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Teachers have been removed or suspended for MySpace postings, and some teachers unions have begun warning members about racy personal Web sites. But as Facebook, with 70 million members, scrutiny will no doubt spread locally.
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Total Users: 1+ million
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Here’s how the “Cravath System” from the 1900s works. Bring lots of new employees in, team them up with mentors, provide real work to do, and give them a choice: either get lots of great experience and get out, or work hard for a higher-up position
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Disney Fairies is social networking for six year olds, and noted that kids connect through game play
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The talented team will complete a project in half of the time of the average team, which means that the customer will start yielding value from the delivered software earlier. This earlier value represents a financial gain for picking the talented team.
Archive | April, 2008
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Inside Facebook polls its readers and gets similar results: With the exception of two outliers, respondents say they’re saying CPMs of 50 cents and less for their app inventory, which are sold by network
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TeachToday – making sense of technology
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web2.0 reviews and blogosphere news
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LCDS is a tool that enables you to create high quality, interactive, online courses. Publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactivities, quizzes, games, and assessments.
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you may buy the word ‘Donkey’ for $6 and it will link to your site. The word ‘Donkey’ will then be the gateway to your site and the definition will be changed.
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It’s reminiscent of the Million Dollar Homepage, which sold a million pixels for $1 a pop. But with nearly all 291,500 Oxford English Dictionary entries in inventory Donnelly and Munroe estimate they could do half a million better.
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Presdo takes the hassle out of trying to find the best time to get together with people. Use Presdo to minimize the annoying ping pong of email, texting, and voicemail when organizing the next team lunch or trying to grab coffee with a friend.
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A Tale of Two Teams and is a presentation put together about a waterfall team and an agile team.
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Sound Investing provides clear, concise advice on money and retirement, and includes interviews with the most influential people in the money business including Vanguard’s Jack Bogle, Kiplinger’s Knight Kiplinger, and Money Magazine’s Jason Zweig.
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You don’t need to worry about scalability on your Rails-over-Mysql application because nobody is going to use it. Really. You’re going to get, at most, 1,000 people on your app. Scalability is not your problem, getting people to give a shit is.
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Best Twitter iPhone client and all in all, a great update for one of the best web apps on the iPhone.
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To describe what you do, you should provide a tangible frame of reference instead of using the usual bull. For example, one pitch that worked is “YouTube for PowerPoint.”
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10,000 servers, 1,800 are MySQL and around 805 of them are memcached servers
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If you’re working in a group bigger than 15 people, you’re fighting human nature. Start a satellite group and see if you can lose the busywork and bureaucracy that inevitably accompany oversized teams.
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ElasticFox now supports all of the features of the newest version of the EC2 API – Availability Zones, Elastic IPs, and user-selectable kernels.
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Applet using Technorati’s API which computes and displays your blog’s dollar value using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.
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Sosius is a new, powerful way of managing the digital information in your life without the need for lots of different, complicated services and providers.
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We use an open REST interface so any application can call us over the web just like they make calls to other web services from Google and Amazon and Facebook.
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SearchYC.com is an independent project to build a search utility for Y Combinator’s Hacker News.
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Synoptic is “GMail for your notes”. It gives you an efficient and friendly interface that makes it possible to keep and categorize a large number of small-ish notes and tidbits of information.
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Attract great people – but not too many. Build a tight, smart and energetic team. Understand everyone’s skills and roles – and be very clear about responsibilities. Having too many people can be distracting and inefficient. The goal with any team is t
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IAB Platform Status Report: User Generated Content, Social Media, and Advertising — An Overview
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SocialSpring provides enterprise-grade solutions for social networking. Built on a modular and extensible platform, SocialSpring powered networks can easily integrate everything from photos and videos to forums and community questions.
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Working with your team on a specific floorplan has become easier with the partnership between Octopz and Floorplanner.
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Viewzi’s rich, visual Views are worth a million searches. But don’t think of us as yet another visual search engine. It’s more than just pictures, it’s about visually presenting your results in the context of what you are searching for.
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Here you are a selection of the most remarkable 55 free online tools
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Start by exploring what we mean by collaboration and why organisations should build their capability. Then we lay out steps for developing a collaboration capability. We finish the paper with a simple test of your current collaboration capability.
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April 23, 2008 1 Comment
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There are no rules about what you should tweet out, here are a few suggestions for you. It is important that you balance the ‘outbound’ with the ‘inbound’. In otherwords, the announcements with the conversations:
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EBay filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Craigslist. eBay said that in January, Craigslist’s founder Craig Newmark and the chief executive, Jim Buckmaster, took actions that unfairly diluted eBay’s economic interest in the company.
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# AUTOMATE the collection of your team’s development metrics without impacting your developers’ work flow. # ESTIMATE projects with confidence and precision using cumulative, objective and accurate historical data.
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Dipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive timelines about the people and things you care about.
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Ozzie essentially shifts Microsoft’s mission from one of creating software for the PC and stand-alone servers to creating an interconnecting mesh between devices and people.
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Live Mesh puts you at the center of your digital world, seamlessly connecting you to the people, devices, programs, and information you care about available wherever you happen to be.
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April 22, 2008 0 Comments
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Amazon SimpleDB, Apache CouchDB, and the Google Datastore API aren’t bad products. But we do them a disservice when we construe them to be replacements for general-purpose databases.
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The Triplify plugin generates database views by performing a small number of queries against the web app’s database. These views are then converted into a semantic format – either RDF, JSON, or Linked Data representations.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) now uses up more bandwidth than Amazon.com
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Justin.tv which serves half-million live videostreams daily thanks to Amazon hardware. Real estate site Zillow recalculated the values of 67 million US homes and the gray old New York Times crunched 150 years’ worth of newspapers into searchable PDFs.
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April 21, 2008 0 Comments
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The Google Contacts API has been released, it offers a more secure (and hopefully reliable) way to retrieve contacts. Tutorial on doing so using Ruby on Rails
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What is ncache? a web cache system base on nginx web server. faster and more efficient than squid.
we have published a release version 1.3 now, you can see the change log here.and we will maintain it be fresh.
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Startup school is an annual free conference for hackers interested in startups. This year notable speakers such as Mike Arrington, Marc Andreessen, Jeff Bezos and Paul Graham spoke.
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Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
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Google half-way cancelled their SOAP API a while ago, but they now* offer a parametrized URL that returns a JSON data set.
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thisisby.us is a website that promotes excellent writing
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Welcome to the Slapp tutorial. Gently introduce the major components of the Merb micro-framework by building a simple chat wall style application.
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Navigation Exchange Service (NavXC) allows the user to track the movements and whereabouts of their contacts at all times – in real time and in relation to their own movements.
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Number of MySQL servers
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Here is the quick notes from the session Scaling MySQL – Up or Out ? moderated by Kaj Arno as part of the todays keynote.
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JMeter and Ant can be integrated with a continuous integration server to allow developers to quickly determine the behavior of the developed system under certain load conditions and adapt to changes.
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continuous integration server
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TeachStreet is bridging real world classes to their website in Seattle only. If you live up there, you may want to check out your local cooking, dog obedience, or yoga courses.
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If you’re interested in analyzing and optimizing your page layout – here’s some extremely useful tools that you can use to help.
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April 19, 2008 0 Comments
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Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.
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Make developing web applications in Java easy, Provide simple yet powerful solutions to common problems, Make the Stripes ramp up time for a new developer less than 30 minutes, easy to extend Stripes, without making you configure every last thing
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Realtime Tracking of Twitter Hashtags
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This new way of pitching, now being dubbed the “twitpitch” or “escalator pitch,” is quick, painless, and to-the-point. It cuts through the PR babble and forces companies to summarize what they do in 140 characters or less.
