21. Eating Blue Nun  permalink

Mr Angry / I Am Livid

Podcast 55 is live with myself, Cliff and Ben chewing the fat over topics as diverse as Cliff accidentally teaching his kids how to correctly use swear words, why I shouldn't cut my own hair, and how Sir Jimmy Saville clearly hates Ben.

22. NRC Launches User-Friendly Web Tool for Searching Agency Documents  permalink

ResourceShelf / ResourceShelf

NRC Launches User-Friendly Web Tool for Searching Agency Documents The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has added a search interface to its online Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) to improve the public’s ability to find and obtain NRC documents. “This is another example of the efforts the agency has underway to be as ...

23. NLM "Bookshelf" Web Site Adds National Academies Reports  permalink

Www.nlm.nih.gov

More than 70 reports by the National Academies are available online at the National Library of Medicine's Bookshelf ( ). The Academies collection will continue to grow, both as new reports are published and as NLM processes older reports dating back to 1995.

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24. Black Stone Theme  permalink

Black Stone Theme
Www.dynamicwp.net

Today we are glad to release Black Stone, a free wordpress theme. Black Stone is a 2 column theme with theme options. The theme is released under GPL License and you can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the world. Black Stone theme is brougth to you by ...

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25. How Work Policies Can Help Your Operation Evolve  permalink

How Work Policies Can Help Your Operation Evolve
Georgina Laidlaw / WebWorkerDaily

These days, I tend to think of my approach to work in terms of "work policies". That way, I get a degree of distance -- the kind of distance that makes it easier to see things objectively, and change them relatively painlessly to greater effect.

26. MyHeritage buys Germany’s OSN, now 540 million profiles strong  permalink

MyHeritage buys Germany’s OSN, now 540 million profiles strong
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch Europe

[Israel] Israeli genealogy site MyHeritage has completed its third acquisition, buying Germany’s OSN. OSN operates seven genealogy sites including Verwandt.de in Germany, Moikrewni.pl in Poland and Dynastree.com in the US. It was launched in 2007 just after LA-based Geni and, at first, it was just your typical German clone. But it added ...

27. Spotify maintenant disponible pour tous en France  permalink

Spotify maintenant disponible pour tous en France
Www.spotify.com

A partir d’aujourd’hui, si vous habitez en France métropolitaine, vous pouvez librement vous inscrire à notre service gratuit, Spotify Free. Pourquoi ouvrir maintenant ? Après plusieurs mois sur invitation, nous sommes sûrs de pouvoir maintenir la qualité du service pour un grand nombre d’utilisateurs.

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28. Gameloft shares its ‘iPhone revenue’: €17.6 million in 2009  permalink

Gameloft shares its ‘iPhone revenue’: €17.6 million in 2009
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch Europe

[Paris] French game developer Gameloft , listed on Euronext Paris, this afternoon shared its 2009 financial results with the world. The video game publisher achieved consolidated sales of €122.0 million - roughly $170 million - for 2009, up 11% compared to 2008. The company also specified 'iPhone revenue', which presumably means its income ...

29. If you Have your MBA and Want to Work at a Startup…  permalink

If you Have your MBA and Want to Work at a Startup…
Drew Meyers / My Thoughts on Microfinance

…please read this post by Charlie O’Donnell. It’ll be well worth your time.

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If you Have your MBA and Want to Work at a Startup… Dear MBAs who want to work at startups   —  So you just finished up the year at Harvard/Wharton/Stanford/NYU, etc. and since your lifelong dream of being a banker doesn’t seem like a viable route anymore, you’re thinking that a startup might be the place for you. (You’d much rather be a VC, but you’re smart enough to know that there are like 8 junior VC positions open a year, so you�

30. Keep Your Business Running Smoothly  permalink

Keep Your Business Running Smoothly
Meryl K Evans / WebWorkerDaily

What’s the one thing you need to do on a regular basis to keep your car running? It needs fuel or else it stops running. Every car needs refills — just like every business needs clients to bring in income. However, a car runs better and more [...]

31. What Would You Do If You Could Start From Scratch?  permalink

What Would You Do If You Could Start From Scratch?
Frank Roche / KnowHR Blog

If you had to design your company (and HR) from scratch, would you: –have performance reviews? –build walls in your offices? –ever use the word “boss” in a non-ironic way? –hire average employees? –keep a slacker? –write a bereavement policy? –pay women less than men? –pay anyone unfairly?

32. Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer  permalink

Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer
Www.mobilecrunch.com

I begged and pleaded with Greg, editor of MobileCrunch, not to make me write this, but it looks like I’m stuck introducing myself to you all. So in my best Troy McClure voice let me say: Hi, my name is Marc Flores. You might remember me from such popular sites as Boy Genius Report or True/Slant.

33. One Love: How Vision Leads to Success  permalink

One Love: How Vision Leads to Success
Amber Singleton Riviere / WebWorkerDaily

Have you ever heard of Raising Cane's? It's a fast-food restaurant that only serves chicken fingers. It started here in Louisiana, my home state, and now has nearly ninety locations around the U.S.

34. Episode #7: Ryan Singer on the 37signals design process  permalink

Matt / Signal vs. Noise

Time: 19:24 | Download MP3 Like this episode? Please share it with your friends: Life as a 37signals Project Manager Ryan Singer, who manages 37signals’ products and designs interfaces, talks about the company’s design process. He discusses how the design team works with each other and collaborates with programmers. He gives advice ...

35. It's not a promise, it's a guess  permalink

David / Signal vs. Noise

“When is it going to be done?” is a reasonable question and we as software developers should try to come up with the best answer we can based on our experience and analysis. What we should not do, however, is treat our answer as solemn oath. When you treat estimates as promises instead of guesses, you bind your worth as a worker to it.

36. It's 2010. Do you know where your email is?  permalink

It's 2010. Do you know where your email is?
Econsultancy.com

Email deliverability remains a problem, particularly in North America, where 20 percent of permission-based commercial email  landed in the junk folder or wasn't delivered at all.

37. Launchpad deep links for Highrise, Backpack, and now Basecamp  permalink

Jason F. / Signal vs. Noise

We’re really having fun digging into all the useful things we can do now that our customers have 37signals IDs . The Launchpad is one of those playgrounds. Last night we added deep links to Basecamp accounts. Deep links let you jump into an account without having to first log into the account and then choose where you want to go. For ...

38. Call it Real-Time, Squared, or NewNet, The Web Is Changing  permalink

Call it Real-Time, Squared, or NewNet, The Web Is Changing
Pro.gigaom.com

If a pervasive, always-connected web that's gathering data and using it intelligently and automatically is just around the corner, what does that mean for all of us? How will our working lives be affected when we're not just connected to the web 24/7, but actively contributing data to it all the time? What are the implications for privacy and ...

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39. Motorola's Droid: The Hummer of smartphones  permalink

Motorola's Droid: The Hummer of smartphones
Reviews.cnet.com

Is Motorola ready for a comeback? For much of the last decade, Motorola enjoyed a reputation for building great mobile phones -- like the clamshell StarTAC and the ultra-thin Razr -- that were must-have devices for style wonks as well as the high-tech elite. Then along came Apple's iPhone, and smart devices from companies like Research In Motion, ...

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40. Three easy to avoid affiliate email mistakes  permalink

Econsultancy.com

I'm an affiliate. I've been one for years. I get really frustrated when I get emails from merchants, or worse; their affiliate agency, that are useless. It happens too often and all these mistakes are so easy to avoid.