September 2008

My Diigo Bookmarks 09/30/2008

September 30, 2008 Asides

NetNewsWire iPhone Application is Very Popular: NewsGator Widget Blog Shows the power of the widget – in the right circumstances tags: netnewswire, widgets

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Brian echoes my (and others) sentiments

September 29, 2008 General

This from Brian Sommer, my co-author of a report about SAP Business ByDesign and former senior director of Andersen Consulting‘s (now Accenture’s) global Software Intelligence unit Accounting firms just don’t get it. Their industry has become ever more irrelevant because of their inability to provide timely insights into business deals and operations. Every accountancy with [...]

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Harvard thinking about the financial crisis

September 29, 2008 General

If you have 96 minutes to spare then the Harvard Business School discussion about the US financial crisis is worth the time investment.  It was recorded last Friday. The panel members: Jay Light – Dean of HBS Robert Kaplan – board member Harvard Management Company Elizabeth Warren – law professor, specializing in bankruptcy Greg Mankiw [...]

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What can you trust?

September 29, 2008 General

While I have been fairly strident about the problems attached to the US financial markets and in particular the role of the audit crews, it turns out that one of the main problems was much simpler. According to the New York Times: The people who ran the financial firms chose to program their risk-management systems [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks 09/29/2008

September 29, 2008 Asides

Sage Intelligent Reporting laid to rest – 26 Sep 2008 “We’ve become aware of some compatibility issues between Sage 50 Intelligent Reporting and other software,” Ford wrote. “As it’s just not practical for us to solve these issues or develop the software further in its current form, we’ve taken the difficult decision to withdraw Sage [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks 09/27/2008

September 27, 2008 Asides

The Engaging Brand : Creating a Better Understanding of Social Change Wow – talk about make something fit your agenda. This is so epistomologically incorrect. Also, choice doesn’t create alternatives, ti’s the other way around. Read and enjoy the latest half baked crap from someone else who needs GPS to find the bathroom tags: theory [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks 09/26/2008

September 26, 2008 Asides

BBC NEWS | Europe | French hold out against credit crunch Did the French get it right? Their thrift is well known as is their sluggish economy. But no-one’s going to be in real trouble over this. The US/UK fallout has yet to be fully realized. tags: creditcrunch FT.com / Companies / Basic industries – [...]

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Scottish economy 'grinding to a halt'

September 25, 2008 General

A bleak report (PDF download) from Prof. Donald JR MacRae of Lloyds TSB Scotland paints a depressing picture of the Scottish economy. I was surprised by the graphic above which suggests only 65% of Scottish service industry businesses have web sites. In this day and age? How do they expect to do business? Even more [...]

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FBI on Fannie, Freddie and 24 others' trail

September 25, 2008 General

Courtesy of Accountancy Age and The Independent, it seems the FBI is taking a keen interest in the collapse of certain US banks and other financial institutions. Those named so far include Lehman Brothers, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, New Century Financial and Countrywide Financial. According to those reports (The Independent): Investigators at the FBI [...]

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