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The Sleek Laptops are Now Reaching Store Shelves, but What do Retailers and Consumers Know About Them? Â Ultrabooks from Samsung, Asus, Toshiba and other OEMS are now on store shelves. (Flickr photo) In the wake of the on-going buzz around Ultrabooks, we went looking for the new category of laptop computers in the Sacramento, [...]
Honestly I don’t care about Klout. Really. I don’t, but then an idiot mentioned it as a factor in hiring.. We thought your CV was awesome, but we are hesitant because your Klout doesn’t list you as a thought leader on <insert topic>.Really? You expected that I tweet about that? Who would listen? But then [...]
This post is the second in our 3-part series called “Building Trust at Work”, with Chris Brogan. Chris is president of Human Business Works, providing business, communications and emerging technology strategy for mid- to large-sized businesses. He blogs regularly at chrisbrogan.com. Bestselling author Charles H. Green wrote the book on trust. His seminal work with [...]
Today we kick-off a 3-part series called “Building Trust at Work” with Chris Brogan. Chris is president of Human Business Works, providing business, communications and emerging technology strategy for mid- to large-sized businesses. He blogs regularly at chrisbrogan.com. To better understand the dynamics of trust at work, I reached out to people who I believe [...]
China is the World’s Largest Mobile Market with Almost 1 Billion Mobile Internet Users  As we enter the Year of the Dragon, which began Monday with the Chinese New Year, the huge China mobile market is growing at breakneck speed. In 2011, mobile connections increased almost 17 percent and soon will top 1 billion. [...]
Not all Open Source Software is free, and not all free software is open source. Open Sourcing Software can be done not just for community, but for security or integration. A sure way to make your software well documented is to provide the source code so that those integrating with your system can see the [...]
Walmart is cheap because they don’t offer amazing service, they buy in bulk, they use distribution centers to minimize shipping costs, and labor. All that means they have a lower carbon foot print. Insurance and Pay roll is cheaper by the 1,000. You get all those efficiencies. Buying from small businesses tends to send more [...]
People keep saying, “It’s not Linux” “Linux is just the kernel” “It’s GNU Linux you Idiot”. Yeah posers go back to grade school, I’ve been running Linux since the days before it had a GUI. There are definite Non-GNU versions on of Linux, and While Gnu Linux is Linux not all Linux is GNU Article [...]
Just because you build something doesn’t mean you can give it away for free. You can’t draw a picture of Mickey Mouse, slap it on a T-shirt and sell it. The same is true for the Intellectual Property in software. Patents require licensing, and that limits what software can be truly free. The Free Software [...]
Story telling is the second oldest form of entertainment (the first is only legal in Nevada, and they shut down that section of Craig’s list). TV and Movies aren’t going away. We aren’t consuming that many fewer hours of them either. But we have changed the revenue model. We don’t pay $30 for a DVD, [...]