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DreamHost Sets The Bar For Corporate Blogging

by Ron Bieber August 3, 2006 Business / Leadership

I’ve seen this blog entry from DreamHost (my web hosting provider) referenced a few times on the network. I finally got a chance this morning to sit down and read it. I have to say, I’m impressed with both the honesty and the transparency that DreamHost provides to their customers.
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Flowers For The Spouse of an Over Time Worker

by Ron Bieber July 23, 2006 Business / Leadership

Jonna started a new job a few months ago as a QA Analyst. She has been working tons of overtime over the past few months due to a new site launch. When we got back from the Bristol Renaissance Fair yesterday evening, we found these on the door step. [...]

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What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source

by Ron Bieber March 2, 2006 Business / Leadership

OnLamp had an excellent article yesterday called What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source. The articles pretty long, but well worth the read. While there are obvious differences in the two types of projects (like budgets and deadlines), I still believe that corporations can move closer to the OSS model [...]

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news @ nature.com – Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye – Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.

by Ron Bieber January 16, 2006 Business / Leadership

Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye – Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds. – From the article: “The discovery came as a surprise to some experts. “My colleagues believed it would be impossible to really see anything in less than 500 milliseconds,” says Gitte Lindgaard of Carleton [...]

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The Patent Epidemic

by Ron Bieber January 3, 2006 Business / Leadership

I found a reference to this on Slashdot – BusinessWeek has a really good article describing the goofiness that is the U.S. patent system.

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Review of The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

by Anton Cagle December 12, 2005 Books

While I found most of this book to be a little shallow and lightweight, I must say that it was very thought provoking. He has a few great nuggets in there that definitely made the read worth my time.

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Gartner: CIOs should prepare for ’second’ Internet

by Ron Bieber December 9, 2005 Business / Leadership

Gartner: CIOs should prepare for ’second’ Internet (InfoWorld). “The innovation is also happening in reverse, as more technologies are delivered to end users and consumers first and businesses second”. This is weird. I just said something along these lines to my boss this afternoon …

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Google: Ten Golden Rules – - MSNBC.com

by Ron Bieber December 7, 2005 Business / Leadership

Google: Ten Golden Rules – MSNBC.com – An article on MSNBC on how Google manages their “knowledge workers”. Interesting read, especially given the climate of IT right now.

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Xooglers

by Ron Bieber November 25, 2005 Business / Leadership

I found a reference to Xooglers, self explained as “A gathering spot for ex-Googlers to reminisce and comment on the latest developments in search”. Some interesting reading here.

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How People Work At Google

by Ron Bieber November 17, 2005 Business / Leadership

Forbes.com has an interesting article describing the environment over at Google.
From the article: “Hundreds of projects go on at the same time. Most teams throw out new software in six weeks or less and look at how users respond hours later. With 82 million visitors and 2.3 billion searches [...]

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How Microsoft Can Compete Against Open Source

by Ron Bieber November 13, 2005 Business / Leadership

Scott Johnson, a cofounder of Feedster.com writes an open letter to Robert Scoble articulating his ideas on How Microsoft Can Compete Against Open Source. Interesting read and makes a lot of sense.

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Creating Passionate Users: When clients (and bosses) go bad…

by Ron Bieber November 9, 2005 Business / Leadership

Creating Passionate Users: When clients (and bosses) go bad… – Excellent article on overtime and how companies should put employees first. Primary point in this one, “If we want to make happy users, we have to be happy. Our employers/managers/clients need to accept that, and act accordingly.” – Must read for Managers.

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Open Source, Open Wallet

by Ron Bieber November 7, 2005 Business / Leadership

This article talks about the rise in VC interest in companies whose products are based on an open source model.

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Should Geeks Dress the Business Part?

by Ron Bieber November 5, 2005 Business / Leadership

This article from The Register argues that geeks should wear “real clothes” and that CEO’s should enforce a dress code for the IT department. A follow up article entitled Geeks Agree – ‘We Need To Dress Better’ publishes feedback from readers.

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Microsoft ogles Google’s goodies

by Ron Bieber November 2, 2005 Business / Leadership

Microsoft ogles Google’s goodies – Financial Times

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Innovation

by Ron Bieber October 4, 2005 Business / Leadership

Yesterday I watched a video of a lecture given by Gary Hamel, author of Competing for the Future with our management team. The lecture was excellent, pointing out some of the very real problems with innovation in corporate environment.
One of the things that Gary points out in the lecture it is very hard [...]

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Troubling Exits at Microsoft

by Ron Bieber September 18, 2005 Business / Leadership

BusinessWeek has an article called Troubling Exits at Microsoft that talks about how Microsoft employees are leaving to move to other companies such as Google. There are quotes from employees such as “There’s a distinct lack of passion, we’re missing some spunk”. Quite interesting considering the place Microsoft used to be, where [...]

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iPod Nano

by Ron Bieber September 14, 2005 Business / Leadership

Would you kill your best selling product in order to realize your vision and keep innovation happening in your market? Steve Jobs did.

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Manager Tools Podcast

by Ron Bieber September 14, 2005 Business / Leadership

Over the last couple of days I’ve been catching up on a podcast I found through iTunes called Manager Tools created by Michael Auzenne and Mark Horstman. Each episode is about 30 minutes or so and give advice and useful process around things you should be doing to improve your skills as a [...]

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