Jul 17, 2009

Mashable! Every company that’s built a major mobile platform is trying to make their platform attractive for developers and a great experience for users. Since Apple started their hugely popular iPhone App Store (recently they’ve reached a milestone of 1.5 billion downloaded apps), RIM, Google, Nokia, Palm, and Microsoft have followe (Read More)

Jun 29, 2009

Submitted by Athought: You've seen the titles of books & magazine headlines: "Fat Burning Foods"; "Eat More to Weigh Less" and it goes on & on. So what are these articles & books trying to teach us? THey're trying to get us to use the Thermic Effect of Food (TEF) to burn more calories, and yes, it does work. (Read More)

Jun 29, 2009

Submitted by Athought: Tropical Tricia is a variant of the team game known as Mafia or Werewolf − adapted for the world of software development. This variant changes the metaphors from "village", "killing" and "lynching" to "team", "sending off to vacation" and "firing", respectively. (Read More)

Jun 27, 2009

mashable Twitter has become an integral part of our social media lives, marketing strategies, and business objectives. We have multiple accounts, hundreds of followers to watch, Twitter trends to track, hashtags to follow, and a frequent need for continuously updating search results.As such, getting by on the limited feature set ava (Read More)

May 28, 2009

Submitted by Welovecrowds from blog: Wow! This story has been around since donations started for Eric De La Cruz, a Nine Inch Nails fan who has been denied a heart transplant because of the lack of transplant centers in Nevada, but I don’t think that anyone expected the campaign to be so successful. At this moment, over $850,000 has been raised, and I don’t do (Read More)

Oct 11, 2008

The Lazy Voice-Over N was an employee of one of India's top software organizations. He had joined them straight out of college and been an outstanding performer. Rising up from the Sales function he quickly moved to Delivery and then shifted to a new business unit.He had been for 6 years in the system when he was recognised as a potential futu (Read More)

May 24, 2009

Conversation Agent The future of news may very well be like its past - you-centric. As people and businesses are able to publish their content directly on digital and mobile media, the third party filter is shifting from media organizations to people through social consumption. Links and comments contribute to spreading and enriching the inf (Read More)

May 22, 2009

TechCrunch Venture Capitalist (Union Square Ventures) and blogger Fred Wilson gave a talk a few days ago at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View. The key point of his talk was about disruption — what companies are doing out there to change the technology space. Nothing Earth-shatteringly new, but interesting insights from a smart gu (Read More)

May 18, 2009

Twittown Blog - The Apps and Widgets Community and Forums - Big changes are in the works for Twitter and their realtime search features, says new Twitter VP of Operations Santosh Jayaram, changes that may spell the end of the status quo both for the microblogging platform in particular and the entire concept of organic searching in general.Jayaram, who previously worked on Google's (Read More)

May 05, 2009

Submitted by Athought: Sigh. Bob Nardelli "feels good."Those of you with elephantine memories will remember that I'm no fan of Bob Nardelli. The erstwhile CEO of Home Depot drove away customers by cutting back on full-time, experienced staff and replacing them with less knowledgeable part-timers. After torpedoing revenue, he then he spent money o (Read More)

Apr 30, 2009

Twittown Blog - The Apps and Widgets Community and Forums - Have you ever wondered what real life would be like if we talked like people talk on twitter? Here is what you can expect soon on the streets of your city if we were 'twittering' in the real world!. (Read More)

May 02, 2009

Submitted by Athought: Come to this talk to find out top ten tips for agile coaches from author of forthcoming book "Agile Coaching" The tips will be presented in a similar way to TV shows that do a countdown to the Number One tip and illustrate each with a personal coaching story. The coaching tips are:. (Read More)

May 01, 2009

Submitted by Athought: The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index™ has been developed to provide the official measure for health and well-being. It's the voice of Americans and the most ambitious effort ever undertaken to measure what people believe constitutes a good life. (Read More)

Apr 28, 2009

Submitted by Athought: If you were actually trying to be unproductive, what would you do? If someone were watching with a video camera from your ceiling, what behaviors would you change. Laura Stack dishes about particip...If you were actually trying to be unproductive, what would you do? If someone were watching with a video camera from your cei (Read More)

Apr 26, 2009

TechCrunch A spam-less Twitter feed might just be too good to be true. Spam is becoming an increasing problem on Twitter and something has to be done to separate the wheat from the chaff. Spammers are using Twitter as a tool by replying to your @username, which then causes the Tweets to show up in your timeline. There isn’t really a w (Read More)

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