through it, but just the fact that a consumer's guide exists, is interesting...

Here's the contents for the Intelligence Overview section:

Defining and Using Intelligence 6 What is the Intelligence Community? 7 What Intelligence Can (and Cannot) Do 10 Sources of Intelligence 12 Levels of Intelligence Analysis 14 The Intelligence Cycle 17 Prioritizing Intelligence Issues: NIPF 20
The "What Intelligence Can (and Cannot) Do" section could probably clear up some of the public's misconceptions of the IC.

What do you think?




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]]> Because of Facebook, I just learned about Intentional Software and monkeys programming from a Near Infinity blog, a company run a by a friend on FB tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/eMarviews//5.666 2009-05-24T05:37:10Z 2009-05-24T05:37:15Z It's always interesting to find out what you find as you connect with old colleagues. For example, I reconnected with Chris D'Agostino, CEO of near infinity, on Facebook and revisited his company website and was happy to see that his company is doing well. I also found Scott Leberknight's blog and came across the Thinking Matters post where he talks about programmers, programming and thinking. Below is an extract: Aside from the fact that Oracle's Java Problem contains all kinds of factual and other errors (see the comments on the post) this sentence caught my eye in particular when... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com It's always interesting to find out what you find as you connect with old colleagues.

For example, I reconnected with Chris D'Agostino, CEO of near infinity, on Facebook and revisited his company website and was happy to see that his company is doing well. I also found Scott Leberknight's blog and came across the Thinking Matters post where he talks about programmers, programming and thinking. Below is an extract:

Aside from the fact that Oracle's Java Problem contains all kinds of factual and other errors (see the comments on the post) this sentence caught my eye in particular when referring to Java being "quite hard to work with" - "Then, as now, you needed to be a highly trained programmer to make heads or tails of the language."
Thinking Matters - Blogs at Near Infinity

Scott also refers to Intentional Software (which is essentially language software to design DomainSpecificLanguages). While at Martin Fowler's site, I also learned LayProgrammers (if you do any work with on spreadsheets, especially with formulas, then yes, you are a LayProgrammer) and the UnforgivenContract (which is essentially a NDA with strong penalties).

So what's my point? My point is that it is sometimes it is beneficial to delve deeper when you are social networking.  You'll never know what you discover.

BTW, I also learned about programming monkeys that cost 69 cents an hour. If you hire one, let me know so that I can get a referral fee. :)

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]]> links for 2009-05-22 tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/delicious//7.665 2009-05-23T00:06:50Z 2009-05-23T00:07:02Z LogMeIn... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com
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    • ]]>     lessons learned: Spent time in Psychiatric Hospital. Constantly sabotage myself? tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/eMarviews//5.664 2009-05-19T09:27:22Z 2009-05-19T09:33:39Z I had the pleasure (or should I say displeasure, ouch!) of reading the below message through LinkedIn from a contact (I XXXed out the name to protect the innocent or guilty): I also wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that while I have spent some extended time at a Psychiatric Hospital in Texas, I have fully recovered and hopefully will not suffer from another relapse. The previous jobs listed on my profile are all imaginary - I did work at some of those companies but I exagerrated my responsibilities and titles. Again, I have no experience at... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com

    I also wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that while I have spent some extended time at a Psychiatric Hospital in Texas, I have fully recovered and hopefully will not suffer from another relapse.

    The previous jobs listed on my profile are all imaginary - I did work at some of those companies but I exagerrated my responsibilities and titles. Again, I have no experience at all in running my own company, and I know I am destined to fail. I constantly sabotage myself!

    The truth is, I spent most of my time at my previous jobs surfing the internet for prostitutes who make "office calls" during lunch time, chatting online with Transvestites, and seeking out other avenues for which to cheat on my girlfriend, xxx, who has no idea what a true psychopath and liar I am.

    Happy holidays! At first pass, it seems like this message was sent by a disgruntled ex who found out that the guy was cheating on her. What do you think?

    So what are the lessons learned?

    • First & foremost, don't cheat on your girlfriend and
    • secondly, make sure you don't leave your social networking (or any other) passwords saved on your partners computer.
    • Add any others?
    BTW, can we call this activity "social ex flaming" ?
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    ]]>     Vote for Sean Dennehy and Don Burke for the Homeland Security Medal! tag:esenai.com,2009:/blog/intellipedia//6.663 2009-05-11T04:36:35Z 2009-05-11T04:54:56Z If any of my dear readers have any say or votes for the Homeland Security Medal, please make sure you vote for Don Burke and Sean Dennehy! The Partnership for Public Service will honor 30 finalists for Service to America... eMarv http://www.eMarv.com The Partnership for Public Service will honor 30 finalists for Service to America Medals May 6 in Washington as part of Public Service Recognition Week. The finalists are contenders for nine medals, including Federal Employee of the Year, set to be presented Sept. 23. 30 finalists for Service to America Medals named - Federal news, government operations, agency management, pay & benefits - FederalTimes.com
    HOMELAND SECURITY MEDAL
    (Recognizes an employee for a significant contribution related to homeland security, including border and transportation security, emergency preparedness and response, intelligence and law enforcement)
    Don Burke, Intellipedia doyen, and Sean Dennehy, Intellipedia and Enterprise 2.0 evangelist, CIA, Washington — promoted information sharing across the intelligence community through development and implementation of Intellipedia, a Wikipedia-like clearinghouse of intelligence expertise.
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