As in: No social, no local, no mobile.
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Monday, June 20, 2011
It's a So-Lo-Mo World, After All
Let it be said: For a digital information junkie such as myself, traveling abroad without any cellular or consistent Internet connection on my spanking new white iPhone is agonizing.
As in: No social, no local, no mobile.
As in: No social, no local, no mobile.
10 Ad Campaigns That Backfired Badly
Occasionally advertising executives fail to hit the mark; a joke that passed at the focus group stage ends up flatlining when it hits the TV screen or billboard space. However, sometimes we?re cursed, or perhaps even blessed, with beholding the... Read more
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Viral Video: D9 Acting CEO Jane Lynch on the "R-Word"
"Glee" star Jane Lynch opened the ninth D: All Things Digital in a terrific bit of stand-up, posing as the acting CEO of News Corp. and making all kinds of comical proclamations.
But one thing she thinks should not be made fun of are loaded "R-words" that denigrate those with intellectual disabilities, as you will see in this riveting PSA.
But one thing she thinks should not be made fun of are loaded "R-words" that denigrate those with intellectual disabilities, as you will see in this riveting PSA.
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Viral Video: Kashmir Stylings on Facebook Facial Recognition
Whatever side of the Facebook facial recognition debate you are on -- is it privacy panic or a Big-Brother crisis? -- this video by Forbes blogger Kashmir Hill is pretty clever.
(Hey, Kashmir: Let me know when the aliens who really created Facebook and Google come for you, after they decide to start harvesting the Earth as planned using their nefarious photo-tagging tools!)
(Hey, Kashmir: Let me know when the aliens who really created Facebook and Google come for you, after they decide to start harvesting the Earth as planned using their nefarious photo-tagging tools!)
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Wisdom from the Wealthy: Sunday?s WaPo Column
> In case you missed it, my Sunday Washington Post column is on the interesting life lessons I have learned from people of great wealth. I excerpted it yesterday. Rather than run yet another excerpt, I’d rather a) Point you to “7 life lessons from the very wealthy,” and 2) pull some of the quotes [...]
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US Foreclosures: Kicking the Can Down the Road?
click for ginormous graphic > Today’s WTF data point is how long it will take to work through the backlog of foreclosures at the current pace: “In New York State, it would take lenders 62 years at their current pace, the longest time frame in the nation, to repossess the 213,000 houses now in severe [...]
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Kindle Book Review: The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life
Book Reviewer Vacations With Kindle and Karma
In part 1 of this three-part review series, I told you that I had purchased a Kindle 3 with Wi-Fi to feed my business book addiction while on vacation.� One of my first purchases came as a recommendation from a fellow entrepreneur:�The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life.
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10 Expensive and Exploitative Beauty Pageant Strategies
You may have been born ugly, but your children are the future! Thanks to medical science, technology and your low self-esteem, you can now make them beautiful and live vicariously through them. All it takes is beauty pageant, a healthy... Read more
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Blog Post: Two new Certifications achieved this year
WoHoo! Two new certifications achieved. The logos are downloadable from MCP site, only of one passed the exams.
1. For .NET 3.5 I took earlier in the fiscal year
2. For TFS 2010 Administration and Configuration I took recently.
Definitely feels good.
BuzzNet Tags: TFS 2010 Certified
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Pandora: The Latest Sign of Tech Bubble 2.0
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By Andrew Hawkins
Pandora Media (P) is the newest internet IPO on the street that has earned huge evaluations along with a lot of skepticism. Pandora is following in the wake of some other high profile IPO?s like LinkedIn (LNKD) and Renren (RENN). Pandora shot out of the gates on Wednesday from $20/share
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Penn West: Reasonably Priced, Fat Dividend Yield
Devon Shire submits:
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I?ve written before about my interest in unconventional oil investments in Western Canada. Some of the companies I?m interested in have shrewdly accumulated large land positions in emerging oil plays in recent years . These companies are taking advantage of technology which is unlocking oil that was previously not recoverable economically.
But it isn?t just the companies on the forefront of pushing technology forward that are benefiting. Companies that are sitting on huge land positions from decades ago are also enormous beneficiaries. These companies, with legacy positions in what was previously thought to be fully explored land, now find themselves with acreage that is worth multiples of what it was five years ago. And this acreage gives them a simple path to long term production and reserve growth as technology unlocks oil that they previously couldn?t produce.
In Western Canada there is no company that will benefit more from the
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Subconscious Information Processing
It's fathers day and I thought I'd tell a story about my dad and something he taught me a long time ago. I was in middle school and I had a school project due the next day and it came...
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Why I'm Upgrading Adolor to a Buy
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Investment Thesis
Adolor has gained back Glaxo?s (GSK) rights to Entereg (alvimopan) in a transaction that I regard as a highly positive, company changing event. Entereg has the critical sales mass to enable Adolor to be a self-sufficient, cash flow positive company. I believe that the Entereg sales run rate entering 2012 could be on the order of $40 million, $50 million entering 2013, and over the next several years could grow to $100 million.
The terms of the deal were amazingly favorable to Adolor, and the company has much for which to thank Glaxo. On its own, Adolor could not have brought Entereg to this sales level and might not have been able to launch it in the first place. The difficulties of introducing a first-in-class drug to an increasingly cost-conscious hospital marketplace has made the launch and sales ramp of a new product much more difficult, and it
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Could the Eurozone Break Up?
Could the Eurozone Break Up? By John Mauldin June 17, 2011 > Could the Eurozone Break Up? The EMU Has Always Fallen Short? Surely a Break-Up Remains Inconceivable? Has it Really Come to This? Kiev, Geneva and London Is it possible for the Eurozone to break up? It was so inconceivable when they formed it [...]
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With Yahoo Shares Dropping Below $15, Will Shareholder Patience Collapse Too?
Yahoo's stock in on a downward slide again, just in time for its annual meeting next week.
So, WWSD (What will shareholders do)?
So, WWSD (What will shareholders do)?
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
Blog Post: Migrating to TFS 2010 from multiple TFS 200x servers
The other day a question came from a colleague, that sounded like this.
My client has been using TFS for many years now and has a production deployment consisting of about 4 TFS 2008 servers containing about 50, 50, 25 & 25 team projects respectively.
Now they are in the process of migrating to TFS 2010 and they want to understand the options: their eventual goal is to move all the team projects to one very large TFS 2010 instance.
This is my response, as it could be useful to others.
In your customer scenario you have to choose between:
- A full-fidelity migration, mapping each TFS instance to a separate collection, or
- A loose data migration, moving data around.
In the first case, you use the upgrade wizard for the first server, then repeat the process using tfsconfig import.
In the latter case, you use the Tfs Integration Platform. Don?t be distracted by finding it on Codeplex: there is also a supported version in the VS Gallery and is routinely used internally at Microsoft.
In my opinion, you should ask the customer what they really want to achieve and when. Here some possible approaches to the problem:
- Piecemeal: you create a new instance of TFS 2010 and move a team (create an new Team Project and check-in the code) at their ease leaving history on the old server
Pros: easy to implement; zero downtime
Cons: slow and need more resources - One Team Project Collection for all: use integration tools
Pros: simplified view and management; less resources
Cons: they lose some history; more work to implement - Multiple Team Project Collections, one from each old server, plus a ?consolidated wharehouse? Team Project Collection: an hybrid solution that uses the out-of-the-box upgrade/import feature, with the integration tool you consolidate the data in a new Team Project Collection for reporting and other consolidated views
Pros: full-fidelity
Cons: need more resources, e.g. one Controller per Team Project Collection
You can also think of a mix of these strategies, selecting the best approach for different teams.
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3 Simple Ways to Empower Your Customers to Sell For You
3 Simple Ways to Empower Your Customers to Sell For You
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14 Public Apologies for Private Lives
We the people of the United States of America are a very fickle people. We like to worship our celebrities. But we also like to tear down those celebrities and harshly judge them when they mess up. We also like to forgive them? if they... Read more
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Emerging Markets: Time to Buy Again Approaching Fast
Nigam Arora submits:
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The famed investor John Templeton said, ?Buy when there is blood in the streets.? Right now there is a lot of blood in the stock prices of emerging markets. As my long time readers know, I follow the ZYX Change Method. We closely follow 15 emerging markets for the ZYX Emerging Markets ETF Alert.
Our calls to be long on emerging markets last year were spot on. The ZYX Change Method got us out of most emerging markets right near the top. Since then we have had a short-term sell or neutral rating on all but Turkey or Taiwan.
Our models are now close to giving a buy signal on several of the emerging markets again. Emerging markets can be extremely lucrative if one can avoid the steep corrections. Our plan is rather simple, buy close to the swing bottoms and sell close to the swing tops.
A distinguishing
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14 Public Apologies for Private Lives
We the people of the United States of America are a very fickle people. We like to worship our celebrities. But we also like to tear down those celebrities and harshly judge them when they mess up. We also like to forgive them? if they... Read more
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Startup Advice in the Small Business News
What are some of the best pieces of advice you could give to a fellow small business owner during startup? Starting a business can be a very stressful�but also�a very exhilarating experience.�We’re always aiming to help�the Small Business Trends community with the best advice for both starting and running a small business. Read the links in the roundup below and, if you can think of anything we’ve missed, be sure to share it in the comments. Enjoy!
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Exclusive: Former Yahoo Brad Williams Takes Over as PR Head Honcho at Groupon
A Chicago boy is going home, as former Yahoo PR exec Bradford Williams takes over as VP of Global Communications at Groupon.
Williams, who worked at Yahoo during its ugly takeover fight with Microsoft, will need his even-keeled personality more than ever now, as the social buying phenom heads into its upcoming IPO.
Williams, who worked at Yahoo during its ugly takeover fight with Microsoft, will need his even-keeled personality more than ever now, as the social buying phenom heads into its upcoming IPO.
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Blog Post: ?????? ????? #60 ? Kinect for Windows SDK Beta ???
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Friday, June 17, 2011
The Post Frequency Rule
The frequency of posts in a service is inversely proportional to the size of the post. Said another way, the longer the post, the less frequently they will happen. Take a look at stats from the three largest "default public"...
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Where Overseas Buyers Search for American Homes
Last year, international buyers spent a whopping $41 billion to purchase US residential Real Estate. Some of this is attributable to the weak American Peso, but lower US RRE prices relative to European counterparts are also a factor. Via Trulia, we can see the fascinating data flow of what overseas home buyers are looking at [...]
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The Hacking Education Contest
On Monday I wrote about contests as a way to raise money. They are also a way to raise the profile of you and/or your startup. This post is about a developer contest that is in the latter camp. This...
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Weekend Favs June Eleven
Weekend Favs June Eleven
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Exclusive: Myspace in Advanced Deal Talks With Investor Group, Including Activision's Kotick
And then there was one?
According to sources close to the situation, News Corp. is down to one possible investing group in its quest to make lemonade out of the lemon that its Myspace social entertainment hub has become.
In the lastest of many scenarios considered, several sources said its owner, News Corp., will continue to own about 20 percent of Myspace. The main bidder is a dark horse bidding group, which includes Activision Chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick as one of the potential investors.
According to sources close to the situation, News Corp. is down to one possible investing group in its quest to make lemonade out of the lemon that its Myspace social entertainment hub has become.
In the lastest of many scenarios considered, several sources said its owner, News Corp., will continue to own about 20 percent of Myspace. The main bidder is a dark horse bidding group, which includes Activision Chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick as one of the potential investors.
Viral Video: "The Smurfs" (I Have Absolutely No Defense Here)
Okay, it is the little blue peeps from the upcoming August 3-D movie "The Smurfs," and I like them. A lot.
No more need be said. Except: Smurf happens.
No more need be said. Except: Smurf happens.
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The Biggest Loser: Wall St. Edition
The financial crisis is undeniable in the United States, and other countries around the world have faced their own as well. But who are the people who have contributed to these fiscal problems? The team from the Credit Score Site helps us find... Read more
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Exclusive: Myspace in Advanced Deal Talks With Investor Group, Including Activision's Kotick
And then there was one?
According to sources close to the situation, News Corp. is down to one possible investing group in its quest to make lemonade out of the lemon that its Myspace social entertainment hub has become.
In the lastest of many scenarios considered, several sources said its owner, News Corp., will continue to own about 20 percent of Myspace. The main bidder is a dark horse bidding group, which includes Activision Chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick as one of the potential investors.
According to sources close to the situation, News Corp. is down to one possible investing group in its quest to make lemonade out of the lemon that its Myspace social entertainment hub has become.
In the lastest of many scenarios considered, several sources said its owner, News Corp., will continue to own about 20 percent of Myspace. The main bidder is a dark horse bidding group, which includes Activision Chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick as one of the potential investors.
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Spotlight on SPDR KBW Bank ETF
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ETF Spotlight on SPDR KBW Bank ETF (NYSEArca: KBE), part of a weekly series.
The bank ETF was higher in midday trading Thursday as top holding Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) saw its shares advance while Citigroup (NYSE: C) was fractionally lower.
Assets: $1.44 billion
Ojective: The SPDR KBW Bank ETF tries to reflect the performance of the KBW Bank Index (BKX).
Holdings: Top holdings include: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) 8.76%, Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) 6.86%, Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) 6.64%, Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) 6.36% and US Bancorp 6.04%.
What You Should Know
- KBE has an expense ratio of 0.35%.
- The fund has 26 holdings.
- Sector allocations include: Regional Banks 42.42%, Other Diversified Financial Services 22.02%, Diversified Banks 16.17%, Asset Management & Custody Banks 8.14%, Thrifts & Mortgage Finance 6.78% and Consumer Finance 4.46%.
The Latest News
- Bank stocks have been under pressure
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Blog Post: The Technical Jamboree at MVP Open Day ? India
The following is a guest post written by MVP Lead Abhishek Kant
Q: What do you get when 60 techies talk tech 24x7 for 4 days?
A: An Open Day. Did we say 24x7 talk? What else would it be for the Graveyard Shifts that started at 11pm and went on for about four hours?
Microsoft IDC
The recently concluded MVP Open Day in India scored big on the technical and the fun quotient in equal measures. Attended by MVPs from India, Australia and Sri Lanka, the objectives of the event included networking amongst MVPs and Microsoft and sharing the latest technical developments. Hosted by the Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC), Hyderabad, India, the MVP Open day was an event eagerly awaited by the MVPs in the APGC region for the whole year. The event held from May 19 – 23, 2011, brought together all divisions of Microsoft India under one roof – SMSG, IDC, MSR, GTSC and MTC— sharing knowledge and experiences with the MVPs. MVP Open Day featured a roster of keynote addresses and deep-dive technical sessions delivered by Microsoft. The speaker lineup included more than 20 speakers from MSIDC, five from MTC and five from DPE. While over 40 sessions were delivered during the MVP Open Day, the most talked about topics included Microsoft Cloud Offerings and Windows Phone. The Open Day sessions were divided into 3 tracks: Developer, IT Pro and Consumer with sessions in each track targeted towards audiences in these categories.
The Open Day started a week earlier to the physical event with the MVPs engaging in online games that promoted networking amongst them and gave them opportunities to showcase their community work.
The event kicked off with MVPs sharing their feedback and suggestions with the evangelism team on
MVPs discussing feedback
MVPs presenting feedback to Microsoft
various aspects of the community. The first keynote was made by Amit Chatterjee, general manager of Microsoft IDC, who talked about development excellence and how Microsoft development teams are evolving including deep focus on user experience. He highlighted the important contributions that MSIDC is making towards the Microsoft product lines. The day followed with deep technical sessions with the product teams. These high level technical sessions included future roadmaps of products and Concept Value Tests with a focus on getting feedback from MVPs on each one of them.
Keynote by Amit Chatterjee, GM, MSIDC
Dr. A. Kumaran, MSR
On Day Three, Dr. A. Kumaran presented the keynote on Microsoft Research philosophy and the various projects in the works that are going to lead to development of technology in these areas. The last day of the event was reserved to explore industry solutions around Virtualisation and Cloud offerings.
Ample networking opportunities for MVPs were weaved right through the event. The identification badges for the event carried MS Tags for sharing contact information. Product team members were able to network with MVPs over a relaxed dinner on the first evening. The paintball tournament between MVPs on the second evening enabled them to experience team work. The final evening went full throttle on fun with a theme party complete with dance performances and a dance floor that thumped with MVPs dancing to the party music late into the night.
MVPs engaged in the PaintBall Tournament
Dance performance at Attendee Party
The really special sessions during the Open Days are the Graveyard Shifts that started at 11:00 PM. These are unstructured open discussions where MVPs discuss about myriad technology topics.
Graveyard Shift in Progress
Graveyard Shift
Some attendee accounts of the MVP Open Day 2011:
http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/microsoft-mvp-open-day/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ujjwalk/archive/2011/05/29/mvp-open-days-2011-microsoft-idc-hyderabad.aspx
http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2011/05/my-experience-at-mvp-open-day-india-day.html
http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2011/05/my-experience-at-mvp-open-day-india-day_21.html
http://www.kunal-chowdhury.com/2011/05/my-experience-at-mvp-open-day-india-day_23.html
http://www.abhisheksur.com/2011/05/first-day-experience-with-mvp-open-days.html
While on one hand, the event provided an opportunity for the MVPs to network and socialize with their community peers and share “real world” feedback with the product groups; on the other, it set the tone for the year ahead for the Microsoft communities and forged friendships that will last a lifetime.
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Pandora Pulls a LinkedIn, As Tech-Starved Investors Gorge on IPO
How starved are investors for high-profile, high-growth Internet companies?
Hungry enough to lift the value of Pandora to just under $4 billion in an hour of trading for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "P."
Hungry enough to lift the value of Pandora to just under $4 billion in an hour of trading for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "P."
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Philip Morris: Still More Malignant Than Cancer
In all likelihood, you?ve never heard of Altria Group, Inc., but you?re probably familiar with their former name: Philip Morris Inc. The mega-corporation changed their name in 2003, probably realizing that, in the public mind, the name was... Read more
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Philly Fed: Worst Three Month Decline Ever
Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit:
Today's Philadelphia Fed Business Outlook came in weaker than expected and showed the largest three month decline in the history of the index (-51.1). Above, we highlight the three-month change of the overall index as well as each subcomponent of the main index. Strangely enough, even though the headline index for current and future conditions showed its largest ever three-month decline, most of the subcomponents did not.
In the chart below, we highlight the two other periods where the Philadelphia Fed headline index declined more than 40 points
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Here's the Groupon S-1 IPO Filing: What the Heck Is Adjusted CSOI?
Never heard of "adjusted consolidated segment operating income" before?
Well, if you want to buy shares in the upcoming Groupon IPO, you might want to learn about the accounting term.
Well, if you want to buy shares in the upcoming Groupon IPO, you might want to learn about the accounting term.
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Philip Morris: Still More Malignant Than Cancer
In all likelihood, you?ve never heard of Altria Group, Inc., but you?re probably familiar with their former name: Philip Morris Inc. The mega-corporation changed their name in 2003, probably realizing that, in the public mind, the name was... Read more
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Methodology vs Outcome: BP Trade, One Year Later
Last June, as BP was plummeting towards $27-30 level, we gave some advice to traders who were trying to figure out how to play this. We also had a debate on buying in at these levels on Fast Money� (Video is here, starting at the 4:30 mark). For those of you who followed the advice [...]
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It's a So-Lo-Mo World, After All
Let it be said: For a digital information junkie such as myself, traveling abroad without any cellular or consistent Internet connection on my spanking new white iPhone is agonizing.
As in: No social, no local, no mobile.
As in: No social, no local, no mobile.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Ready for His Digital Close-Up: The NYT's Media Dude, David Carr, Talks About "Page One"
A documentary about the New York Times and its fight to survive the onslaught of the Internet called "Page One: Inside the New York Times" opens Friday.
So, it seemed like a good idea to talk to the film's star, media columnist David Carr, to find out what he thinks will happen to the Gray Lady in the multi-colored digital future.
So, it seemed like a good idea to talk to the film's star, media columnist David Carr, to find out what he thinks will happen to the Gray Lady in the multi-colored digital future.
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Canvas
I posted this on the USV blog yesterday but thought I should share it with the AVC community as well. ---- We are big fans of communities at Union Square Ventures. The partners in our firm have been investing in...
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Viral Video: Kashmir Stylings on Facebook Facial Recognition
Whatever side of the Facebook facial recognition debate you are on -- is it privacy panic or a Big-Brother crisis? -- this video by Forbes blogger Kashmir Hill is pretty clever.
(Hey, Kashmir: Let me know when the aliens who really created Facebook and Google come for you, after they decide to start harvesting the Earth as planned using their nefarious photo-tagging tools!)
(Hey, Kashmir: Let me know when the aliens who really created Facebook and Google come for you, after they decide to start harvesting the Earth as planned using their nefarious photo-tagging tools!)
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Wednesday Options Recap
Frederic Ruffy submits:
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Sentiment
Stocks are broadly lower on disappointing economic data and worries about the ongoing European Debt Crisis. The euro was slammed for a 1.8 percent loss against the buck after protestors clashed with police in Athens. The violence is raising concerns that the debt problems in Greece are going to escalate out of control. Meanwhile, the domestic economic news included another round of disappointing data. The NY Empire State Index fell to -7.8 last month, from 11.9 in April. Oops. Economists were expecting an increase to 14. The Consumer Price Index [CPI] increased by .2 percent, compared to expectations for no change, and Industrial Production rose .1 percent, half as much as expected. The latest NAHB Housing Index was also well below estimates (of 16). The index fell 3 points to 13 and to levels last seen in September. The combination of bearish headlines from Europe and disappointing domestic economic
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Employee Time Off: A Tale of Two Mind-Sets
Two recent news items got me thinking about two extremely different mind-sets when it comes to giving employees time off.
Earlier this month, Connecticut made history by becoming the first state in the U.S. to mandate paid sick leave for service workers. The Hartford Courant reports that the sick leave bill, in the works for years, was the subject of bitter controversy and, after 11 hours of intense debate, squeaked by with a vote of 76-65.
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Blog Post: Microsoft Platform Ready Website Updated to Include Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 Resources
Online Services
- Get free access to Office 365 tools and resources by signing up for the online services beta to get a full-featured look at what it can do.
- View a customer overview of Office 365 in this downloadable presentation (PPT).
- See how Office 365 can power your business in this video.
Developer Resources
- Learn about development while using Office 365 in this downloadable presentation for ISVs (PPT).
- Explore the developer story in Office 365. Specific topics include client-side add-ins accessing Microsoft SharePoint data, client object model, cloud-programmability with Microsoft Excel and Visio Services, and much more.
- Visit the Developer Center for Exchange Online as part of Office 365.
- Download the SharePoint Online Developer Guide.
Training
Learn in-depth about the individual services by watching these videos for developers:
- Microsoft Exchange Online
- Microsoft SharePoint Online
- Microsoft Lync Online
- Microsoft Office Professional Plus
Other Great Office 365 Resources
TechEd 2011 Office 365 Greatest Hits
- Overview
- Microsoft Office 365: The Future of Productivity – Eron Kelly
- Microsoft SharePoint Online Overview, Mark Kashman
- Microsoft Lync 2010: In the Cloud, Ziv Fass
- Developer
- Collaboration in the Cloud with SharePoint: A New World of Productivity – Eron Kelly
- Note: We’ll be making the School of Fine Art demo available for field use in the GA time frame!
- Developing Collaboration Solutions in the Cloud with Microsoft SharePoint Online, Chris Mayo
- Developing Powerful Workflows in the Cloud with Microsoft SharePoint Online, Chris Mayo
- Exploring the Office Developer Story in Microsoft Office 365, Tanuj Bansal
- Four Ways to Leverage the Microsoft Lync 2010 Client APIs in Your Applications, Marcello Farjalla
- Top 10 Insights on Development of Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Lync Server 2010 against Microsoft Office 365, Albert Kooiman
- Collaboration in the Cloud with SharePoint: A New World of Productivity – Eron Kelly
- IT Pro
- Microsoft Office 365: Deployment Overview, Zach Beers
- What Do Existing BPOS Customers Need to Do to Prepare for Microsoft Office 365?, Michael O'Neill
- Microsoft Office 365: Identity and Access Solutions, Ross Adams
- Microsoft Office 365: Directory Synchronization, Jono Luk
- Deploying Microsoft Office Professional Plus Subscription, Brian Shiers
- Microsoft Exchange Online in Microsoft Office 365: Simple Migration Live!, Ram Poomalingam
Office 365 Training Course on MSDN: We released this training course along with the public Beta. The course includes 7 sessions, over 10 hours of video, and 16 labs as both an offline training kit as well as an online training course on MSDN. We’ll be including the School of Fine Art demo with the GA version of the kit. Stay tuned for more details!
Getting Your Own Office 365 Beta Account: Sign up at http://office365.com to get access to the Beta.
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Annual Inflation Now at 3.6 Percent
Tim Iacono submits: The Labor Department reported that U.S. inflation was modest in the month of May, largely due to the impact of seasonal adjustments that turned energy price increases into declines, overall consumer prices rising just 0.2 percent, now up 3.6 percent from a year ago.
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Analysts were expecting no change in May after a string of price increases in recent months that had the three-month annualized rate of inflation at over five percent and the six-month annualized rate at over four percent.
Perhaps more importantly (at least for Fed economists), after a gain of 0.2 percent in April, the ?core? rate of inflation (excluding food and energy) jumped 0.3 percent in May, its largest increase since July 2008. On a year-over-year basis, core inflation is now at 1.5 percent.
By category, despite what you may have seen at gas stations last month, energy prices fell after seasonal
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Blog Post: Session state provider for Azure AppFabric Cache with useBlobMode=false results in error "Key referred to does not exist"
Problem
If you are using Session state provider (Windows Azure AppFabric) and configure useBlobMode=false, you might run into below error
ErrorCode<ERRCA0006>:SubStatus<ES0001>:Key referred to does not exist. Create objects based on a Key to fix the error.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.DataCacheException: ErrorCode<ERRCA0006>:SubStatus<ES0001>:Key referred to does not exist. Create objects based on a Key to fix the error.
Source Error:
| An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. |
Stack Trace:
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[DataCacheException: ErrorCode<ERRCA0006>:SubStatus<ES0001>:Key referred to does not exist. Create objects based on a Key to fix the error.] Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.DataCache.ThrowException(ResponseBody respBody) +568 Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.DataCache.InternalPutAndUnlock(String key, Object value, DataCacheLockHandle lockHandle, TimeSpan timeout, DataCacheTag[] tags, String region, IMonitoringListener listener) +288 Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.<>c__DisplayClass8a.<PutAndUnlock>b__89() +149 Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.DataCache.PutAndUnlock(String key, Object value, DataCacheLockHandle lockHandle, TimeSpan timeout) +276 Microsoft.Web.DistributedCache.<>c__DisplayClass19.<PutAndUnlock>b__18() +52 Microsoft.Web.DistributedCache.<>c__DisplayClass2e`1.<PerformCacheOperation>b__2d() +19 Microsoft.Web.DistributedCache.DataCacheRetryWrapper.PerformCacheOperation(Action action) +208 Microsoft.Web.DistributedCache.DataCacheForwarderBase.PerformCacheOperation(Func`1 func) +167 Microsoft.Web.DistributedCache.DataCacheForwarderBase.PutAndUnlock(String key, Object value, DataCacheLockHandle lockHandle, TimeSpan timeout) +162 Microsoft.Web.DistributedCache.GranularSessionStoreProvider.SetAndReleaseItemExclusiveImpl(HttpContextBase context, String id, SessionStateStoreData item, Object lockId, Boolean newItem) +3925 Microsoft.Web.DistributedCache.<>c__DisplayClass15.<SetAndReleaseItemExclusive>b__14() +47 Microsoft.Web.DistributedCache.GranularSessionStoreProvider.ExecNonAbortable(Action a) +33 System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.OnReleaseState(Object source, EventArgs eventArgs) +929 System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule.OnEndRequest(Object source, EventArgs eventArgs) +208 System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +80 System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +266 |
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.225
Cause
In this case, below configuration is being used
<sessionState mode="Custom" customProvider="AppFabricCacheSessionStoreProvider">
<providers>
<add name="AppFabricCacheSessionStoreProvider"
type="Microsoft.Web.DistributedCache.DistributedCacheSessionStateStoreProvider, Microsoft.Web.DistributedCache"
cacheName="default"
useBlobMode="false"
dataCacheClientName="default" />
</providers>
</sessionState>
useBlobMode=false is not supported scenario for cloud. The reason this mode is not supported is because, as of today, there is no control over eviction policy when cache is hosted in Windows Azure platform.
Resolution
Consider using useBlobMode=true if you are using session state provider with Windows Azure Appfabric cache.
More Info
Current MSDN documentation does not explicitly call out this scenario and will be updated shortly.
Applies To
- Windows Azure AppFabric Cache
- Session State Provider (Azure)
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Banking off High Food Prices - CF Holdings vs. Archer Daniels Midland
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Agricultural commodities came close to their all-time highs in mid-February. Despite the market turbulence we've been experiencing the past few months, and the headwinds ahead, agricultural commodities look to be a promising investment choice.
David Hallam, director of FAO's Market and Trade Division, warned last week that the short supply of agricultural commodities will drive up the price of food in the low-income food-deficit countries, like Egypt. One reason for the shortage ? grain supplies being dangerously low due to hostile weather. Bloomberg noted that "parts of China, the biggest grower, had the least rain in a century, some European regions are the driest in 50 years and almost half the winter-wheat crop in the U.S., the largest exporter, is rated poor or worse."
Not only are the agricultural commodities supply unusually low, but also demand for these commodities are continuing to rise. Despite
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Exclusive: Former Yahoo Brad Williams Takes Over as PR Head Honcho at Groupon
A Chicago boy is going home, as former Yahoo PR exec Bradford Williams takes over as VP of Global Communications at Groupon.
Williams, who worked at Yahoo during its ugly takeover fight with Microsoft, will need his even-keeled personality more than ever now, as the social buying phenom heads into its upcoming IPO.
Williams, who worked at Yahoo during its ugly takeover fight with Microsoft, will need his even-keeled personality more than ever now, as the social buying phenom heads into its upcoming IPO.
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Robert Shiller on U.S. Economic Outlook
Robert Shiller, an economics professor at Yale University and co-creator of the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, talks about the U.S. economic outlook and housing market. Shiller, speaking with Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television’s “InsideTrack,” also discusses consumer confidence and the impact of government stimulus measures on economic growth. June 14 (Bloomberg)
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Tuesday Corporate Bond Brief
Andrew Wilkinson submits:
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Treasury prices slumped following several favorable economic reports, and while it was not good news to see retail sales decline during May, there was a huge sigh of relief that the report was not as dire as predicted ahead of its release.
The yields at the 10-year maturity climbed by 3.07% leaving them well clear of the 3% hurdle while financial issues also continued to suffer even as most banks share prices joined in the rally. One major exception was Bank of America (BAC), where the lender remains in the dog house following the finding that, by delaying and refusing to offer appropriate materials, it had hindered a government enquiry in to foreclosure practices.
Investment Grade
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) ? Spreads at banks widened versus treasuries as corporate bond prices fell harder than government securities. A reminder of the cooler attitude towards the banking sector came Tuesday from
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The Ultimate Guide to Gold Investing
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By Michael
Gold is one of the rarest metals in the world and has a long history as a valuable and intensely sought-after element. Gold has served as the basis for physical currency for thousands of years and many monetary systems throughout human history have utilized a gold standard that focused on the precious metal. Exploration and production of gold has become a major industry in regions that maintain significant deposits of the metal and quests for gold have been the impetus of countless expeditions and discoveries. The price of the metal is widely followed by many investors, both sophisticated and simplistic. There are a number of different options for investing in gold, including buying up coins and bars of the product, exchange-traded futures contracts, stocks of companies engaged in the extraction and sale of the metal and both physically-backed and futures-based exchange-traded products.
Physical Properties and Uses Of Gold
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