Jason Fried: Making money takes practice, just like playing the piano takes practice. No one expects anyone to be any good at the piano unless they’ve put in lots practice. Same with making money. The more you practice the better you get. Eventually making money is as easy for you as piano is for someone
Read More...Article in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune on 37signals’ CEO Office Hours. 37signals is an outstanding example of a company that has very literally embraced the transparency, authenticity and openness other companies claim to want but seldom demonstrate.
Read More...Previously, we have discussed the value of Oracle BI apps for PeopleSoft, and we have examined some key implementation considerations. Today, in this final post on the topic, I would like to chat about the biggest buzzword of them all: ROI. The key question for many customers is this: does it really make sense to
Read More...Hot on the heels of Oracle OpenWorld 2009, the 9.1 PeopleSoft app releases keep coming. Over the weekend, Oracle has made available both PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Solutions 9.1 and Customer Relationship Management 9.1. Both of these releases are now available on eDelivery and you can find the release notes on Oracle’s ‘My Oracle Support’ by
Read More...Relatively short post today, which means not much in the way of editorial, simply because I’m slammed and have embarrassingly little time to tell you about the time a bunch of us, when we were 11, went out into the woods and made spears out of dead saplings and began to wage a sort of
Read More...UPDATE 10/22 10:08 AM EST: Google just announced its capability to show Twitter updates in its search results. So much for Bing having any substantial upper hand. Looks like Microsoft’s Bing gets the first shot at indexing the Twitter datastream, at least as part of the Bing brand itself (web nerds likely know there is
Read More...Interesting list. Of these, I see the biggest hitters being: Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is a style of computing that characterizes a model in which providers deliver a variety of IT-enabled capabilities to consumers. Cloud-based services can be exploited in a variety of ways to develop an application or a solution. Using cloud resources does
Read More...From swissmiss comes the following video, a great example of (exercise in?) modern culture-building. Performances like this illustrate a company’s culture and personality more than any website, blog or piece of marketing collateral could ever hope to.
Read More...Quick post to say that there has been a lot of interest in PeopleTools 8.5 recently (and I mean lots), and one of our partners is putting on a webinar this upcoming Wednesday (Oct 21) about some of the most prominent new features and improvements. If you’re interested in PeopleTools 8.5, it will be very
Read More...Aside from the sudden but obvious realization that summer is, in fact, dead, the best thing I have to share with you this week are some pretty fantastic links. Enjoy. Science does not back up the “cool down” theory of exercise/training, and likewise scientists say that ‘lactic acid theory’ is bunk. Like apples? Here’s a
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