Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 8/6/2010

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Great TiVo Ads

Zach Golden, copywriter, has some really fantastic ads for TiVo: Very clever.  And if you’re a TiVo user, you know they’re bang-on accurate. (Via SvN) ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm specializing in PeopleSoft Enterprise (particularly Enterprise Asset Management), Workday and Business Intelligence. You’re reading MIPRO Unfiltered, its blog.  If you’d like to

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Why Eat a Cake When a Slice Will Do?

Attending OHUG in Las Vegas last month was educational and full of smart folks, as it always is. In particular, I noticed talent management and its HCM-related integrations generated a lot of buzz. People are looking for a low-cost, quick time-to-value way to do this without having to go whole hog on wholesale system upgrades.

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The Web’s 5 Most Endangered Words

The compulsions of an infovore dictate that we must process, form judgments on and share inbound information quickly. This is a demand of the attention economy as well as the realtime nature of the tools web workers use. And it’s sad, because adult issues aren’t always cute sound bites and often need extensive research to understand and editorialize.

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Tip: Write Your E-mail Intros Like a Tweet

Let’s be honest: we all get way too much email.  In professional communication, it’s all too common to send an email only to find that days later, the recipient didn’t take the time to read it or – worse – deleted it. Before you blame them, ask yourself: did I make it easy for them

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CIO: Cloud Computing Will Surpass Web in Importance

With web technologies finally at a point where they rival those previously reserved for the thick-client computing, cloud applications are massively viable – and, to boot, offer tremendous advantages to their users (as well as their hosts). It’s not just about sharing, it’s about the universal cloud being able to offer processing, analytics, logic and a common-man-accessible UX.

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