Eric & Heather Thanksgiving 2012

My son Eric and his wonderful ( and beautiful! ) wife Heather 

celebrated their first Thanksgiving in their new house in Alden, NY.

Here Heather and Eric are holding my grandchildren Kayleigh and Jonas.

I love everything that the folks at Meet-Meme.com are doing. Everything. A few days ago, I received their 2011 yearbook. You can read about who they are and why they created this yearbook here;

From Page 11 of the yearbook;



We operate by the 3 C’s: Coffee, Conferences, and Cocktails. We’ve met so many people online, but we try and utilize one or all of the 3 C’s to get to know you even better offline. The games we play at conferences are getting better each day – raising the bar for excitement and fun. We can’t wait to see you at the next conference. I guarantee we’ll have some fun.


Check them out and buy your own Meet-Meme.com card at;

http://www.meet-meme.com

-- I was thrilled to find that I made it to page 15.





Here are links to my "Page Mates"


Meet Dan Polley - http://mtme.me/a4cf67


Meet Runaway Home - http://mtme.me/7ebc4e


Meet Jess Vento - http://mtme.me/c68313


oh, and meet me ! - http://mtme.me/94da1c

Someone recently asked me "What is this PressWise API you keep talking about, what does it do?"

I will spend the next few posts explaining what an API is, and why - if you are a print service provider - that you might care and how PressWise customers and third party storefront developers take advantage of it.

So, what does an API 'look like" ? A simple and commonly used example of an API in action is a website that allows users to review local restaurants is able to layer their reviews over maps taken from Google Maps, because Google Maps has an API that facilitates this functionality. Google Maps' API controls what information a third-party site can use and how they can use it.

At SmartSoft ( that is where I work ) we offer an API that enables third parties to access to a PressWise system to inject orders.

PressWise is a browser based workflow system that print services providers use to manage and process their customers jobs. PressWise is a hosted services and was designed as an alternative to purchasing independent modules - or custom development - of web-to-print, production workflow management. Print-specific MIS and mail preparation software.

Here is an example of how the PressWise API "works".

When someone orders print using an online storefront, lets say, to order business cards, like one might do at VistaPrint.com or Mimeo.com - they select the products, ad their custom details, decide how many they need or what type of paper they want to use. They may even add finishing tasks like Coatings or corner rounding. They will them be prompted to enter a method of payment and the address they want the order shipped.

All that data would need to then be transmitted somehow to the PressWise system, and the method ( or protocol) our PressWise API uses is SOAP.
The API then captures the XML stream, process it and enters that as a new order within our PressWise customers system.

My next few posts will go into more detail and show simple examples.

We will be demonstrating our API with Pressero at the upcoming Dscoop event

Great blog post on what is coming in the world of Cloud Printing - or - what is far better described as "Rich Internet Printing".

click --> here <-- to learn about what Cisco and Xerox are doing to make this all easier

Google +1 is here ( as of June 1st)


Here is the dealio, Amelio !

http://code.google.com/apis/+1button/


http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/1s-right-recommendations-right-when-you.html


http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html

Get to it !

You probably know all about QR Codes - the one below this text is designed to be captured by your smart phone and it will then inject my contact details into your contacts on your phone....

What you may not have heard of is Meet-Meme - they offer a service to have a fun personalized trading card printed and delivered to you, and this not only had a QR Code, but this QR Code then delivers you to my Meet-Meme site;

Here is a --> link <-- to my Meet-Meme site they created for me !

Get you own so we can trade !

( stick of bubblegum not included )

If you are viewing this page, it is most likely that Michael Jahn of Compose Systems handed you a business card with a QRCode on the back of it while you were at the ON DEMAND Conference & Expo in Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA on April 21 or 22nd.

Here are my contact so you can copy and paste them into your CRM;

Michael Jahn
Application Support Specialist
Compose Systems Inc, USA.
4740 Northgate Blvd. Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95834
Tel: (916) 920-3838 ext 102
Fax: (916) 923-6776
Email: michaelejahn@composeusa.com
Web: www.composeusa.com

Here is a digital representation of that business card I created using Issuu.



In the case you are not familiar with QR Codes, they are bar codes designed to be read by smartphone that have cameras - I use the i-nigma reader software from 3GVision

To create them yourself --> try this tool <--

Thanks for stopping by !

Don't send a lame Mother's Day eCard.
Try JibJab Sendables!

Viking Cooking Channel

Michael and Joan

Someone asked me how old I was today. I asked 'why', and they said, you talk about old things like PostScript and stuff like that..."

Okay, well, when I was younger, when we spoke of Preflight, were talking about this sort of activity.