Archive for July 5th, 2008
Happy Fourth of July
This presidential campaign and the strengths of the candidates are a sign of America’s strength; a great reason to have hope for many Independence Days to come. In much of the world power change still comes at the point of a gun; in the world’s most powerful country (still), power passes peacefully. Although the financing of campaigns is a concern, the cost of them should not be. It costs less in direct campaign expenditures to elect a president of the United States than to launch a...
Meebo’s Jen: How to Find Hard-to-Find Talent
At GigaOM???s recent Structure 08 event, Meebo co-founder and engineering chief, Sandy Jen, joined a panel to talk about scaling your computing infrastructure for explosive growth. Jen also spoke with Found|READ, this time to offer founders tips on how to overcome what she calls the internal scaling challenge: hiring. Meebo launched in September 2005, when it unveiled the first Ajax application that allowed users to access several instant messaging clients (AIM, Jabber, Google Talk, etc.) fro...
Be Proud of Who YOU Are
Whoever you are, wherever you may end up, always be proud of who you are and what you stand for…even when it seems impossible to do so. Don’t worry about what others are saying, follow your heart and do what you feel is the best for YOU. Try not to be defensive for things which you believe in and just know that no matter what, you are who you are, for reasons others may never understand and most likely can not. You are special, very special. Be special. Live your life according to ...
The Week That Was
Here’s some of the news, views and other stuff that caught my attention this week: Twitter: I’ve been trying to control my Twitter usage recently. As a start, I don’t fire it up until at least noon to ensure the digital noise level is kept to a minimum. Some interesting Twitter tidbits: - I’m now being followed by the Samsung Instinct. Yup, the Instinct is so smart, it can talk and Twitter. - For those of you looking for a new to use Twitter, check out TwitterDeck. ItR...
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