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Yahoo Ends Home Workers
Yahoo Orders Home Workers Back to the Office: Interesting move from Yahoo here. […] Yahoo has made a surprise move: abolishing its work-at-home policy and ordering everyone to work in the office. A memo explaining the policy change, from the company’s human resources department, says face-to-face interaction among employees fosters a more collaborative culture — [...]
The Great Folder vs. Search Debate
Back in the summer, there was a fun running debate that started about folders, but ended up being a discussion that was really about the “pre-organization” of taxonomy against the value of metadata-driven search. Chris Riley started it with his post entitled Folders are the New F-Word. It’s a seven-minute video (in which he appears [...]
An Oft-Overlooked CMS Feature: The Community
There’s standard advice for the soon-to-be-married that goes, “Make sure you like your future in-laws, because you’re marrying them too.” How does this relate to CMS? I’ll explain – When people are buying a CMS, they tend to concentrate on specific functional features – things like content modeling, workflow, permissions, the UI, etc. Additionally, they’ll [...]
Video Game Pioneers
10 video game firsts: I enjoyed this article, which reveals the owner of these titles. First 3D shooter First cutscenes First real-time-strategy game First online multiplayer game First handheld game First virtual online world First ‘Sims’-type game First sports game First full musical score First downloadable game service It’s a nice walk down memory lane, though [...]
Delicious Will Likely Die
Former Yahoo Exec: “Delicious Is in Peril,” Sale Unlikely: Rumors have been swirling all week, and now an insider is saying Delicious is going to die, not be sold. While rumors and responses about bookmarking service Delicious swirl around the web, one former Yahoo and Delicious employee who maintains close ties with relevant teams says [...]
OnStar Disables Car for Police
High-speed chase ends when OnStar halts stolen SUV : Nice. Or terrifying. Not sure which. […] shortly after the suspect made a right turn, operators at […] OnStar service sent a command that electronically disabled the gas pedal and the SUV gradually came to a halt. […] It was the first time since OnStar began [...]
Monopoly .com Edition
Monopoly .com Edition : From 2000, complete with pictures. In it the streets are replaced with ‘30 of today’s hottest web sites’. These are: Sportsline.com and FoxSports.com, Yahoo! Geocities, Oxygen and iVillage, shockwave.com, games.com and E! Online, Priceline, Expedia, and eBay, weather.com, about.com and cnet.com, ETrade, monster.com and MarketWatch.com, Ask Jeeves, AltaVista and Lycos, and [...]
New FTC Rules for Bloggers
FTC: Bloggers must disclose payments for reviews : This won’t be hard for me to comply with, since very few people send me free stuff [sniff, sob]. The Federal Trade Commission will require bloggers to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products.
Anti-Wi-Fi Paint
Anti-Wi-Fi paint keeps your wireless signal to yourself : Nice. The idea is simple: Use a special paint on walls where you don’t want wireless to pass through (say the exterior of your house). The secret is mixing aluminum-iron oxide particles in with the paint. The metal particles resonate at the same frequency as Wi-Fi [...]
CentMail
Fight Spam With Pennies : I hope this works. I fear it won’t. (Although, to be honest, Gmail has pretty much eliminated spam from my life anyway.) Fight spam by donating to your favorite charity. That’s how researchers at Yahoo are hoping to convince people to put a virtual one-cent stamp on their outgoing e-mails. [...]