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AppExchange for Dummies, for Free. Go get your free copy of Salesforce AppExchange for Dummies. Even if you're not interested in Salesforce, the Salesforce web services API is one of the best uses of SOAP out there. One of the cool things about it is that it creates a custom object model for your organization.… Continue reading AppExchange for Dummies, for Free

How bad regulation is destroying US Internet. Larry Lessig points out that the history of the Internet, and the blend of regulation and laissez-faire, is being distorted by those who want to hand over more and more control to the duopoly of telcos and cablecos: The Washington Internet Daily (which apparently is not on the… Continue reading How bad regulation is destroying US Internet

Career or a Job?. For those of you that are consultants… is this a career to you…. or just a job? If it's a job… all you will need to do is just 'act' like you know what you are doing and take on any jobs that come your way. If, however, this to you… Continue reading Career or a Job?

No Upgrade Price for QuickBooks. What's a fair upgrade price for customers who have a previous version of a software product? Intuit has come up with an interesting answer to that question by deciding that the upgrade price for QuickBooks 2006 should be 100 percent of what new customers pay. . . . [Ed Foster's… Continue reading No Upgrade Price for QuickBooks

Do you have WIADD?. A research team from the University of California has published the results of a research study that shows that office workers work on average for only eleven minutes before being interrupted and that these interruptions consume approximately 2.1 hours of every working day. One expert is calling this “work-induced attention-deficit disorder”.… Continue reading Do you have WIADD?

Classifying Along the Other Axis. Although I still think the blogging community should work together and create an optional controlled vocabulary for tagging, the real problem goes well beyond blogging and comes back to indexing the Web: We're classifying along the wrong axis. When used with some skill, good search engines like Google can tells… Continue reading Classifying Along the Other Axis

Digital Domain: Hey, Baby Bells: Information Still Wants to Be Free. The digital lifestyle I see portrayed so alluringly in ads is not possible when the Internet plumbing in our homes is as pitiful as it is. By RANDALL STROSS. [NYT > Technology]

Humpty Dumpty Metadata. The big problem with LiveJournal (and again, it's not so much a problem as an omission) is a problem shared by all the other blogging services/utilities I've tested: There's no standard vocabulary for tagging. Everybody makes up a personal tagging vocabulary (idiodically called a “folksonomy” even thought it takes more than one… Continue reading Humpty Dumpty Metadata

Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel. Good news — the Sci-Fi Channel has licensed the broadcast rights to the new Dr. Who series from the BBC. Goofy announcement and all. One of the good things about living in the Pacific Northwest is that we get CBC on cable, and CBC shows Dr. Who approximately the same… Continue reading Dr. Who on Sci-Fi Channel

GTD 2006.9: No rest will dumb you down. One of the best productivity tips I know is getting enough rest. Rest is not just sleep – although odds are good that its been way to long since you had a full night's sleep. Rest means spending time with friends, going to a ball game, taking… Continue reading GTD 2006.9: No rest will dumb you down