As I looked at my BlackJack for the 34th time this morning, receiving yet another email in an incredibly long thread of replies spawned from a single email sent to 15 people, I finally realized: Andrew McAfee is right. Professor McAfee tends to put it rather bluntly in his lectures: “email is dead”.
While his [...]

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If you’ve been developing any web application over the last few years, it’s likely that you may have already heard of at least one, if not all of these JavaScript frameworks. But if not, you may want to look into these in particular to help make your web application UI development quicker and much [...]

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With social bookmarking and tagging becoming popular across most consumer websites, such as del.icio.us, flickr, youtube and others, are taxonomies dead?
Emphatically: no.  Every organization that generates or manages volumes of information should have and maintain a commonly shared taxonomy for organizing, storing and accessing that information.  Just so we’re clear: when I say “taxonomy”, I’m [...]

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When the BlackBerry first came into popularity in the early part of 2002, I remember hearing it called “CrackBerry” by its fans. The BlackBerry basically had three things going for it: you could get your email instantly, it had a big enough keyboard to reply easily, and the thumb scrolling button made it easy [...]

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Need to throw together a new Intranet on a zero-dollar budget, and do it within a day? It can be done! And here’s how…

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Probably the worst feeling as a Product Manager is to put a new release of a product out onto the market only to find out that half of the features that you thought were really important for the release are entirely unnecessary, or otherwise panned by analysts and market critics as being orthogonal to the [...]

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PHP-based content management systems (CMS) have been around for many years. Many PHP CMS systems were originally developed to serve as community sites for special interests, especially video game enthusiasts. Many have since graduated from their simple roots as community site servers to more robust content management solutions that can be very useful in [...]

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