WatTF? - Jim Murphy

What do you call it when you think you’ve finished an IM conversation, closed the IM window but then the person  you’re chatting with gives you a little extra “seeya” or “l8r” which pops the window back open?
Please add your fav term to the comments.

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This just in from the “Stuff you already Know Department”: Computer and Telecom jobs pay well in Canada.
I was looking for income distribution information in Canada from StatsCan - or anywhere really. I never did find the histogram I was looking for but I did find out how completely out of touch it […]

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So I’ve had a low priority background thread spun up for a year or so learning Ruby and more importantly for me Rails. Some of the guys at Mindreef have ported our Struts/Spring/Hibernate web app front end to Groovy + Grails so I’ve been watching that go pretty well. For a Java guy […]

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Ok so thats not a cool post title but I need to get this thought out of my head.
Why is Google Maps or Flickr at the center of every cool mashup ever made? My answer: because when you mashup you are gluing together components and usually making a very thin pseudo-application. Since Google […]

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Chris Anderson’s recent Wired article Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business reminded me of what might be real challenges in these indirect business models where your revenue comes from your non-primary identity. It seems there is the potential for pretty internal cultural clash or at least drifting away from things that pay the […]

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Its ingrained in our culture that you can be whatever you want to be if you just try hard enough. Schools and employee evaluations look at meeting standardized levels of ability, focusing on areas where we underperform. The everyday notion of self improvement implies that we should shore up our weaknesses to enhance […]

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I have to agree with Jevon MacDonald concerning the non-existence of Enterprise 2.0.  I mean people are still defining Web 2 and we know it takes forever for the enterprise community to get with the digerati - if they choose to at all.
I agree that there are no budget dollars allocated to “Enterprise 2.0″ applications.  […]

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The SOA space continues to consolidate and Cape Clear’s acquisition by Workday is the latest headline.  I’m not in the know of how Cape Clear has actually been executing lately but suspect they don’t have as much customer momentum as they portray on the outside.  Hence the viability of becoming internal technology to a Saas […]

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eWeek reported that LinkedIn will be launching the LinkedIn Research Network.
I’ve been an active LinkedIn user for years.  I like the ritual of adding folks to my network as a next step after you exchange cards/intro emails or face-to-face meetings.  Its a handy tool to keep building “relationship momentum”.  But I’ve been waiting to see […]

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As I said earlier, 2 Chimps vs. 1 Gorilla? I’ll take the Gorilla every time.
1. Google doesn’t mind this deal going through at all. Google knows they will be able to outrun a “Microhoo.” Why do they know that? Because they’ve been able to outrun them both separately. As I said on Channel […]

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