I’m Reading…Recently, I’ve been evaluating different solutions for upgrading my home storage solution for backup and file storage. A couple of years ago, I decided to purchase an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+, which offers appliance-level simplicity to deploy a virtualized drive over a flexible RAID system. It’s a 4-drive system that supports hot-swapping of drives and optimized [...]
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This has been something that I’ve been thinking about heavily for the past few years. There is a trend in Silicon Valley that has been under-appreciated in the press, but nonetheless has rapidly swept through technology companies in the Bay Area. It may not be buzzword-enabled (yet), but it nonetheless may be a truly transformative [...]
Filed under: LinkedIn, Silicon Valley, Software, entrepreneurship | Tagged: benefits, human resources, management | 1 Comment »
Just a quick note to say that the new version of LinkedIn for iPhone is now live in the iTunes App Store. Download LinkedIn for iPhone I wrote a fairly lengthy piece on the official LinkedIn blog, so no need to replicate the full walk-through here. In any case, check out this new home screen: [...]
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I apologize for the reference to Spinal Tap, but this is my personal blog after all. I normally don’t post most LinkedIn announcements here, but this one is too big to ignore. On Monday, LinkedIn made faceted search available to all members. This effort brought to fruition efforts that date back to 2007 to completely [...]
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Only a long time Quicken user will empathize with the trauma of having your Quicken data file fail to open. It happened to me this weekend, and after a couple days of experiments, I finally solved the problem. I’m posting this here on the blog because my Google searches on the topic turned up *nothing*, [...]
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Kudos to the team. LinkedIn for IBM Lotus Notes is now in beta. LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn Widget for IBM Lotus Notes Now Available Quote from Ed Brill, Director of Product for Lotus Notes at IBM: This week, IBM and LinkedIn are announcing the availability of the LinkedIn plug-in for Lotus Notes. This easy to use [...]
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A little too busy tonight for a long blog post, but thought I’d share how excited I am to be helping assist the launch of a new course at Stanford this Fall: CS 193P: iPhone Application Programming The class website is still a work in progress, but it will come along. The course is open [...]
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I had a business trip to Boston this past week, which means I got a lot of good reading hours in on the plane ride across the country. As a result, expect to see some intellectually inspired posts this week. Tonight, I’m going to start off with an easy one – the most recent issue [...]
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Got to be careful what I say here. Mike Schroepfer might be reading. Actually, I was reading his blog when I found out that Firefox 3 Beta 3 is out. You can download it here. I’m playing the naive user for now… just installed it and using it, without reading up on the specifics of [...]
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I don’t normally post about military or political events here, but this this article had a specific technology angle to it, and I thought it was too interesting to ignore. From Aviation Week: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the Israelis struck a construction site at Tall al-Abyad just south of the Turkish border on Sept. [...]
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Not sure if this will play out in commercial production, but Intel demoed USB 3.0 at the Intel Developer Forum last week. There is good coverage of the event and the specification here on CNET. Intel is working fellow USB 3.0 Promoters Group members Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, NEC and NXP Semiconductors to release the [...]
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Blowing some dust off the old compiler this weekend… after about 8 years, I’m actually getting ready to write some real client-side software again. Just a personal project, for fun. Nothing fancy, but I’ve decided to see if I can’t write some useful plug-ins for Mac OS X. In particular, I’m going to see if [...]
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For those of you in the city, I’ll be on a panel at the Office 2.0 conference at 1:30pm on Thursday, September 6th. The panel is on social computing, and will feature the following people: Shel Israel (Moderator), Social Media Consultant Anil Dash, Vice President, Evangelism, Six Apart John McCrea, Vice President of Marketing, Plaxo [...]
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Apple hasn’t released an SDK for client application development for the iPhone, but they have launched a new website for developers interested in customizing their web-based applications for the iPhone. Apple Developer Connection: iPhone The site consists of a link to the beta download of Safari 3.0 for Windows & Mac. The real detail, however, [...]
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Now this one is a lot of fun… I moved my blog reading from My Yahoo to Google Reader about 6 weeks ago. It has been tough to adjust to the new habit – my instinct is to always go to My Yahoo. But My Yahoo just wasn’t scaling for the number of blogs I [...]
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