IM and P2P Security
This is a good article on the effect of IM in the workplace. Although I don’t agree 100% with the writer. I think open IM systems such as Trillian do much more to boost office productivity than to hurt it. However scare tatics are what sell. So I understand why the article [...]
Another distinguished “author” has joined FI Space: David Neff. David is the Director of Online Communications, Hi-Tex Division. He’s also a Springboard project manager. David has a cool project in progress getting cancer tools on physician PDAs. He’ll be telling us more about his project as it goes along. He promised!
Check out his first post.
Okay. Now it’s official. WIRED magazine’s cover story for February is about offshoring, so it must be for real. The article, “The New Face of the Silicon Age,” is pretty interesting with interviews of IT types in both India and the US. But the author, Daniel Pink, emphasizes this is about the global economy, not [...]
Fast Company
The defining political issue for America in the next decade has arrived now, courtesy of India, China, and any number of aspiring developing nations. That issue is offshore outsourcing–not of blue-collar factory guys, but of well-paid knowledge workers. It is a question that will get traction in November’s elections. It will only grow bigger [...]
…what does it take to come up with an idea? How can some people and some organizations generate a seemingly endless supply of ideas, while others struggle to come up with anything fresh, creative, or out of the ordinary?
Good question. Click here.
Study: Donors Are Giving Large Gifts Online :: PNNOnline ::
“This new study clearly shows that people are willing to make large donations online,” reports Dr. Ephraim Feig, Kintera’s chief technology officer and chief marketing officer. “The growing importance of a nonprofit’s targeted and personalized website, combined with web-based advocacy and other community building tools, are [...]
Here is a view of the Social Software Industry form the point of view of the Venture Capital firms.
It turns out that Google is experimenting with social networking software. If there’s a buck to be made with massive searching, Google’s on it. But, how about if powerful relationship detecting software could be coupled with CRM databases? The article remarks:
These systems look in e-mail, instant messaging — everywhere, basically, where contact information can reside,” [...]
infoSync World : Review: Sprint Handspring Treo 600
Could this be the year of the All-In-One Device? According to major tech reviewers it could be. Welcome to the world of the Handspring Treo 600. Although we have seen phones and PDA’s like this before, we have never really seen one that fits everything together so well, [...]
Here’s another article about offshoring by a Ha’vad Business Review guy.
But even more interesting to read, I think, is the responses to his article by readers. This isn’t just an academic discussion for economics professors and pundits. Real people are in the middle of this. Hmm. Come to think of it, aren’t we all in [...]
