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Are programmers underpaid, or executives overpaid?

Are programmers underpaid, or executives overpaid?Start his own company of course"What's a programmer who's already at the top of his or her development track to do?"No one ever hired Bill Gates or Michael Dell as an executive. They hired themselves.we should outsource executives to India;)Haven't seen a 3% raise...

Tags: likeness, Dilbert Principle, Dilbert, incompetence

Discussion threads 2006-08-28

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Ohmigod! Social networkers just can't take it any more!

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk parses the latest numbers from ComScore on social network activity. While looking for something that amused me and stopped me from replying to the likeness quiz invitation and seventy others from lonely Japanese friends on Facebook, I stumbled upon some numbers from ComScore...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Minute, ComScore Networks Inc., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 (rar)

Photo Game Face, a new feature of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, lets you use photos of your face to create an ultra-realistic likeness of yourself in the game. Your Photo Game Face can be used with any custom golfer profile you make. Modify...

Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Photograph

Software downloads 2008-01-02

Should students be allowed to tape and post videos of their teachers?

  An article I came across in Education Week points to a disturbing trend- kids who take camera-enabled cellphones to class, sneakingly record some "footage" of their teachers, edit this "content," and then post it on YouTube, MySpace or similar sites. Some ironies here. In...

Tags: Video, Teacher, Honowar, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Vietnam Memorial site defaced with Turkish messages

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial website was vandalized by a hacker promoting Turkish nationalism, who posted a video and message against the United States and Israel, The Washington Post reports. Users of the site who searched for U.S. casualties by date were sent to an all-red Web page adorned with...

Tags: Message, Corporate Communications, Wiki, Federal Government, Search, Marketing, Online Communications, Government, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-20

Does a disagreement on Mac fonts warrant libel and a death note?

Does a disagreement on Mac fonts warrant libel and a death note?What do you want, his email address?ntDo you need help finding it?You could try Google. I hear it helps people find things. For example, if I were to google the words, "George Ou" "Mac OS X" ...

Tags: Blogging, Mr Ou, font, Apple Macintosh, blog

Discussion threads 2007-08-30

Chris Pirillo is socialsquatted; does the law care?

Chris Pirillo is socialsquatted; does the law care?pownce.com/chrispirillo is okHaving pownce.com/chrispirillo, in my opinion, has to be OK. Here's my thought - the /chrispirillo indicates a directory and not a domain, sub-domain or alternate domain. If chrispirillo.pownce.com was the squatted name, then this would fall in the sub-domain category and...

Tags: Domain names, Chris Pirillo, pownce.com/chrispirillo, domain name

Discussion threads 2007-07-30

Chris Pirillo is socialsquatted; does the law care?

Chris Pirillo is on Pownce at pownce.com/chrispirillo, and has 69 friends. Or wait, that's not Chris. I can scarcely catalog the related legal considerations, which include:Can Chris stop someone from using his name and likeness without his consent? Possibly, under right of publicity laws, but the ones...

Tags: Trademark, Tags, Social networking, Live Web, Identity, Free speech, Defamation

Blog posts 2007-07-28

A meritless lawsuit that's not worth the ink (real or electronic) used to report it

A meritless lawsuit that's not worth the ink real or electronic used to report itBarratry?From the sounds of the quote, isn't this barratry? IANALThis case is a keeperIf I were Matt Graves, I would have said: "You're trying to sue us into being your customers? Not even Sony was that...

Tags: Now Let, lawsuit

Discussion threads 2007-05-11

'Vote Different' maker steps forward, loses job

'Vote Different' maker steps forward, loses jobUnfortunatePhilip de Vellis is to be commended for his creativity and for exercising his right to make political commentary on his own time using his own resources. It is unfortunate that Blue State Digital, in what appears to be a sad attempt...

Tags: job, deVellis, Philip, advertisement, GOP

Discussion threads 2007-03-23

Viacom v. YouTube represents a watershed moment in video policy

Viacom v. YouTube represents a watershed moment in video policyAdd a copyright statement to videos.Perhaps Viacom and other content providers should add a couple of bytes to each frame to indicate that a particular video is copyrighted and thus allow a service such as YouTube could then block the upload....

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Corporate communications, video, YouTube Inc., User Submissions, Viacom Inc., Web site

Discussion threads 2007-03-14

Viacom falls in love with Joost, ditches YouTube

Viacom falls in love with Joost, ditches YouTubeRe: Viacom falls in love with Joost, ditches YouTubeWow, this Joost sounds really cool. May I have an invitation?My email is jorlubbner@gmail.comjoosti would love a joost invite!please send one to himynameisjonas .a. gmail dot comStill got the joost invites open?If you do send...

Tags: Joost, dot-com, YouTube Inc., Viacom Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-02-20

MySpace to offer technology to block sex offenders

MySpace to offer technology to block sex offendersbeatboxDo they really think this is going to get rid of sex offenders? Like they supply valid information in the first place...get real.lol what a wastehow many sex offenders use thier acutal name on myspace?.... thats not goinna work i dont think..Waste of...

Tags: Firewalls, Modems, Monitors & displays, pervert, Sexual Offender, MySpace, sex offender

Discussion threads 2006-12-05

More on Microsoft's need to show (if it can) Linux's patent infringement

My blogging colleague and ZDNet editorial director David Berlind sent me an interesting follow-up note on my call for Microsoft to show proof that Linux is infringing on Windows patents -- as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer alleged last week. Berlind -- who has written more than his fair...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, patent, Microsoft Corp., Linux

Blog posts 2006-11-20

Riya launches Like.com visual similarity shopping

Riya launches Like.com visual similarity shoppingIt is not about the technology, but the problem it solvesDan, Great job on this story. A year ago I was skeptical of Riya based on my past experience at AltaVista. Now I think Riya has a much better chance of success focusing on the...

Tags: Riya

Discussion threads 2006-11-08

Riya launches Like.com visual similarity shopping

Riya’s facial search service was one of the first darlings of the Web 2.0 world. The company garnered more than $15 million in venture capital to make facial and object search as easy as text search. It turned out that searching by facial similarity was a nice bit of computer...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology, web2con, Like.com, Munjal Shah

Blog posts 2006-11-08

Michael Crook gets publicity as defendant, but probably has no publicity defense

EFF filed a lawsuit this week seeking to prevent abuses of the notice and takedown provisions of the DMCA.  The suit involves Michael Crook, who became notorious earlier this year  à la Jason Fortuny for revealing salacious and personal details about various Craigslisters to whom Crook had masqueraded as a...

Tags: Blogging, Copyright, DMCA, Free speech, Live Web, Social networking, Video, Attention

Blog posts 2006-11-04

ImageToASCII (zip)

This app generates ASCII art from any input image you supply. You load an image (.jpg, .bmp) and tune a few parameters, then click the Image-To-ASCII button to see the ASCII art. ASCII art is the use of text characters such as letters, numbers and punctuation marks to display an...

Tags: ASCII, Image, ASCII Art

Software downloads 2006-10-19

Perpetual questioning is the price of liberty

In More on wikipedia and expertise and gatekeepers and quality, JP Rangaswami says regarding Jaron Lanier's Digital Maoism: Let me end by saying that any medium of expression has the capacity to be subverted into a propaganda machine. The internet is not a medium of expression, it is a...

Tags: JP Rangaswami, Politics

Blog posts 2006-09-06

A new war between Sun and HP?

This time, the two computer companies are not fighting for market share, but about a wooden sculpture of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, the HP founders. As wrote 'The Register' in Sun buys Hewlett and Packard, HP refused to put a Hewlett and Packard sculpture in its lobby. So Sun...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-08-20