HD Photo From Microsoft
Responding to feedback from partners and customers, Microsoft has rechristened the Microsoft-friendly Windows Media Photo as the market-friendly HD Photo.
MacBook Pro Battery Exchange
I think I was actually vaguely aware of the 15-inch MacBook Pro Battery Exchange Program, but *I* wasn’t having any battery problems so I never looked into it.
Behavioral Targeting and Calculating Behaviors
I recently came across a press release from Revenue Science claiming that they now reach 1 Billion behaviors per day.
Converting a Date to RFC822 for RSS Use
I wrote a new dynamic RSS feed for a little project called Little Helper. It all works fine, but when I tried to validate it using FeedValidator, the pubDate was invalid.
Google’s Weight Gain/Loss Tracker
There’s a useful li’l weight tracker you can add to your Google personalized homepage, created by Brian W. Fitzpatrick, a Google software engineer. Brian calls the Gadget the Google 15, after the weight geeks usually gain after starting their Google jobs and being introduced to all the free food.
Yahoo! Jammed By Peanut Butter Memo
An internal memo by a senior vice president at Yahoo, where he extensively criticizes the company’s practices and culture, was leaked to the media; Yahoo comes across as a firm caught in a bureaucratic malaise, where too much duplication and too little passion are the order of the day.
Online Shopping Is A Four-Second Rodeo
Online retailers, you have four seconds to get your site loaded before a would-be customer scoots off to a competitor. Add that to what we already know about the time it takes to make a judgment once a page is loaded, and the window of opportunity becomes narrower.
Careers in IT
Information Technology is a discipline that has a major influence on how everyone lives.
Recovering From Organization-Centricity
Admit you have a problem: The first step to recovery is to admit that you are organization-centric. Say it: “We’re organization-centric.”
Which List Are You On?
Frank Arrigo links to Kineda, which now has a widget which queries Technorati to determine where you go in the blogging hierarchy, from the A-List to the D-List. Frank’s happy to be on the B-List, but I’m shocked that I am apparently an A-Lister.