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Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive?
Feb 3@8:06pm: __roo writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that an increasing number of companies are replacing traditional meetings with daily stand-ups. The article points out that stand-up meetings date back to at least World War I, and that in some place, ... [from Slashdot]
Doctors 'Cheating' On Board Certifications
Feb 3@6:04pm: Maximum Prophet writes "After taking board exams, doctors have been routinely getting together to remember and reproduce as much of the exam as they can. These notes are then bound and reproduced. According to the American Board of Dermatology, th... [from Slashdot]
Review: Republic Wireless and its $19/month cell service
Feb 1@6:00am: Republic Wireless is an upstart taking on some of the biggest behemoths in American industry—the major cell carriers—armed with WiFi as its main weapon. Republic keeps costs low by encouraging the use of WiFi on cell phones, though customers can s... [from Ars Technica]
Fitness to Go: Anywhere, Anytime Exercise Classes
Feb 1@6:00am: Fitness instructor and personal trainer Yu Hannah Kim has always believed that fitness should be available to anyone. Now, with the launch of her new site, Yufit, she's making that dream a reality. Yufit offers streaming videos for everything from... [from E-Commerce Times]
Apple's Dynamic Tension
Feb 1@6:00am: A week after Apple revealed record-breaking sales numbers that drove its value to new heights, the company's fans were shown a bleaker image of Cupertino in a recently published news series. The iEconomy series paints a picture of harsh working co... [from E-Commerce Times]
"Slain" Kelihos botnet still spams from beyond the grave
Feb 1@5:00am: A botnet capable of delivering almost four billion spam messages per day has been confirmed resurrected—more than four months after Microsoft celebrated its untimely demise. Researchers with Kaspersky Lab reported on Tuesday that Kelihos, a peer-... [from Ars Technica]
How to Embed One XML Format in Another
Jul 25@7:33pm: I’ve got an idea I’d like to suggest, but don’t feel inclined to champion right now. So I post it here and either come back to it later, or let someone else run with it. First, a little background. While working on the Atom feed format, one issue ... [from Alpha Gecko : Atom/RSS]
How Very Ironic of You, SpamArrest…
Dec 2@7:30pm: I got another of those emails from SpamArrest today asking me to verify that one of the emails to my mailing list wasn’t spam. This time, something on SpamArrest’s website struck me as ironic, if not downright hypocritical. SpamArrest is a whitel... [from Alpha Gecko : Email]
GMail Marks Own Message As SPAM!
Aug 5@2:47pm: Okay, this is funny. When I configured my GMail account to send mail as my email address at my domain, it sent a confirmation email to the address I’d specified. That email address forwards everything to my GMail account. After several minutes, th... [from Alpha Gecko : Email]
Tweeting From My RSS Feed Reader
May 22@2:27am: I just sent an updated version of Lobster – my RSS feed reader to all CaRP users. This revision adds Twitter support — tweet directly from your feed reader. Lobster automatically generates tweet text from the title and link from each RSS item. Edi... [from Alpha Gecko : Atom/RSS]
Browser & Screen Resolution Trends
Jul 8@12:31am: I just checked the browser and screen resolution stats for www.geckotribe.com and wow, what a surprise! Firefox is wiping the floor with IE on that domain! One of my other heavily trafficed domains reverses the picture, but another looks almost e... [from Alpha Gecko : Web Design]
LinContEx.com was going to be “BlogRush done right”…
May 26@9:07pm: A little over a year and a half ago, when John Reese announced his BlogRush service, I thought “oh, c**p,” (that word isn’t “CaRP” :-) “one of the big boys beat me to my idea.” At the time, I’d begun working on a site that was going to be similar,... [from Alpha Gecko : SEO]