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Social design advice for Starbucks

Starbucks announced today it will begin a daily "Good Sheet" of news about politics, health care and other issues that it will distribute in its stores as a way to start conversations. According to a Starbucks executive quoted by The Motley Fool, the company is looking for "conversation starters." It...

Tags: Starbucks Corp., Store, Good Sheet Experiment, Corporate Communications, Social Networking, Digital Music, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-08

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IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeating

IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeatingOS/2 was the best OS...ever written at the time. It would still compete with anything MS has ever written. It was fast and you couldn't crash it. Even if you tried.You mention XP has its limitations. What are they?If anybody is planning on encroaching...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, desktop, IBM Corp., Linux, distro

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

ModelSheet: good in theory, needs more work

Modelsheet is pitched as a product that is supposed to make the development of complex models much easier than the default 'Excel way.' In theory it removes a number of the steps necessary to ensure data accuracy and template integrity. However, there are usability issues that need urgent attention. ...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Theory, Spreadsheet, ModelSheet, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Web Browsers, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-20

2007 Acura RL

Photo gallery:2007 Acura RLThe 2007 Acura RL occupies an odd place among its competitors. As the top of Acura's model line-up, it should be the best the brand has to offer. But the cabin isn't particularly luxurious, the body style unremarkable, and the performance mediocre. However, it comes loaded with...

Tags: Acura, Acura RL, CMBS, brake

Product reviews 2007-06-27

2007 Mercedes-Benz GL450

The 2007 Mercedes-Benz GL450 is about as much Teutonic luxosheetmetal to use a compound German phrase as you can get on four wheels. At more than 200 inches in length, the seven-seat SUV has plenty of room to transport five full-size passengers in comfort, and even some usable room left...

Tags: Mercedes-Benz GL450, wine

Product reviews 2007-03-15

Microsoft to offer book search

Microsoft to offer book searchI coulda used soemething like that to write a book paper easilyIt was some French work about the poor and the wretched and how they stain the leather shoes of Google's leadership. Ballmer was chasing one of the main characters around constantly and then died...

Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, Microsoft Corp., public domain, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-10-25

Proof that XML is extremely bloated

When I wrote this blog blasting the massive bulk of XML, our own John Carroll responded with a defense of XML for some situations. John and I both agree that XML should not be used to handle large amounts of data because of increased storage and processing requirements, we...

Tags: XML file, XML

Blog posts 2005-09-09