Monthly Archive for November, 2007

Agile Programming Humor

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Eric Marden
on November 29, 2007
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Dilbert gets a crash course in Agile Programming, from the pointy hair boss’s perspective.

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PayPerPost Bloggers Losing Pagerank

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Eric Marden
on November 19, 2007
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TechCrunch reports:

If participating in PayPerPost wasn’t questionable enough morally before, today it’s now a poisoned chalice as Google has commenced punishing PayPerPost bloggers by completely removing their page rank.

This story hits close to home, both as a blogger - and as an Orlando resident - where PayPerPost is HQ’d. I’ve never really seen the benefit - except to advertisers - to use any good will and influence I’ve built up on my sites to push products on my audience that I didn’t believe in. And while IZEA, the company behind PPP and other Social Media Marketing efforts tries to balance their commercial interests with social awareness, Google’s move against them was warranted, in my opinion.

Paypal to offer Virtual Credit Card numbers for one time use

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Eric Marden
on November 19, 2007
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Between your Personal Paypal Account, and the Business Account + Debit Card is a new product that Paypal is going to be offering - single use Mastercard Numbers, to use on sites that don’t accept Paypal. I also see some good uses for this in the personal security arena where the value of a non-reusable CC number sitting in a vulnerable database becomes crystal clear.

Open Document Format Wars

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Eric Marden
on November 17, 2007
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It seems that the Open Document Format, the native format for Open Office.org and contributed to by the Open Document Foundation, as slammed this week - by the ODF - as being too proprietary, and that the corporate backers (such as Sun who adopted the format for its own Star Office package) were more interested in killing Microsoft Office than TRUE Interoperability between Word Processors and the other office productivity tools.

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Entrepeneur

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Eric Marden
on November 14, 2007
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Entrepreneurs are people who are too naive to see the obstacles that are obvious to others

I’ll be saving this one for the future. Thanks, Mike.