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Thomas Global Shuts Down, Closing its Virtual Doors

by Jason Busch on 07/02/2009 16:06 0 comments , 18 views
Thomas Global is closing its virtual doors in 2010 according to the latest news to come out of the supplier directory world. According to a source close to Thomas that I traded notes with this earlier this afternoon, ?the site will be up until 2010 t...
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Facebook Connect Is A Huge Success

by Jeff Nolan on 07/02/2009 15:52 0 comments , 23 views

I’d go with that assessment. Connect has made identity/authentication so much easier for third party app providers and at the same time has struck a serious blow to Google in that these relationships are not transactional and it is a zero sum game. With FB adoption where it is and so much momentum on the [...]

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David Dobrin -- An Analyst Worth His Salt Confirms a Rumor

by Jason Busch on 07/02/2009 15:04 0 comments , 22 views
I've been hearing this week through the grapevine that software companies, including Ariba and Emptoris, had a challenging time closing deals at the end of the second quarter, but I haven't wanted to pull the trigger on saying anything about it. J...
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Is it finally time to listen?

by Craig Cmehil on 07/02/2009 13:03 0 comments , 29 views

The other week was the Enterprise 2.0 conference, typically highly hyped and loud this year I almost missed it since it seemed a lot more subdued than normal. However, I have to say reading this post by Susan kind of reminds me of the whole “Lightblub going off”.

“Yes, the baby was born in ‘06, started crawling in ‘07, and now is running around like a maniac with boundless energy in ‘09. The Enterprise 2.0 movement is now a healthy child, growi...
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Activate 09: The Guardian’s Catalyst for UK Open Culture

by James Governor on 07/02/2009 13:02 0 comments , 26 views
Yesterday I lucky enough to go the inaugural Activate event, organised by the Guardian newspaper. “an exclusive one-day summit providing a unique gathering for leaders working across all sectors to share, debate and create strategies for answering some of the world’s biggest questions.” At the risk of getting carried away Activate felt like a seminal event, perhaps [...]
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SPSM2 -- Next Level Purchasing Unveils a New Certification

by Jason Busch on 07/02/2009 12:03 0 comments , 17 views
Earlier this week, Next Level Purchasing announced their latest certification: the SPSM2. Billed as a follow-on course of study to the SPSM certification, the SPSM2 builds on the curriculum of the previous designation but is not meant as a replacemen...
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Protect the Abusers By Punishing the Rule Following Majority

by Jeff Nolan on 07/02/2009 10:48 0 comments , 22 views

There’s a lot of this going around this year.

An FDA panel’s recommendation to withdraw Vicodin, Percocet, and other opioid-plus-acetaminophen painkillers seems calculated to “sacrifice the interests of consumers who follow instructions for the sake of consumers who don’t”, says Jacob Sullum.[From “”If you keep track of what you’re taking, none of this is [...]

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Healthcare and the Supply Chain (Part 2): Physician Providers

by Jason Busch on 07/02/2009 10:01 0 comments , 23 views
When the Obama administration projected the budgetary impact of the stimulus package it assumed that unemployment would not go above the 8 per cent mark. Unfortunately, the unemployment numbers that came out recently put unemployment at 9.4 percent w...
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Cloud: Seven Clear Business Models

by Vinnie Mirchandani on 07/02/2009 06:47 0 comments , 40 views
“It seemed silly for a software company to own a data center but after six months on the job I realized this was really a fundamental shift in the economics of software” What do you say about a guy who...
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Increase profits by working less

by sigrinde on 07/02/2009 05:58 0 comments , 32 views
What's taking up most of your working day? Add up the time spent on the following: Receiving tasks from superiors Distributing tasks to subordinates Discussing these tasks to get more knowledge and clarify Emailing Phone and Skype calls Searching for...
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Gmail Finally Ends the Folder vs. Label War – What’s Next? Find the Answer Here.

by Zoli Erdos on 07/01/2009 18:36 0 comments , 62 views

Bear with me for this somewhat long post, ‘cause I am not only discussing the sweeping changes Gmail made today, but in the end will also tell you what they are going to do next year – or perhaps after that.

Gmail Changes

The Gmail label changes announced today and to be released to accounts slowly (you may not see them yet, I only have them on one account) are ones that I’ve long been waiting for, and that most reviewers seem to underestimate, ...

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Green Flight Across the Atlantic

by Zoli Erdos on 06/10/2009 01:15 0 comments , 172 views

American Airlines is about to test eco-friendly new technology on it's regular flight between Paris and Miami this Thursday. 

Unfortunately it's still not the Flying Saucer design, but this much more boring Boeing 767-300 equipped with all the new technology.
What exactly that new technology is, is a bit hard to decipher from this highly buzzword-compliant article, but rest assured that:

“It is critical that the aviation industry work with ou...
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Yes, Outlook is Broken, but Who Cares? Do You Really Want More Inbox Spam?

by Zoli Erdos on 06/29/2009 04:12 0 comments , 55 views

(Note to self: this post won’t make me popular... oh, well).  The last thing I can be called is an Outlook-fanboy.  I broke out of Outlook-prison long ago and never looked back, have consistently spoke up against how Microsoft abuses their users, but this time all I can say is the “Fix Outlook” debate is blown  out of proportion.

Yes, I also joined the tweet campaign, but only for fun to see my mug flash up for a few minutes.

I...

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