Both employers and employees may be surprised to find that employee created blog posts, YouTube, LinkedIn profiles, Facebook profiles, and even tweets to companies. Yes, even those personal pictures you took last Friday with your loved ones could belong to your employer. Why is this? Employees sign employment contracts that may [...]
Archive for October, 2009
26 Oct
A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades | The Awl
via theawl.com
A picture’s worth a million jobs, I’m sure.
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20 Oct
ZDNet: How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?
There is a fundamental mismatch between what enterprise IT is good at and what is happening on the Internet. For investment projects, IT organizations typically spend six to eight years from initial conceptualization through selling, planning, testing and implementation of the first release. Project cycles, life spans and frequencies of Internet-related developments (and consumer-related product [...]
12 Oct
Google be Praised! Google Docs now has Shared folders
To share a group of items, all you have to do is put them all into a folder and share the folder. As you’d expect, if you add an item to a shared folder, it will automatically be shared and if you add someone to an existing shared folder, they will instantly get access [...]
12 Oct
Does the Sidekick collapse prove cloud computing sucks?
Microsoft’s Danger SideKick data loss casts dark on cloud computing (AppleInsider.com)
NO.
You would think no one has ever lost data on a home computer in a crashed hard drive or in a virus outbreak.
You would think no corporation has ever lost data internally due to faulty backups that were assumed to be good. [...]
9 Oct
YouTube racking up a billion views per day
But on the third anniversary of its $1.65 billion deal to sell itself to Google, YouTube is saying, in a sense, you may be underestimating us. The company released more precise viewing figures than it had in the past, saying it serves more than 1 billion videos a day, or roughly 30 billion in a [...]
7 Oct
iPhone continues to kick ass on Flickr
via flickr.com
The iPhone is the hot pink line on this graph. Yellow is the Nokia N95. Then a couple BlackBerry models and another Nokia.
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4 Oct
The quest for a viable tablet PC
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/technology/05tablet.html
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3 Oct
Anchorage nerd jacket
via gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com
Heating + gadget charging? Sign me up!
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