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“It’s not too different from the way corporations in an earlier era employed softer words for “layoffs,” like “downsizing” and “rightsizing.” “Offshoring” is giving way to phrases such as “co-sourcing” and “global sourcing,” said John McCarthy, analyst with Forrester Research.”
The language you use matters.
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ClickZ — “The ethnographic portion of the study, fielded by Conifer Research, unplugged a total of 28 participants and found that nearly half indicated they could not go without the Internet for more than two weeks.”
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I just wanted folks to know that I finally put together a resources page for Oristus. Right now the page is just an index of the four articles I’ve written in the last few months. For your reference the resource page and the articles are listed below. Enjoy!
Oristus Resources
Money Honey: The List of Revenue Generation […]

BBC — “Peridot, developed by UK intern students at IBM, scans company weblinks and replaces outdated information with other relevant documents and links. It works by automatically mapping and storing key features of webpages, so it can detect significant content changes.”
I wrote about healing web sites, Google, web services and linkrot more than two years […]

David Crow — “It’s official, I despise Microsoft’s user experience. We have to update our department’s 50 PCs again. Sometimes it Windows patches, today it’s Office patches. It is a pain-in-the-ass.” …and… “As part of our next desktop build, FireFox will be the default browser.”
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“NEC designers have created design possibilities with near future paradigms in mind: the world where humans and machines resonate with one another. We propose devices that judge situations to meet user’s needs, and interfaces that let users access unlimited information as naturally as breathing.”
Fun stuff.
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NewsForge — “So why is it that so many free software projects let data import and export functionality fall through the cracks? Some developers are wary of the idea because they worry that if they make it too easy to migrate away from their software, they will encourage users to abandon what they are working […]

KasLog — “This little rant isn’t about about picking on Microsoft, so much as it is about challenging Microsoft to do better. The SP2 update is a good example of what has gone wrong, and offers a glimpse of what Microsoft can do to win hearts and pocketbooks. As it is, SP2 is like a […]

“With that in mind, let’s have a look at some statistics that can be gathered from the internet regarding programming languages. We examine four sources of information. First, the raw number of results found with Google’s search engine. We also look at dollars per click information gleaned from an online advertising service (Overture). In other […]

“KDE has a lot going for it. It’s attractive and powerful. Its breadth of functionality is inspiring. Where it could benefit most is a consistent eye toward usability, particularly in not overwhelming new users with its capabilities. Easing new users into KDE, rather than throwing everyone into the deep end of the pool, would broaden […]

“Most of the literature I see about the Tablet PC focuses on the hardware—convertible vs. slate, digitizer technology, battery life, and ergonomics. This article will focus on the software and its “extra” features, especially those that are critical to the enterprise user.”
Not a perfect article, but it does answer many questions I have. Tablets are […]

Google Answers — “Basically, I need to decide to which programs to apply to, and this decision is based on the ranking of the school, as well as the specific areas of research. Most schools require that I declare an affiliation with a particular lab early on, so I need to know what the labs […]