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- Why the titans of tech should start playing ball
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk yearns for the application of tech entrepreneurship to moribund sports franchises, following in the fancy footsteps of Mark Cuban. After all, sports is a social network of extraordinary proportions... "I'd run any company; it's completely irrelevant to me. It's really about this drive...
- Tags: Team, Gentleman, Bay Area, Mr., Champaign, Chris, Team Management, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- InterActiveCorp buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion
- InterActiveCorp buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billionInterActiveCorp buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billionI hope they have something really really good lined up for Ask Jeeves. I still have my doubts and think its going to be a net loss.??How dumb is dumb? Ask Jeeves . . .Hey Mr.Barry Diller,...
- Tags: SEARCH, gentleman, Google Inc., Natural Language Search, Natural Search, Ask Jeeves Inc., IAC/InterActive Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-03-21
Additional Resources
- How to read your FBI file
- How to read your FBI fileGood well-balanced articleNothing one-sided here. Those evil Bushies will stop at nothing when it comes to knowing everyone's secrets, won't they?Hey, pal, EVERYBODY thought Saddam had WMDs, even your heroes Kerry, Kennedy, and (shudder!) Pelosi. Seems that Saddam went to great lengths to convince...
- Tags: Federal government, FBI
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Armand and the Foppish Hat (dmg)
- Armand and the Foppish Hat is a silly story about a heroic, but slightly pompous, swashbuckler whose favorite hat was stolen from him on his way to a party. Since a gentleman obviously cannot be seen without his hat, Armand must track down the thief and bring him to justice....
- Tags: Hat, Jeff Hanson
- Software downloads 2008-08-22
- Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blog
- Yesterday, Dean Cycon of Dean's Beans wrote a guest blog for this column on "Starbucks' Dirty Little Secret". The blog is worthy of some followup, as well as some additional information that Dean shared with me about their corporate philosophy. Growth is good for a company,...
- Tags: Trader, Blog, Dean Cycon, X2 Development Corp., Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Anti-malware blocker, cross-site scripting protections coming in IE 8
- Anti-malware blocker, cross-site scripting protections coming in IE 8Once again......late to the game. The "alternate" browsers have had these for a while. Competition breeds improvement, apparently. ;)It will still suckBeing a MS product, it will still suck.RE: Anti-malware blocker, cross-site scripting protections coming in IE 8Why would...
- Tags: Web browsers, cross-site scripting protection, Anti-malware blocker, Anti-Malware, IE 8, blocker, XSS, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- 10 tips for becoming a gentlemanly exec
- In a recent article in the London Times, William Drew contends that it's important to remain a gentleman even in today's go get-em business world. BNET blogger Michael Mattis shares Drew's list of 10 tips for anyone who aspires to be a gentleman/gentlewoman "in business, in relationships and in public."This...
- Tags: Tip, Michael Mattis, Blogging, Internet
- Download resources 2008-06-10
- Email is the enemy
- I'll always remember as a child a very old gentleman in Manchester, Northern England telling me about the Dickensian office he worked in during his youth - everyone sat in rows at desks equipped with ink wells and quills, writing and copying documents. The boss sat with a bullhorn on...
- Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- The value in name patients
- The value in name patientsYour assuming of course ....... that the surgery is successfull. What if he dies on the table or within 60 days after? Will people still want to use Duke?Probably won't make any difference unless...Dr. Friedman severely blunders. According to this article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200926.html?hpid=moreheadlinesthis is very...
- Tags: Friedman, patient, Kennedy, surgery
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Live from Google I/O 2008
- An estimated 2500+ developers descended on Moscone West today as Google started its first (annual?) Google I/O conference in San Francisco. The two day conference drew folks from all over the world. While I was waiting in line for registration, I met a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google App Engine, Performance Management, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Email voting for overseas troops?
- Email voting for overseas troops?So what's wrong with absentee ballots?I'm under the distinct impression that mail call is still a major part of military life. I think it's even still possible to send US mail out of war zones.A couple of more comments1. The Australian ballot, if my...
- Tags: ballot, e-voting, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle
- Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circleMicrosoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circleThere is no denying that Microsoft is in the right here. Yahoo screwed itself by making a deal with the devil. I hope the authorities hit Google very hard because of this.RE: Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circlethis is relay bad,...
- Tags: Corporate law, SECURITY, Microsoft-Yahoo-Google, vicious antitrust, antitrust, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Man mistakenly assigned Vonage number now has to go thru PITA of requesting it back
- Man mistakenly assigned Vonage number now has to go thru PITA of requesting it backpacket8 woesafter my own bad experience with packet8 i stumbled upon your blog and this post on the Vonage number blunder. in may case, packet8 charged me a disconnection fee of $59.99 for a number that...
- Tags: Blogging, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp., PITA
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Easy does it
- Here's a quick test for you. Every morning I go to the local "Y" for a hard, 30-minute workout. Around the same time my lovely bride walks from a train station to her desk, and later does it in reverse. Later, our lazy 16-year...
- Tags: Workout, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- Vonage customer cancels, then gets call from collection agency, and then...
- Wayne Anderson, from the south Chicago suburb of Antoich, was frustrated that - how shall we say this- his efforts to cancel his Vonage service wasn't handled with the smoothest business process best practices. Wayne was so p.o.'ed that he wrote into Stephanie...
- Tags: Agency, Vonage Holdings Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Snom VoIP phone vulnerability enables phone history theft, addy book poisoning, and more
- Fellow VoIP blogger and multi-skilled polymath Tom Keating picks up on security consultancy GNUCitizen.org's description of a security vulnerability in snom Technology's model 320 VoIP phone. GNUCitizen, in turn, found this via what they term a "side result" of a router hacking challenge...
- Tags: VoIP, Phone, Vulnerability, XSS, VoIP Phone, Snom, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Who is the open source candidate?
- A blog called Vanduska made the argument yesterday that Barack Obama is the candidate for open source. (To the right, the candidate and his mother circa 1964.) Vanduska recalls Obama's Google interview, where the gentleman from Illinois supported all the open source buzzwords -- network neutrality, Internet freedom,...
- Tags: Valley, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push
- Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML pushHmmmmInteresting load of bunk.Funny, they could not even give one example of something in a legacydocument that cannot be translated to ODF. Nor could they give even one example of something required for MS Office that can not be supported by ODF.Statements like this show they...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- Don't assume WPA2 is more secure than WPA
- Don't assume WPA2 is more secure than WPAWhatever you do, don't use WEP!Just to re-iterate a point: Don't use WEP. It can be broken in about a minute, so it's basically as secure as having an open connection with no security.Verizon uses WEP as Default on there DSLEvery verizon wireless...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Network security, SECURITY, NETWORKING, WEP, network, wireless, WPA2, WPA
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Microsoft Windows hardware leader takes a 'vacation'
- Microsoft Windows hardware leader takes a 'vacation'Better go get out while the gettin' is good.They also get tired of people laughing when they say they work at Microsoft.right decisionwhen the [i] Windows Hardware Ecosystem[i] vanished, what need for a leader is there?Linux is eating M$ lunch!Translation:In view of the recent...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, window, Microsoft Corp., zealot, hardware, leader
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
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