Adobe Summit

A great week of learning, experiences, laughing and networking at Adobe Summit in Las Vegas.

Kindle Free Pick of the Week: Excel for Beginners

If you are trying to master Excel, this is where to start.

Microsoft Excel is one of the most commonly used programs across all industry and geopolitical lines. Despite this fact, many business people, even those who interact with Excel regularly, don’t understand the essentials that can really further their career.

The truth is that most people find the task of learning about Excel overwhelming when confronted with a thousand-page book.

Could you be one of them?

You see, more information is not always good, especially if you want to save time and effort. The right information expressed in a clearly beneficial way is, however, always good.

That's why this book focuses on the basics and what you'll really need on a daily basis.

New Armstrong Court Camera Angle Improved

I'll be honest, the first few days, the matches on Armstrong Stadium were hard to watch.

Looks like a new improved camera location is operational.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-open-adds-new-camera-position-in-armstrong-stadium-1535569006

Kindle Free Pick of the Week: Big Data in Context: Legal, Social and Technological Insights

Learn about Big Data.

This book sheds new light on a selection of big data scenarios from an interdisciplinary perspective. It features legal, sociological and economic approaches to fundamental big data topics such as privacy, data quality and the ECJ’s Safe Harbor decision on the one hand, and practical applications such as smart cars, wearables and web tracking on the other. Addressing the interests of researchers and practitioners alike, it provides a comprehensive overview of and introduction to the emerging challenges regarding big data.

Crowdfuding Corner: BedJet V3 and V3S

BedJet is helpng people sleep.

Now the No. 1 customer rated cooling, heating and sleep inducing device for beds that raised $1.4 million on Kickstarter  – is returning to Kickstarter to launch their next version and generation product, the BedJet 3.

Kickstarters can pre-order the most advanced version of the award winning BedJet, completely redesigned and upgraded with new features and cutting-edge technology.  The BedJet 3 is already in beta testing and new features include:    

-Amazon Alexa and Smart Home connectivity. Control your sleep comfort by voice and integrate with all sorts of cool platforms enabled by the new wifi chip in BedJet 3.

-Smaller, sleeker new look. More features, more technology, same incredible cooling/warming performance in a much slimmer, low-profile design (30% smaller!)     

-Worlds most advanced color screen remote control for a bedding/sleep tech product.  For folks who don’t like bringing their phones to bed to use our App to control the BedJets most advanced features, now everything (including the biorhythm sleep cycles) can be programmed via the new remote.  There’s a new and improved App as well.   

In the company’s prior Kickstarter run in 2015, the BedJet v2 pre-order campaign passed the $1 million dollar mark in only 28 days to close as one of Top 25 Tech Kickstarter campaigns of all time. After the overwhelming crowdfunding success, BedJet skyrocketed to the top as the number one customer ranked product in the entire mattress category on all of Amazon, and the top selling cooling and heating product in America for beds.

Those that use BedJet, love BedJet. BedJet is a technology start-up that is re-inventing and improving the sleep experience with advanced technology and proven medical sleep science.   Based in Newport, R.I., the company was founded in 2013 by inventor and former NASA space suit engineer Mark Aramli.  For more information, visit www.bedjet.com.