Sep 06, 2009

Submitted by Thatdavidmiller from Google Reader: Franken Talks Down Angry Mob (via dustytrice) Franken has really leaned into his new career with a verve and zest that is surprisingly effective for a newbie. Watching T.E.A. PARTY lady’s face contort as she tries to find a surface of the argument to attack is pretty funny. Al simply connects with her too well. (Read More)

Nov 25, 2008

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader: HPL-2008-196 Taming Heterogeneous NIC Capabilities for I/O Virtualization - Santos, Jose Renato; Turner, Yoshio; Mudigonda, Jayaram Keyword(s): virtualization, I/O, networking, management, configuration Abstract: The recent emergence of network interface cards (NICs) with diverse hardware features for I/O virtualizati (Read More)

Jul 29, 2009

Paul Graham: Essays I so deeply love this simple piece from Paul Graham: I find one meeting can sometimes affect a whole day. A meeting commonly blows at least half a day, by breaking up a morning or afternoon. But in addition there’s sometimes a cascading effect. If I know the afternoon is going to be broken up, I’m slightly less likely to s (Read More)

Jul 28, 2009

readwriteweb Google announced today that everyone using Google Apps enterprise or education editions can now use their organization's domain as a federated single sign-on. That means that millions of schools, businesses and other organizations can now use their Apps accounts as an OpenID. For a movement that has seen adoption held back (Read More)

Jul 24, 2009

Dilbert.com Blog A Dilbert readers sends this story...I work at a national chain bookstore and a customer wanted to return agift he got from a different bookstore that went out of business. Forget the fact it wasn't bought from us, or the fact the customer didn't have a receipt, and forget the added insult that the product was used(the page (Read More)

Jul 20, 2009

Submitted by Thatdavidmiller from Google Reader: Near the end of the new contractor’s first week, Taka Sora was starting to wonder if he made the right hiring decision. Richard – the contractor in question – seemed to know his Action Script 3, but there was just something about him that wasn’t right. And it wasn’t the strange noises that he was making all day.Richard was (Read More)

Jul 23, 2009

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Jul 20, 2009

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Jul 16, 2009

Submitted by Thatdavidmiller from Google Reader: Well isn't this twitteriffic. (Read More)

Jun 15, 2009

ReadWriteWeb On-demand streaming music service Spotify just announced the addition of more than 90,000 releases to its catalogue. The announcement came on the heels of their recent deal with CD baby, and users will be pleased. The company published two lists sorted by artists and labels early this morning. While Spotify is not yet avail (Read More)

Apr 29, 2009

Signal vs. Noise Politifact just won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its coverage of the 2008 election. The board cited PolitiFact’s use of “probing reporters and the power of the World Wide Web to examine more than 750 political claims, separating rhetoric from truth to enlighten voters.” Matt Waite, one of the site’s founde (Read More)

Apr 14, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Thanks to its extensibility, Firefox quickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional, Mozilla's designers are also currently thinking about a complete redesign of the way the browser looks and feels, in order to keep up with changing usage patter (Read More)

Apr 14, 2009

Submitted by Dobata from Google Reader: There’s something about the Diggbroglio that has left me scratching my head: how is it that so many people are up in arms about the DiggBar when they’ve had nothing to say about the framing bars of StumbleUpon, FaceBook, etc. etc.?Now, please note that I’m not saying the DiggBar, or any other framing bar, is cool and we sh (Read More)

Mar 31, 2009

Robert Scoble - FriendFeed Jason Fried looks at Get Satisfaction from the perspective of a company that already has their own customer support infrastructure: They also have a certificate-like customer-company pact agreement that they’d like you to sign. And if you don’t, they’ll make an outlandish claim about your lack of commitment to your custome (Read More)

Mar 25, 2009

Submitted by Thatdavidmiller from Google Reader: Last week Google’s street view came to London and oh Lordy did the English flip out. I can’t count the number of conversations where I’ve had to explain to Londoners that London is not the first city to get street view and that, no it’s not only for pedophiles, perverts and nosey parkers.The thing that really gets me in th (Read More)

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