Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Twitter – newbies guide
.!. Good guide for those of you (like me) are still trying to figure out this whole Twitter thing. Newbies Guide to Twitter : [chrisbrogan.com]
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GTD: Not a complete system?
An interesting post today on O’reilly about one of the limits of GTD: it doesn’t have a rule for deciding if you actually want to take on the work or not. The up front filter asks the question “Is this actionable”. Maybe if it were changed to “Do I want to do anything with this?”…
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Delta update
I took my first trip since the dreaded return flight from N.Y.C. out of JFK in June this week. I had to fly down to Plano for a few meetings on Tuesday and stayed over night for a few more on Wednesday. I flew back last night and got a pleasant surprise in the form…
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SAP tries PLM…again
From the “the third time is a charm” file, SAP has announced yet another attempt to tackle the PLM market. It’s great that the market segment gets the attention, but I questions SAP’s ability to execute here. PLM is just too different from what they are good at. Its too ‘miscellaneous’. Its too dynamic. Its…
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Second Life just got a lot more interesting
Not that it wasn’t interesting before, but now that voice is active all over SL, I think things are going to heat up. One of the things I think has limited use as a collab platform is that until now you had to use text chat for most communications. With voice now it becomes a…
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Amazing net short
It really is amazing the quality of animation that independents can produce. Everyone got all caught up in the simple (but hilarious) flash work that the JibJab guys put out at the last election. I think the “gentleman’s duel” below is on par with any big budget Hollywood cartoon. (Warning: NSFW link below) Video A…
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Lifehacker on Facebook: not open
.!. Being a few weeks into my experiment on Facebook one of the issues I have run in to is how closed off it seems to be. If anyone wants to see most of what I am doing on Facebook, they have to join Facebook. One thing this has lead me to do is only…
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Economic policy and manufcaturing
While any American who is vacationing overseas this year would not agree that the Dollar to Euro exchange rate is at a good level, it appears that the U.S. manufacturing sector would disagree. While I don;t like the idea of a weak dollar in the global currency market, I do like the idea of cheaper…
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Chinese manufacturing – a series of interesting posts from Boing Boing
I found this series of posts that Boing Boing linked to on Chinese manufacturing really interesting. It is no wonder that so many goods come out so cheaply when things are this efficient and at this scale. If the manufacturing industry in China can get their arms around compliance and quality issues there will be…