The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
You’re famous What makes a celebrity special? She was just an ordinary person a month or a year ago, but now, suddenly, your heart goes flitter-flutter when you meet her, or you want an autograph. One way to consider fame is that it increases the options for the person at the same time the number …
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Film Review: “2012: Time for Change” Opening This Weekend in NYC, Playing in LA again this week as well, it’s: A Film that Will Change the World by Sander Hicks If I told you I just saw a great movie named “2012: Time for Change” you may think I’m talking about the 2009 Roland Emmerich …
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A recent Microsoft video suggests the company considers OpenOffice.org a significant threat to its own Office suite. Titled “A Few Perspectives on OpenOffice.org,” the video features a series of horror stories from customers who tried the open-source productivity suite and suffered from excess costs as well as IT resources, performance and compatibility issues. A series …
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How BRIC Innovators Will Defeat You Michael Schrage 11:13 AM Thursday October 14, 2010 For reasons yet unclear, BRIC companies and entrepreneurs now consume roughly half my professional time. The Brazilian, Russian, Indian, and Chinese (BRIC) managers I meet are as sharp, credentialed, energetic, and hungry as their Silicon Valley or Rte. 128 counterparts. Sometimes …
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Time to get off the brandwagon Marketing involves spending money and it’s fraught with the fear of failure (because it often doesn’t work). This mix creates the perfect opportunity to play it safe and to follow the leader. Jumping on the brandwagon, if you must coin a phrase. Here’s the thing: while the second imitator …
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Events this week – NPOCamp and Austin News Hackathon Cross-posted from http://effaustin.org. Two great events coming up this weekend in Austin, sponsored by EFF-Austin. Friday, join us at NPO Camp – a Barcamp for Nonprofits and Techs. We had one of these several months ago, and it was a real blast! The idea here is …
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SEATTLE — Microsoft is starting to incorporate what your friends do on Facebook right into its Bing search engine. A new feature rolling out Wednesday will start showing what Facebook friends “like” on the search results page. On Facebook and sites around the Web, people can click a “like” button to show support or share …
