WWGD - again, another cool idea...

OK, I know I might be becoming a bit nnoying now... but hey! the book is pretty cool! so, I'm still reading WWGD from Jeff Jarvis (the guys at buzzmachine) - so, I got into the chapter about google money and investing... And I was trying to move it a bit further in my mind...

OK, so think about a group of people with same interests, so for example, the people at GoodPeople they have a great community of people with cool hobbies... so why not getting them into voting for new entreprenuerials ideas, like a great cafe, or some new t-shirt... and then a step more, why they don't "donate" a few $$ (not much, what about 10 U$D?) and the pot will go to the most voted idea... internal or external to the company?

So what do you think?

Russia, Cuba... they love the same than Norway?

I was looking into my reader today, and amazing how interest for a new product can behave... so look into M$ Windows 7... (who just came out today out of the darkness), a guy blog (let's be polite Philip Elmer-DeWitt) about it as well, and found that Norway, Russia, Cuba, and several other countries outside Europe and the Us have bigger interest on Windows 7 than the traditional IT countries.

Now, do you think this is due to the more IT traditional countries are moving into alternative OSes (like in LatinAmerica)? (Please God let it be true!!) or is it just that the US and Europe are being conquered by Apple ;) ?

Basic rule: Always, Always do a backup

Hellooo,
Sad day for the IT industry... or at least for one of the new comers... hey! wait a second, that's not right... MS has being with us for a long time (for our sins, or glory). But, this huge mega company, make mistakes (loads of thems...).
Now they broke one of the basic rules of IT support, "whatever you do, do a backup first!!", or the classic, "you only have what you back up!"... and MS has nothing of their sidekick DB nowadays... or for what it is worth, probably no procedure to do the backup neither

so read, and cry.... Sidekick used to be quite a popular system, I wonder if they will still be alive after this...

Perhaps get a BB or an IPhone (and remember to do your own backups...)

Business as usual for Moody's and S&P - Oct. 9, 2009

Hi, just after my post, I read this article... and I was wondering... Basics like if it giving you too much money is risky, and don't spend more than what you earn come to mine a lot faster than S&P ratings, adn trying to blame someone else... Anyhow, good reading... Click the following to access the sent link: Business as usual for Moody's and S&P - Oct. 9, 2009* *This article can also be accessed if you copy and paste the entire address below into your web browser. http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/09/news/economy/ratings.reform.fortune/index.htm

What about a great job in NSA?

Hi,
Remember when you used to think that becoming a hacker was the coolest idea ever? You have loads of fun, play with technology, play a bit more, become a super spy for the biggest country in the world (tsk tsk... not the US of A), and then if somethign goes bad... well, obviusly you get a great paid job in the NSA finding all your other hacker friends...

Well, the fun is all gone, now they look after hackers the same way they do with any other criminal...but, are they really criminals? Well, they are many types of hackers (yeah, I know, there are several types of criminals as well, but stay with me...). You have the good guys and the bad guys...

so why not still keep the good guys around, and use then to hunt the bad guys? It doesn't seem like a bad idea, you give someone a great job, and their dream job, they can work for you 20 hours a day (because they were doing it already anyway)... and they know what the bad guys are doing...

But well, probably Gary is not the best example, and he will most probably try to catch UFOs instead of the bad guys...

So, now instead of the great paid job, now you can get your name in wikipedia - And you should be happy about that!!!

Anyhow, keep looking at the sky... you migth see a rock or two...