Hot on the heels of the announcement earlier this week that SGI received a Nasdaq delisting notice, SGI has announced significant changes to its business plan, including the layoff of roughly 15% of its workforce (225 employees), including some executives and senior level positions.
According to the new announcement, SGI will focus its efforts around demands [...]

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Microsoft recently recruited OpenID Foundation co-founder Dick Hardt as a  new partner architect on consumer, enterprise and government identity solutions.
You may remember Hardt from his work on Sxipper, the identity plug-in for FireFox.  Hardt has also co-authored the OpenID 2.0 specification
This could represent a move by Microsoft towards supporting OpenID interoperability within its consumer [...]

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As I was sitting in the cafe eating lunch today, I reflected on my career and the things I’ve learned.  There are three things that popped into my head that seemed universally true.
1.) It pays to be humble.  There is always someone that knows more than you do.  If you step up to a [...]

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Obama’s transitional government website, change.gov, unveiled a new Digg-like section where anyone can submit ideas or questions, and others can vote on whether or not they’d like to see the topic addressed.
The new section is powered by Google’s Moderator service, which was just announced by Google as a new application built on their Google [...]

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