February 22, 2005

Socially engaged web-hosting services

Dishost from Belgium provides "web-hosting services with a pinch of clean energy". Another sign of the importance of meaning and ecosystem niches in the knowledge age...



Social Software = Stuff That Gets You Laid.

From Clay ShirkyIf you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy (...) “Social software” is about making it easy for people to...



Blog readers to be managed as a community?

Intel president Paul Otellini writes a blog, which theoretically only employees can read. Of course, there were leaks in the press which brought Mr. Otellini to be more careful. He is said to have written in a recent post:While this...



Blogging for Project Management

10 ways to use blogs for managing projects by Tim Duckett, an english type. That's how the list goes (my comments in brackets):1-Communicating with project stakeholders 2-Replacing paper 3-Building issue logs 4-Capturing information snippets: from shared passwords to useful URLs...



Google: "Recruiting the best minds on the planet"

Recruiting quizzes at Google presented during their analyst day on Feb 9. look a little destabilizing, don't they? The recruiting process really looks like an exam. As a programmer, you're given a coding problem. As a salesperson, you're asked to...



Accessing enterprise CRM through RSS

Charlie Wood just completed the proof of concept of a tool that allows him to get new leads from Salesforce.com via RSS. To quote:Wow, from the surge in traffic to the site, I think this is proving to be a...



Firing Carly Fiorina

So Carly Fiorina was fired, and was given a $21 millions severance package for failing the merger of HP and Compaq, as many anticipated would happen anyway. Regardless of the outrageous "compensation for failing" -which is downright sickening and shows...



Corporate communication staffs in trouble?

From Chris Anderson through Dan Gilmore again.Today in the US the newspaper is fading, as is its influence on American journalism: news and information is becoming a commodity. What will rise as a differentiating competitive advantage? I'd argue that it's...



When social networking pays off

Newsweek: The Connected Get More Connected.This month, 100 of Silicon Valley s top venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, bloggers and promoters will begin receiving cool new stuff for free, delivered straight to their homes and offices. In return, these movers and...