Having trouble with getting Seagate/WD External USB drive 1.5 TB to work with your PS3?

It seems Sony PS3 supports only FAT32 and the external drive comes pre-formatted with NTFS. So, after franatic search on blogs (and Seagate is *NO* help), finally figured out that they do have a tool called Disc Wizard to do this.

Warning: This is pre-programmed to work only their products.

Once you download and install this, connect the USB drive, startup the app.

Remove the existing partition (this will remove all existing contents on your drive, so be sure be very sure) and the tool offers formatting types. Choose FAT32. It takes about a couple of minutes and you are done!

On a second thought, about this Google Chrome OS thing…

Some are even saying that this is a phony little war that doesn't hurt anyone. Since the just announced OS is vaporware at this point and mostly targeting for netbooks in the near future, Microsoft's immediate revenue is not in any danger. However, you can count on Microsoft throwing counterpunches to nullify low-end threat the Chrome OS poses.

Even with mobile phones, Microsoft gained marketshare in 2008/2009 and even outsold iPhone believe it or not. Android phones are just starting to come out, so we will have to see how big they are going to be. As for the netbooks, it is reported very recently that Windows XP ships in 96% of netbooks sold worldwide, up 10% from a year ago. Linux originally had good momentum, but it is losing steam due to a combination of users preferring familiarity of Windows and Microsoft's deft use of pricing and its size. It just shows how Microsoft fights back.

Also, note that Google says first netbook with Chrome OS is not out until 2010H2 and Windows 7 (which is expected to be netbook friendly) is due out in a few months. Microsoft would have the netbook market for 1 full year. I think all this adds up to moves and countermoves [at least for now].

Otherwise, Chrome OS better be one sweet friggin doozy.

Google Chrome OS, eh?

I wonder what this will do to 'organizing world's information' motto. Isn't there a danger of just trying to become another Microsoft? trying to do too many things and not doing anything really well? Despite being a huge fan of Google, I am skeptical of this if this is just to attack Microsoft from a different front. Just as I don't see Microsoft as a search expert, I am skeptical of Google being OS provider. what's the overall strategy goal?

Could it be that Google is just trying to protect its search domain? One thing we know is that mobile internet based search is growing much more rapidly than that of PCs. If your bread and butter depends on search, you have to dominate mobile world as well. Ergo, the Google family of mobile OSes. I think this is probably the reason than Novell grade hate of Microsoft that's driving the OS development. what do you think?

Fuzzy front-end, market research, VOC, definition, roadmap, product line planning. #pcampRTP

presenters talked about http://www.pligg.com/ for CMS and http://ping.fm/rODHP for logo creation. #pcampRTP

SAS is a model with social media strategy: social networks, blogs, podcasting, video, wikipedia and content syndication. #pcampRTP

B2B deals have so many characteristics such as relationships, long sales cycles, which social media attributes match up nicely. #pcampRTP

social media = interaction+engagement+conversation+relationships

Track 1: Enhancing B2B relationships using Social media. presented by socialmediab2b.com

The book mentioned is Business of Software. http://ping.fm/qUva9

market visioning is an exercise that allows you envision concentric circles around what you do now and imagine possibilities. #pcampRTP

OH: vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. #pcampRTP

Jeff doesn't like to think in terms of "alignment" which indicates two separate things. He prefers "synergy".

Jeff prefers mindstorming. it is free of "side of the brain" issue. let's you focus on ideas free of judgmental nature of brain.#pcampRTP

Jeff doesn't like brainstorming. are we using left brain or right brain in that? #pcampRTP

Jeff Krukin talked about market sensing techniques your company could use. #pcampRTP

Consensus on the need for using usability specialists while designing products and features. #PCAMPRTP

Somebody mentioned that social bookmarking is a great idea when a team is doing a project. That's knowledge generation & sharing. #PCAMPRTP

Here is a cool idea. Let a 3rd party operate the social media site for your customers with restricted access. #PCAMRTP

how do you understand customer behavior? for your website, you could use tealeaf. http://www.tealeaf.com/

Two key points while interviewing customers: what makes you feel good and what makes you look good? #PCAMPRTP

Good discussion on usability. Consensus about getting as many people as possible to meet customers directly. #PCAMPRTP

obvious in the discussion that too many PMs are doing things because your competitors are doing it. #PCAMPRTP

Participants expressed consensus that focus groups are good, but they are expensive. #PCAMPRTP

somebody mentioned uservoice.com as a web service you could use on your website to gather feedback.

Discussion about feature collection process trended towards personas. Somebody mentioned this is nothing but human factor engineering.

Nicole Krug of BB&T started off the discussion on how people collect ideas for products and features. #PCAMPRTP

Lisa Hida is a great presenter. Fantastic presentation and good discussion. #PCAMPRTP

Innovation could also be establishing leadership for your segment. #PCAMPRTP

Innovation is increasing your competitive advantage and increase your value. #PCAMPRTP

Product Manager's job is make people 'get it'. If you can't make your colleagues 'get it', your product won't succeed.

Heard a new concept: Human Factor Engineering. new concept or is it recycled from something old? #PCAMPRTP

She says doing post-launch audit is a best practice. #PCAMPRTP

Lisa Hida is talking about how to do VOC for product innovation. #PCAMPRTP

Ready for tomorrow's ProductCamp RTP. Will be lot of fun!!

Didn't realize MS Project is such a big deal among AEC industry project managers. Seems like it is no match for Primavera.

Preparing for productCamp RTP http://ping.fm/b5g6n

Preparing for pCamp in RTP next week. <a href="http://ping.fm/LDInJ{"go_to":"events/57717","referrer":"public"}">http://ping.fm/LDInJ{"go_to":"events/57717","referrer":"public"}</a>

Preparing a business plan is lot harder than people had me thinking. A Lot.

Too much fun playing with WordPress. Great stuff.

Looking for another big volume of pre-reading for Term 4 tomorrow.

Cisco's John Chambers on future of Collaboration: http://ping.fm/mDl11

More awareness in the WordPress universe. There is a whole business model around selling themes!

After a long time, mountain biking tomorrow. I hope I will come out alive.

Seems like WordPress is way better platform to rollout small business websites. Solid stuff. Worth buying templates than spend hours.

Learning WordPress to launch small business website next week. #MSCRM, #AEC

Preparing for post-Microsoft Incubation Week activities.#CRMIW.

A whole weekend to recover from #CRMIW. Thanks to MS team (#jodonnel and #sanjayjain369), ton of progress in one week!

ooh. Done with the presentation. went very well.! #CRMIW

5 minutes before the presentation. Excited and anxious to do it. Wish us luck! #CRMIW

Final hour before the presentation. Proteans guys just gave us their last update! #CRMIW

Day 5: Judgement day. Slide deck and financial projections are finally ready. Hectic day ahead.

Just came back from a great Dinner. ofcourse Microsoft paid :-). Margarita's. Great food!.

About to meet Don Dodge! http://ping.fm/6dGzh

Preparing the demo design for tomorrow. #CRMIW

Day 4: We are going to be interviewed by MS Team on our experience. YouTube, here we come!

Had an early conversation with Proteans team, so we left early this morning. #CRMIW. Tomorrow, need to finalize presentation, demo and other stuff.

Financial aspects of the venture are coming together nicely as well. Facing minor issues in coding, but overall looking nice.. #CRMIW

Presentation for VCs ready for review by the team! #CRMIW

Day 3 Lunch session: Ben Grossman of BiGMarK Agency http://ping.fm/EtuHO talked about Out-Thinking needed with a Startup.

Just discovered Paul Greenberg (http://ping.fm/O1j6u), the CRM Guru.

Day 3: Getting ready to meet the offshore team to review the code and functionality developed overnight. #CRMIW

progressing nicely on product development and preparing for Friday presentation. Without Microsoft and Proteans, we wouldn't have made this far!

Still working on the VC presentation..... #CRMIW

'Slid'ing along preparing the slide deck for VC presentation. #CRMIW

Working on our presentation to VCs on Friday. 6 slides, 10 minutes apparently. #CRMIW

Fantastic presentation at #CRMIW by James Geshwiler of commonAngels. Great insight into how to present to VCs. http://ping.fm/KtOEi