I just finished a book about sales that I liked quite a bit: "The Contrarian Effect: Why it pays (Big) to take typical sales advice and do the opposite". The book is short, and filled with useful examples of how

As mentioned several place, the last session at our RedMonk CommunityDay track was on RIAs. It turned into a fun and heated discussion. Thanks to Rachel Hill and Josh Marinacci, there's a video of it available. The audio isn't perfect

Ever wonder why Facebook can act as a portal and be on multiple sites at once? There are two components

At work, we use the Revolution on Rails enhanced_migrations plugin. Yesterday I started the work of moving the app to Rails 2.1RC1. With version 2.1, Rails is moving to timestamp based migration names, instead of the traditional sequence numbering. This

I came across another cool analytics tool and best of all, it will be free come June 2008. Take a moment to check out TrackPoint. This is a great tool to work in conjunction with Google Analytics, especially for e-commerce

The owners of the classified ads' site Craigslist have filed a countersuit against auction site eBay.com. This action is the latest in an unfolding legal battle between the two companies. The first move was made by eBay.com when it filed

Google recently announced the launch of a new advertising tool called Buzz Targeting. The method revolves around the popularity of videos on YouTube. The tool uses an algorithm to predict videos that are about to go 'viral'.Viral videos are those

A press release was issued by Dell in May 13, 2008 stating that it will continue to support both the XPS and Alienware brands. This press release was issued after a report by Wall Street Journal claimed Dell was discontinuing

A lot of people work in a cubicle. A small, stinky 8 foot by 8 foot with tall walls and boring colors. I am not sure about how these people get through the day, but I know that if I

Yes.Every individual keyword can have it's own destination url (landing page) and bid price.But if you have large quantities of keywords, this can become very labour-intensive to manage. (...)

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — May 13, 2008 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)announced today that Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of GlobalSales and Operations, will participate in a question-and-answersession at the NASDAQ OMX 21st Investor Program in London. The sessionis scheduled for

Zoos can be surprisingly good places to see birds

Joe O'Brien and I will be leading another Test Driven Studio in Denver, June 9-11

Erlang keeps popping up

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How is it an 'average blogger' is able to exceed the daily rss reads popularity of EclipseZone? My blog rss read count from last night: EclipseZone rss reads number from last night: I do not have an answer but probably

I understand the idea of CBS buying CNet, but for $1.8 Billion??? CBS will pay $11.50 a share for CNET. The all-cash deal represents a premium of 44% above the $7.95 CNET closed at yesterday. As AlleyInsider notes, CNet hasn't

Learning long-distance collaboration early

One thing a lot of people like to do with editors is create little macros - the ability to type shortcuts for commonly used text, hit a command key, and have it expand. Today's Smalltalk Daily shows you how to

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