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Our world today is diluted. The lines have blurred. Everyone has bought into this concept of community – that everyone has something for everyone and we’re one big happy family. Specifically, the concept of the “technology community” which is a term that has come to mean anyone who has a blog, uses social media or Twitter and engages online in some way or another.

Though this has been a trend that is akin to the frog happily boiling in an ever increasing pot of hot water, the reality struck me today as I saw this Wall Street Journal article about how Facebook and Zappos approach hiring. Facebook, of course, is the social networking platform that has become the largest social network on the planet and Zappos, the sexy company that was just acquired by Amazon and has made its name, not on selling shoes – its core business – but in its company culture and parties.

In the WSJ article, the writer begins with the statement, “For fast-growing technology start-ups, there are many approaches to employee hiring and retention.” More after the jump.

Several years ago, a new buzzword entered the fray of internet speak: The Cloud. In the past, I’ve written critically about cloud computing, and my reservations originally outlined remain. However, there is real value in the cloud as well.
Known for applications that are considered “Software as a Service”, or SaaS, The Cloud represents the idea [...]

Sometimes I think I might be the only one who retains commons sense. Really. At least in the area of I.T. Management. Though we had our share of growing pains at b5media, the knowledge gained from working in an enterprise environment at Northrop Grumman was only accentuated by my tenure as the Director of Technology at b5media.

Unfortunately, some common best-use practices in developing infrastructure is often put aside by those with shiny object syndrome surrounding “cloud computing“.

Let me explain.

We like to tell people we are filters. We like to think we are influencers and powerful. We like to think we have an inside angle on what works and what doesn’t work, but we are just small insignificant people in the grand scheme of things, and largely irrelevant.

If you went to Amazon and searched for the term “abortion”, would you be offended by the result – Did You Mean Adoption?
Amazon, when it can’t find results based on a search will attempt to “guess” at what the searcher was looking for. In this case, the result offended the Religious Coalition for Reproductive [...]

My God. What are they doing?
Amazon Prime is set to be the biggest coup to online retailers in…goodness…awhile.
For $79 for the entire year you get unlimited shipping……
And it’s OVERNIGHT shipping, not the “Whenever-we-feel-like-sending-it-out-plus-14-business-days-not-including-holidays” kind of shipping…
Nice.
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Written by Aaron Brazell [...]