J Street Technology is pleased to continue presentations of a free webinar called "Say Hi to SharePoint" with our SharePoint Program Manager and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, Toby Getsch. We were encouraged by attendance at last month's presentation and are hosting another webinar.

The New York Times had an article last week on a development in web search that may have an impact on e-commerce merchants: Google Tweaks Algorithm to Push Down Low-Quality Sites .

One of the challenges of living online -- which nearly all of us do more and more -- is that we have passwords for everything. Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, Bank of America, Twitter, Amazon, Overstock, eBay, PayPal...the list goes on and on.

The FTP Manager in CartGenie Desktop Engine to download and upload files to the server to customize your web site!

This one's got a bit of nostalgia in it, but it all comes together in the end... In 2008, I wrote a brief blog post about a change in personal technology that I had noticed over the previous 10 years. At that time, that blog was branded differently and was using a different web site address.

As I sit, working on a few blog posts, I can't help but think how much I appreciate working while surrounded by the glorious "Cone of Silence." What is that? Well, the short version is that it's an excellent way to get work done.

While in the process of preparing for some presentations and demos, I have needed to setup several virtual machines (VM's).

Recently, my family and I moved -- not a big move but one city down the road. Before we left our old place, we called and canceled the high-speed internet service (easy enough). Once we got settled in to the new place, we decided to shop internet providers looking for the best deal.

Over Thanksgiving I flew to Oakland and back. When I arrived back in Seattle I couldn't find my remote for our car. Dang! Those things cost almost $300 to replace. I didn't know for sure that I left it on one of the flights, but maybe it fell out of my jacket pocket in overhead bin.

Joel Spolsky has a new article out, and as usual it's interesting and fun to read. But one of the best parts for me was actually in a comment from a reader, who linked back to an old article of Joel's from 2000. That one was about writing actual specifications before coding actual software .

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced Bing's latest feature: new and improved maps. Here at J Street, we're always looking for ways to leverage cool, new technology in ways that benefit our customers and our company at the same time. Check out J Street's new, interactive Bing project map.

We're excited to finally get our blog up and running. The initial focus will be CartGenie and related services but we have plans to expand it to all areas of the company. The primary goal of the blog is to help share information more quickly and to provide helpful tips and links to useful news.