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links for 2007-09-13

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

KillerStartups.com - The Next Big Thing on the Internet is here. You pick it.

There are several interesting sites here. It’s hard to imagine this many startups are beginning each day.

(tags: startup internet web2.0 business entrepreneurship)

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links for 2007-08-10

Friday, August 10th, 2007

The Trouble With Enterprise Software

“Has enterprise software become too complex to be effective?” - Discusses the general gap between business and the technology that runs the business.

(tags: technology software business SOA complexity BSM)

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links for 2007-07-28

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Picnik - edit photos the easy way, online in your browser

With Picnik you can quickly edit all your online photos from one place.

(tags: photo edit photography tools online photos)
Gapminder - Home

Anything and everything you wanted to know about the world.

(tags: gapminder statistics information politics data economics)

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links for 2007-07-24

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Thinking of retiring? Austin’s ideal for retirement, according to AARP Magazine - Austin Business Journal:

I had never really thought of Austin as a retirement magnet, but compared to the rest of the country, it looks pretty good.

(tags: austin retirement 50 AARP)
Welcome to MyOpenID

If you haven’t signed up for an OpenID, you will want to. After hearing a lot of hype about this over the past 6 months, I finally jumped in, and it is very cool. We should be demanding that all sites use this method of authentication.

(tags: OpenID authentication via:bwhichard security internet)

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links for 2007-07-11

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Jyte: Spread the Cred

Claim anything! Yes, anything. If you have something to say, then make a claim and let the community vote on it.

(tags: jyte vote community claim social claims)

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links for 2007-06-30

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Psychology: Humans Will Justify Almost Anything

This is an excellent article on cognitive dissonance. Frued had it slightly wrong as this is what really drives behavior.

(tags: cognitive dissonance psychology emotion happiness)

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links for 2007-06-26

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Impact of Overtime on Productivity

“More features will always bring more revenue, more customer satisfaction, other good things. Therefore there is always pressure for people to work harder, longer hours. This is demonstrably a Bad Idea. Here’s some evidence, and some ideas about how to kn

(tags: jeffries agile management leadership productivity programming software coding business via:klobetime)

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links for 2007-06-22

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

40 Fastest-Growing Software Companies

BMC, Openwave, Red Hat, and some other interesting software companies listed here…

(tags: via:mrchippy via:cote software company fastest growing BMC Openwave Vignette Oracle Microsoft)
Alistair Cockburn on what’s agile, what’s not

Ouch, by Alistair’s standards, most companies are not agile; however, I do agree with him that the word is way over/mis-used

(tags: cockburn agile software crystal scrum)

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links for 2007-06-20

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Top 50 analyst bloggers « Technobabble 2.0

Some nice Internet notice for the Redmonk guys…

(tags: blog analyst redmonk cote via:bwhichard blogging ranking analysts)

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links for 2007-06-12

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Regular exercise is no longer optional

This is a great article. I’ve written many things about the benefits of exercise. Making a career and business case for doing is another motivational method, beyond the obvious reasons.

(tags: career fitness work exercise health via:bwhichard)

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links for 2007-06-10

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Column info : 11 Ways Agile Adoptions Fail

11 Ways Agile Adoptions Fail - You can tell that Jean knows what she’s talking about. These “weaknesses” are difficult to keep out of the Agile process.

(tags: agile software jean adoption process)

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links for 2007-06-06

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Advice on Conducting the Scrum of Scrums Meeting

I like this article but tend to disagree with the individual contributor attending in place of the scrum master. I’m not sure how one individual contributor would know what the entire team did.

(tags: scrum agile cohn software sos meeting)
The True Role of a PM on Agile Projects

I like this quote: “it is almost impossible for leaders to over communicate project vision and it is a critical step for effective leadership”

(tags: agile ProjectManagement pm scrum software)

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links for 2007-05-30

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Eight Sound Reasons Not to Use MySQL

>> Why and when should you give the thumbs down to MySQL? …not that often you hear the other side of story.

(tags: mysql databases comp comparison)

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