Tag: business

ReadWriteWeb – Quora Blocks Startup Search Engines
This is an awful move by a startup to prevent other startups from being able to access data and gain the ability to search a site.
January 29, 2011
The New Yorker – News Desk: Why Is Eric Schmidt Stepping Down at Google?
This is super short article but man it details the entire story of Schmidt leaving Google as C.E.O.
January 24, 2011
Seth’s Blog – A culture of testing
I really enjoy that last sentence and Netflix is probably one of the great business built up around testing everything possible.
January 24, 2011
Rands In Repose – Managing Nerds
How does one go about managing nerds.
January 22, 2011
NYTimes.com – F.C.C. Seeks Mandatory Alerts of Cellphone Overage Charges
Remembers kids we can’t have the carriers implement a solution that might make them less money.
January 22, 2011
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Sony v. Hotz: Sony Sends A Dangerous Message to Researchers — and Its Customers
Oh silly companies, let’s attack security researchers for finding exploitable holes in our software/hardware.
January 19, 2011
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox – 10 Best Intranets of 2011
Interestingly enough social networking features work really well for intranets, not so surprisingly what makes an effective website is slightly different from what makes a good intranet.
January 16, 2011
ConceivablyTech – The Ultimate Patent Troll Patent: Get Sued When You File A Patent
Just when you thought patents couldn’t get any more stupid, IBM comes through.
January 3, 2011
Center for the Study of the Public Domain – What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011?
Wouldn’t it be nice if copyright actually made some sense, but that’s crazy talk.
January 2, 2011
ASCII – Yahoo!locaust
That sounds like the Yahoo we all hate.
January 1, 2011