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Archives for November 2006

My Fault

by Jeff Hester · Nov 20, 2006

I’m in Camberley for the next couple of days, and had a very full weekend. Some good friends from Yorkshire came down for the weekend, and Paul and I went to the England-South Africa rugby match at Twickenham. As a result, I’m just now catching up. So while I catch my breath, I thought I’d […]

Filed Under: Business, Humor

Flickr files patent for ‘Interestingness’

by Jeff Hester · Nov 9, 2006

You know I’m a big fan of Flickr. The online photo community has, for me, been fun, useful, amusing, educational and immensely interactive. Flickr helped popularize the whole concept of folksonomy tagging. And their secret formula for calculating ‘interestingness’ has an uncanny knack for surfacing truly amazing photos. What exactly is interestingness? Well, it’s a […]

Filed Under: Business, FUBAR, Web 2.0

From the stratosphere to the blogosphere

by Jeff Hester · Nov 7, 2006

Six-and-a-half hour flights can be long. Fortunately, Lufthansa business class provides some amazing services that make the time fly by. First, there is a standard power outlet, so I can plug my laptop without any sort of adapter. This is important because even with the super-sized battery for my Thinkpad, it still burns through it in about […]

Filed Under: Business, Good things

No Skype for you!

by Jeff Hester · Nov 5, 2006

It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention. When I ask my co-workers back home if they’ve heard of Skype, most respond with something like “What’s Skype?” In the U.S., unless you make frequent calls overseas, you don’t need to worry about VoIP technology like Skype. Long distance phone calls are generally cheap or […]

Filed Under: Business

On the Road (or in the air)

by Jeff Hester · Nov 2, 2006

As hard as it may seem to be, my quest to become the world’s busiest man has been a big success. Tomorrow, it kicks into high gear with a business trip involving speaking on knowledge management, performing usability testing, and visiting some far flung offices, including: Abu Dhabi and Dubai, United Arab Emirates Kuwait Gliwice, […]

Filed Under: Business

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