Author: Sharon Sarmiento

  • Metafilter Asks ‘Why is Steve Wozniak So Special?’ And Woz Responds!

    Geeks everywhere are fainting as the meta-meta-world collapses on itself. What’s the appeal of Steve Wozniak? And Woz responds in the thread.

  • 5 More Mozilla Thunderbird Email Tips

    Mark Stosberg write: As an internet professional, I use e-mail constantly. Mutt, a popular e-mail client for command line geeks had been wearing on me. I found Thunderbird 1.5 a capable replacement for my needs, and have since cut the average size of my Inbox in half. Here are five tips I use to get […]

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  • The Principle of Least Astonishment

    From the world of systems design and usability comes the principal of least astonishment – or I’ve also heard it called the principle of least surprise. When two elements of an interface conflict or are ambiguous, the behaviour should be that which will least surprise the human user or programmer at the time the conflict […]

  • CIA Debuts Online Personality Test Pardody

    I think it is healthy that the CIA has a bit of humor in the It’s not all James Bond flavor in their online personality test. I sometimes entertain using my talents in a government capacity but worry that my views on things might be considered a liability.

  • Virtual Assistant Superstar Sharon Sarmiento Gets Media Blitz

    Huge kudos to Sharon for her recent media blitz and a great article from Penelope Trunk: ‘Consider a virtual company to get a flexible work life.’

  • Distributed Computing, Ubiquitous Computing and Cloud Computing

    Read the article in Wired this month about Google’s massive data centers. Muse that we started with mainframes as super processing centers networked to dumb terminals, then microchip manufacturing got cheaper/faster and we had smart terminals connected to a ‘dumb’ network (the internet, ‘dumb’ because it is an open, failure-friendly protocol) and now we are […]

  • Text-Link-Ads Launches Feedvertising for RSS Advertising and Marketing

    Those crazy TLA guys are at it again: Flat rate pricing. Feedvertising is not based on page views or cost-per-click. It’s about “cost-per-influence” and reaching your target audience. Targeted ad buys. With Feedvertising, you get to choose the exact blogs where your ad will appear. You’ll never have to worry about ending up on low […]

  • Using WordPress to Create an Online Store

    I’ve toyed with this a bit too – glad to see a full tutorial: How to turn a normal WordPress installation into a working online shop (without too many tears) Loads of people I know would like to set up shop online, and either don’t have the time or money to have a designer / […]

  • Calculating the ROI of Business Blogging

    Charlene Li and friends need your help: The working idea is to create a framework for measuring the ROI of external blogging efforts for medium- and large-sized companies. Below is an outline of ingredients for the framework.  Please help us by fleshing out sources, providing examples, and adding/editing our ROI factors – feel free to […]