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Jive Software wins "Most Innovative General Business Software" Award!

Posted by rbpasker on August 8, 2007

CompTIA Announces Winners of Inaugural Software Innovation Awards: “The award for Most Innovative General Business Software was presented to Jive Software of Portland, Ore., for Clearspace, an enterprise software product built for teams, companies and communities looking for an easy and productive way to work with each other without time or location limitations.

The Jive team started out building the best enterprise forum and IM system, and last year successfully launched Clearspace, an “Enterprise 2.0″ product that integrates blogs, wikis, file sharing, and IM. Not only has Jive received accolades like the the one below, they have the revenue numbers to back it up!

Way to go JIVE!

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Goodbye Friendster!

Posted by rbpasker on August 7, 2007

Friendster was the first social networking site I joined, back in Aug 2003, and I get about 2 messages per year from it, none from anybody I know or want to know.

With systems that crawl and consolidate social networking data like Rapleaf and Upscoop, I want to keep a good handle on my web identity.

It took me a few minutes to figure out how to delete my account, but a little link at the bottom of this page was all it took. Well, it took 5 tries to figure out the right combination of boxes to check. And I had to reenter my password all 5 times. I hope their signup doesn’t have as much friction!

Goodbye Friendster!

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The Startup Advisor

Posted by rbpasker on August 7, 2007

If you look at my linkedin profile, you’ll notice that I’m listed as “Member of Technical Advisory Board” to a number of different startups. In fact, at least 1/2 of my time over the past few years has been dedicated to helping startups as an advisor, and it has been a tremendously worthwhile experience, both personally and professionally.

Over the next several posts, I’ll cover most of what you’ll need to know about the advisor role, including defining the role, finding advisors, negotiating compensation, and working with advisors. This should be of interest not only to CEOs and founders, but also to those who would themselves become advisors.

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Fastidious and Precise

Posted by rbpasker on August 7, 2007

While reading a computer manual today, I came across the following:

When comparing objects, six different predicates can be useful: smaller, smaller or equal, equal, not equal, greater or equal, and greater. However, defining all of them is fastidious, especially since four out of these six can be expressed using the remaining two.

I have never seen fastidious used in the way, and I don’t think it’s right.

Answers.com defines fastidious as:

fas·tid·i·ous (fă-stĭd’ē-əs, fə-) adj.
1. Possessing or displaying careful, meticulous attention to detail.
2. Difficult to please; exacting.
3. Excessively scrupulous or sensitive, especially in matters of taste or propriety. See synonyms at meticulous.

A person can be fastidious, but I don’t think it can be used as an adjective for defining.

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