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Doing the “creative break” routine after spending hours of debugging a complex interaction between all kind of different servers and wondering why things didn’t work (because nobody had allowed the standard user to actually do anything in the system) - I stumbled upon The Iceberg Secret, Revealed by Joel which talks about why the impression of a product is better than the product itself - at least when you work on it and have to demo it to your clients. ...

Updated with more links I like networking. I like the idea, that everybody is connected to everyone else through not more than six other people. I was a member of sixdegrees.com - but never got much use out of it. Anyway - there’s a new company, LinkedIn, Ltd that offers this kind of networking. It’s aimed at realizing networks of professionals - and it has a number of safeguards against spamming, and unwanted contacts. ...

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Surfing the referres, I happend upon Rant Central where a link to me was. The entry below was link to the Frank Zappa quote of the day. Thanks for making me aware of this. And yes: Frank, we really miss you - and here’s todays quote

I stumbled over the Many-to-many blog when I dug into the background of LinkedIn Network. I’ve since started to read more on the blog and - well - it’s interesting reading. I have been working with Lotus Notes for over 13 years now - and I think Notes defined some of the aspects of “social software”. I know that I spent many hours battling perceptions about “the dangers of open communications” in the early days of Notes. ...

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