Get Satisfaction is a customer community software platform for Technical Support (User Support) based in San Francisco, California, United States.[3] It was founded on January 31, 2007, by several people, including Lane Becker,[4] Amy Muller, Thor Muller,[3] and Jonathan Grubb. It publicly launched in September 2007.[5] In April 2015, Get Satisfaction was acquired by Sprinkl R, a Social Media management company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Satisfaction (more)

protected by trade barriers (quotas) and subsidies (more)

variation, variegation (more)

All the sudden this afternoon my Nexus Six lost CellCo use, both voice and data. Rebooting multiple times didn't help. WiFi still works fine. (more)

Catch-all term for Data Store-s that are not Relational Data Base-s. (more)

Amazon Web Services supporting MySQL hosting. (more)

part of Jerry Weinberg cabal (more)

process of humans reviewing code with person who wrote it, to reinforce cultural norms of coding style, organization, documentation, logic....

Graphical User Interface. (more)

XML recently "turned five". Some links: (more)

PhoneGap is a development tool that allows web developers to take advantage of the core features in the IPhone, Android, and Blackberry SDK using JavaScript. Mobile Web goodness! (more)

Michael Wolff on Jay Chiat (and Frank Gehry, and Steve Jobs, and Kevin Costner, etc.). I said I had a theory that the whole PC-Internet-Napster overthrow-the-media ethos is a Jay thing, that even his offices were part of this. That Jay is the patron saint (one of them, anyway) of the deconstructed age... "He just has to save everybody," Frank said with some grievance... I mean, you expect successful guys to be businesslike in their utterances. If you build museums and office buildings, like Frank, or, like Jay, if you've run one of the largest ad agencies (Chiat Day) in the country, getting paid hundreds of millions of dollars by Nissan to make car ads, for God's sake, what are you if not a business guy? But these two, I realized, haven't been socialized that way. They both talk like this - immoderately and precisely. If they think it, they say it. It's a rebel thing - quaint almost... He watches things go by and then messes with them. "Mr. Cool," Gehry calls him - not necessarily with approval either... In my theory about Jay and the PostModern age, Jay was the first guy to offer a picture of people living in the media world - demonstrating that we're in the media, rather than merely watching it... "Persuasion," Randy adds, "in Jay's hands becomes PostModern art."... Jay, in one longtime colleague's description, is "non-servile" - apparently an unexpected and deeply counterintuitive thing to be in the Advertising business (or in most businesses). I also wonder if non-servility and getting to do what you want, and not producing crap (see The Craft), have something to do with Failure - which Jay has been very good at... "It was great to be out of the agency business - I was euphoric. Not having clients felt like someone had taken an anvil off the base of my neck". (more)

Advertising agency created by Jay Chiat (more)

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Street Vendor Restaurant Industry Gray Market player. (more)

Fearing he wouldn't be able to get her confirmed for a real appointment, Barack Obama gave Elizabeth Warren an interim appointment to lead the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Under a White House plan, Ms. Warren would become an assistant to the president and a special adviser to the Treasury secretary responsible for overseeing creation of the bureau, which was established in the sweeping financial overhaul measure signed in July. (more)

Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) is an American attorney and law professor. She is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School -- where she teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law -- and has devoted much of the past three decades to studying the economics of Middle Class families. In the wake of the 2008-9 financial crisis, she became the chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to investigate the U.S. banking Bail-Out (formally known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program - TARP). In that role, she has provided a critical check on the U.S. Department Of The Treasury and has been a leading advocate for accountability and transparency. (more)

Marketing/Product Development Collaboration: Merging the Two Cultures (more)

Venkatesh Rao asks: In StephenCovey’s famous important/urgent 2×2 diagram, why is the Not Important/Not Urgent quadrant even there (other than for geometric completeness)? If you’ve always got things going on, the other three quadrants always trump the NI/NU quadrant after all, so do things in it ever get done? Do they need to? (Time Management) (more)

Christian Tietze: You Don't Need a Wiki – Being Content with Your Software • Zettelkasten Method. Manfred favors WikiLink note connections because they are so darn fast to create if you know the title of the note you want to link to. That’s a situation I don’t ever find myself in. 2011-10-18-KuehnConnectedtextThePersonalWikiSystem (more)