Author: timbatchelder

  • Adobe Acrobat.com Treads on Google, Microsoft Turf

    Adobe Acrobat.com Treads on Google, Microsoft Turf – Enterprise Applications – News & Reviews – eWeek.com. Adobe connect is probably the best all around web conferencing and document sharing solution. It’s hosted version would be good for your workgroups. Related articles Adobe Reader Shuns iCloud In Favor Of Acrobat.com For New Cloud Storage Integration (appadvice.com)…

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  • Serena Launches Mashups on Demand, Agile Platform

    Serena Launches Mashups on Demand, Agile Platform – Application Development – News & Reviews – eWeek.com. Related articles Open Enterprise 2.0 Mashup Summit (prweb.com) Serena Software Named a Leader Within Independent Analyst Firm’s Application Lifecycle Management 2012 Report (virtual-strategy.com) Application Lifecycle Management Software Evolves to Keep Pace with Changing Development Environments (prweb.com) Serena Software Announces…

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  • From maverick to misguided renegade: Inside the McCain campaign

    From maverick to misguided renegade – The Boston Globe. Interesting summary of the media tactics of the current McCain campaign. Related articles America and Democracy Are Not For Sale Boys (planetpov.com) Plouffe: Mitt ‘throwing spaghetti’ at wall (politico.com)

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  • Buzz factor: evolution of techie catch phrases

        Buzz factor – The Boston Globe.   Related articles   Linguists Tracking Slang Through Twitter (euzicasa.wordpress.com) Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain (popalx.wordpress.com) African Linguist Network – Home (metaglossia.wordpress.com) ‘Fiscal cliff’ for Word of the Year! (economy.money.cnn.com) George Lakoff, Conceptual Metaphors, and Biblical Interpretation (chajc.wordpress.com) The Biological Origin of…

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  • How to fight a rumor: Obama’s Web 2.0 Strategy

        How to fight a rumor – The Boston Globe.   Interesting article on Obama‘s web 2.0 approach to rumors: put them all up there and then direct people to read about the truth.   Related articles   Romney’s Bureaucratic, Bumbling Campaign, Ctd (andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com) Data drove Obama’s ground game (thehill.com) Election 2012: where do…

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  • Downloads transform iPhone into handy tool

    Downloads transform iPhone into handy tool – The Boston Globe. Definitely get apps: where, stanza, recorder Related articles Asahi Launches iPhone Application Development Services in New York (prweb.com) iPhone 5 Travels 20,096 Miles Before Ending Up in Your Hands [INFOGRAPHIC] Mashable iPhone 5 Travels 20,096 Miles Before Ending Up in Your Hands [INFOGRAPHIC] | The…

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  • E-mails suggest Pfizer tried to suppress study on drug

    E-mails suggest Pfizer tried to suppress study on drug – The Boston Globe. Here we go again. Not just Vioxx and the ghost writing scare but now also Neurontin. Emails can get your company in a lot of trouble Related articles Pfizer’s Arthritis Treatment Wins Approval From US FDA – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) Pfizer’s Xeljanz story reveals why new drug development…

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  • Johnny Chung Lee – Human Computer Interaction Research

    Johnny Chung Lee – Human Computer Interaction Research. This guy is amazing. He is in the HCI lab at Carnegie and has invented a 40 dollar electronic white board (They normally cost around 1-2k) as well as steadycam using off the shelf controllers from the Wii. Related articles User Experience: Remember, when it comes to…

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