Check out this picture for another interesting use of Second Life. Just think about how much a company could save on travel expenses!
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The Downside of Certification
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I found this article, The Downside of Certification, over on Slashdot. Its about time that people stop looking at how many pieces of paper one has and instead on what they can actually DO. Certification programs have always bothered me because of the implication that if you have the certification you are more qualified than someone who has been doing the job for years. Glad to see people are wising up a bit.
Google Launches Calendar Application
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Google finally launches their Google Calendar application beta. You can check it out at http://www.google.com/calendar. Steve Gillmor must be just beaming about this one!
The Art of Customer Service
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I found a link to this article by Art Kawasaki called The Art of Customer Service. I found the link on The Social Customer Manifesto. Its a great article that really makes you think and ask the question “How many of these things does my company / business unit / department” do for both internal and external customers?
Agassi: MySQL will support SAP this year
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In this article, Shai Agassi predicts that the open source database MySQL will be certified to run SAP by the end of the year.
Red Hat scoops up JBoss
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Port25 : A Look Inside Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab (Part 1)
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Take a look at Port25 : A Look Inside Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab (Part 1). Microsoft has got quite a lab started.
Subversion 1.3.1 released
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The Subversion team has announced the release of Subversion 1.3.1. Files can be found in their download area.
Zimbra – Blog – A Pint of ALE – Ajax Linking and Embedding
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Zimbra – Blog – A Pint of ALE – Ajax Linking and Embedding. Interesting article. I didn’t know about “design mode” in recent browsers, but I tried it in Firefox this morning and it worked.
17 Year Old Creates Flickr Competitor
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From Slashdot: “Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch has an article up on a new Flickr competitor called Zooomr. The interesting thing about all of this that it was developed in only three months by a 17 year old and to top it all off, the site is currently localized in 16 languages”. The site is “experiencing high volumes” since appearing on Slashdot and is being moved to a larger data center. I’m looking forward to seeing it.
Bieber Labs 