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YMMV, but with a larger operation having the CEO get involved in customer engagements that don't mean either closing a big sale or ensuring one isn't lost causes most clients to assume the CEO is their buddy.

This means he's now their go-to guy for the most trivial of issues. Besides being a PITA for the boss this also effectively neuters the account team. Not ideal.

A judge in the US has agreed: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/judge-17000-...

Most likely. The two handsets in the article are reported to run Windows. Blackberry has their own OS.

Officers made up 7%. A non-commissioned officer is simply an enlisted person that has stayed in service long enough to be promoted. Commitment is in no way indicative of intelligence. In some cases it's the opposite.

For the most part the marketers I'm connected to on Facebook have been respectful of my attention and have limited their messages to channels I've opted in to.

The only thing I've been subjected to that I don't like (though is probably borderline acceptable) is frequent reposting of items. Nothing like having the same link shoved down your throat 10 times a day.

I was in the same boat as you not too long ago and while I haven't found my undergrad. experience to be a particularly enlightening one, it has had value.

Also, a bachelor's of some sort is almost a universal prereq. for a decent job. While you may be able to convince a hiring manager your skills are solid and that you're worth hiring, they're going to be talking to those who meet their requirements first so you may never get that chance.

Rather than drop out, why not take a heavier course load and finish sooner?

My first thought while playing with it during class was that it'd make a great replacement for Basecamp's crappy Writeboard feature.

I was also thinking that instead of unnamed, you could build a list of celebrity names that are used until the user changes it (which should be pretty quick if you wind up with something like Danny Glover or Hans Blix). If not, at least you'd have a way to distinguish between people.

Graveled?

Some of TC's news isn't really news.

Send a message to all your friends and Facebook will do it for you.

Does it really matter where you incorporate any more?

From what I understand (which may be wrong), most companies that incorporate as Delaware corporations, do so in part because DE has a solid business law system in place.

At the top of the complaint it shows that both defendants are incorporated in Delaware, yet whoever filed the complaint tried (and succeeded) in making a case for whatever goes down to take place in IL. Is that even reasonable?

While I'm sure it won't hurt TC or Loopt to take a road trip, if another startup wound up in a similar bind, I can definitely see the cost of fighting an out-of-state battle putting them over a barrel.

I'm the complete opposite. If I think a job looks interesting and see that the company has elected to limit their candidate pool by putting a lame qualifier like, "a degree from a top-tier university," I don't waste my time. It shows that the company is more concerned with how their employees are perceived than what they can accomplish. Pass.

I sometimes have similar reservations about companies that list arbitrary experience requirements too, especially when they're clearly just going off some industry norm. That's just me tho. YMMV.

The same day people where I work started sharing invites to the service it was escalated up the ladder as a risk.

That's not to say Yammer's a bad idea. Just a poorly executed one. A better business model would have been to whitelabel a script or produce an appliance that companies could run on their own. Both would sell.

Undergrad. and part-time Project Coordinator at a Fortune 5. I work on blogs, wikis, forums, etc.

I wouldn't expect the iPhone to ever assume a POS type feature set. However, I did find it interesting Apple was using MSFT IP in such an obviously customer facing role.

Gotta love that Mayan calendar Voodoo.

You can sync the 360 with XP media too. IMO, Vista is just too much of a resource hog to ever be useful.

Not sure if this'd equate to feature creep or not but it'd be useful to know what category people submitted a link to in addition to who did it first and how many followed.

My usage pattern is almost the exact opposite. If I like a story and find it relevant, I upvote it in part so I can easily reference it later.

I'm interning at Sun, volunteering with Miro, and taking summer classes.

I'll be getting my BS after a little over two years in school and as one of those “big picture” people, have become increasingly more focused on what I'm going to do once December rolls around.

The Voodoo Envy 133 measures .70 inches when closed and weighs less than 3.4 pounds. It's also a whole let sexier IMO.

http://www.uncrate.com/men/gear/laptops/voodoo-envy-133/

I shot an email to the CEO of a search engine marketing company in NYC I'm acquainted with last night letting him know about you, he said he'd be interested in learning more (his company is in the top 200 of the Inc. 5000).

If you're still looking, drop me a line at richard [dot] kenney [at] sun [dot] com.

I've never been a big Mahalo Daily fan but I couldn't help but get a chuckle out of Jason Calacanis being listed as "Craft Services" in the credits.

I thought this year's was funny albeit nowhere near the scale of past pranks.

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_video

Twitter's posted a response at http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/twitter-enforces-tos-cares-a...

Interest is a two way street. It's on the job candidate to be qualified for the job they apply for and to not waste the companies time if they're not interested.

On the flip side, companies need to be respectful of a candidate's time and make a move if interested or let them know early on if they're not so the prospect can move on.

I work for Sun. I had one interview, WITH my manager. She made the call, I got the job. I think AWS is a great service offering but it sounds like they may need to fine tune their hiring pipeline a bit.

So what are the alternatives? Art and Eli mentioned an open source/decentralized protocol, would anyone be willing to move to another existing service like Pownce? If no, why?

I think you're spot on Andy. While I love the interaction Twitter is supposed to foster, the infrastructure problems they're having have become so frequent, long lasting, and unsurprising that I wouldn't be opposed to migrating elsewhere so long as I still had access to my most important connections.

So one guy has an opinion counter to the norm (here) and he gets thrown under the bus? I don't even know the guy and I think that's pretty weak.

Seesmic is still in closed alpha so those who are using it are very much partners.