Full Sail's Website Nominated for Prestigious Webby Award in Two Categories
The Full Sail Real World Education website, Fullsail.com, has been nominated for a Webby Award, the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Full Sail has been recognized in two separate categories: Best Home/Welcome Page and Best Website for a School or University. In addition, Fullsail.com is in the running for a People's Voice Webby Award, judged purely on votes cast by the public, in each of the nominated categories. (PRWeb Apr 30, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/Q3Jhcy1IYWxmLUxvdmUtUHJvZi1NYWduLVplcm8=
Ubuntu: Too Good to be True?
The news that Dell will begin making the fast-growing Ubuntu flavor of Linux available on some of its machines should be welcomed by consumers everywhere.
Frost & Sullivan Names Array Networks as the 2006 SSL VPN Market Leader in China
... AM Eastern Daylight Time Frost & Sullivan Names Array Networks as the 2006 SSL VPN Market Leader in China MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Array Networks Inc., a leading provider of optimized ...
FCC Calls For More And Less Competition
Chairman Kevin Martin thinks his commission is on the right path, but more competition is needed in some areas while less competition might be a good idea in others.
Should LinkedIn do battle with Facebook?
Dan Farber, over at ZDNet, is reporting that LinkedIn's founder, Reid Hoffman, has made their plans clear to open up API's and create a developer platform. From CNET Blogs Network.
Blackjack Ballroom Align the Lucky Stars in a Brand New Video Slots Title
Jet off on a space odyssey with Lucky Stars, the latest video slots title to enter the growing Blackjack Ballroom library. The brand new game utilizes industry-leading technology to bring the deep-space world to life in online casinos. (PRWeb Jul 7, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/WmV0YS1JbnNlLUhhbGYtUGlnZy1UaGlyLVplcm8=
Video Game Advertising: Closing In on a Billion Bucks
Advertising inside video games will near the $1 billion mark by the beginning of the next decade, according to a report released by a technology research firm. In-game advertising will grow from $77.7 million in 2006 to $971.3 million in 2011, the Yankee Group report predicted. As the advertising pot swells, so will the average ad buy for a game, the report reasoned.
Critic Bashes Massachusetts on Open XML Proposal
Network World: "With about a week remaining to collect comments on a plan to adopt Ecma's Open XML standard, Massachusetts is mum on how the issue is fairing, but some who disagree with the action are already voicing their opinion publicly..."
Apple drinks to Cups deal
... tasks in Unix-like environments. The components are used in operating systems including Red Hat, Ubuntu, SuSE, HP-UX and FreeBSD. posted to the official Cups website that he and Apple ...
LiveScribe's pen computer delayed to '08
Start-up says pen won't be broadly available to consumers until the first quarter as the company fine-tunes its software and development tools. The digital pen from start-up LiveScribe won't be available to put under the Christmas tree, CNET News.com has learned. The pen, which can record both sound and...
Gphone is "definitely" coming
Digitimes today reported that Google will definitely launch its own-brand handset . Details are still highly speculative, but sources at Taiwan handset makers point to High Tech Computer (HTC) as the possible...
Winefix--Improved Desktop Integration for Wine
Wine Review: "A script called winefix. In short, it allows Wine applications to be run just as easily as those native to Linux..."
Intel Accelerates 45nm Chip Production
Intel is moving into high-volume production of its 45-nanometer chips for servers, PCs, and mobile devices.
SEMNE Blog
Excellent post. Regardless of where one stands on this issue it’s a very interesting discussion…I find the ?they should have checked their sources? argument to be weak because like you pointed out, money.co.uk themselves are publishing the article without any indication of it being untrue, and they ARE the source (in manner of ... (Read on Source)
Singapore Visitor Arrivals for May 2008
Singapore Visitor Arrivals for May 2008.
Small Business Has a New Online Calling Card
Webcards are an easier alternative to creating Web sites.
Linux App Finder
"Linux App Finder's mission is to catalog useful GNU/Linux programs and provide a great resource to discover new apps". The programs are organized in categories to browse the collection. It has an alternatives page to find an equivalent Linux app to replace your Windows or OS X app when you make that switch. The app's page has user submitted screenshots and a research section where links to reviews for that app is provided.
Yahoo, HP, Intel Give Ivory Towers a Stairway to the Cloud
Yahoo, HP and Intel are collaborating on an ambitious research endeavor called "Cloud Computing Test Bed" -- designed to support cloud computing research and education at universities. Users will be able to develop and test software, data center management, and hardware associated with cloud computing on this large-scale grid.
The It Getters
Posted by randfish
Some people just "get" the web. I don't know how to explain this phenomenon effectively or convey a reasonable set of criteria upon which a person could be judged, but there's no doubt about it. I think back to the first time I heard Greg Boser or Jessie Stricchiola speak at a conference, the first few blog posts I read at MindValleyLabs, the SEOmoz comments I read from Shor, the first time I talked in depth about the business of being online with my friend (and now colleague) Nick Gerner and the first time I met Kelly Smith from Curious Office. Every experience had that same "click" in my head that went something like "hey this person's pretty smart, they really seem to know their.... Oh My God.... They actually get 'it.'"
I spoke with a fellow Seattle startup CEO about this subject just the other day, and he noted that he tries to spend 75% of his time or more coaching his best people, his "it getters," because this produces the highest ROI for the company in the long run. I've heard similar advice from a lot of management coaching books and articles - invest in the best people you can get and they'll drive the business to do incredible work.
From my experience, it seems that the "it getter" scale looks something like this:
In great organizations, it seems to me that there's at least one, and on rare occassion two or three true "it-getters." At amazing companies, during amazing times (like Google over the last 10 years or Microsoft in the '80's and '90's), I'd posit that there might actually be more. Companies filled with "it-getters" are magnets for other "it-getters."
The problem is, companies get big, add staff and eventually, the hiring gets a bit sloppy. Thus, you can accidentally add lots of "doesn't get it" and "causes others to lose it" to your organization, sucking away the ability of others to produce more amazing times.
I'd say this all seems pretty basic and intuitive to most entrepreneurs and even most people who are aware of their work environments. Unless you're on the bottom rungs of my scale, you can probably ID most everyone on this scale fairly accurately. Except... Some people get "it" when it comes to certain topics, but not others. I'll use myself as an example. I think that generally, I get "it" when "it" is SEO. But I don't get PPC, I don't get landing page optimization, I don't get personas or display advertising. I might not even get management - I'm probably in the "sorta" or "mostly" gets it barrel there.
So let me propose a short, and extremely simple set of recommendations for anyone running a company, starting a company, managing a team or planning their professional life:
- Discover what "it" is that you get.
- Apply yourself ruthlessly to "it"
- Become competent at identifying "it" getters in your areas of weakness
- Surround yourself with them
I'd venture to guess that this "simple" process is something very few organizations of any kind and very few people ever get right.
Close your eyes and think of the best meal you've ever had - the one where every piece of every dish sung with flavor and texture. It was probably prepared by an "it" getter. Now consider all the devices you use in your life - your chair, your phone, your laptop, your TV, a set of headphones, a car. That very best one - the one where everything works intuitively and harmoniously to make using it so simple and pleasurable that you recoil at the thought of any substitute - designed by "it" getters.
I'm not saying that competent people can't do good work. I just have this nagging feeling that when the stars align and every piece comes together just right, it's because the people behind it are doing something they "get."
Sorry for getting off the SEO track this week - I'll redirect my writing back to those topics soon :)
Jim Zemlin: The New Center of Linux Gravity
Internet News: "Standing at the headwaters of the ecosystem that is Linux is the Linux Foundation and its executive director Jim Zemlin. The Linux Foundation was forged out of the merger of the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group in 2007 as a new group with a new mandate for Linux."
Waste Management: Teamster Talks Fail, Union's Deteriorating ... - MarketWatch
Waste Management: Teamster Talks Fail, Union's Deteriorating ... MarketWatch - MILWAUKEE, Aug 31, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Waste Management officials said a ten-hour meeting on Saturday under the supervision of a federal mediator with representatives of Teamsters Local 200 failed to produce an agreement to end the current ... New talks seen in Milwaukee area garbage strike Day of talks on Milwaukee area garbage strike |
What is Cloaking & Is All Cloaking Evil?
When talking about such widely used and abused (and forbidden) SEO technique as cloaking, Google’s official definition seems a bit fuzzy / general: (Read on Source)
Commenting system with lightweight JSON store
As I wrote this [blog engine][1], the need for a commenting system arose and I reflected about a small and simple commenting system with just a flat file JSON store. This is my solution, which can be used on any static page on a server with PHP support.
The iPhone Goes for a Ride
Consumer services launch at DEMO, including ride-sharing and a more personal product recommendation service.
Intel Makes the Dual-core Atom 330 Official
Intel started selling its dual-core Atom 330 processor on Monday.
Jury Selection Begins in Stevens Trial
Court to hear from 150 potential juroros who will fill out questionnaire before being questioned by lawyers about ability to serve on month-long trial.
Weil's Lehman Bankruptcy Bonanza
Weil, Gotshal & Manges received a $5 million advance in September from Lehman Brothers for work leading up to the bank's bankruptcy filing, according to Weil's formal application this week to be retroactively hired as Lehman's bankruptcy lawyers. In a separate filing, Lehman sought to employ Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle as its conflicts counsel. The $5 million Weil has received could be a drop in the bucket -- one estimate expects Lehman to pay $906 million in legal fees.
CI Host Leases Data/Office Space
October 15, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider CI Host has leased 60,156 square feet in Dallas for a new corporate office and data center space from real estate broker Colliers International.
The Healthy Skinny Pill
A new drug proves effective in fighting obesity and related diseases while increasing stamina in mice.
Blinkx wants Miva again, but for less
Video search company Blinkx is poised to acquire the online advertising firm again. Only this time, the offer is half its original value.
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