I couldn’t agree more and is exactly why we founded Avio Consulting in 2007. We began implementing BPMS back in 2001 with what was FuegoBPM. Much like you are saying, we saw a vacuum in the market of firms that can provide resources who have actually done BPMS implementations and know what works and what doesn’t. In 2007, Avio was formed to fill this hole and we believe we have more BPMS implementation experience than any other firm out there. There are a vast number of sites and blogs where one can hear experts provide theoretical opinions on how an implementation should be done, but relatively few people that focus exclusively of doing BPMS implementation right.

Brandon

The advantage to using Flock versus a webpage-based social aggregator is that you can carry your friends and media with you WHILE you surf, allowing many opportunities to share and transfer this information without a lot of inconvenient clicks. An example: You’re on a blog with embedded Flickr photos. You mouse over one of these photos and you are given the option to load that “media stream” in Flock’s Media Bar. *Without leaving* the blog, the photos load in a bar at the top of the browser. You see one you like, and you drag and drop it from the Media Bar to a friend on Facebook, in Flock’s People Sidebar. Flock automatically sticks that image in a message to them. You click send, and you’re done. That’s a lot of simplification.

Additionally, you *can* just visit the pages how you like; you don’t have to use any or all of our features.

Flock is not a “walled garden”…we use the exact same API’s that these webpage-based aggregators do, we just display them within the browser tools. There is nothing underhanded about the way we access this data, we don’t keep your personal info for our use, and as soon as you log out of your networks, that info is removed from FLock.

I hope my comment is a little reassuring, and I hope you give us a try sometime!

Evan Hamilton
Flock Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

We will most likely witness a progression similar to early Final Cut software. How it matured and gained it’s ground (Adobe).

Based on a hardware historical syntax, I think Apple will be the first to launch a true 10-bit color environment, done with no LUT (look-up-table) sampling.

On the Apple hardware side we’ll see new Cinema Displays with some very high color gamut + DisplayPort. With the use of new DisplayPort supported GPU’s (in next MacBook Pro?) they will be now be able to handle the massive 10-bit data throughput.

At the moment companies like NEC and Eizo uses typically a 8-12-8 bit LUT path in their very high-end pro monitors to aim to better control the high gamut colors. This is not at all ideal compared to a straight 10-10-10 path with no complicated, hardware assisted GUI to master.

And here comes MY prediction: Apple acquired Silicon Color some time back and will now give us truely amazing color correction capabilities in 10-bit, as we have seen them implement it in the last iteration of Final Cut.

I believe that it will pale the competition for some time, since they will be the only company able to offer the whole package!

And yes, a pen/multitouch tablet-style computer from Apple would interesting to see. That’s the kind of form factor that I think I’d like for a e-book reader, web browser, etc. (i.e. what the Kindle *should* have been), and for those kinds of applications the CPU speed isn’t such a priority.