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Bookmarks for March 22nd through March 25th

by Ron Bieber on Thursday, March 26, 2009

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Bookmarks for March 18th through March 22nd

March 22, 2009

Sequel Pro — MySQL database management app for Mac OS X – "Manage your MySQL databases with the best looking MySQL Database Management App on Mac OS X. Sequel Pro is the perfect tool for working with database-driven websites and applications with support for MySQL 3, MySQL 4 and MySQL 5 databases. "
Exec pay defies [...]

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Bookmarks for February 4th through February 6th

February 7, 2009

Why you shouldn't copy us or anyone else – (37signals) – "So bottom line: Copying hurts you. You miss out on what makes something good. Instead, try to be exposed to a variety of perspectives and points of view. Take whatever you find useful and leave the rest behind. Fill in the gaps with your [...]

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Bookmarks for January 3rd through January 7th

January 7, 2009

Application Platform Strategies Blog: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services – "SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession. SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”."
has_many :through – Agile [...]

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Bookmarks for October 22nd through October 23rd

October 23, 2008

Internet Evolution – Andrew Keen – Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping – "One of the very few positive consequences of the current financial miasma will be a sharp cultural shift in our attitude toward the economic value of our labor. Mass unemployment and a deep economic recession comprise the most effective antidote to [...]

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Bookmarks for October 15th through October 17th

October 17, 2008

Zend Studio for Eclipse – No file extension as PHP – Good example of the use of Twitter for technical support of a product. Way to go Zend!
Balsamiq Studios, makers of plugins for Web Office applications | Balsamiq – "Create software mockups in minutes, iterate over them with your team, then embed them in [...]

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Bookmarks for September 30th through October 6th

October 6, 2008

America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree – Chronicle.com – "College is a wise choice for far fewer people than are currently encouraged to consider it. It's crucial that they evenhandedly weigh the pros and cons of college versus the aforementioned alternatives. The quality of their lives may depend on that choice. "
How to Install [...]

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Bookmarks for September 25th through September 28th

September 28, 2008

Updated GIT Packages for Ubuntu – This site provides more up to date GIT packages for Ubuntu than come with the distribution.
Want to attract and retain Gen Y? Better rethink everything – "In order to appeal to us, employers need to rethink their rules a bit. Forget rigid 40-hour workweeks. Forget traditional company hierarchy. "
The [...]

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Quote of the Week by Mike Arrington

March 26, 2008

I finally got around to listening to The Gang XX tonight and thought this quote from Mike Arrington was priceless:

This is the reason why I’ve never raised money, because the one thing I don’t want to do is go to a monthly board meeting and listen endlessly to people telling me how to run my [...]

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Circuit City – “Advantage” Protection Plan?

April 8, 2007

Our son bought an MP3 player from Circuit City a year ago. With it, he bought a two year “extended warrantee” that the store offers called their “Advantage Protection Plan”.
A couple of months ago, the unit stopped working. He and Jonna went through all the rigamarole of pre-work they require before you [...]

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Calacanis Interviews Evan Williams, Co Founder of Twitter

April 3, 2007

I really enjoyed Jason’s interview with Evan Williams (co-founder of Twitter, Odeo, and Blogger) especially Evan’s “lessons learned” about entrepreneurism:
1. Focus
2. Small things can become big.
3. Don’t go too wide.
4. Trust your gut.
5. Don’t do anything you aren’t absolutely passionate about.

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Ed Gibbs on Enterprise Tools

January 14, 2007

A great post by Ed Gibbs entitled “Wasting Money on Expensive Enterprise Tools”. Its shocking sometimes how much money is spent on things just because they have the word “enterprise” in their description. Anyone in IT will smile to themselves when reading this post.

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DreamHost Sets The Bar For Corporate Blogging

August 3, 2006

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.
I’ve been [...]

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The Flickr vs. Zoomr Thing …

June 21, 2006

I was really glad to read Stewart Butterfields response to the whole Zoomr API key thing that happened over the weekend.
The first thing I thought of when hearing about the hub-bub first on Tom the Architects blog and then on yesterdays Geek News Central (I’m a little behind lately) was the article Strategy III: [...]

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BostonHerald.com – Technology News: Gates to give up daily role at Microsoft

June 16, 2006

Bill Gates to give up daily role at Microsoft – Article from the Boston Herald.

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The Nightmare of Cancelling AOL

June 14, 2006

Vincent Ferrari recorded his attempt to cancel his AOL account. Its really something to listen to. The original article can be found currently on DugMirror, due to the fact that Vincents servers are currently getting a lot of traffic.

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Interview with Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, Founders of MySpace

January 5, 2006

Forbes has an interesting interview with Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, the founders of MySpace, in which they talk about how they built such a successful site in two years. Its nice to see a story of a couple of guys that used common sense to be successful.

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Corporate Blogging Increases Sales?

January 3, 2006

Hugh Macleod talks about how bloggers helped to double the sales of Stormhoek wines in less than 12 months. Interesting read. The most interesting distinction in this one is how participating in blogging changes the company more than the market.

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Google: Ten Golden Rules – - MSNBC.com

December 7, 2005

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

November 9, 2005

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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