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Un-connected Generation

Everyone gazes on how fast the internet as spun all around the World but even without getting into the Africa-SouthAmerica-India-NearAsia debate of Billions of people that dont have water acess and even less Internet hi speed fast bandwith connexions ....

how many people in the western world really have an understanding of what the internet is what it can do ?

My point is most of the people in high places, specially in Universitys of Major Business Schools tend to be rather old (that being old age limits depend on where you stand and it time it will change also for you:)),let's use 40 as being the OLD AGE frontiere ...

When the Internet thing EXPLODED into the scene, somewhere between 1999 and 2002 they were already up in their 30's, well into their academical careers and for most of them they had longed stopped (not all but most of them) being curious about the outside world ....

So that leaves us with a present generation of young students that get to be teached by people that dont have have a clue on whats going, and they didnt took the time to think and reflect on it ......

The internet is not all that a new thing or a Bing Bang revolution like the printing press (in europe, the chinese add it ages before us) but its still a different media, a different sales channel .... a different a lot of things and it would be nice if those bright old folks would start paying attention to it

Its a far serious thing to leave it only 2 the youngsters :)

On creating a startup

"Most fundamentally, *the opportunity to be in control of your own destiny*-- you get to succeed or fail on your own, and you don't have some bozo telling you what to do. For a certain kind of personality, this alone is reason enough to do a startup.

*The opportunity to create something new* -- the proverbial blank sheet of paper. You have the ability -- actually, the obligation -- to imagine a product that does not yet exist and bring it into existence, without any of the constraints normally faced by larger companies"

Great Stuff

More on : http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_pmarca_guid_1.html

Video classifieds

" What do you get when you cross online classified ads with web-based video? Realpeoplerealstuff.com is equal parts Craigslist and YouTube—a whole new way for customers to reach out to one another to sell their used appliances, automobiles, collectibles, concert tickets and countless other goods and services. "Realpeoplerealstuff.com combines the hottest internet trends in one, easy-to-use site: e-commerce, snarky writing, funny videos, everyone's desire to be a star and video sharing."

More on : http://www.springwise.com/marketing_advertising/craigslist_meets_youtube_onlin/

Newspapers Should Embrace Online Aggregators

Provocative thinking ...

" The problem that newspapers and other traditional media brands have is that they still see branding as a function of controlling the distribution channel, rather than branding each unit of content that must now live and survive on its own in a disaggregated online media ecosystem.

But the real missed opportunity for newspapers is in optimizing their content to convert user who find their way to newspaper content via search and other aggregators into subscribers and direct users of the brand. The New York Times, having learned from search master About.com, is using this approach with its Times Topics pages, which rank high in Google for generic terms and draw users in to the universe of NYT content.
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Read more : http://publishing2.com/2007/06/18/newspapers-should-embrace-online-aggregators/

The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills

"7. PowerBuilder

Recruiters that have been around since the 1990s, such as David Hayes, president of HireMinds LLC in Cambridge, Mass., remember when PowerBuilder programmers were "hot, hot, hot," as he says. Developed by Powersoft Inc., this client/server development tool in 1994 was bought by Sybase Inc., which was once a strong Oracle competitor.

Today, PowerBuilder developers are at the very bottom of the list of in-demand application development and platform skills, with pay about equal to Cobol programmers, according to Foote. Nevertheless, the product keeps on trucking, with PowerBuilder 11 expected this year, which has the ability to generate .Net code. (see also: "35 Technologies that shaped the industry ")

8. Certified NetWare Engineers

In the early 1990s, it was all the rage to become a Certified NetWare Engineer, especially with Novell Inc. enjoying 90% market share for PC-based servers. Today, however, you don't have to look far to find CNEs retraining themselves with other skills to stay marketable. "It seems like it happened overnight," Hayes says. "Everyone had Novell, and within a two-year period, they'd all switched to NT." Novell says it will continue supporting NetWare 6.5 through at least 2015; however, it has also retired several of its NetWare certifications, including Master CNE and NetWare 5 CNE, and it plans to retire NetWare 6 CNE. "Companies are still paying skill premiums for CNEs, but they're losing value," Foote says.

9. PC network administrators

With the accelerating move to consolidate Windows servers, some see substantially less demand for PC network administrators. "You see the evidence for that in the demise of those programs at the technical and two-year schools and the loss of instructors," says Nate Viall, president of Nate Viall & Associates, an AS/400 (iSeries) recruiting company.

10. OS/2

A rough translation of OS/2 could be "wrong horse." Initially created by Microsoft and IBM and released with great fanfare in 1987, the collaboration soon unraveled, and after repeated rumors of its demise, IBM finally discontinued sales in 2005. OS/2 still has a dedicated community, however, and a company called Serenity Systems International still sells the operating system under the name eComStation. (see also: "IBM, Bankers at Odds Over OS/2 Migration Path ") "

More on : http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9020942

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The last computer : Psion5

A fun and passionated story telling

I for one really loved my Psion

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/psion_special/

New SEM tool

For once its a french one and its just handy to use : http://www.gnoztik.com/

what it does ?

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www.EasyTVA.com

Working in France or with a french company and you need to know her VAT number ?

A cool service, easy to use : www.easyTVA.com

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