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39,990 | nreece | 2007-08-07T04:09:34 | spigit - The Startup Showcase and Simulation Game | http://www.spigit.com | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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39,999 | mmpcse | 2007-08-07T05:40:13 | Do you think Wal-Mart #1, Think Again A | null | http://hitechstartups.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/do-you-think-wal-mart-1-think-again/ | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | no_title | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T15:53:46 | null | train |
40,005 | dhouston | 2007-08-07T06:42:55 | The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07) | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/06/the-fuzzwich-cartoon-maker/ | 29 | 23 | [
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Fuzzwich is a dead simple application for creating and publishing animated shorts. The animation editor comes pre-populated with a random selection of music, background, and cartoon characters. However, you can easily change them to any of their other 42 characters, 15 songs, or 14 backdrops. The content library will be changing over time, and they plan on adding a character editor soon.
After you have the basic layout, you can animate and resize the sprites in real time by just dragging and dropping them around the scene. The player records you movements as the clip runs. Some characters and scenes come with animations (moving arms or mouths), and speech bubbles can also be adrded. After publishing it can easily be embedded or linked to on another site. I made one myself in 5 minutes and I’m completely addicted. I’m a big fan of these hypnotic pandas.
One serious limitation of the service is that users cannot upload their own images or sound files and include them in cartoons. They do, however, plan on letting people to upload their faces on the cartoons. They also have a more feature rich animation studio in the works, but have initially focused on this simpler editor since it’s accessible to a wider audience.
We’ve covered two other startups, Aniboom and MyToons, that are aiming to be the “YouTube” of online cartoons. Fuzzwich competes with Aniboom’s application and MyToons somewhat, but it is also different. Fuzzwich provides a simple way to create cartoons hosted on the site. Aniboom has an animator called Shapeshifter, which is like a Paintshop pro for animation. MyToons do not offer cartoon creation tools.
Fuzzwich is a Y Combinator company.
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40,047 | Kelvin | 2007-08-07T13:13:31 | Why Aren't Alt Search Engines Crawling Websites? | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/alt_search_engine_crawlers.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,091 | terpua | 2007-08-07T15:36:28 | Google to unveil phone of its own by next year (Phoney?) | null | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/03/wgoogle103.xml | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,093 | puppetsock | 2007-08-07T15:38:29 | Turns out Google may just be your garden-variety monopoly after all | http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/06/technology/google_schlender.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007080706 | 6 | 3 | [
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Seriously, when a company attains extreme market domination, hubris and a sense of infallibility can't be far behind. It's only a matter of time before said market dominator tries to tell everyone else how to run their businesses. The latest example is Google (Charts, Fortune 500), which lobbied hard in Washington to dictate the terms of an upcoming FCC auction of radio spectrum. The frequencies, currently used for UHF television, are to be sold next January. In 2009 the winning bidders will take their swaths of spectrum and unleash a new and (they hope) profitable era of data-intensive wireless devices - smartphones, media players, car computers and gizmos no one's thought of yet. Why would the Google guys bother themselves with this auction? After all, the company isn't even in the big-time telecom biz ... yet. The answer is simple. Google wants to take its breathtakingly profitable targeted advertising beyond PCs and inject it into any other medium it can find, whether it be radio or TV or even newspapers and magazines. But the biggest prize of all may be cellphones. Why? Because there are so damn many of them, and they're behaving more and more like pocket-sized, full-blown computers (e.g. the iPhone). Now we come to the hubris part. Google promised the FCC it would bid at least $4.6 billion to purchase spectrum rights - but only if the FCC met all of Google's terms. Specifically, the FCC must ensure that all networks using the new parcels of spectrum be "open platforms." That means four things: (1) The new networks must allow consumers to use any device they desire; (2) they would support standard software like Internet browsers and e-mail; (3) network operators would be required to lease some capacity to other providers; and (4) the new networks would all have to be mutually compatible. In other words, Google wants this spectrum to behave a lot like the Internet. Sounds reasonable. Wouldn't it be nice to use your cellphone on any network you wanted? But traditional telecom powers like Verizon (Charts, Fortune 500) and AT&T (Charts, Fortune 500), which run tightly controlled wireless networks, felt blindsided when they first heard of Google's demands. Allow any old device to plug into their new networks to run any old software? That's giving away the store! Even more galling was the notion of being forced to lease out capacity to all comers. If they pay billions for spectrum, shouldn't they be entitled to use it as they see fit? What are we, communists? Moreover, by preemptively offering to meet the FCC's minimum bid if its conditions were met, Google appeared to be forcing the agency into an auction for spectrum that would arguably have far less business value. The spokesman for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association called it nothing short of "Silicon Valley welfare." The FCC has offered a compromise: yes on the open devices and software; no on the other two conditions. Hungry for the new spectrum, AT&T reluctantly announced its support; at presstime, Verizon was mulling its choices. Google should be thrilled that the FCC adopted even some of its suggestions, given that it's not a big telecom player. But apparently "compromise" isn't in the company's vocabulary. After the vote, the nicest thing Google's chief telecom lobbyist could say was that the FCC ruling was "real, if incomplete, progress," adding that the company would take weeks before deciding whether to participate in the auction. Open networks are a legitimate goal for Google and are good for consumers. But all the grandstanding has probably hurt Google's chances to get open networks. Message to the "Don't be evil" people: Don't be so arrogant, either. Is Google overstepping its bounds? Tell us what you think. | 2024-11-08T05:22:12 | en | train |
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40,097 | run4yourlives | 2007-08-07T15:59:38 | Dot Bomb 2.0 is coming | http://davidpiccione.com/blog/dot-bomb-20-is-comming/ | 13 | 59 | [
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40,101 | dpapathanasiou | 2007-08-07T16:14:19 | Hans Rosling's 2006 Talk at TED (Inspiring Video) | http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92 | 7 | 4 | [
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40,104 | terpua | 2007-08-07T16:18:19 | Meetro And AOL Quietly Developing New Forum Products | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/07/meetro-and-aol-quietly-developing-new-forum-products/ | 5 | 4 | [
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One problem though…the company has not gathered a critical mass of users and has sort of gone sideways. The company has survived on a very low burn rate, but there isn’t much buzz about it.
Now we’re hearing a rumor that the Meetro team is quietly building a new product – an easy “one-click” way of creating new forum on the fly. Instant messaging and forums are very similar businesses. In effect they are the same thing except that one is synchronous (IM) and one is asynchronous (forums). So the meetro team should have the expertise to create an interesting forum product. As an aside, another startup, Tangler, is tying the instant messaging and forum worlds together.
Meetro is being tight lipped about this, but some of the investors they are pitching are talking. We’ll post more information as we get it.
AOL is also rumored to be releasing a new forum product in the Fall. We’re hearing that the product was handed over to the Userplane team after some development difficulties (Userplane was acquired by AOL in August 2006). The new product is to be called Userplane Boards. Update: Userplane says this is not quite how things are. See CEO Michael Jones’ comment below.
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40,107 | donna | 2007-08-07T16:19:49 | The World's Most Advanced Bionic Arm | http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/bionic_arm | 4 | 2 | [
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40,108 | jcwentz | 2007-08-07T16:20:34 | Fuzzwich - Animate Your Thoughts | null | http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/08/06/fuzzwich-animate-your-thoughts/ | 9 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Fuzzwich - Animate Your Thoughts | 2007-08-06T00:00:00.000Z | Paul Stamatiou | Fuzzwich is the product of Habit Industries, an early-stage startup backed by Paul Graham's YCombinator that aims to develop "tools supporting the creation and distribution of animated videos". Fuzzwich Mini-vids are small and fun animated videos users can create themselves in an interactive interface with a growing archive of objects including music, actors and backgrounds.
So what's the point of all this you say? Pure boredom-killing fun; the same reason that made YTMND so popular. However, while YTMND projects are mostly gags/crude humor, Fuzzwich Mini-vids can hold deeper values. Okay I admit that sounds cheesy, but I'm trying to say that you can make an animated video that communicates your thoughts through a creative medium. Take for example, this mini-vid that a Fuzzwich developer made to tell his parents what his startup had been working on for so long.
Making a mini-vid is a rather trivial process: select background music from a good variety of choices, choose a few actors, play the song and move the actors around as it plays to record their movement, then add some speech bubbles if you'd like and publish.
Once a mini-vid is published, you can grab the embed code and put it on your site or blog as I have done below. For me, the cool thing is that it's not just a player, you can actually build a mini-vid from within the widget by clicking the home icon on the bottom right of the widget.
What are your thoughts regarding Fuzzwich mini-vids? The site has only been up for a few days and their product is in the very early stages of development, so feedback is vital for the team.
Disclosure: Rob Fitzpatrick works at Habit Industries/Fuzzwich and is a recent Georgia Tech graduate, one of the first one to graduate with GT's new Computational Media degree (which I am currently working towards). Rob proved instrumental in helping me learn C for programming on the Gameboy Advance in a Georgia Tech CS class we were in a few years ago. Thanks Rob! | 2024-11-08T17:47:34 | en | train |
40,111 | oxyona | 2007-08-07T16:25:04 | How are companies in Silicon Valley hiring? | http://www.instigatorblog.com/how-are-companies-in-silicon-valley-hiring/2007/08/06/ | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | cut_off | How Are Companies in Silicon Valley Hiring? | null | Ben Yoskovitz | Startup & Investor Resources
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40,153 | drm237 | 2007-08-07T18:02:18 | Anywhere.FM goes after online radio (3700 users, 265,000 songs) | Since its launch last Thursday, the service has attracted more than 3,700 users who have uploaded more than 265,000 songs. | http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/119483.asp | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,161 | horatio05 | 2007-08-07T18:24:07 | New York Times Sees Sense: Paywall Comes Crashing Down | http://mashable.com/2007/08/07/new-york-times-sees-sense-paywall-comes-crashing-down/ | 7 | 8 | [
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40,162 | horatio05 | 2007-08-07T18:25:41 | Buy.com Challenges eBay on Facebook | null | http://mashable.com/2007/08/07/buy-facebook/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,163 | horatio05 | 2007-08-07T18:26:16 | LiveJournal Loses Founder to Google? | null | http://mashable.com/2007/08/06/livejournal-founder-leaving/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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Zimbra, the web-based email client, has been seeing some healthy growth lately. Customer adoption for Zimbra has reportedly grown more than 80% in Q207, continuing its growth of more than 50% for the past 6 quarters.The furthered use of web-based, collaboration tools has been attributed to helping Zimbra grow. With major players Google Apps and Microsoft Office Live offering online document creation and management tools, the comfort level and usage of web-based tools is increasing for other services as well. A specific focus on students has also been named as a reason as to why Zimbra has kept growing, as its teamed up with several colleges and universities to appease both students' mobility needs and faculty needs.The International market has opened doors for Zimbra to address the needs of those seeking alternatives to Microsoft Office, and it's addressed these needs with 20 translations of its service. Also named as an attributing factor is its sync options for Apple desktop apps, like Apple iCal and the address book. This really emphasizes Zimbra's attention to the necessity of verticals to be executed in order to compete with established companies. Zimbra is diligent in finding a need and meeting it, filling in the gaps where Google and Microsoft may have missed with their blanket approach.
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40,178 | transburgh | 2007-08-07T19:05:21 | SF Chronicle Trims Business Section; The Best Are Gone | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/07/sf-chronicle-guts-business-section/ | 2 | 3 | [
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40,208 | bluishgreen | 2007-08-07T19:57:58 | Startup Visas..? | I started a discussion here about how to get into proper visa status to start companies in the US. <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3531" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3531</a><p>After much research I have concluded that the situation in the US is too grim.<p>For eg. It takes upto 8 years for certain nationals to get a residential visa. And in that time you are not supposed to change the big company job you are holding. If you do, the clock starts again. If you want a better idea follow this link: <a href="http://immigrationvoice.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5&Itemid=47" rel="nofollow">http://immigrationvoice.org/index.php?option=com_content&...</a><p>Anyway, the point of this post is that I wanted to point out that Canada is so much more welcoming. You get a residential visa without even having to hold a job in 1.5 years, and the process is deterministic. And once in Canada you can immediately incorporate. 3 years of staying in Canada will earn you a Canadian passport again by a deterministic process. Apart from nice health care, with the Canadian passport you can enter and exit US without having to apply for a visa.(This is important for me, since many of my friends are here.)<p>This recent post here about Vancouver is very encouraging. <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40054" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40054</a><p>Silicon valley is the best as pg has pointed out in many of his essays. But it is hard for aliens to maintain visa status in the US. <p>I might not be seeing potential problems with Canada. If you understand things better, please leave a comment here.<p>Thanks,
bluishgreen.
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40,222 | rob | 2007-08-07T20:32:19 | What language is the majority of startups using today? | Based on what I can see, it looks like more and more people are switching to Python and Ruby from PHP.<p>What's your startup using and your reason for choosing said language? | 14 | 62 | [
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40,223 | horatio05 | 2007-08-07T20:36:45 | TeeBeeDee Takes $4.8 Million for Grown Up Social Network | null | http://mashable.com/2007/08/07/teebeedee/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | missing_parsing | TeeBeeDee Takes $4.8 Million for Grown Up Social Network | 2007-08-07T18:37:32+00:00 | null |
[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]Is there a market in social networking for oldies? A new crop of social networks seems to suggest there is, with over 40s community TeeBeeDee, from the founder of Parenting Magazine, taking $4.8 million funding in a round led by Shasta Ventures which also included Monitor Ventures. The money comes on top of a $2.7 million in angel round from big names like Ron Conway.
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40,256 | rms | 2007-08-07T22:07:53 | This basically blows the Google calculator away | http://instacalc.com/ | 21 | 28 | [
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40,273 | horatio05 | 2007-08-07T22:41:06 | Aug. 7, 1991: Ladies and Gentlemen, the World Wide Web | null | http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/dayintech_0807 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,281 | blader | 2007-08-07T23:00:47 | Intense Debate - A Disqus Competitor? | Also see TechCrunch coverage: <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/07/intense-debate-soups-up-your-blog-comments/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/07/intense-debate-soups-up...</a> | http://intensedebate.com/ | 1 | 1 | [
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40,290 | amichail | 2007-08-07T23:30:42 | Living it up with a Live Programming Language [pdf with movies] | http://lamp.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/mcdirmid07live.pdf | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,294 | nickb | 2007-08-07T23:52:44 | Apple's keynote from the special Mac event (iWork'08, iLife'08, new iMacs) and inimitable Steve | http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/r27842e/event/index.html?test=q1wa2sz3x | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,296 | nickb | 2007-08-07T23:54:49 | Jeff Bezos restarts Amazon's shopping spree | http://valleywag.com/tech/the-chart/jeff-bezos-restarts-amazons-shopping-spree-287019.php | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,298 | brett | 2007-08-08T00:07:52 | Intense Debate Soups Up Your Blog Comments | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/07/intense-debate-soups-up-your-blog-comments/ | 1 | 2 | [
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40,300 | nickb | 2007-08-08T00:20:15 | Why Mathematica does not use Lisp | http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/f3b93140c2f2e922 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,302 | nickb | 2007-08-08T00:27:51 | Multi-Tasking: Why projects take so long and still go late | http://theoryofconstraints.blogspot.com/2007/07/multi-tasking-why-projects-take-so-long.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Theory of Constraints | null | null | Multi-Tasking: Why projects take so long and still go lateIn most project environments multi-tasking is a way of life. This seemingly harmless activity, often celebrated as a desirable skill, is one of the biggest culprits in late projects, long project durations, and low project output. At the same time it is one of the least understood factors in managing projects.For companies where projects are of strategic importance, the stakes are very high. Whether it is delivering their product or service, bringing new products to market, or expanding/ upgrading their operations with new facilities, systems, or capabilities, the financial impact of being able to reduce project durations and costs, increase the volume of completed projects, or simply deliver more projects on-time is enormous. So understanding how this often overlooked practice of multi-tasking is of critical importance to most companies.Multi-tasking and project performanceMulti-tasking is the act of stopping a task before it is completed and shifting to something else; in software development the term “thrashing” is often used to describe this practice. When a task is stopped and started there is the immediate effect of a loss of efficiency. Each time a person has to re-start a task, time is required to become re-familiarized with the work and get re-set in where he was in the process. It is very much like the physical set-ups done on a machine in production. Each time you tear down a machine to do another task, you have to set it up to run the part again.While the loss in efficiency is not insignificant, especially in “knowledge work,” it is far from the most important reason multi-tasking is so damaging. What happens when a task is interrupted mid-stream is that its completion is delayed. Most people in project management will readily agree that it is not important when a task finishes, it is important when the project finishes. The diagram below shows three tasks a given resource must do, related to three different projects, and when they are expected to finish: Task A after 10 days, B after 20, and C after 30. But if the resource has to stop and start the task even just once in the process, the actual completion times of the tasks quickly extends, as shown below. Task A now finishes only after 20 days instead of 10, task B at 25 days rather than at 20 days, and task C may still finish on-time at 30 days, without considering the impact of the loss in efficiency. The delays on tasks A and B immediately translates into are delays on the downstream tasks in those projects, who now can only start at Day 20 and 25 respectively. The impact on project A is illustrated below. Even in a very small project like this one with just four tasks, and with only one instance of multi-tasking, the project is delivered almost 30% late. It’s not hard to see how the more likely scenario of having several or many instances of multi-tasking during a project can cause the delays to accumulate considerably and lengthen project durations considerably.In many companies the impact of multi-tasking is obscured by the fact that in spite of its prevalence most projects still finish on time. While this reliability is nice, it masks the even more significant opportunity to cut project durations substantially. If projects are being delivered on or close to schedule, and multi-tasking is occurring, it can only mean that the task estimates used in the plan are significantly inflated. In other words, we are planning for the lost time due to multi-tasking, as this is the only way that the time losses could be recovered. In such cases, reducing the multi-tasking offers enormous potential to cut planned project durations substantially, without eroding delivery performance. These companies are in a great position to reap the benefits of delivering more projects faster.For years we have put the project managers, executives, and teams through a simple project simulation game using beads, first with multi-tasking, and then a second time, blocking it. The results are nearly always that the time to complete each of the two projects is cut in half, enabling them to double the output, and cut individual durations in half, simply by eliminating multi-tasking. And the same happens when companies drive out the multi-tasking in their own projects.Is Multi-tasking really so prevalent?Given the substantial negative impact on durations and project volume, it makes sense to explore just how common multi-tasking is. Since multi-tasking is difficult to see or measure precisely, we need to look at some other things to answer this question. The first issue is to understand the opportunity to multi-task. The way to see if your organization has the “opportunity” to do bad multi-tasking is ask how many jobs/ tasks an individual has on their desk at any given point in time. If there is more than one task that could be worked on a person’s desk then there is the opportunity for multi-tasking. When we ask managers how many tasks are on any given persons desk at one time, the not surprising answer is usually more than five.The next way to check is to ask people how often they get interrupted or asked to work on something else that is “hot”, “urgent”, or “important”. In most companies one need not even ask this as “constantly shifting priorities” is usually one of people’s biggest complaints in projects. Every meeting that shifts or alters the priorities of projects, or adds new important things for someone to do, is a source of multi-tasking. How often does it happen in your organization?Another way to look at it is to recognize that in most organizations where multiple projects are being done simultaneously, the resources who do the work on a project have to serve multiple, different project managers. For these project managers what is most important tends to be their projects. As a result they typically create pressure on resources to do their work first, institutionalizing multi-tasking. And when the multi-tasking starts to creep in, it initiates a negative spiral that only increases the pressure to multi-task. If one resource starts the multi-tasking, it delays the completion of their tasks, putting some projects behind. This increases the pressure on project managers and executives to adjust priorities to compensate, which in turn creates more, bad multi-tasking. It’s not hard to see how this spiral quickly becomes the reality we see in many organizations where managers at all levels are quickly pulled into managing work priorities across the organization on a daily basis.On top of it, many resources who work on projects also support daily operational functions like QA/ QC, production, engineering, customer service. This support role means that they are frequently presented with unexpected, usually urgent things to do which readily drive more multi-tasking. The result is that in the majority of companies there is the opportunity and the pressure to create a significant amount of bad multi-tasking.If it’s so bad, why do we do it?Our experience with hundreds of companies is that there are three central reasons organizations find themselves in the trap of multi-tasking:1. Lack of understanding of the impact of multi-tasking2. Incorrect assumptions3. The desire to do a good jobThe simple fact is that most people and organizations do not understand how damaging multi-tasking is. Our clients who see the impact illustrated in the bead exercise, mentioned earlier, are stunned and amazed that eliminating the practice results in a doubling of output and a halving of the project durations, with no other improvements. Once people do start to understand how damaging the practice is they become much more conscious of it, and start to change their behavior and the behavior of their organization.But understanding is not enough. The drivers of multi-tasking are built into the processes, measurements, and systems most companies manage their projects. We strive hard to keep people busy all of the time, to maximize the output of all of our resources and be efficient. Performance measures on project managers and executives motivate them to focus on delivering individual projects, without understanding of the impact of their actions on the rest of the pipeline. Conventional scheduling and pipelining tools pay no attention to these factors and routinely overload resources making multi-tasking nearly inevitable.The second reason is ‘incorrect assumptions.’ Chief among these is the belief that “the earlier you start a project, the earlier it will finish.” While this is probably a valid statement in a single project environment where resources do not need to work on multiple projects, starting new projects earlier only increases the work in process in a multi-project environment and with it the likelihood of multi-tasking. People will get out of a building during a fire alarm much faster if they don’t all rush at the door at once. Though it seems counter-intuitive, projects will finish earlier and we will get more of them done, if we start them later.Again here the obstacle for companies in applying these principles is that these erroneous assumptions are built into the processes, measures, and systems we use to manage projects. The pressure from upper management and sales to add more projects or start them earlier can make it virtually impossible for managers below to cope with the pressure to multi-task. Conventional software, nearly all of which is based on Critical Path methodology, fail to provide managers with a way to accurately evaluate task priorities across projects. Critical Path can identify which tasks have priority over others within a given project, but it breaks down when considering tasks on different projects. How many times does it happen that someone works on an urgent task, only to learn later that it ended up sitting a downstream step waiting on something else, or because the priorities shifted again?The final reason for the pervasiveness of multi-tasking is that people want to do a good job. People multi-task in response to a perceived need of the organization: an urgent job, a hot task, a breakdown, a customer complaint, etc. Shifting to work urgent, pressing jobs gives people a chance to be heroes, to save the day, or put out the fire. In fact if you have multi-tasking in your organization, it is an almost sure sign that you have people who care about and are working hard to do a good job for the organization. It is essential to help people to realize the impact of multi-tasking, so they shift their belief of what it means “to do a good job.” But this must be backed by the needed process, measurement, and system changes or their efforts will be overwhelmed by these other forces.Reducing Bad Multi-taskingThe impact on project performance from reducing multi-tasking is profound. Without so many interruptions and delays on individual tasks the work flows much more quickly and smoothly. Without adding resources or working people any harder, more projects get completed, faster. And without the constant pressure to re-prioritize work, and with more projects tracking on-time, the organizational climate improves dramatically. With these improvements follow the business results companies in project environments are universally seeking. The typical results we have seen companies achieve are:On-time completions to 95+%Project durations cut by 1/3 or moreProject output 25%-100%To learn more about how to reduce multi-tasking and start to put your organization on a path to these kinds of results, read “More projects, faster, with less resources: Critical Chain Project Management.” This article is available free of charge on http://www.tocc.com/, or you can have it emailed to you by requesting it by name from [email protected] TOC Center, Inc. The TOC Center works with clients across the full spectrum of project environments to help them create and implement sustainable processes for delivering more projects, faster with the same resources. Over the past 20 years we have worked with such organizations as American Airlines, Bosch, Eircom, First Solar, Genencor, GM, HP, Intel, ITT, Kroger, Pfizer, Stryker, US Navy. For a free webinar for your management on how to accelerate projects, send an email request to [email protected]. More information and actual client results available at http://www.tocc.com/. | 2024-11-08T11:51:19 | en | train |
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40,304 | nickb | 2007-08-08T00:28:48 | jQuery in 15 minutes | http://www.slideshare.net/simon/jquery-in-15-minutes/ | 5 | 1 | [
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40,307 | zachweinberg | 2007-08-08T00:33:49 | Discussion: Are there any good developers in all of Philadelphia? | We're a funded startup in the Philadelphia region (InviteMedia.com) looking to recruit some top talent and can't seem to find anything. Has anyone had any success in this area or are we doomed? | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
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40,312 | bootload | 2007-08-08T00:51:19 | Amazon invests in social music site Amie Street | null | http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070806-amazon-invests-in-social-music-site-amie-street.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,313 | bootload | 2007-08-08T00:51:48 | LiMo mobile Linux platform to reach market by 2008 | null | http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070807-handsets-with-limo-mobile-linux-platform-to-reach-market-by-2008.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,315 | horatio05 | 2007-08-08T00:57:26 | Google Docs API Released | null | http://mashable.com/2007/08/07/google-docs-api/ | 8 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Google Docs API | 2007-08-07T22:21:04+00:00 | null |
[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]Google sneaked in a useful API to its developer tools over the last few days, this time for Google Documents. The “Google Documents List Data API” is used to upload new docs or to grab a list of current documents from the "list" view in Google Docs (the screen you see when you first hit the site, showing all the documents you're working on).There's also support for full text search. Coding samples are provided for coding for Java and Python (why no PHP?). A separate API for Google Spreadsheets provides more options for that service.
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40,316 | horatio05 | 2007-08-08T00:57:53 | Clipmarks Acquired by Forbes | null | http://mashable.com/2007/08/07/clipmarks-acquired-by-forbes/ | 3 | 1 | [
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40,317 | horatio05 | 2007-08-08T00:58:06 | Cake Financial to Launch Free Investors Network | null | http://mashable.com/2007/08/07/cake-financial/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,318 | horatio05 | 2007-08-08T00:58:45 | Wikinvest Is a Wikipedia for Stock Junkies | http://mashable.com/2007/08/07/wikinvest/ | 7 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,339 | motivi | 2007-08-08T02:00:52 | Capitalism and the road to a green card for a legal immigrant | An instance of the 11 plus year road to obtaining the ever-so-valued green card. What do you businessmen think? | http://crunchnot.blogspot.com/2007/08/capitalism-and-road-to-green-card-for.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,347 | triste | 2007-08-08T02:23:42 | What's the deal with counting users? | null | http://www.neomeme.net/2007/07/26/whats-the-deal-with-counting-users/ | 2 | 2 | [
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40,353 | rchambers | 2007-08-08T03:03:20 | 7 Reasons Why The Best Internet Marketers Are Bloggers | If, like me, one of your self-proclaimed titles is an "internet marketer", then you've probably asked yourself at some point, "Why would I want to blog anyway?" | http://www.thesmartwebletter.com/blogging/7_reasons_why_the_best_internet_marketers_are_bloggers/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,357 | dherman76 | 2007-08-08T03:23:24 | A must read for all entrepreneurs. Let's get past the "no" | http://www.darrenherman.com/2007/08/07/you-cant-do-that/ | 6 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,367 | aristus | 2007-08-08T03:42:06 | Spock.com out of private beta | (disclaimer) I'm a webdev at Spock, but it's cool and we're open for business. | http://www.spock.com | 2 | 4 | [
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40,370 | mitch | 2007-08-08T03:51:28 | Congress targets Smokers AGAIN - TvByDemand | Forums | News | null | http://www.tvbydemand.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=747&FORUM_ID=52&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=Congress+targets+Smokers+AGAIN&Forum_Title=News | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,373 | iamyoohoo | 2007-08-08T03:56:45 | Lijit + Intense debate + madkast | I don't understand how each of them could survive on their own. Together as a suite of apps they are good, alone - hmmm ... I have my doubts ... what does everyone else think? | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
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40,385 | pg | 2007-08-08T04:31:47 | Half of Auctomatic, at work in Ireland | http://flickr.com/photos/phillipkast/tags/ireland/ | 5 | 2 | [
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40,393 | mmpcse | 2007-08-08T04:40:21 | What VCaEURXs Love about Skype, MySpace & Flickr A | null | http://hitechstartups.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/what-vcs-love-about-skype-myspace-flickr/ | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | no_title | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T15:48:03 | null | train |
40,402 | avibryant | 2007-08-08T05:29:14 | Dabble Do: social to-do list Facebook app from the makers of Dabble DB | http://blog.dabbledb.com/2007/08/introducing-dab.html | 11 | 3 | [
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40,403 | jayliew | 2007-08-08T05:36:40 | Entrepreneurs: The ability to take a punch, and then get up to win the fight | http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070801/guest-speaker-mapping-the-entrepreneurial-psyche.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,404 | donna | 2007-08-08T05:38:56 | Top 100 Foods to Improve Your Productivity | http://www.businesscreditcards.com/bootstrapper/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,412 | blored | 2007-08-08T06:34:46 | We went ahead with it anyway. | We got rejected the first time around with Ycombinator and have now been offered funding. Thanks for your support everyone, this forum rocks. | 25 | 32 | [
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40,421 | vlad | 2007-08-08T07:12:59 | Scrybe Closes Series A | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/07/scrybe-closes-series-a/ | 2 | 1 | [
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40,423 | vlad | 2007-08-08T07:14:49 | "Copy and Paste" clones of popular web apps via German Company | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/07/verwandtde-german-geni-clone/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,425 | vlad | 2007-08-08T07:25:06 | Aaron Swartz's ideas on improving Foo Camp | http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/foofix | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,426 | vlad | 2007-08-08T07:28:51 | Setting Up Shop--picking office space | http://www.founderblog.com/2007/06/setting-up-shop-picking-office-space.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,430 | chmike | 2007-08-08T07:50:51 | Eric Schmidt's view on Web 3.0 | Since I had this view more than 4 years ago, I should be called a visionary. | http://www.disnetwork.info/1/post/2007/08/dis-as-web-30-root.html | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,434 | vlad | 2007-08-08T07:57:40 | Report: Blogging has yet to hit it's peak, but may this year | http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061214-8420.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,436 | vlad | 2007-08-08T07:58:55 | ValleyVag jokes about kicking out Google executives to save money | http://valleywag.com/tech/toogle-many-googlers/pick-the-googlers-who-have-to-go-283359.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,437 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:00:48 | 1.5 Billion Microsoft fine overturned | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6934363.stm | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,438 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:02:30 | Ubuntu Dells not alone: Novell Lenovo Linux Laptops Later This Year | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6933859.stm | 1 | 1 | [
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Lenovo is the world's third-biggest PC maker
Lenovo, one of the world's biggest PC manufacturers, is to start selling laptops to business and consumers with Linux pre-installed on the machines.
Linux is a free, open source operating system developed as an alternative to systems such as Microsoft's Windows.
Novell will provide the Linux software on the laptops, which are due to go on sale at the end of the year.
Earlier this year PC maker Dell also announced it would start shipping PCs with the Linux OS installed.
Lenovo announced its plans at the start of LinuxWorld, an annual conference held in San Francisco.
Dell introduced Linux-powered PCs after chief executive Michael Dell asked customers for suggestions for new products on the company's website: Linux PCs were the most-requested item.
Linux was first released to the public almost 16 years ago and was developed by Linus Torvalds, who wanted to create a non-commercial alternative to an operating system used in many universities.
Linux can be freely distributed, modified and used by anyone who wants it. It is predominantly used to power web servers and while its growth on desktop computers has been limited to technology specialists, its adoption by Lenovo and Dell points to wider acceptance.
Analysts believe that approximately 6% of computers users run Linux, similar to the numbers choosing Apple Macs.
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40,439 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:04:02 | Just Say What Your Product Is. | http://www.founderblog.com/2006/12/just-say-what-it-is.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,440 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:05:44 | (Forbes) Fatal Funding Mistakes for Startups | http://www.forbes.com/columnists/2006/01/31/emc-ntag-startups-cx_tt_0201straightup.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,441 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:09:30 | Angel Ventures Partners: Started by the 1st winner of "The Apprentice" TV Show | http://www.angelventurepartners.com/team.htm | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,444 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:21:28 | Default Mac OS X System Keyboard Bindings | http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/System%20Bindings.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,446 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:24:10 | Sun Microsystems to Discount Servers for India, China Startups | http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200708080243DOWJONESDJONLINE000280_FORTUNE5.htm | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | http_404 | 404 Page Not Found - CNNMoney | null | null |
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40,447 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:26:22 | Creators of ICQ Make a Live TV Network | http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2007/08/07/startup-knockatv-to-make-amateur-content-basis-of-online-tv-network/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | http_404 | Page not found - Marketing Charts | null | null | No Results FoundThe page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post. | 2024-11-07T20:16:28 | null | train |
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40,448 | rnesh | 2007-08-08T08:26:47 | TLC - How to Make Millions | http://www.epursuit.net/blog/how-to-make-millions-footycs-on-tlc/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | fetch failed | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T09:41:37 | null | train |
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40,449 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:33:17 | 20 Metros with Average Rent Under $800 or $1000 | http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/01/0109_lowestrent/index_01.htm?chan=rss_topSlideShows_ssi_5 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,451 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:37:13 | Guess the #2 World's 'Best' Brand | http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/07/0726_globalbrands/index_01.htm?chan=rss_topSlideShows_ssi_5 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,452 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:40:58 | Hacking 3rd Party Apps for the iPhone | http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2007/tc2007081_895247.htm?chan=search | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,453 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:42:33 | How to Get From a 7 to a 10 | http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/07/how-to-get-from-a-7-to-a-10/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,455 | vlad | 2007-08-08T08:43:38 | 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job | http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/10-reasons-you-should-never-get-a-job | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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