Know This You never again need to curse your weak-flushing toilet again. American Standard has just introduced its Champion toilet, a high-tech device so powerful it can flush 18 golf balls at once. Or 56 chicken nuggets. Regardless, these won’t get clogged. Ever. Google rakes content farms by tweaking its algorithm to punish content farms
Read More...Jamie Murai, a potential developer for RIM’s upcoming Playbook tablet, throws in the towel: You win. I concede defeat. I no longer want to attempt developing an app for the Playbook. Are you happy now? Surely you must be. Considering how terribly designed the entire process is, from the registration right through to loading an
Read More...I had a debate with one of my partners recently. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been going through a branding/messaging exercise to refresh how we tell the market what we do, what we’re good at, our core domains, etc. What a daunting task! It is so hard to put into words or create a
Read More...Some interesting rumors floating about regarding Amazon’s wildly popular Kindle, most notably that given its price reduction history, it will be free in November of 2011. This is what Kevin Kelly is predicting: that Amazon will be soon handing out free Kindles, perhaps to Amazon Prime members. In October 2009 John Walkenbach noticed that the
Read More...From RSA Animate comes this utterly enthralling video. Worth every bit of the 10 minutes you need to watch it. This was adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA about what motivates us at home and in the workplace. Related — Daniel Pink: What Really Motivates Workers ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting
Read More...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
Read More...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
Read More...As Oracle Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) continues to proliferate and the value of these modules become realized, one stands out as the last to be adopted by the marketplace: Property Manager (PM). As a customer-facing member of an organization that implements ALM, I am seeing more interest in PM as an integrated solution addition to
Read More...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
Read More...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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