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CrowdSpring Offers Lots Of Design OptionsOctober 28 2008

Frank Gruber via SOMEWHAT FRANK shared by 1 people

You may notice something looks a little different on SOMEWHAT FRANK these days. I decided after over three years of designing my own logos to have the design community take a shot at it. I had an idea of what I really wanted so I was just looking for a logo to be used with an photograph header taken by Washington, D.C. photographer Dakota Fine. If you are like me, you probably want to see a lot of design options and then pick the design you like the best. This is exactly what Chicago-based startup CrowdSpring offers by creating a crowdsourcing design marketplace. I first reviewed CrowdSpring when they launched back in May and showed off at TECH cocktail Chicago 8.

In this article I want to share my CrowdSpring experience as I launched a new SOMEW

LA Times Cuts 75 Newsroom Jobs; 10 Percent Of News Staff Laid OffOctober 27 2008

David Kaplan via paidContent.org shared by 1 people

Now they're cutting sinew, there's nothing left but bone… The Los Angeles Times is cutting 75 newsroom jobs, or 10 percent of its news staff, Reuters reported. The layoffs follow a comparable number of cuts that the Tribune Company newspaper made on its business side last week, editor Russ Stanton told employees in an e-mail message. He attributed the cuts to the worsening economic conditions and the global financial crisis. This represents the second round of news staff job cuts since July. At that time, the paper said it was shedding 250 jobs, including an unprecedented 150 positions in editorial. The layoffs come the same day that the Audit Bureau of Circulations released some pretty horrible numbers regarding

PDC 2008: Windows 7 (M3) pre-beta features leakOctober 27 2008

pthurrott via SuperSite Blog shared by 2 people

Long has a nice scoop about Windows 7 M3 features being leaked … by Microsoft. You gotta love legal.

BitLocker™ Drive Encryption

What this feature does
BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker) is available on computers running Windows 7 Enterprise Edition and Windows 7 Ultimate Edition. Should your computer be lost or stolen, BitLocker protects your data by helping to prevent offline software attacks. Turning on BitLocker encrypts the hard drive where Windows is installed, including all information that is stored on that drive.

Device Stage

You can turn this feature off by going to Devices and Printers in Control Panel. Right-click your computer icon, and then click Device Installation Settings. Select “No, let me choose what to do” and click to clear the “Display enhanced device icons…” check box.

Driver Protection

Driver Protection helps prevent the operating system from starting drivers that are known to cause stability problems.

Gadgets

Gadgets are programs that run on the d

Social Media bei Daimler (und anderen): Eine Frage der KulturOctober 27 2008

(author unknown) via Nico's shared items in Google Reader shared by 1 people

Für einen Akademiker ist es immer wieder wichtig, sich zu erden - vor allem, wenn er sich mit so praktischen Dingen wie der Unternehmens- oder Onlinekommunikation beschäftigt. Insofern sind Workshops, zu denen ich von Unternehmen als Experte eingeladen bin, auch immer für mich hochspannend und lehrreich. So auch der Social Media-Work

OpenID with email addresses: an implementationOctober 27 2008

(author unknown) via Planet OpenID shared by 1 people

I've been talking to a bunch of folks about using email addresses as identifiers, and it seems that right now there's little agreement on what the correct approach is. Some would like to make a generic mapping from email address to URL, which has the advantage that you can do anything to such an email ad