Who needs google
call me stupid if you want but I have been using del.icio.us for a while and never bothered to use the search function.
Today I was googling away trying to get a site for handling remote cron jobs, after trying a few different word combos I got my results. Now it dawned on me to try del.icio.us and I did, to my surprise I got pretty good results, no where near as many as google but I felt the quality of them was better.
The reason I think the results were better than what came out of google is simple, the del.icio.us results are picked by humans.
You have to wonder if Yahoo are going to tap into this great resource for adding value to pages within their search results.
Anyone know of a mashup site that will give me, Google, Wikipedia and Delicious in one go?
Lawyers at Skype bring negative PR to Skype
Ahh, the lawyers at Skype screwed the pooch. I am actually on their side in this fight, too. I know that they need to protect the trademarks otherwise they’ll lose them. At Microsoft the lawyers would do stuff like this from time-to-time (my friend Robert Mclaws told me recently that the Microsoft lawyers are again […]
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Good processes include a process for changing or eliminating the process
“Good processes include a process for changing or eliminating the process. Because projects and teams are changing all the time, a process that is useful or necessary one month may not be useful or necessary the next month. The process itself must have a built-in mechanism for deciding when it’s no longer useful or when […]