Archive for February, 2007

ASP.NET Ajax Script Reference

Here is something interested (thanks to FileBug)

File Size of an ASP.NET blank/empty page = ~1K
File Size of an ASP.NET page with a reference to ScriptManager = 79KB! (see breakdown below)

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Map of the Market

Market Map - Tuesday 2-27-07
(source)

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The Cluetrain Manifesto

Read the 95 theses here.

The Cluetrain Manifesto is a set of 95 theses organized and put forward as a manifesto, or call to action, for all businesses operating within what is suggested to be a newly-connected marketplace. The ideas put forward within the manifesto aim to examine the impact of the Internet on both markets (consumers) and organisations. In addition, as both consumers and organizations are able to utilize the Internet and Intranets to establish a previously unavailable level of communication both within and between these two groups, the manifesto suggests that the changes that will be required from organizations as they respond to the new marketplace environment.(from Wikipedia)

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Thinking

Traditional thinking – To the extent we can predict the future we can control it
Entrepreneurial thinking – To the extent we can control the future we do not not need to predict it

(don’t remember the source)

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Global trends in work

In the words of Gary Swart (CEO of oDesk), the global trends in the workplace are:

1) Offshoring (think India office)
2) Homesourcing (think stay at home mom)
3) Internet as the enabler – communication, trust, collaboration, monitoring, management.

See complete interview with Scoble here.

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