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		<title>Espinola Technology Consulting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micheal Espinola Jr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although this is my private blog (that I hardly have the time to pay attention to), the web site as a whole is currently under [re]construction in the background &#8211; undergoing a re-visioning for Espinola Technology Consulting.
The new site will be running Joomla, and will be both an information portal as well as online community [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although this is my private blog (that I hardly have the time to pay attention to), the web site as a whole is currently under [re]construction in the background &#8211; undergoing a re-visioning for Espinola Technology Consulting.</p>
<p>The new site will be running Joomla, and will be both an information portal as well as online community for my customers and enthusiasts.</p>
<p>Please bear with me and stay tuned!</p>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t cry over spilled milk&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micheal Espinola Jr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manage the situation, and tomorrow you will have yogurt.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Manage the situation, and tomorrow you will have yogurt.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Go after her&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micheal Espinola Jr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go after her. Fuck, don&#8217;t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that&#8217;s what you should do if you love someone, don&#8217;t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don&#8217;t let people happen to you, don&#8217;t let me happen to you, or her, she&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Go after her. Fuck, don&#8217;t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that&#8217;s what you should do if you love someone, don&#8217;t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don&#8217;t let people happen to you, don&#8217;t let me happen to you, or her, she&#8217;s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I&#8217;d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can&#8217;t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone&#8217;s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really.</p></blockquote>
<p><em><strong>I am.</strong></em></p>
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		<title>Google communication/collaboration services no longer beta. Now on to voicemail and so much more awesomeness&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.espinola.net/blog/2009/07/google-communicationcollaboration-services-no-longer-beta-now-on-to-voicemail-and-so-much-more-awesomeness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micheal Espinola Jr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Gmail, along with Google&#8217;s other collaborative services, is out of beta after ~5 years and is now on to bigger and better things; such as their newly semi-opened product: Google Voice.
Its a remarkable service that brings to bear some of the conversational and historical features of Gmail.  Upon using, it all feels like a very natural progression and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google Gmail, along with Google&#8217;s other collaborative services, is out of beta after ~5 years and is now on to bigger and better things; such as their newly semi-opened product: <a title="Google Voice" href="https://www.google.com/voice/" target="_blank">Google Voice</a>.</p>
<p>Its a remarkable service that brings to bear some of the conversational and historical features of Gmail.  Upon using, it all feels like a very natural progression and next-step to the unification of their communications platforms into a single interface in the near future.  Couple this with their voice recognition developments on the various mobile search platforms, and they are fitted to transcribe voicemails along with the emails that they are then able to data-mine for additional advertising revenue &#8211; similar to what they do with Gmail.</p>
<p>Google Voice is a service born from a company named GrandCentral that Google acquired in 2008. Its a service that centralizes <a title="Phone Number Portability" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_number_portability" target="_blank">phone number portability</a>, <a title="Call forwardin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_forwarding" target="_blank">call forwarding</a>, <a title="Text messaging" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging" target="_blank">text messaging</a> and <a title="Voicemail" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voicemail" target="_blank">voicemail</a> into a single solution that is completely free for in-country dialing, with reasonable rates for long distance use. It also brings to Google (and the masses) some of the typically corporate-only features of services referred to as <a title="Unified Messaging" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_messaging" target="_blank">Unified Messaging</a>.</p>
<p>Unified Messaging capabilities are a likely baby-step into the future <a title="Google Wave" href="http://wave.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Wave</a> platform and beyond.</p>
<p>Its brilliance on their part, and yet another extremely useful and free service for the rest of us. Forget <a title="Visual Voicemail" href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1486" target="_blank">Visual Voicemail</a>.  If you have an iPhone, install the <a title="Google Voice Mobile application" href="http://gizmodo.com/5231485/gv-mobile-iphone-app-hands-on" target="_blank">GV Mobile application</a>, and see what Google is doing and how it will effect and eventually marry all of these technologies that are increasingly at our mobile fingertips.</p>
<p>What Google is doing here is the innovating benchmark that other companies will be forced to follow for years to come.</p>
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		<title>Google now offers direct native sync for Contacts and Calendar to iPhone and iPod Touch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micheal Espinola Jr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its still in Beta, *ahem* just like Gmail, but Google now offers direct native synchronization support for Contacts and Calendar natively to the iPhone or iPod Touch.  It&#8217;s completely free, devoid of using any iPhone App, and uses the synchronization software and resources that are built-in to the iPhone and iPod Touch, and you might [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its still in Beta, <em><span style="color: #808080;">*ahem* just like Gmail</span></em>, but Google now offers direct native synchronization support for Contacts and Calendar natively to the iPhone or iPod Touch.  It&#8217;s completely free, <em><span style="color: #888888;">devoid of using any iPhone App</span></em>, and uses the synchronization software and resources that are built-in to the iPhone and iPod Touch, <em><span style="color: #808080;">and you might just be tickled as to how</span></em>.</p>
<p>So stop where you are!  There is no longer the need to purchase an Apps Store stand-alone utility that you would otherwise have to remember to manually sync yourself.  Or some cruddy desktop add-on that force feeds the information through the otherwise horrible experience known as iTunes, <em><span style="color: #808080;">particularly horrible on the PC anyway</span></em>.  You can now enjoy push-sync technology the way it was meant to be used, <em><span style="color: #888888;">automagically</span></em>.  And it is true push.  You will see updates to your calendar and contacts hit your iPhone or iPod Touch with surprising speed &#8211; outside of your email pull-sync schedule.</p>
<p><em><span style="color: #888888;">Gmail mail is still not available for sync, but it surely seems poised to be next in line.</span></em></p>
<p>So how is this wondrous feat achieved?  Through your pal and mine, Microsoft ActiveSync!  You can read the easy-to-follow instructions from Google, here:</p>
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