The Financial Crisis Explained (4)
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NPR’s Fresh Air has been doing a very good job of demystifying the financial crisis. Here, we have an interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning financial journalist, Gretchen Morgenson. As you’ll see, the program (iTunes - RSS Feed - Stream Here) does an excellent job of connecting many small dots, explaining precisely how the recklessness of Wall Street threatens to spill over into Main Street and beyond, harming our individual and collective financial future. Even if ...
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runbuck said:
Hit the "Stream Here" link. This gal knows what she is talking about.
Facebook Lexicon Detective Work (1)
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Facebook Lexicon is a new amazing way to waste time. Search terms provide a graph of the frequency of a term showing up on Facebook “Wall Posts”. It’s fun to compare certain ones, and when strange spikes appear it’s interesting to try and pinpoint how come. My friend Praveen has been going nuts on it and we made some interesting discoveries: Drunk in blue, hungover in orange. Major downspike on Christmas, with the uptick in ...
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runbuck said:
Argentiero wins again ... excellent find.
Beatboxing Flute (1)
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To the tune of the Inspector Gadget Theme. So far viewed 14.5 million times. Pretty amazing. Take it away (and check out the musician’s CD here) … Added to our YouTube playlist. Subscribe to Our Feed
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runbuck said:
Dana you should appreciate this ... i think you play flute.
“I WILL eat your hand, Mommy.” (1)
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Remember the Old Days, when little kids were all intense-looking homicidal maniacs? Now you may say it was a bad thing that kids were all intense-looking homicidal maniacs Back Then. But how do you think we beat the damned Russians?!?! ***** UPDATE: In comments below, Katie M. reminds us where we’ve seen this little girl before: The BAD SEED Trailerby NilbogLAND
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runbuck said:
Leave it to argentiero ... quite amusing.
Leadership (21)
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Last week's column on bad IT management and the strong response from readers that followed show this to be a huge issue. There are WAY too many IT managers who either can't or shouldn't manage technical teams. Last week I maintained that having a firm technology base, or at least the ability and willingness to acquire one, was essential for good managers. While readers got carried away with which technical test is the best, I ...
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C.M said:
There's too many managers...
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Khan Tasinga said:
Gold... No, Platinum!
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runbuck said:
Excellent article here.
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César C said:
Liderazgo y organizaciones fractales
Could Linking to a Web Site Be a Bad Thing? (3)
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Talk about missing the point: A small-town mayor from the middle of nowhere is trying to force a Web developer to stop linking to his city’s Web site, according to a recently filed federal lawsuit. The mayor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin demanded Jennifer Reisinger take down links on her site that pointed to his city’s police department site, the suit (filed by Reisinger) claims. The suit says the city actually threatened a cease-and-desist order and even ...
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runbuck said:
Great ... we are getting some awesome press today.
Silverback : Usability Testing Software For The Mac (7)
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A New Type of Gorilla is Born Clearleft is comprised of skilled professionals who have a passion for the processes used to create usable websites. It was that passion that led to the birth of Silverback, a usability testing application for the Mac. Usability testing is something that is often overlooked for an array of different reasons: The cost and time is perceived as too high, and therefore left out of the scope of projects. ...
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Marty said:
$50 usability testing software - captures your participants' video and audio via webcam (built-in to your MacBook, right?) as well as screen interactions, with clicks highlighted. Pretty clever.
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runbuck said:
Impressive. UX testing software ... I need to check this out.
Wall Street's Collapse Delivers An Overdue Wake Up Call To Startups (8)
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Today Lehman is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and Merrill Lynch is being bought for chicken feed by Bank of America.The Wall Street sky is falling. but what does that mean to tech companies, and particularly to startups?The last five or six years have been all about community, "social media" and other related types of communications. That era has ended and the next phase of the Web will be about *real* productivity. That means ...
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runbuck said:
A valid point of the refocus on businesses driving true value.
Firefox is missing the point (37)
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I'm a devoted FF user, and have been forever. But the response to Chrome shouldn't be to launch new features. Here's the problem/challenge: when your friends switch to Firefox, your life doesn't get better. And the key to growing any piece of software (or just about any product or service, actually) is the opposite. People will recommend something if adoption improves their lives. Fax machines? Life is better for me if you have one. Fashion? ...
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Andy said:
why cant i automatically opt in to chat with anyone viewing the same website as me, or listening to the same artist in itunes?
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runbuck said:
Interesting point. Features should be ones that have an implied viral benefit (recommendation by customers bring more value to them).
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Bradford said:
This is exactly the positive network externalities that all software companies need to think about creating - not just firefox
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Kingsley said:
This sort of functionality is not super-hard to create, but hardly any apps leverage it.
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b said:
The war of the browsers with some common sense mixed in.
Fire Your Boss (10)
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This week marks the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. This week is also a time when the world economy is under stress comparable or greater to that imposed seven years ago. Whatever you are feeling in your wallet, I can't overemphasize the impact the current global credit crunch is having on our economy and that of other nations, including Germany and Japan. We're in a mess -- one that is ...
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runbuck said:
Great article. Especially his summary of his 9/11 article from back then. How people get agitated and do what they do well ... more vigorously ... whether its good or not.
Duplicate Cleaner Ferrets Out File Dupes [Featured Windows Download] (23)
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Windows only: Hunt down multiple copies of the same file with Duplicate Cleaner, a lightweight and quick duplicate file finder. Add multiple paths to Duplicate Cleaner's search, handy for de-duping a media collection that spans multiple drives. Filter your duplicate search by file type, content, size, and date of creation. Additionally Duplicate Cleaner offers support for MP3 metadata, including artist, title, and album, a fantastic feature for weeding out a large music collection. For additional ...
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runbuck said:
Now here is something we all can use.
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Srinvard said:
Run this on both computers later, time permitting
Best Video Conferencing Tools That Anyone Can Use - Sharewood Guide (1)
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Video conferencing tools allow you to use your standard webcam and broadband Internet connection to have multi-party videoconferences. Once reserved only to high-end and very costly proprietary hardware systems, videoconferencing tools and services have sharply grown in number and they now offer multiple useful alternatives that you can start using without having to spend a dollar. Video conferencing tools often integrate some complementary features beyond video, audio/VoIP and text chat, such as a file transfer ...
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runbuck said:
Video Tools. Solid list. Webex.
If you don’t “get” Facebook and Twitter, read this NY Times article (52)
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The NY Times is often considered the US newspaper of record, and it lives up to its reputation with an excellent article in today’s Sunday NY Times Magazine about the ambient awareness enabled by Facebook status updates, Twitter and other microblogging tools. Even readers familiar with both popular microblogging tools and their history should read this article. High points: Microblogging enables ambient awareness of your broad friendship group: In essence, Facebook users didn’t think they ...
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runbuck said:
Ambient awareness driving the interest in facebook. Interesting.
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Sam said:
I didn't read all of this, but I read enough to know that most people who don't get internet things should read this. They do a good job of talking about the effect it has on us, and why people really buy into some of these popular websites.
TOEFL test - about the exam (1)
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Information about the TOEFL exam as well as free practice tests.
Test of Language Development Development, Fourth Edition: TOLD-4 (EM-144) (1)
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Test of Language Development, Fourth Edition (TOLD-4) Primary and Intermediate
