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Thomas Global Shuts Down, Closing its Virtual Doors

Thomas Global is closing its virtual doors in 2010 according to the latest news to come out of the supplier directory world. According to a source close to Thomas that I traded notes with this earlier this afternoon, ?the site will be up until 2010 t...
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Facebook Connect Is A Huge Success

I’d go with that assessment. Connect has made identity/authentication so much easier for third party app providers and at the same time has struck a serious blow to Google in that these relationships are not transactional and it is a zero sum game. With FB adoption where it is and so much momentum on the [...]

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David Dobrin -- An Analyst Worth His Salt Confirms a Rumor

I've been hearing this week through the grapevine that software companies, including Ariba and Emptoris, had a challenging time closing deals at the end of the second quarter, but I haven't wanted to pull the trigger on saying anything about it. J...
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Is it finally time to listen?

The other week was the Enterprise 2.0 conference, typically highly hyped and loud this year I almost missed it since it seemed a lot more subdued than normal. However, I have to say reading this post by Susan kind of reminds me of the whole “Lightblub going off”.

“Yes, the baby was born in ‘06, started crawling in ‘07, and now is running around like a maniac with boundless energy in ‘09. The Enterprise 2.0 movement is now a healthy child, growi...
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Activate 09: The Guardian’s Catalyst for UK Open Culture

Yesterday I lucky enough to go the inaugural Activate event, organised by the Guardian newspaper. “an exclusive one-day summit providing a unique gathering for leaders working across all sectors to share, debate and create strategies for answering some of the world’s biggest questions.” At the risk of getting carried away Activate felt like a seminal event, perhaps [...]
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SPSM2 -- Next Level Purchasing Unveils a New Certification

Earlier this week, Next Level Purchasing announced their latest certification: the SPSM2. Billed as a follow-on course of study to the SPSM certification, the SPSM2 builds on the curriculum of the previous designation but is not meant as a replacemen...
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Protect the Abusers By Punishing the Rule Following Majority

There’s a lot of this going around this year.

An FDA panel’s recommendation to withdraw Vicodin, Percocet, and other opioid-plus-acetaminophen painkillers seems calculated to “sacrifice the interests of consumers who follow instructions for the sake of consumers who don’t”, says Jacob Sullum.[From “”If you keep track of what you’re taking, none of this is [...]

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Healthcare and the Supply Chain (Part 2): Physician Providers

When the Obama administration projected the budgetary impact of the stimulus package it assumed that unemployment would not go above the 8 per cent mark. Unfortunately, the unemployment numbers that came out recently put unemployment at 9.4 percent w...
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Cloud: Seven Clear Business Models

“It seemed silly for a software company to own a data center but after six months on the job I realized this was really a fundamental shift in the economics of software” What do you say about a guy who...
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Increase profits by working less

What's taking up most of your working day? Add up the time spent on the following: Receiving tasks from superiors Distributing tasks to subordinates Discussing these tasks to get more knowledge and clarify Emailing Phone and Skype calls Searching for...