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October 15 2008
October 14 2008
☍ The New MacBook Video
Apple - The new MacBook - Video
The video shown during the Apple notebook event this morning. Go watch it.
Flash Cookies, a Little-Known Privacy Threat
Wiini recommends a blog posting exploring Flash cookies, a little-known threat to privacy, and how you can get control of them. 98% of browsers have Macromedia Flash Player installed, and the cookies it enables have some interesting properties. They have no expiration date; they store 100 KB of data by default, with an unlimited maximum; they can't be deleted by your browser; and they send...
☍ Which MacBook are you?
Apple - Mac - Which MacBook are you?.
Apple’s updated “which one is right for you?” page for the new MacBook and MacBook Pro. Lots of pretty pictures.
★ Contains Spoilers
Engadget just posted the first real picture and accurate description I’ve seen in public of the new 15-inch MacBook Pro, set to be announced later today. It’s the real deal. Major visible changes from the previous MacBook Pros:
- A new iMac-style black border around the display.
- A single-piece aluminum frame. No more chintzy plastic trim along the edges and seams.
- No more physical latch.
- MacBook...
☍ Last Chance to Submit Your Talk Ideas for Ignite Portland 4
There’s only 1.5 days left to get your Ignite Portland 4 talk idea submissions in. The window officially closes at 12:01 AM Wednesday 10/15 (that’s the hour after 11PM on Tuesday night 10/14, just to be clear). If you’ve got a talk idea you’d like to share on stage at Ignite Portland 4, now is the time to get it in. Last Chance to Submit Your Talk Ideas for IP4! at Ignite Portland.
☍ My “Linky” method has drawn a follower
I am going to take Josh Bancroft’s awesome idea to do link blog/commentary on my blog, and I think the symbol he found is awesome, I think we should make it a standard! ☍ This is a Linky - stevienova.com.
Who knows - maybe this weird thing will catch on? I’ve adopted the name “linky” from Steve. That’s what I’m calling these things from now on (I’ve named their category accordingly).
October 13 2008
Last Chance to Submit Your Talk Ideas for IP4!
Hey everyone!
There’s only 1.5 days left to get your Ignite Portland 4 talk idea submissions in. The window officially closes at 12:01 AM Wednesday 10/15 (that’s the hour after 11PM on Tuesday night 10/14, just to be clear). If you’ve got a talk idea you’d like to share on stage at Ignite Portland 4, now is the time to get it in.
We’ve got a great selection of ideas submitted so far - 31 as of...
Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter
“@shanselman: if you blog and everyone knows who you work for, YOU ARE representing your company, no matter what the disclaimer.”
I learned that lesson all too well. That's why there's no mention of any of my online hangouts on my LinkedIn profile. - Mavericks of A-sauce! It's tough - I am much more careful on my blog these days than when I started and worked for nobody. - Bora Zivkovic It's really hard, as a blogger, and knowing big bloggers, working for companies like this - there are times I see a scoop with my company, but have to keep my mouth shut. At the same time, I have to keep my mouth shut with my closest friends as well because they could always blog about it as well. - Jesse Stay True, but then that's a major part of the reason I started. And Silva doesn't preview anything before I post it - and we have been known to disagree. ;-) - Bill Sanders personally, the idea that outside of work you represent your place of work is something that I find quite obnoxious. It's effectively saying that the company owns you - like fuck does it. When I'm at work THAT is when I'm representing the company that I choose to work for. When outside of work I don't talk about the place I just carry on being me. Now, if my blog was also about the same things the company I work for does or if it's talking about where I work then yes, you are sorta representing it. - alphaxion alphaxion if you go to a bar and you are wearing a company shirt you are still representing that company. Sorry, but that's just the way it is. I've seen executives get fired (happened at NEC) for what they wrote in a web forum (without even talking about NEC or using an NEC email or anything like that). I've seen other employees get fired because they were at an industry party and hit on someone inappropriately after getting drunk. You can get fired for a whole raft of behaviors. - Robert Scoble alphaxion, continued, just because you say "I'm off work and not representing the company" won't save your behind if you are someone the company doesn't want representing them anymore. Same online (even worse, because it's so public). If you behave in a way that isn't reflective of how the company wants you to behave, you'll get fired and all your protestations of "it's my own time" won't matter one bit. Especially in a state like Washington which is an "at will" state (which is where Dare works). - Robert Scoble a dick is still a dick regardless of where they are at that moment.. I can understand if you're still wearing company uniforms plus the hitting on someone incident - they were at an industry event and so technically weren't off duty. The forum post sacking is abusive by the company in my eyes. My own personal view is that you should be allowed to be youself when outside of situations that involve the company you work for. If a company were to try and stifle my right to be me I would leave them. - alphaxion That's not to say I don't understand why some take this stance, I just personally object to it on a deep level. It is very reminescent of slavery in my eyes - I feel it's almost time to have to legislate or create guidlines at the least on where a company ends and where the individual begins. But if you're flying the flag for your place of work then yes you are representing them. If you're doing something completely unconnected then the company deserves no right to get in the way. - alphaxion alphaxion: it was a racist post by an executive. So I don't think it was abusive. That is someone I wouldn't want running my company either and it wouldn't matter that it was just their personal opinion. It demonstrated that they weren't compatible with a modern company. I agree, but with Dare's blog it's pretty tightly tied to industry commentary. That puts it firmly inside the firewall, the way you'd be judged if you spoke at an industry conference. - Robert Scoble If it was tied to industry commentary then it's not seperate to the company they work for.. but if it held zero connection then it is an abuse. I am a firm believer in freedom of speech regardless of what a person has to say - even if I find what they have to say abhorrent, I'd rather I knew who the bigots were than force them to keep silent. But if they're doing it in the name of the company they work for then there is a problem because they are speaking someone other than themselves. - alphaxion alphaxion: I disagree. Freedom of speech does NOT include "freedom from consequences." Freedom of speech is something that we use to keep government out of our lives. It does not extend to corporations. - Robert Scoble My husband worked in a certain small and kind of famous sandwich shop for over 20 years...so long, that most people thought he owned the place. (didn't help that the company logo looked a lot like my husband) Everywhere we went, they associated his face with the sandwich shop and would point and call out the name of the place. It didn't matter where we went. We could be pulling into a gas station 3 states away, while on vacation...they would recognize him and associate him with the place he worked. - April Russo (continued) About 10 years ago, my husband finally quit. Because people associated his face with the place and so many thought he owned it, the shop lost a lot of business after he left. Customers thought it was sold and showed their loyalty to the "original" by never coming back. Today, 10 years later, people still point and shout out the name of the place when they see my husband's face. The shop is gone, closed up and torn down...but he's still "representing" the company, whether he likes it or not. - April Russo Freedom of speech does not obsolve you from consequences. If you blog with any aspect of your company's equipment/identity then you are representing your company. In every other aspect of private blogging, you are still governed by your company ethics, intellectual property rules (about publishing information) and NDAs directly, and indirectly by the fact that everything you say will be held for and against you always - that last bit is pure human behaviour - Ian D. Nock In other words, you cannot say sh*t about your company, their competitors and even the companies who have a hint of a relationship to your company without being held accountable regardless. - Ian D. Nock Ian is right. That said, Microsoft was a very good place to blog. Its culture appreciates people who have different points of view and Gates loves it when people show him how the competition is beating it up. - Robert Scoble
October 12 2008
Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter
“Linus Torvalds is blogging: http://bit.ly/42TAuT . Heck yeah, I'll subscribe to that.”
Why isn't super easy on Friendfeed to post someone's RSS feed as an imaginary friend? Then instead of just liking it, you can subscribe to it. - Ranjit MathodaOctober 11 2008
Rodfather posted a link
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Josh Bancroft liked this "It’s also apparently cool-running enough to be used fanless, and is offered with either the 1.6GHz Intel Z530 or the 1.1GHz Z510 CPU." - RodfatherOctober 10 2008
☍ OK, this failing economy thing is getting out of hand…
Mothers Cookies closes after 92 years of business in Oakland - San Jose Mercury News
No more Circus Animal cookies? *cry*
☍ OK, this failing economy thing is getting out of hand…
Mothers Cookies closes after 92 years of business in Oakland - San Jose Mercury News
No more Circus Animal cookies? *cry*
October 09 2008
☍ Zoho Mail goes offline with Gears. What about Gmail?
Google Code Blog: Zoho Mail goes offline with Gears
Cool for Zoho Mail users, but when the heck are we going to see Gears offline functionality for Google’s own Gmail and Google Calendar?
☍ Zoho Mail goes offline with Gears. What about Gmail?
Google Code Blog: Zoho Mail goes offline with Gears
Cool for Zoho Mail users, but when the heck are we going to see Gears offline functionality for Google’s own Gmail and Google Calendar?
Posting “interesting Items with Analysis and Commentary” Here, Instead of My Linkblog
Josh Bancroft's TinyScreenfuls.com
Shared by Josh Bancroft
If you have followed me and liked (or re-shared) what I have to say via my Google Reader Shared Items, make sure you start following my blog, http://www.tinyscreefuls.com, as that's where I'm going to move my "share a link with a little commentary" posts. They won't be here on Google Reader Shared Items anymore. Feel free to keep sharing what I write if you find it...
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