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Cypress Semi Net Rises
Cypress Semi Net Rises
07/15/2004 08:55 AMTheStreet.com Jul 15 2004 1:31PM GMT
Cypress Semi slammed for 2nd day on
Cisco fears
Cypress Semi slammed for 2nd day on
Cisco fears
04/16/2004 05:09 PMReuters Apr 16 2004 8:23PM GMT
UPDATE 1-Cypress Semi slammed for 2nd
day on Cisco fears
UPDATE 1-Cypress Semi slammed for 2nd
day on Cisco fears
04/16/2004 07:51 PMReuters Apr 16 2004 11:46PM GMT
Nutrition: The Sunny Side of the Street
Nutrition: The Sunny Side of the Street
06/07/2004 09:57 PMParents may worry about teenagers who spend the summer hanging out on
street corners, but at least they are building up plenty of Vitamin D.
SetFocus Selected as Semi-Finalist for
2004 New Jersey Family Business of the
Year Award
SetFocus Selected as Semi-Finalist for
2004 New Jersey Family Business of the
Year Award
08/12/2004 02:43 AMSetFocus, a leading provider of software developer training, has been
selected as one of five Semi-Finalists for the 2004 New Jersey Family
Business of the Year Award, in the sales up to $10 million category.
[PRWEB Aug 12, 2004]
Business in a Box Now Helping Thousands
of Businesses in Over 100 Countries
Business in a Box Now Helping Thousands
of Businesses in Over 100 Countries
09/02/2004 02:25 AMEnvision SBS today announced that sales of Business-in-a-Box, its
flagship product, have reached a new milestone. The company is well on
its way to becoming a global leader in its market. Small and
medium-sized businesses in over 100 countries around the world are now
reaping the benefits of Business-in-a-Box. [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]
The Business Side of Medicine
The Business Side of Medicine
11/11/2003 12:59 PMNetLib Nov 11 2003 12:07PM ET
NASA Finally Gets Down to Business Side
of Space
NASA Finally Gets Down to Business Side
of Space
07/21/2004 02:44 AMOn the 35th anniversary of man's first landing on the moon, NASA came
to the international air show in Farnborough, England, to take one
giant leap into the business side of space exploration.
Sunny Leone - Penthouse Pet Sunny Leone
Sunny Leone - Penthouse Pet Sunny Leone
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Castor and Pollux walking naked, side by
side, past Kafka
Castor and Pollux walking naked, side by
side, past Kafka
01/05/2005 06:52 PM
Guy Davenport is dead. The
irrealist
a> w
riter,
tra
nslator of Archilochus, friend of modernists, and influential
teacher has joined
Hugh
Kenner in whatever lies beyond this mortal coil. More links at
today's
wood s lot, where I learned the sad news.
Side-by-Side Console Round-Up: Xbox 360
vs Playstation 3 vs. Nintendo Revolution
Side-by-Side Console Round-Up: Xbox 360
vs Playstation 3 vs. Nintendo Revolution
06/17/2005 03:57 PMNothing like a good side by side comparison to separate the men
from the boys when it comes to the next gen gaming consoles. True, not
much is known at this time, but then again, for anyone seriously
mulling this over and hankering for a good solid spec mash-up, you’ve
come to the right place. In fact, we feel this is the longest, most
massively detailed side-by-side ever built on the topic. Here we
go……..
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Kyocera's Passport KPC650 EV-DO PC Card
up to 35 Percent Faster in Side-by-Side,
Third-Party Testing against L
Kyocera's Passport KPC650 EV-DO PC Card
up to 35 Percent Faster in Side-by-Side,
Third-Party Testing against L
04/18/2005 10:04 AMBusiness Wire UK Apr 18 2005 2:03PM GMT
NADAguides.com Launches Side-by-Side
Vehicle Comparison Tool
NADAguides.com Launches Side-by-Side
Vehicle Comparison Tool
06/17/2005 04:35 PMNADAguides.com recently announced the launch of an online side-by-side
comparison tool, giving car buyers the ability to compare up to four
new or used cars simultaneously online. With this new service,
shoppers can compare new against new, new against used or used against
used for makes and models dating back to 1998.
FSS: Cypress Hills
FSS: Cypress Hills
03/14/2005 05:56 PMFriday Slide Scan #6 is from April 1992, in the
Cypress Hills Interprovincial
Park on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. One of my favorites, pure
Prairie winter...
Cypress Readies for 3G Evolution
Cypress Readies for 3G Evolution
06/09/2004 02:00 PM3G Jun 9 2004 3:49PM GMT
Virtual Collaboration: If You Can't Work
Side-by-Side
Virtual Collaboration: If You Can't Work
Side-by-Side
03/19/2005 02:58 AM

The Idea: What do you do if you need or want to collaborate,
but
you can't do so in person? What purposes are best served by weblogs,
wikis, and other types of online collaboration tools, spaces and
media?
Collaboration entails finding
the right group of people (skills, personalities, knowledge,
work-styles, and chemistry), ensuring they share commitment to the
collaboration task at hand, and providing them with an environment,
tools, knowledge, training, process and facilitation to ensure they
work together effectively. This is challenging enough face-to-face in
real-time. It's doubly difficult virtually and asynchronously. But
there are examples of great music, literature, invention, scientific
discovery and problem-solving that have come from such handicapped
collaboration. How did they do it, and can you improve the likelihood
of brilliant virtual collaboration by using the right tools and
media?
Let's take a look at some of the alternatives:
Tool / Medium
|
Collaborative
Advantages
|
Collaborative
Disadvantages
|
Best Suited to Collaborative:
|
weblog
|
easy to post
& comment; content is subscribable/ publishable
|
participation
limited to comments
|
Conversations
|
wiki
|
anyone can
contribute content
|
harder to learn;
can be easily sabotaged; inelegant appearance
|
Projects /
Alliances
|
whiteboard
|
real-time; anyone
can contribute content |
content only
persists for duration of call; possible firewall issues
|
Conversations /
Projects
|
document-sharing
|
can be real time; anyone can
contribute content
|
possible firewall issues;
attention is focused on a document
| Conversations /
Projects
|
IM/skype/phone/ e-mail/
videoconferencing
|
real-time conversations;
audio/visual context; speed
|
content only persists for
duration of call | Conversations
|
mindmaps
|
shows and
documents consensus
|
can't capture
detail
|
Projects
|
discussion forums
|
threading of
comments; content is subscribable/ publishable |
limited
contextual knowledge of participants; can attract undisciplined
behaviours; threads can be hard to follow
|
Conversations
|
community of
practice/ interest spaces
|
organization;
defined membership; multiple collaborative tools
|
harder to learn;
formality can reduce intimacy and level of participation
|
Projects /
Alliances
|
personal e-mail
groups
|
flexible;
personal; easy to use
|
e-mail
overload/spam; threads get lost or hard to navigate and follow
|
Projects /
Alliances
|
social networking tools
|
large number of members; good
way to find collaborators
|
most actual collaboration is
done using other tools and media
| Finding
collaborators
|
in-person collaboration
|
easy; real-time;
context-rich; flexible
|
expensive;
time-consuming
|
All of the above
if time & cost permits
|
There are three levels of collaboration based on duration of
contact:
- Conversations: Where you're in contact just once, or a
few times, discussing a particular subject or group of
subjects.
- Projects: Where you're in contact as often as
necessary to complete a project.
- Alliances: Where you're in
contact in multiple
conversations and on multiple projects, working together for an
indefinite period of time.
A collaborative conversation
may be provoked by an interesting or important idea or an urgent
one-off need for information or assistance. Much of the time spent in
business is consumed in consulting with others, in canvassing for
ideas
or suggestions or comments, and in making decisions on what something
means or how to respond to it. These are generally quick,
collaborative
conversations. In large organizations these conversations are usually
peer-to-peer (where trust is stronger than up or down the hierarchy),
and as size increases further they tend to be more and more
intermediated (one middle-manager recently told me that 70% of his
e-mail and 50% of his telephone calls are of the "Who should I talk to
about X?" variety). In smaller organizations, these conversations are
more likely to draw on external networks, and to involve the use of
today's clunky social networking tools like LinkedIn and eCademy. I
have argued before that the next generation of social networking tools
should include 'people-finders' that streamline and automate the
process of finding the right person (inside or outside the
organization) to talk to, so that more time can be spent on actual
conversations with those people.
Once you've found the right person to converse with, if they're close
and inexpensive to talk to in
person,
that's likely what you'll do. But what if they aren't? How do you
quickly provide your Conversation Collaborators with the context they
need to converse with you effectively when you can't put a chart or a
piece of paper in front of them and brief them? Organizations have
found that if the person you want to converse with face-to-face is
more
than two minutes walk (or
elevator ride) away, the probability of you making the effort to
converse with them in person drops precipitously.
If you have a blog, an audience, and a little time, your blog can
serve
this need well. Ask a question on a popular blog and you'll probably
get an informed answer quite quickly (thank you readers!) Most
businesses, alas, have few established blogs and even less time.
Preferred conversation tools in business, when face-to-face is
impossible, are now IM and the telephone -- with IM trumping the phone
for its self-documentation, its suitability to multi-tasking, and
because it's easier to browse than voice-mail, and the phone trumping
IM if a lot of iteration is needed to provide context. White-boarding
and document-sharing applications, awkward as they are, can be helpful
additions to IM and telephone conversations if the participants are
savvy enough to use them properly (most aren't) and if documents and
graphics are needed to provide more context. E-mail is the
increasingly
unpopular fall-back.
Discussion forums are the ultimate tool of last resort for
conversations, because of the disadvantages listed above. In most of
the companies I am familiar with, they are only sporadically used and
quickly grow stale.
A variety of tools have been developed for more enduring project collaborations and alliance
collaborations. Because they tend to involve more participants than
conversations do, the logistics get tougher and the effectiveness of
these tools gets more challenging. And the threshold point for giving
up on the viability of in-person collaboration rises dramatically. I
think this is an absolutely critical point. It is the reason large
corporations, with the internal resources (people and money) to
sequester, have the capacity to collaborate more effectively than
small
corporations and loose, unfunded collaborative groups (though whether
they use that capacity to advantage is another question entirely).
Open
Source project teams and alliances have pioneered low-budget, virtual,
asynchronous collaboration, and are the role model to follow. But is
the reason for this perhaps that Open Source collaborations are
generally undertaken by exceptionally tech-savvy groups, very agile at
using and even inventing their own collaborative tools to get the job
done? They usually have a good GUI for the non-techie, but wade into
the material and collaboration technology behind a lot of these groups
and your head will start spinning. What about the other 95% of the
population? If I want to set up a virtual collaboration team to design
a model intentional community (with people I might end up spending the
rest of the my life with) or to invent a post-capitalist economy (a
large project if there ever was one), what tools and media should I
use?
Wikis are one place to start -- a bit nerdy and physically inelegant
but functional and not that hard to learn once you take the plunge.
They are, however, asynchronous tools, which is a significant barrier
to true collaboration.
There are some more robust collaborative 'spaces' for communities of
interest and communities of practice to adopt, but some of the best
'groupware' (like Groove and Exchange and eRooms) costs money and
requires considerable learning to use its different tools effectively.
These tools generally also require a coordinator to invest a lot of
time to setting up and managing the 'space'.
There are a variety of document-sharing technologies in the market,
which allow several people to see a document at once and to 'take
control' each in turn to change that document.
Ideally, using a combination of
- Skype (free global VoIP telephony),
- White-boarding (everyone online can see what anyone
posts to the white-board),
- Document-sharing and
- Mindmapping or some similar session annotation tool
(everyone can see what the group's 'scribe' has documented as the
findings, decisions and next actions from the collaboration)
would be a close approximation to an in-person collaborative session.
But that's a lot of
technology to juggle on your screen, to hog and interfere with your
bandwidth, and (if you opt for the more powerful tools in these
categories) can also require some outlay of money. My experience has
been (thanks in no small part to the valuable insights of online
communication wizard Robin Good and
Skypemaster Stu Henshall)
that video-conferencing (seeing the people you're talking with online)
is a "nice to have" not a "need to have", especially when bandwidth
limitations force you to choose which applications to have running at
any one time.
I am confident that, as bandwidth and processing power continue to
expand, we will soon see:
- A single, free, reliable, easy-to-use,
professional-looking
application that will provide what I've called Simple Virtual Presence
-- the four applications listed above plus the option of
videoconferencing (illustrated above), and
- A simple, free,
easy-to-use collaboration space where the results
of the online collaboration sessions, and a library of relevant
resources and links, are stored, with wiki-like capability so it can
be
maintained by any and all in the group.
Now that would be a real virtual collaboration
environment.
|
Cypress Hammered on Demand Issues
Cypress Hammered on Demand Issues
04/15/2004 03:51 PMTheStreet.com Apr 15 2004 6:47PM GMT
The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip
Side Is a DVD
The Music Goes on Side A and the Flip
Side Is a DVD
03/22/2005 04:52 PMNew York Times Mar 21 2005 6:56AM GMT
In sunny San Diego
In sunny San Diego
03/17/2005 03:25 AMI'm in San Diego at Etech. If you're here, come say hi! I look a
little different. According to Xeni -- who didn't recognize me -- I
look, "less stressed" that I used to. I think it's also the longer
hair that's a big frizzy mess in the oceany yumminess that's San
Diego's humidity. I've snapped a photo from my phone so you can get an
idea of my new "look" and how tired I am from flying so very far in a
horribly old cramped 737 that felt like taking a pick-up truck through
the sky for six+ hours.
On my way to sunny San Diego
On my way to sunny San Diego
02/10/2004 02:56 AMI'm writing this on the plane to the O'Reilly Digital Democracy
Teach-In and Emerging Technologies conference in sunny San Diego.
Sitting just behind me on the plane and reading news on paper is Tim
O'Reilly, whose generosity made it possible for me to attend the
conferences. I infer that he must have a lot of confidence in Rael and
the smooth workings of the whole O'Reilly organization to wait to show
up until the night before a 4 day conference he is putting on. I'm
excited about learning more about new technologies, and encouraged
that technologists are thinking about how they can improve our badly
wounded democracy, as well as catching up with a lot of people that I
know only from email and their writing. Unlike a lot of other people,
I'm not particularly good at writing while people are speaking -- I
find that it distracts me from thinking about what they are saying, so
I probably won't write much during the conference. I leave that up to
the usual suspects, who can type faster than I can speak, and who
manage to add decent commentary as well....
Cypress to Host Silicon Valley WebGuild
Meeting on June 9, 2004Topic:
“Innovations in 3D and the Web”
Cypress to Host Silicon Valley WebGuild
Meeting on June 9, 2004Topic:
“Innovations in 3D and the Web”
06/09/2004 02:36 AMCypress to Host Silicon Valley WebGuild Meeting on June 9, 2004 on
"Innovations in 3D and the Web" [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]
Walgreen's Sunny Sales
Walgreen's Sunny Sales
07/06/2004 01:34 PMWalgreen has a resplendently ruddy June, with comp sales increasing
more than 10%.
Sunny Days At Karelia
Sunny Days At Karelia
06/29/2004 07:06 AMFederer and Roddick Win at Sunny
Wimbledon
Federer and Roddick Win at Sunny
Wimbledon
06/27/2004 04:16 PMAndy Roddick and Roger Federer reached the round of 16 at Wimbledon
while thousands of fans lined up to be part of the third "People's
Sunday" in 127 years.
Sunny Days for Video Games
Sunny Days for Video Games
08/19/2004 04:37 PMVideo games were hot in July, and video game stocks should follow the
trend.
Vacation pictures of sunny Anguilla
Vacation pictures of sunny Anguilla
04/09/2004 04:11 PM IDC offers sunny forecast for servers
IDC offers sunny forecast for servers
06/16/2004 01:03 PMThe researcher predicts the market will grow by 5 percent in 2004.
Blade servers will be among the top sellers.
Sunny outlook for Japanese firms
Sunny outlook for Japanese firms
07/01/2004 05:08 AMJapan's most closely-watched survey of business confidence, the
Tankan, shows its best reading since the economic bubble burst in
1991.
Federer Rips Johannson at Sunny
Wimbledon (AP)
Federer Rips Johannson at Sunny
Wimbledon (AP)
06/27/2004 08:26 AMAP - Roger Federer wasn't on Centre Court long enough to let rain
interrupt his Wimbledon title defense Sunday, advancing to the fourth
round on with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 win over Thomas Johansson in 1 hour, 37
minutes.
Kerry Delivers Sunny Message on Road to
Boston
Kerry Delivers Sunny Message on Road to
Boston
07/24/2004 07:35 PMReuters via Wired News Jul 24 2004 10:36PM GMT
Kerry Delivers Sunny Message on Road to
Boston (Reuters)
Kerry Delivers Sunny Message on Road to
Boston (Reuters)
07/24/2004 06:24 PMReuters - John Kerry, working his way toward
heavily fortified Boston for next week's Democratic convention,
promised in Iowa on Saturday to be a champion for the middle
class and rekindle the nation's "spirit of hope and optimism."
"side-by-side comparison"
"side-by-side comparison"
09/19/2004 02:22 AM"Semi-Pro"
"Semi-Pro"
12/21/2003 03:32 PMOn semi-vacation
On semi-vacation
08/03/2004 07:14 AMBy the way, I'm sort of on vacation in the Berkshires for the next ten
days or so, although it's sthe sort of vacation where I'm still
working except I have lousy dial-up connection....
Vitesse Semi Struggles
Vitesse Semi Struggles
04/23/2004 02:48 PMTheStreet.com Apr 23 2004 6:29PM GMT
Football: Henry out of semi
Football: Henry out of semi
04/15/2005 10:06 AMArsene Wenger's FA Cup semi-final plans are hit by the loss of Thierry
Henry.
Oxford Semi On FireWire Bug
Oxford Semi On FireWire Bug
10/31/2003 11:43 AMOxford Semiconductor advises end users to contact the manufacturer of
their particular FireWire drives to get an upgrade to bring their
driver software up to the latest version. The company is also warning
users of external hard drives that do not employ the Oxford 922
FireWire bridge to be vigilan. By Jonny Evans (Macworld UK via
MyAppleMenu)
Aux-Pod iPod Semi-Pro Interface Kit
Aux-Pod iPod Semi-Pro Interface Kit
07/15/2004 08:59 AM
It looks like it's more for
hardcore car audio types than your standard, all-purpose gadget
tweaker, but the Aux-Pod looks like it might be the in-car iPod
interface of choice for those doing a custom rig-up. Although it
appears to be mostly just a cable, wiring harness, and interface black
box (read: no cradle or holder for the iPod itself), the Aux-Pod kit
does allow a full integration of the iPod's controls into your cars
built-in switches, so you can change tracks (and maybe more) using the
toggles on your steering wheel or head unit. It will even charge the
iPod when it's plugged in (unplugged, strangely, it does not charge).
(Thanks, Michael!)
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Football: Carling Cup semi off
Football: Carling Cup semi off
01/28/2004 07:21 AMThe Carling Cup semi-final between Middlesbrough and Arsenal is called
off.
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