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Monthly Archive for November, 2010
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Typical consulting bullshit. Via Fred Forestier:
1. Oracle and IBM are the last ones standing
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6. SAP will shrink as companies now have credible alternatives (Oracle, NetSuite, and others)
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8. No more social networking nonsense, as organizations move employees away from social sites at work. (yeah, the best one so far!)
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10. AT&T provides a valuable lesson on how a lack of customer service and inability to address service issues can cause customers to band together through the Internet with a powerful and collective voice. (Nothing to to with the "social networking nonsense" ???)
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via @nicolasvradis
Just heard this fantastic mnemonic memory trick by Brian Dunning (host of the Skeptoid Podcast) in Dr. Karl’s (BBC) Podcast.
How do you know if you’re talking about a trillion? Quadrillion? Quintillion? Sextillion?
Turns out it’s actually quite easy:
- Count the number of zeros
- Remove 3
- Divide by 3 and interpret the result
- 1 zero left (mono) => million
- 2 (bi) => billion
- 3 => trillion
- 4 => quadrillion
- 5 => quintillion
- 6 => sextillion
- 7 => septillion
- 8 => octillion
- 9 => nonillion
- 10 => decillion
- 11 => undecillion
Amazing isn’t it? It works for languages & countries that use the “Short Scale” (that is, English speaking countries and Brazil according to Wikipedia). A pity the rest of the World uses the French “Long Scale”, which has nothing logical to it 
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Enterprise Micro-blogging review:
- Yammer
- Socialcast
- Present.ly
- SocialWok
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Marine Debris Biodegradation Time Line:
Paper towel: 2-4 weeks
Newspaper: 6 weeks
Cardboard box: 2 months
Waxed milk carton: 3 months
Apple core: 2 months
Cotton gloves: 1-5 months
Wool gloves: 1 year
Plywood: 1-3 years
Painted wooden sticks: 13 years
Photo-degradable beverage holder: 6 months
Plastic beverage holder: 400 years
Plastic bags: 10-20 years
Plastic bottle: 100 years
Glass bottle and jars: undetermined
Disposable diapers: 50-100 years
Tin can: 50 years
Aluminium can: 200 years
Monofilament fishing line: 600 years
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Brilliant presentation about enterprise 2.0. A bit old, but still covers pretty much everything.
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- Avec les filles, tu try tu try… mais tu catch jamais rien.
- On comprend tellement rien quand t'expliques un truc, qu'on dirait lire une expression régulière.
- T'es comme Facebook, t'arrives rien à garder pour toi.
- T'es comme le pare-feu de Windows… Tu sers à rien !
- T'es qu'un gros NAS !
- T'es aussi utile qu'un 2 en binaire !
- Ton CV tient dans un tweet !
- Si toutes tes connaissances étaient transcrite dans une base de données elles pourraient tenir sur une carte Sim
- T'es tellement moche que j'ai presque envie de "signaler un abus" sur toutes tes photos Facebook!
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via Benoît Maréchal
