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  • Let’s Talk About Meetings

    Meetings how about you and I talk. Why are there so many of you, why do they so often turn into present and inform sessions when they should be plan and decide. Why is it so easy to schedule one of you, 30 seconds of work and an hour of 5 people’s time is gone […]

  • Secret Santa Project

    It’s the holiday season and that means you are buying a lot of gifts and probably along the way doing at least one gift exchange. Probably the most well known of these (at least here in the US) is Secret Santa. My family does Secret Santa amongst ourselves and this year I decided to modernize […]

  • What About the Open Web?

    Facebook: FarmVille is bigger than Twitter, beyond insane when I think about it. To prove the popularity of these extra-curricular sections of Facebook, Johnson explained: “Applications make up a huge part of Facebook. There are over 90,000 applications on Facebook. “69 million active users are using FarmVille alone, that’s more users than Twitter.” Interestingly, Facebook […]

  • Quite Literally the Only Icon List You Need

    This may quite literally be the only icon list you need. A few of my favorites: Color Stroked – a very nice set of hand drawn icons, especially for using for social media links and even better free for commercial use. 2experts – nice and dark icons, good to use for a dashboard and again […]

  • links for 2009-11-29

    National Partnership for Women & Families: U.S. Rates of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis Continue To Rise, CDC Study Says "Rates of the three most common sexually transmitted infections in the U.S. — chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis — continue to increase, especially among teenagers, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Monday, Reuters […]

  • Updates to Netflix for Books

    As an update on my idea for a Netflix type system for books. I realized while discussing the idea with family members over the weekend that there is one important change that probably needs to be made. To make this idea a viable business you would almost have to only allow for e-books. While you […]

  • links for 2009-11-28

    In The Age Of Realtime, Twitter Is Walter Cronkite "That said, there is no denying that right now, Twitter, the brand, is the winning channel for this new type of news consumption. It’s the Walter Cronkite for real-time information. And when the next major event happens, an increasing number of us will be huddled around […]

  • links for 2009-11-27

    matt langer – What am I not grateful for this Thanksgiving?… "What am I not grateful for this Thanksgiving? Being the guy who “knows stuff about computers”." (tags: technology cloudcomputing windows techsupport family humor) What Startups Are Really Like "Unconsciously, everyone expects a startup to be like a job, and that explains most of the […]

  • links for 2009-11-26

    Clients From Hell : Prospective client: $400 for a logo?! Why are you… "Prospective client: $400 for a logo?! Why are you so expensive? My nephew has Photoshop—I can just get him to do it." Beyond beautiful response. (tags: humor design webdesign graphics)

  • links for 2009-11-25

    Non Sequitur — UCLICK GoComics.com Social networking lets me resent more people. (tags: socialnetworking humor comic twitter facebook nonsequitur) Get Fuzzy free online comic strip library at comics.com "Cats don't do anything" (tags: humor comic getfuzzy) Underscore.js "Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you […]

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