Category: Social
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Thunderbird No More
Mozilla announced that Thunderbird will no longer be actively developed by the Mozilla folks. Because they don’t see innovation in the email fat client space. Coincidentally I stopped using Thunderbird a couple months ago in favor of a Roundcube based webmail solution for my private email needs (corporate is still Outlook), so I would tend to agree.
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How big data might mean better business for big banks
How big data might mean better business for big banks: interesting vision how banks and credit card companies can use publicly available data and big analytics to separate bad from good risks for the retail lending business. There are some more links in that article that are worth following.… Continued
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How to Know if Your Application is Strategic
How to know if your application is “strategic”, an excellent title to start a conversation, down to the quotation marks! Nick Malik explains what to do to move your application into the strategic quadrant, but it equally applies to projects etc.… Continued
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Three Laws of Cloud
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Timesink
OMG, I just wasted about 2h updating my Twitter Ruby script because I didn’t carefully read this error message:
/home/maol/bin/politr_oauth.rb:39:in `authorize_from_request’: wrong number of arguments (3 for 2) (ArgumentError)
from /home/maol/bin/politr_oauth.rb:39… Continued -
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
Paul Carr, who luckily is a much better writer than I’ll ever be, has quit all the social and web 2.0 stuff to focus on his blog (and book, but that doesn’t count for me) again. Read about some first experiences in Thnks Fr Th Mmrs: The Rise Of Microblogging, The Death Of Posterity, and then a 2nd update after also quitting Twitter on Wow.… Continued
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Tech that is not tech
Great post by Couchio guy Mikeal Rogers about tech that is not tech. I can relate so much to that – I guess it’s an age or maturity thing.
I don’t know if it’s just because I got a little older, or because I started working so much with JavaScript and writing web stuff, but I can’t stand anything that is hard to use or requires me to maintain it in any way.… Continued
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Neither makes me very happy
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