August 2008

My Diigo Bookmarks 08/21/2008

August 21, 2008 Asides

Frosted Phelps. Will You Eat ‘Em? – E! Online One for the Kerrching department. tags: phelps AdBrite = AdDumb. Why You Should Avoid In-line Ads, Whether Contextual or Not.| Zoli’s Blog And one for the Which Genius Thought Of This department. Zoli, as always has the prefect take. tags: zoli, advertising TwitPic – Share photos [...]

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Questions for accounting vendors

August 21, 2008 General

Ben Kepes contacted me asking for pointers to ask accounting panelists at the upcoming Office 2.0 gig in San Francisco. It’s an interesting selection of vendors (I’d be much happier seeing users or those implementing solutions but hey ho.) Anyhoo – here goes: Aaron Forth (Mint.com) – when do you plan to make the crossover [...]

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Would you pay for empty calories?

August 19, 2008 General

Empty calories is defined in Wikipedia as: …calories present in high-energy foods with poor nutritional profiles, typically from processed carbohydrates or fats. In software, empty calories represents the cost of maintaining business applications that delivers little or no value. Today, I believe the industry is feeding us a diet that inflates the vendors’ bottom line [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks 08/19/2008

August 19, 2008 Asides

Datamancer.net — Custom Keyboards I absolutely want one of these. The ultimate geeky toy? tags: datamancer Managing Offshore IT: Youngest victim of Offshoring The dangers of offshoring that few of us think about. tags: offshoring 37signals Product Blog: Less Accounting, more Basecamp and Highrise “Accounting sucks. Less Everything makes it suck less.” These relatively simple [...]

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Excessive internal linking is narcissistic

August 19, 2008 General

One of the problems I see with professionals is the extent to which they navel gaze in the deluded belief they are the fount of all accounting wisdom. It simply isn’t true. There’s always someone smarter than you and they probably work somewhere else. So it was with some sadness that I read Tim O’Reilly‘s [...]

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Might Diigo be your research tool?

August 19, 2008 General

All professionals do research. It’s an integral part of our daily lives. Until recently, attempting to research, collate and then possibly re-use material has been pretty darned difficult. Even with things like searchable tax libraries, there’s still the problem of marshaling resources, especially in team situations, unless you are prepared to pay a significant premium. [...]

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ICAEW site revamp scores well

August 18, 2008 General

While I have had no direct involvement in the ICAEW site revamp I draw some satisfaction in knowing the person who came up with the design. I’m saying no more to save said person’s blushes. The redesign works really well. Clean lines, logical layout, well thought out colour coordination and solid navigation. All things that [...]

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Seesmic out, Apture in

August 16, 2008 General

I’m a huge fan of getting as much content into AccMan as possible. Sometimes however, those endeavours come to nothing – usually because it is way too early in the cycle for people to latch onto them as a good thing and sometimes because they are just not that appropriate. This week’s casualty is Seesmic. [...]

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FreeAgent and SAP: the comparison?

August 16, 2008 General

Although I’m no longer involved on a day-to-day basis, it’s always nice to see a positive review of a service in which I had a wee hand. Nigel Harris has give FreeAgent a glowing report card and I was especially pleased to see that he’d got this bit right: FreeAgent looks good, is pretty straightforward [...]

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People who matter: Craig Cmehil and jet lag

August 16, 2008 General

While stuck in Madrid airport, I tuned into the Friday Morning Report (FMR) run by Craig Cmehil. The topic du jour was ‘Jet Lag” and the ensuing conversation was hilarious. It’s one of those ‘you had to be there’ times but even so, the replay should provide enough flavour to get a sense of the [...]

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