GOOG is a powerful recruiting incentive for Google. Google is now embarking on an innovative online auction process enabling Googlers to sell vested stock options:Under the Transferable Stock Option program, employees will still be able to exercise their options, but will also be able to sell their options to financial...
Watching a grade four class "working" with computers the other day made me wonder what we're teaching these kids - and, equally importantly, about what we're not teaching them. According to the school, PCs are used for educational purposes: to access educational websites and run educational programs. ...
The Consortium for School Networking has launched a free online program to help technology leaders make the best purchasing decisions. The Value of Investment website is "one of the most important things" the organization has done, Consortium CEO Keith Krueger said. The program is intended to assure...
Back in my grandfather's day people had an easy way to define your value to society. They asked what class you were in. Were you upper class, middle class, or lower class?The class you were in defined your value to society. Class was inherited. It could be changed – that...
In one his latest posts, David Linthicum asks a very good question that everyone will need to think about: When building a SOA, how do you know when you're done? As with all things, the return is greatest when you start out, reaches some type of crescendo, then falls...
After working on a social network analytics system for two years, here are some initial thoughts on the meaning and value of the many economies proposed as foundations for measuring social networks. My contention: Influence, the conversion of one's basic ability to attend to and convert the raw material...
This is a real estate decade, so all of you should understand the time value of money.You borrow $1 million to build a project. The money costs $100,000 a year (if it's a risky project). But if you sell that project in a half-year, the money only cost you $50,000....
Baseline Magazine has come up with its list of the 100 Smartest Companies, but it's not evident that the top companies really have more brain power than the field. The rankings are based on the value that people, using the 'tools' available to them, bring to a company, measured ba...
My fellow Tablet PC MVP Warner Crocker is helping out the fine folks at the Note Talkers blog by acting as a judge in a contest they're currently running that offers some dandy prizes. Here are the basics: Note Talkers, Mindjet, and our affiliated Sponsors value innovation. That’s...
The New York Times redesigns its online site the first major one in five years to make the reader experience "simpler and more useful," including links to the most blogged articles, topic pages, personal pages with guidance from NYT editors and more emphasis on multimedia content. All very nice,...
I wish there was an easy way to move from one economic system to another without a lot of upheaval and discomfort, but it just isn't so. Simple hacks of intellectual transactions (or S.H.I.T., my catchy phrase for changing human economic behavior) don't come along very often and almost...
I was chatting this morning with Steven Grandchamp, CEO of OpenLogic, whose new version of BlueGlue lets companies certify their entire open source software stacks, not just those 150 projects OpenLogic already supports. He was bragging on the hiring of Stormy Peters from H-P as their new director of product...
The value of the top 100 outsourcing deals in 2004 decreased by 1.2% from $69.1 bln in 2003 to $68.3 bln in 2004. However, qualifying for the top 100 in 2004 required a minimum deal value of $184 mln, a 5.1% increase from 2003. The share of BPO and processing...
According to economic theory, the shares of a public company should be worth the discounted net present value of its future earnings divided by the number of shares issued. That's theory, but Google today has a market cap of $100 billion on revenues of perhaps $6 billion while Sun has...
Who does the following scenario describe: An online Web site grabs a bunch of content created by others and puts ads on it in an effort to generate cash. Content owners are angry at being exploited. ...
The value of outsourcing contracts has dropped by 10-15% for 2005, according to TPI. Contract value is likely to drop to between $60-65 bln from its $72 bln average in recent years. Q3 2005 saw a record gain of 11% in the total number of outsourcing contracts signed and the...
FCW.com reports that the House is seeking new technology to better reach Spanish speakers. Specifically, they're researching commercial human-based and machine-based foreign-language interpreter systems that will, for the time being, provide only English-to-Spanish services. The move will save lawmakers from the trouble of hiring bilingual staff to update FirstGov en...
Revenue earned by consumer broadband value-added services BVAS more than doubled during 2004, Point Topic says. At the beginning of 2004 it was running at an annual rate of about $3.3 bln worldwide. By the end of the year the figure was $6.9 bln. The increase in the run-rate...
Novell's donation of the Hula Project to the community reminds me of one of my favorite copyright stories, that of the movie It's a Wonderful Life(right, from Amazon.Com). The movie's great vogue came after its copyright expired. Every TV station with airtime around Christmas played it over-and-over. Then, seeing its...
Stephen Shankland writes about the forthcoming GPL version 3. One comment posted to Shankland's piece needs addressing. The poster writes, "The key point is: software has value, and the GPL is intended to negate that value." Obviously, this person, and many others, has a very limited idea of what "value"...
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