Janet Asteroff
Twitter
- jastro: Haitian Orphans Have Little but One Another - http://nyti.ms/avrhLv - Worth the read for all of us July 6, 2010
- jastro: RT @carterlusher: Intel's Andy Grove on why startups/Silicon Valley are bad at creating US jobs http://bit.ly/b0gQFz - Worth reading July 4, 2010
- jastro: RT @ebertchicago: The tragedy of the Me Generation is that it was born too soon to use Facebook in adolescence. - Very well said! June 16, 2010
- jastro: Joan Rivers: Can She Talk!: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6554284n - Great interview with a Margaret Meade student June 6, 2010
- jastro: Is Obama the new Woodrow Wilson? June 6, 2010
- jastro: RT @ebertchicago: Amusing to Google "best novel by Charles Dickens" and find every one mentioned by someone or another. June 4, 2010
- jastro: RT @sagenet: http://www.healthymagination.com/ Excellent example of aggregating intelligence around ambition. Data driven + timely comme ... June 4, 2010
- jastro: RT @DaveHamilton: "I don't believe in a lot of things, but I believe in duct tape." #Lost May 23, 2010
- jastro: The Whole System Of Email Is Toxic http://bit.ly/9bBM8I -- Check it out -- it's a good read May 12, 2010
- jastro: Hillary Clinton to replace Justice John Paul Stevens? April 23, 2010
Coordinates
Stuff
- AttentionMeter
- Building a Visual Resume
- Cochrane Associates
- Code to Deflect NEOS
- Media History 1900-1909
- Oxford: Great Footage/Pix
- Pawn Stars
- ReadWriteWeb
- Teachers Marketplace
- The Geography of Jobs
- The Stanley Kubrick Archive
- Very nice artistic cubes
- Web 2.0 Tools and Applications
Recent Comments
- ChimeHost on ICANN OKs International Domains
- Polprav on A Critique of Consulting
- Megan Taylor on A Documentary About a Font
Archives
Meta
Banking and IT
From The Economist on Banking and IT – worth the read – accurate and interesting.
Big banks need IT reform almost as badly as regulatory change
WHEN Metro Bank, which claims to be Britain’s first new high-street bank for more than 150 years, opens its first branch on July 29th in inner London, customers will notice the lollipop jars and water bowls for dogs. But what really sets Metro Bank apart is its state-of-the-art IT system. New customers will be able to get their account, chequebook, debit and credit cards within 15 minutes, and all the data for each customer will be kept in one place.
That puts Metro Bank in an enviable position. IT at many other Western banks is often a hotch-potch of homemade systems. Banks were the first to use mainframes in the 1960s; many are still using the original applications because it is risky to swap them out. Over the years more and more systems have been slapped on. Banks were often profitable enough to afford big IT teams, writing programs themselves rather than buying off the shelf.
As a result banks tend to operate lots of different databases producing conflicting….
New Dashboard Capabilities
Check out Netvibes — it gives you the ability to make your own dashboards, collect your own news, etc.
All in one place and always up-to-date, Netvibes is the faster and easier way to enjoy the entire real-time Web. Instantly create as many different dashboards as you’d like to track all of your latest interests, live.
The Economist Articles on Social Networking
Interesting articles. Some good info, but no real original insights.
A world of connections
Online social networks are changing the way people communicate, work and play, and mostly for the better, says Martin Giles
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15351002
THE annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, currently in progress, is famous for making connections among the global great and good. But when the delegates go home again, getting even a few of them together in a room becomes difficult. To allow the leaders to keep talking, the forum’s organisers last year launched a pilot version of a secure online service where members can post mini-biographies and other information, and create links with other users to form collaborative working groups. Dubbed the World Electronic Community, or WELCOM, the forum’s exclusive online network has only about 5,000 members.
18 Awesome Tech Things We Didn’t Have 10 Years Ago
18 Awesome Tech Things We Didn’t Have 10 Years Ago
Gregory Galant | Dec. 31, 2009
- Wikipedia
- Gmail
- YouTube
- AdWords
- Amazon AWS
- RSS (started in ‘99 but didn’t catch on till the ’00s)
- Meetup
- iPod
- Google Maps
- Podcasts
- Mint
- Skype/VOIP
- iPhone
- Google Docs
- Creative CommonsFlickr
http://www.businessinsider.com/18-awesome-things-we-didnt-have-10-years-ago-2009-12
Improbable Plots
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Starring Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers (1942)
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Back From Eternity
Starring Robert Ryan and Anita Ekberg (1957)
A pilot, a hooker, a killer and eight others crash among headhunters, but only five can leave.
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