October 2008

My Diigo Bookmarks 10/24/2008

October 24, 2008 Asides

FT Alphaville » Blog Archive » Rating cows If this doesn’t scare you then goodness knows what does. tags: moodys, ratings Why your boss should never be your Facebook friend | News | guardian.co.uk There’s one born every day. Fancy being so idiotic? tags: facebook Buzz Canuck: The 12 Massive Oversights of Social Media Excellent [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks 10/23/2008

October 23, 2008 Asides

re: The Auditors: Treasury Appoints PwC and EY – The Wolves Are In The Henhouse Francine goes off on a tear but who can blame her? The debacle that is unfolding shows no signs of root and branch correction. That’s the fundamental key to setting things right. tags: auditors, KPMG, EY Softworld puts return on [...]

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The lawyers are streets ahead

October 23, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Courtesy of Philip Hodgen, a tax lawyer in California I’ve come to know and count as one of the ‘good guys,’ I learned about Clio, a practice management system built on the saas model and priced accordingly. From the company’s blurbs: Themis was formed out of a partnership with the Law Society of British Columbia [...]

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Web 2.0 Expo: live blogging

October 22, 2008 General
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Innovation humour

October 22, 2008 General

It started like this: that quickly moved on to this: and then… and… by which stage it was all getting rather silly. But you get the point? Humour is a great thing and even though it might ‘invade’ workspace I wonder if anyone has undertaken a study to figure whether there is an ROI associated [...]

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Merchant's Mirror: another saas accounting product

October 22, 2008 General

via Robert Scoble – this video talks about many of the benefits of running a saas accounting solution. The first 5-10 minutes are the best. Merchant’s Mirror has been in the works for the last 2-3 years. They’re saying it will include payroll by Q1, 2009. I’m looking forward to seeing how it differentiates on [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks 10/21/2008

October 21, 2008 Asides

Richard Murphy: It’s time to shatter the PFI myth for once and for all | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Quite right too! tags: PFI Google Learns Lessons in the Ways of Washington – NYTimes.com “But because Google dominates the search-advertising market and Yahoo has the second-place slot, Microsoft and several advertisers argue the partnership [...]

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Wanna understand passion and teams?

October 20, 2008 General

Dick Hirsch has written what I believe is one of the best descriptions of what it means to combine passion and commitment when under extreme pressure. The backdrop is that Dick, Anne Petteroe, Darren Hague, Thomas Jung and I were in Berlin for SAP TechEd and DemoJam. We’re all part of the ESME project and [...]

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3 breaking the international mobile broadband price mould?

October 20, 2008 General

This from a Tweet message by Paul Walsh who is currently in Hong Kong: Are you kidding? Apparently not. I asked Paul where I could find this in the T’s & C’s as I’d looked without success. It seems this is an undocumented ‘feature’ available at £10 per month pre-pay. I’ve no idea whether this [...]

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FBI unable to handle fraud investigations

October 20, 2008 General

According to the New York Times: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is struggling to find enough agents and resources to investigate criminal wrongdoing tied to the country’s economic crisis…Since 2004, F.B.I. officials have warned that mortgage fraud posed a looming threat, and the bureau has repeatedly asked the Bush administration for more money to replenish [...]

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