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What type of Twitter Personality do you have? The 14 Types of Twitter Personalities

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Cruxlux, Apple Takes Advantage?, Revolutionary Baldness Cure

Male Pattern Baldness

Cruxlux, currently in beta, looks at the current web page you are viewing and scours the web for related material. It then summarizes the material it found and presents it to you. The nice thing about that is that you never had to leave the web page you were working on initially. More About Cruxlux

Is Apple taking advantage of the consumer? There appears to be a tiny chip on the iPhone Shuffle’s headphone control system that has been installed for the purposes of DRM (Digital Rights Management).  iPod Shuffle Uses DRM? boing boing has more on this. boing boing article

Revolutionary Baldness Cure: Male Pattern Baldness Finally Meets its Match. Silly Video

Can Palm Pre Save Sprint Nextel?, Good Managers, Funny Pirate Bay

Palm Pre

March 1st, 2009 Palm Pre Update: Here are a few videos I found informative: video 1 and video 2 and video 3

Here’s a new term I learned today: UX. User Experience (UX)— A term used to describe the overall experience and satisfaction a user has when using a product or system. It most commonly refers to a combination of software and business topics, such as selling over the web, but it applies to any result of interaction design. Ensuring that the user has a pleasant experience while visiting you site is crucial, as it helps secure visitor loyalty. Research indicates that people will feel more comfortable with your company and purchase products or services only after having visited the site several times previously.

If three quarters of what I hear about the Palm Pre are true, I’m going to have to do something I’ve never done before: I’ll sleep on the sidewalk outside the Sprint store overnight to get my eager hands on one of these  sweet babies. My only fear is that Sprint will have Palm disable some features (Wi Fi, tethering) so they can squeeze a few more bucks offer the consumer a better user experience.

Sprint Nextel Corp., the third largest wireless mobile service provider in the U.S., posted a fourth quarter loss of  $1.6 billion. During the same period, Sprint Nextel lost  $1.3 million customers. There may be a silver lining to this ominous scenario: The Palm Pre. Continue Reading

Here is a review by Gizmodo of the Palm Pre. Oh boy, I’m starting to drool. I’m not an early technology adopter, but I might change my ways for this phone! Note to Apple: don’t you dare interfere with this phone. That goes for you as well, T-Mobile and Google. No threats and no lawsuits. Thanks.

Sometimes I’ll see a situation between a manager and a subordinate where the subordinate has given up on doing a good job. For whatever reason, the employee is going through the motions, doing exactly as instructed,  and nothing more. When I see a situation like that, I wonder what the manager could have done differently. Continue Story

I like a good laugh as much as the next guy. It is too bad I wasn’t at the Pirate Bay Trial In Stockholm, Sweden when a music industry stooge gave what has to be the funniest, most ridiculous, testimony to date. I would have peed my pants because I laughed so hard! Puhleeeze! Laugh at This