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Bookmarks for September 5th through September 9th

by Ron Bieber on Tuesday, September 9, 2008

  • The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte – FLOSS Weekly – Podcast by Leo Laporte where he and his partner interview open source authors and companies. I've found this podcast extremely informative.
  • Suspekt… » Blog Archive » MySQL and SQL Column Truncation Vulnerabilities – "While SQL-Injection is one of the most discussed security problems in web applications other possible problems for SQL queries like overlong input are usually ignored although they can lead to all kinds of security problems."
  • Yammer Launches at TC50: Twitter For Companies – Announced at TechCrunch 5.0, we now have Twitter for Companies in a product called Yammer, which limits all visibility to your email domain.
  • Access GitHub repositories from work (take that, firewall!) – Using GitHub almost requires the use of ssh to access repositories securely. It is absolutely required to update repositories. Unfortunately, that can run afoul of the “IT overlords” in many corporate environments. At my workplace, a Microsoft ISA authenticating web proxy server is in place, restricting most outbound traffic. Specifically, port 22, the ssh port, is not allowed and that means I can’t pull or push to my repositories on GitHub.

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37Signals: Secrets To Amazons Success

September 20, 2007

37Signals has an article on the Signal vs. Noise blog about the Secrets To Amazons Success. Its a good read.
My favorites:

People’s side projects, the one’s they follow because they are interested, are often ones where you get the most value and innovation. Never underestimate the power of wandering where you [...]

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The Myths of Innovation and the Full Machiavelli Quote on Change

June 1, 2007

Last month I posted a quote from Nicolo Machiavelli on change that I had heard in a lecture by Carly Fiorina. I’ve recently picked up the book The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun where he includes the whole quote – which is much more interesting than the subset.

There is nothing more difficult [...]

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New Book Ordered

September 13, 2006

I just put in my order for Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising, after hearing an interview with Mary Lynn on this episode of the Agile Toolkit podcast. The book sounds quite interesting and sounds like just what I need these days.

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Gillmor Gang – User Driven Innovation

November 8, 2005

The latest Gillmor Gang podcast talks about a concept called “User Driven Innovation” using Google and other vendors who have opened up their API’s as an example of this concept. The main subject of the podcast is disruption, of which this is just a part.
User Driven Innovation is the opening of service API’s [...]

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Bar made from Crystal Clear Artic Ice Opens

October 6, 2005

In London, a bar opens that is made completely of arctic ice. You have to check this out. It’s the Fortress of Solitude for Alchoholics! For a small cover charge you are given a thermal cape and heavy gloves and a heavy glass made entirely of ice.

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Innovation

October 4, 2005

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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Killer Innovations Podcast

September 8, 2005

Looking around on iTunes this morning for some business podcasts to listen to I came across the Killer Innovations podcast put on by Phil McKinney.
I’ve only listened to a couple of episodes today during the commute, but overall I’m really liking it a lot. The episodes I’ve heard have given some pretty [...]

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Google Is At It Again

February 10, 2005

Probably one of the coolest companies around from a “pushing technology” perspective, Google has two new web sites that I am really impressed with. The first, Google Maps is a really cool competitor to Mapquest.
The second is Google Suggest. This one is way cool and [...]

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