Archive for August, 2009
Yammer, a corporate version of twitter!
Posted by afarianc in on August 24, 2009
At TechCrunch 2008 I saw a demo for a product called Yammer. It is yet another social networking tool in the mocroblogging space, ut it is positioned as an “Enterprise Microblogging” product.
Do I need another hole in the head, network to be a part of? If I am in a corporation and I need to communicate with people around me, instead of doing this on twitter (where I would create a busID or a version for my business self), then sure I would use it. But you know what is getting to me? The number of parallel networks you have to be on to be communicating.
It is getting very redundant, so when the first social network goes down you can use another?? I like Facebook’s Connect feature where they have made the API available so if you have a FB account, you can just use the same user ID in other sites. So the user doesn’t feel uncomfortable registering in a new site run by people you don’t know.
Facebook has been on a tear when it comes to releasing technologies that make it more indispensable. I didn’t join Facebook because I needed to connect to friends, I joined because I had to be there.
So with Yammer, you have to have the need
Need more spam? Go to the Whitehouse.org
Posted by afarianc in on August 14, 2009
Apparently some people are getting spammed by the Whitehouse’s website. I read (and heard on CNN) that some people reported getting spammed on the Healthcare issue by just visiting the whitehouse.gov website.
Now I don’t know how the Whitehouse can get their emails by just visiting the site. Maybe they are filling out a comment form or something. But still, I feel if this is true, it is very inappropriate for such an entity to be doing this.
Major Garrett asked Gibbs about the spamming issue but Gibbs just danced around it. He also asked if the Whitehouse has hired an email or marketing firm(s) to get these email addresses and Gibbs response was, “I’ll look into it.”
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Upgrade from Vista to XP for $50 !!
Posted by afarianc in on August 14, 2009
I recently wrote a letter to a magazine editor for an open call to people that have been urged to upgrade to something they did not need or regretted. This is the equivalent to people being “promoted to their level of incompetence” that I learned about in one of my organizational behaviour courses when I was doing my MBA.
I think Microsoft should top your list for this topic. I was perfectly content with Wordstar and Windows 3.1 (This was a Steve Bass inside joke).
But on a serious note, I wish I never went for the Vista upgrade hype. I think Vista was an insider move from an Apple double agent. You have people upgrading to XP (yes upgrading, see links below). I would pay $50 for my notebook and Desktop to be upgraded to XP now.
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| Brief time on dell. I guess Microsoft had them remove the word “Upgrade” and replaced it with “Downgrade”. | Google search showed this type of pages. |
Anyway, after leaving Apple for 23 years (my first Apple IIe 1983-84, My first IBM compatible 1986), I finally cracked and went to a Mac. Can’t say I am not having withdrawal symptoms, but the withdrawal symptoms are for the XP, definitely not the Vista.
Anyway, I have 5 computers now. I am going crazy. I have an XP desktop (Still hanging on), a Vista desktop (quad processor), A Vista notebook (Hate the OS) so bought a netbook with an XP processor, and of course now the MAC. You cannot get more geeky than that.
Also don’t start me on the browser issues, now I am running browsers like an application, I think this is a trend:
- – I use IE for business sites (They don’t show well on other browsers) but the IE7 & 8 crash like a *** driver (you fill in the ***).
- – Chrome for Gmail coz it’s faster, and I like the search from the address bar.
- – I use Firefox (most stable), I love the addons
- – Safari & Firefox on the Mac (Safari because it comes up automatically, I override it with firefox)
So I use IE 40% of the time, Chrome 30% of the time and Firefox 60% of the time and it somehow adds up to 100% of the time 🙂
Anyway, that’s my 2 cents worth.