November 2007
Demystifying the art and science of knowing what... →
A couple of weeks ago, a reader named David wrote inquiring about an offhand comment in a recent post about mentoring where I said: “A ten-minute conversation with an older female business owner about
the link between gender and compensation totally changed the way I
thought about charging for my services in my consulting business.”
David said:
“I was wondering if you...
5 Ways to Stand Out and Get Your Dream Job →
For students finishing up their college careers or even business people looking to succeed in their current jobs, no question is more common than, “How do I stand out?”. As one of our readers, “John Con”, asks, “What do you wish you did/didn’t do in college that would help you succeed today or more precisely- what will make a person stand out?” As I am...
99 Remarkable Photographer’s Portfolios →
How to Get Where you Want to Go →
You could fill a small library with books about goal setting. It seems like every major self help program, writer, website, etc. all have an emphasis on goal setting. Don’t get me wrong, it is very important. But odds are you already know how to do it. You do it all the time, every time you get in the car! Take a few moments to examine how you get to any place you want to go. This is the basic...
Mission control for busy families →
Following our coverage of Bizzyboard, a whiteboard calendar for coordinating family schedules, one of our spotters came across Cozi—one of those solutions the web was born to provide. Launched about a year ago, Cozi Central is an online service that helps busy families manage schedules, appointments, shopping and communications from wherever they are—the kitchen, car, office or even the grocery...
CTO Blog | Mesh Working rather than Matrix Working →
More Screen = More Productivity →
This 2005 New York Times article, Meet The Life Hackers, covers a lot of topics from GTD to multitasking but an interesting point is made about computer screen real estate. We all want more and bigger screens, but we may not know of studies proving productivity increases when you do upgrade. Anywhere from 10-40% increase.
In two decades of research, Czerwinski had never seen a single tweak to a...
The 20 Worst Venture Capital Investments of All... →
Set Custom "Ringtones" for Your Email Inbox [Hack... →
Custom ringtones on our phones have been making it easy to tell who’s calling (and whether we want to answer) without looking at our phones for years now, so why aren’t we doing the same thing with our incoming email? A frequently firing new-email alert can throw you off a productivity sweep with nothing more than a gentle ding. You rush to your inbox to open this new gift of an...
The Other Side of China →
By Tim O’Reilly
Last week, I wrote about the sense of dynamism and opportunity in China that I felt during our Beijing Foo Camp earlier this month. All of the Chinese I met were wonderful to be with, and there wasn’t a single sour note in my own experiences in Beijing, except for the pollution that I noted in that story.
But I also wanted to share some comments from various expats...
Links 2007-11-20 [The Content Economy] →
Andy Mulholland asks what’s new in collaboration with Web 2.0 in his post “Mesh Working rather than Matrix Working” on Cap Gemini CTO blog. Here are some excerpts:
“…Strong collaboration is people centric and based upon a ‘pull’ model of finding, and asking, experts to work with you in providing answers. By contrast Weak collaboration is data centric relying on a...
How Instant Messaging Can Make You More Productive →
Web Worker Daily writer Leo Babauta suggested recently that the best way to be productive with instant messaging may be just not to use it. Yet many web workers find that instead of decreasing their productivity, instant messaging enhances it.
Researchers R. Kelly Garrett and James N. Danziger argue that far from making interruptions more frequent and disruptive, IM can be used to manage...
Online reality check for rental prices →
Home buyers typically have relatively easy access to a wealth of information on house prices in an area—even by text message, as with HouseFront, which we featured recently—but for renters, such comparative data can be harder to come by. Now Rentometer offers a map-based tool to shine a light on rent prices by neighbourhood. Rentometer was launched by Massachusetts-based Investment...
Email is Still Not Dead →
Yet-another-email-is-dead-article, this time on Slate. It’s the same old argument: teenagers using IM, or increasingly SMS, and most recently Facebook instead of email which they find cumbersome, slow and unreliable - hence email usage will decline.
I beg to disagree. Sure, I also get frustrated by the occasional rapid-fire exchange of one-line emails when by the 15th round we both realize the...
gOS - the first Office 2.0 solution only $200 |... →
This is the first Office 2.0 operating system. It comes with all the software you need to browse the web, email, instant message… play movies, music, and connect to iPods… create and edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, images… out of the box. I’m sure Microsoft and Apple aren’t shaking in their boots but it looks like a great option for the low end customer. If you own one ...
“I’m trying out the Tumblr engine on pflix.com - pflix is my Platform For...”
– Mark Bean