The one class I’m taking this semester is managerial accounting. While I wasn’t so much a fan of financial accounting I found it an invaluable source of knowledge. Managerial accounting is much more my speed, but offers a unique challenge - a level of ambiguity in a realm of much gray and cost accounting methods [...]
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web trend map 2007 - version 2.0
25Nov07Courtesy of Information Architects Japan (wanna learn more)
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what about the consumer
16Nov07An article published by PC World entitled, “Advocates Ask FTC to Investigate Social Networking Ad Plans” attempts to shed light on the increasing need for consumer protection as social networking giants, Facebook and MySpace, move forward with advertising initiatives that may be exploiting their online participants.
Two consumer advocacy groups have asked the FTC to investigate [...]
the buzz: opensocial
03Nov07Is OpenSocial really to be considered open source?
Excerpt from Read/WriteWeb entitled - OpenSocial: Three Big Concerns
OpenSocial is a hugely ambitious project that would tie together Google, MySpace and numerous other social networking platforms in a common environment that application publishers could publish widgets to with one set of code.There are some issues that need to [...]
a great read
29Oct07“Choose Your Own Ethnography: In Search of (Un)Mediated Life”
by danah boyd
The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference
October 13, 2007
THE BLEEDING EDGE
For as far back as I can remember, I was intrigued by edges. It was always a love-hate relationship. A certain amount of healthy fear of heights kept me a safe distance [...]
addendum
28Oct07Microsoft purchased only a small stake in Facebook (1.6%) - so, what’s the big deal?
This is potentially a very big deal as the focal point of this investment is the online marketing/advertising potential of Facebook.
The Wall Street Journal reported that:
The software giant is gambling that the online advertising boom will continue and the popular social [...]
worth a read
19Oct07Lots of juicy bits of information are circulating following the conclusion of the Web 2.0 Summit held this week in San Francisco.
Here are a few that piqued my interest (perhaps they’ll spark yours):
Web 2.0 Summit: U.S. Becoming Less Relevant In Global, Internet Economy
In terms of the Internet — especially in technologies key to Web 2.0 [...]








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