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Web alternatives to desktop software
Joel Falconer at Freelance switch (http://freelanceswitch.com/author/joel-falconer/) reports a Justin Stravarius Web.appstorm list on free web applications to use instead of desktop software (full article at http://freelanceswitch.com/general/50-great-web-alternatives-to-desktop-software-on-web-appstorm).
Really usefull and worth a look.
List includes, among the others:
- Panda Cloud protection as Antivirus (http://cloudprotection.pandasecurity.com/what/index.php)
- Last pass as password manager (http://lastpass.com/)
- Google docs as office replacement (http://docs.google.com/) and Google Apps as exchange (http://google.com/a)
- Splashup as Photoshop replacement (http://splashup.com/)
- …
Amount of work
Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
James J. Ling
Problems and easy solutions
For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong.
(H. L. Mencken)
Anticipating future
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
Being someone
All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner
Perfection
Perfection is achieved only on the point of collapse.
C. N. Parkinson
Communicating in projects
The guys at Project Management knowledge write an article on the importance of communication and how to avoid pitfalls (full article at http://project-management-knowledge.com/avoid-communication-pitfalls-in-project-management).
I agree on the fact that communication is a basic point of PM.
In my experience, I also have to add the “translation” option: as I started to work as a PM on complex programs ranging from business plan to system development, I always found the need to make people speak same (or similar) language. Too much often I found the teams working on strategic design, having lot of difficulties to talk with those implementing the systems and viceversa. I think that communication in Projects is als to enable this kind of discussion.
This post as a comment also at http://project-management-knowledge.com/avoid-communication-pitfalls-in-project-management/comment-page-1/#comment-5985
Virtues of crime
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Seneca
Facebook outages again and again
Many sources and among them Sharon Gaudin at Computer world reports Facebook outage “[...] Facebook was struggling today as its popular social networking site went offline for at least 45 minutes Thursday afternoon. It’s the second day in a row the popular site has had problems.
As of 3:50 p.m. ET [...], the site was back up for some users, but still down for others. A “DNS Failure” message popped up when users tried to access the site. [...]“(full article at http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9187618/Facebook_suffers_second_outage_in_as_many_days?source=rss_news).
Again, I don’t think Facebook is vital or mission critical.
But again, is not possible that a company “owning” datas of about 400 million people is so weak in security and business continuity.
Business is not a game or an hobby for university students as Mr. Zuckerberg was. I think users deserve a little bit of respect and security.
This post as a comment also at http://www.computerworld.com/comments/node/9187618#comment-654956
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