The Entrepreneur Tax that Kills Business
All governments, including the Norwegian, talk at length about how to stimulate growth among small businesses and the need to focus on innovation. To accomplish their goals various schemes are offered; grants, tax reductions or state backed industry plans. But while other governments try to help small businesses, the Norwegian government at the same time […]
Causes Leaves MySpace for FaceBook
Causes is a social networking donation platform that uses MySpace so that people can raise money for causes or issues that they believe in. Generally these kinds of activities help provide a community around issues like Breast Cancer, or stop smoking, or other issues that are part of our daily life. Causes is an excellent […]
Our Programmers are not like Your Programmers
With apologies to Intel for usurping and corrupting their commercial tag line, in a classic “our rock stars are not like your rock stars” move, Stack Overflow (one of the best programming information web sites out there lately) has opened up a job board with a twist, employers will browse and beg you to work […]
Another Face of Microsoft Leaves – this time via a Firing
I am a diehard Microsoft Fan boy – even though I own an Apple and Linux boxes and use AWS for most of my infrastructure needs at work and at play, Microsoft still is an important part of my normal work day. But with the release of Don Dodge (who I have met at a […]
Twitter Facebook Fantasy Football and other productivity losses
Just a quick note this morning on the idea of random numbers and productivity losses around the use of social networking, but other sacred cows like Fantasy Football we shrug at. Companies do not generally tend to block access to Fantasy Football sites, but the productivity loss playing the Fantasy Football game can amount to […]
Why you Need a Public and a Private Profile in Social Networking
Social networking when taken from the viewpoint of connecting people works; it is a brilliant way of getting people together across various age and demographic groups. The side effect of all this is that as we become more highly connected to each other we do tend to end up living in a fish bowl, everyone […]
Industry Expert Panel Discussion on Data Privacy
We all have a vested interest in how data and data privacy is enacted by companies, regardless of the environment, cloud, mobile (laptop, cell phones), private Data Center, or anything else that is a combination of the above. Companies have a vested interest in keeping their customers data private and clear of distortion or error. […]
Social Media Oops Means We Get a Deep View at Microsoft
Reports are all over the internet that an employee at Microsoft has discussed the future of Windows, and what might be in line for the entire company. While the original blurb has been pulled down, this is not the first time that a social networking oops has fundamentally altered the career trajectory of an employee. […]
Newspapers Do Not Need a Tax Bailout
Over on “the hill” a blog news site comes news that there is a newspaper tax bailout bill being seriously proposed in Washington. Newspapers do not need a bailout bill; they need to restructure to meet the needs of the new way of doing things. Much like buggy whips, assembly before the assembly line, the […]
Is Google the Next Media Company?
Think about this for a moment, Google mail, YouTube, Google book search, soon to come Google Wave, and a plethora of other stuff, the only thing that Google is missing is a distribution contract with RIAA and the MPAA. With Google Checkout that might be one way to get the lagging payment system by Google […]
Crowdsourcing Ideas: Apparently Marijuana Is All California Needs
California has several big issues that need to be tackled. Our state budget seems to perpetually be in deficit mode, with drawn-out battles for resolving the red ink. The education system, once a shining jewel in the world, now produced some of the low test scores in the country. The state infrastructure must be upgraded […]
If Only Tank Man Had Twitter
Today is the Anniversary of Tiananmen Square. Tiananmen square what? How can a square have an anniversary? For at least another generation people can no longer think of the square anymore, but the massacre that put an abrupt end to two months of protests. It’s easy to forget about, but we shouldn’t – this is […]
