Friday, May 31, 2002

2:14:09 PM   John Udell on Personal RSS aggregators [BYTE.com]

1:30:55 PM   Marketing 101: How to Handle a Difficult Sales Call -- Perfectly!. Marketing 101: How to Handle a Difficult Sales Call -- Perfectly! Like a lot people out there today, I download and install a lot of software.  I think that sometimes a week doesn't go by when I don't download something new.  And, yes, the vendors do ask for phone numbers sometime.  Perhaps surprisingly to you, I don't always lie about.  Any kind of person to person interaction gives a chance to learn something new.  Also, when you work from, with cats, you don't always get the "socialization" that you might want.  Anyway...  Today I got a sales call from someone and they handled it perfectly.  Honest to god -- perfectly.  ==> Read Story <== [The FuzzyBlog!]

1:00:36 PM   TiVo adds subscribers, pares loss. The digital recording company cuts its loss for the first quarter nearly in half, compared with a year ago, as revenue and subscriber numbers grow sharply. [CNET News.com]  //  Go TiVo.  Go PVRs, please, please, please, please no more commercials.  And yes, I am willing to pay for it.

12:59:02 PM   Google takes top prize in its own contest. The search site awards a New York programmer $10,000 in its first programming competition, but the company itself may be the real winner as it retains broad rights to all entries. [CNET News.com]   //   Hmmmmm.....not sure if this is shear genious or more than a little devious.

12:55:39 PM   Making a Difficult Decision: When You Decide to NOT Ship. Making a Difficult Decision: When You Decide to NOT Ship Tomorrow, June 1st, myself and a partner, were supposed to announce a new product for bloggers.  This is the first real product I've released in a couple of years and I just had to make a difficult decision: To Wait.  I'm going to give you some background info (feel free to skip over it, this is a blog, not an advertisement, that's the reason why pricing info is omitted). ==> Read Story <== NOTE: You may see the "What Am I Selling" link on the left of my blog.  Now that I am close to selling stuff, the obligatory disclaimer. [The FuzzyBlog!]

12:31:01 PM   Check out my fancy new digs! [Phil Ackley's Radio Thingumabob]  //  I still haven't found the time to get rid of my basic Radio look.   Need to get on this project.   Each time Phil changes his, I get this behind feeling.

1:06:27 AM   CSPIN meeting next week's topic is "Using Extreme Programming in the Real World"  //  I just love listening to folks try to convince me Extreme is the answer to the problems of the world.  There are some good practices lurking here.  If there was such a thing as the silver bullet,  Extreme is not it.