Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 2/25/11

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 2/25/11

So here we go again on another Friday, this one thankfully peaking at a semi-human temperature of almost 30 degrees, rolling along with the new Friday Linkology format I mentioned last week.  If you missed it, here’s what I’m talking about. Off we go! Know This Grant Achatz, one of the most renowned molecular gastro-chefs

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Why Should I Attend the 5th Annual Oracle Maintenance Summit? (Reasons #12-14)

A: The Oracle Maintenance Summit agenda will be fact-filled, customer-based and ERP-specific, addressing topics like: Addressing the Increase of Operational Performance and Contribution to Margin Growth within the Maintenance Organization Going Beyond EAM to Drive Value with product sets recently acquired by Oracle, known as “Edge Products” Passion, Conviction, and Collaboration in the Field of

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Can Open Source ERP Succeed?

Derek Singleton, writing for Software Advice: Open source has been a great success for infrastructure software such as Linux, Apache and MySQL. Here at Software Advice, we’ve made use of all three. We’ve also made extensive use of open source development libraries like jQuery. For apps, however, we have either rolled our own or deployed

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Why Does College Cost So Much?

Here’s a smart and compelling analysis of the college cost situation by Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen, who comments on a dialogue between Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman.  Cowen’s comments: David Leonhardt serves up a dialogue with Robert B. Archibald, and also David H. Feldman.  Archibald starts by citing the cost disease and also the

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 2/18/11

I’m going to experiment with a new format for our Friday posts for a while.  Instead of jamming a collection of links into a list to let you sort out, mainly through clicking on them, I’m going to jam a collection of links into a list with section headers because it looks much more impressive. 

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QUOTE: On Staying True to Fundamentals

“I didn’t go along with the cash-shredding of [the dot-com boom]. I didn’t take venture capital, hire 200 people, and spend money like crazy. I had the mentality of, “I don’t care if I’m running a lemonade stand or a dot-com, it’s the same thing. How much do the lemons cost and how much are

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 2/11/11

Just think: only nine more months until I can type 11/11/11 in the title of a Friday Linkology blog post.  Isn’t that exciting? No?  In fact, you say, it’s the exact opposite of exciting? I actually agree, but I went with it because I usually lead into the Friday links with some sort of pointless

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