Why Process Matters
I have a job that most people would find either very interesting or very boring. I’ll let you decide which, but essentially my job is to help people quantify the financial benefits of Optimizing their Investment in their people. Which people? Their employees, human capital, talent, etc… It’s a hot topic at the moment, and certainly the economy has increased the importance of making “smart” people decisions.
Smarter shopping on smartphones
This weekend my wife and I went shopping for a birthday present for our 5-year-old nephew, and as usual we were looking for a gift at the last minute. We found ourselves in the toy aisle of a local store, unsure what to buy or how much these toys...
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The last few months, my team has been working on a sample SaaS application to demonstrate the multi-tenancy concepts I’ve been describing in my papers and blog. One of the areas we spent some cycles thinking about are the aspects of...
Read more about Practical Limits for Configurability...Happy Tweets Ranks the Happy Tweeps
Happy Tweets runs the numbers on your most recent tweets to see how happy you are. Are you ready for this optimistic meme to sweep through the...
Read more about Happy Tweets Ranks the Happy Tweeps...Single Question Interview: David Merrill of Tacola
If you’re not familiar with Siftables, watch the TED Talk. Peter Merholz: At TED, you demonstrated Siftables, small “smart” blocks that can interact with one another in interesting ways. What opportunities does Siftables provide in overcoming...
Read more about Single Question Interview: David Merrill of Tacolab...Translate Your Outlook Emails into Other Languages
You can translate your Microsoft Outlook email messages into any other language using the Office Translator service. It integrates directly into Outlook so the translations will happen the email client...
Read more about Translate Your Outlook Emails into Other Languages...A Sneak Peek at Winter '09
At salesforce.com, we have been working very hard on developing Salesforce Winter '09 for its release in October. Winter '09 will be salesforce.com's third release this year and also marks our 27th release in less than 10 years, something we are...
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