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noun - A fundamental, essential, or irreducible constituent of a composite entity. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin About Eleanor Kruszewski: I'm known variously as Eleanor or Elle. My last name is like that coach from Duke - kru-shef-ski. Based in Menlo Park, CA, I work for Yahoo! in their Developer Network. The easiest description of what I do is the MBA shin kicker, handling community, marketing, commercial programs and sundry backend stuff. Disclaimer: I've done big corps, midcorps, and startups, so I overstate and oversimplify as much as anyone else. These opinions are my own, not my employer's. |
Archive for December, 2003New wi-fi distance record, stretching across 82 milesThe new distance record for plain vanilla wifi is now 82 miles, as proven by students at Utah’s Weber State University. Participate: 4 Comments | TrackbackThe Weird Science of Getting A Better Deal on Car-RentalsThe Wall Street Journal advises how to navigate the complex pricing schemes behind car rentals:
Source: Edited down from Kortney Stringer’s article “The Weird Science of Getting A Better Deal on Car-Rentals” 12/30/03 The Wall St. Journal The IT industry shifts away from M$FTPeople sometimes fault me for just posting a link to an article, without comment or summary. I’ve made a conscious effort to put down my ’so what’ thoughts within most of these postings.
This article, for me, reads like Justice Penfold-Jackson’s decision back in 1999 - a scathing, point by point, cause and effect indictment. I’ve been watching M$ as it’s gone through each of these flails - from back when I was at Xerox and got to read Gartner’s defense of licensing 6.0. Altogether this is very satisfying. VOIP revolution confounds big telecom firmsDennis Berman in The Wall Street Journal comments on the increasing hype around VOIP from large telecom players:
Unfortunately, cable is already in homes first - with coax covering the last mile in most of the country. Phone companies would have to lay fiber to the door to extend their capabilities further, and to begin to match the infrastructure available to their cable rivals. Source: WSJ.com - Portals Analyst to watch - ChinaJoe Zhang, head of China stock research for UBS AG, is an analyst to watch. So far he’s used his insights from growing up in a farming village in central China to unearth fraud and opportunities. Mr. Zhang’s knowledge of the murky world of China’s private sector makes him stand out among analysts covering the world’s most populous country. Full reference, while it lasts and for subscribers: Changing face of office spaceSheila Muto brings us an update from one of the underpinnings of business growth - the world of leaseholds. Property developers are doing more to attract new tenants while facing some of the highest vacancy rates in the last decade. Not only are they thinking differently about what is needed to attract leasors, they’re thinking strategically about managing their businesses. They’re making the investment, at significant cost savings and to also achieve consistency across their properties.
from The Wall Street Journal Link to the article while you can. Participate: 4 Comments | TrackbackSCO-Linux copyright battle not damaging OSS adoptionIT consulting group, Robert Frances Group (http://www.rfgonline.com), reports the results of their survey of 15 companies (ed. note - not a huge sample) on Linux adoption, which indicates that the momentum to move to open source software has not been impacted by the legal fight. The article quotes Evan Bauer, a principal research fellow with Robert Frances Group.
Source: Internetnews.com New Survey Finds No Linux ‘Chill’ From SCO Suit. Participate: 1 Comment | TrackbackSW airlines deals with competitive pressuresWSJ.com - Southwest Air Considers Shift In Its Approach Offshoring, view from BusinessWeekTwo articles on outsourcing from BusinessWeek, just further tracking the issue: The cover story for December 8, 2003, The Rise Of India, about GE’s Technology Research Center in Bangalore. A commentary piece by Pete Engardio, This is starting to feel like the 1980s with Japan…… Participate: 4 Comments | TrackbackAdvertising: some on-target, others horribly wrongSuzanne Vranica and Brian Steinberg give us a fun look at the best and worst ads from 2003 from The Wall Street Journal . The Best
The Worst
WSJ subscribers can hit the page for link to RealPlayer versions of the commercials.
Source: WSJ.com - Can You Hear Me Now? Summary of the Year in Ideas, 2003, from The New York Times MagazineExtract of the 67 keenest ideas The New York Times Magazine could find for 2o03. It’s interesting to me that I had run across about a third of them during the course of the year. Here’s how it works:
1) Proving You’re Human Source: The New York Times Magazine, December 14, 2003 Participate: 4 Comments | TrackbackSubmit to our presentationThis guarantees to be joked into oblivion, but it’s a good reminder, and no doubt, I’ll wonder where it came from later.
It’s a very good reminder to ensure that the purpose of a presentation is not art, or completed assignment, it is to communicate information, which takes tuning. Source: NYTimes.com Abstract. Full article is available for purchase from NYTimes. Participate: 6 Comments | TrackbackNervous about RFID? EZ-Pass does it alreadyIn discussing the emerging applications for RFID (Radio Frequency ID) tags, privacy concerns inevitably come up. Huge value exists in the supply chain for rfid tags, but you can bet that marketers salivate over the sort of Minority Report targeted marketing that could gather customer info via passive scans. The backlash is real, and in some ways, justified. However, retail purchases could easily be run through a machine to deactivate (burn off) their tags, rendering them useless.
And here’s an example for the libertarians among us:
I hate mindlessly mouthing quotes, but Scott McNealy’s “get over it” comes unbidden to mind. Source: originally an AP story, which seems now preserved only on blogs (updated 2/10/2004). See this blog (since their is so basic, you must scroll down or search to the entry for Dec 14, 2003) . The original title of the article was “E-ZPass Card an Investigative Tool” from THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, 12/12/2003. Scott McNealy quote from the 1999 Jini launch is discussed here Participate: 4 Comments | TrackbackOpen Source SW development processThis paper by Tom Adelstein does a good job of explaining what open source means for businesses and how it integrates seamlessly into, and actually promotes, quality, efficient software development practices. Participate: 4 Comments | Trackback Free Wi-Fi in SF?TechTV aired a story about free wi-fi in SF.
SFLan is another service, one that seems to actually be up and running. Here’s a how to link from their site: With a laptop: Go in the vicinity of a SFLan node. Associate with it: The SSID is sflanNN, where NN is the number of node, e.g. sflan13. No WEP. You’ll get an IP number assigned via DHCP. I’ll have to check these out the next time I’m up there with my navi. Source: Slashdot.org San Francisco’s Got Free Wi-Fi Participate: 4 Comments | TrackbackAn Economic Analysis Model from Brad DeLongEconomist Brad DeLong posted a blog entry, slide-off-the-tonguily titled, A Framework for the Economic Analysis of Technological Revolutions, with an Application to Nanotechnology. Homeland Security and Sensors - Pub Talk at World Internet CenterLast night I attended a pub talk at the World Internet Center on sensor networks and homeland security. Haas Professors Debate Corporate GovernanceI was just at an event put on by the Haas School of Business’ South Bay Alumni group in Menlo Park. It was a debate between 2 Haas professors, Prof. Ben Hermalin (the Willis H. Booth Professor of Banking and Finance, Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group) and Prof. David Vogel (the George Quist Professor of Business Ethics Chair, Haas Business and Public Policy Group, and Editor, California Management Review) on the topic of “Has anything changed in Corporate Responsibility?”. Source: CEO Succession 2002: Deliver or Depart Strategy+Business Summer, 2003. Participate: 1 Comment | Trackback |
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