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Comment: Not Big Brother - just another provocative summary (Score 2) 82

by JonnyCalcutta (#35103236) Attached to: Big Brother Friends Facebook

Before you all jump on the bandwagon, this is about monitoring and being involved in the workflow of company accounts, not controlling what employees say on their personal accounts. I cannot see anything bad about this and in fact when I first saw it yesterday I thought it was a nice business idea.

Effectively it is for companies with local branches (like a franchise) where head office wants some control over the official social media accounts of their sub-branches or franchisees. It means branches can run their own social media marketing, but head office can be involved in the workflow to ensure it fits in with corporate policy and marketing.

I'm sure its open to abuse, but what isn't?

Businesses

EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios, Cuts 200 Jobs 161

Posted by Soulskill
from the say-goodnight-folks dept.
lbalbalba writes "Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work. 'The struggling video game publisher informed employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as part of a recently announced plan to eliminate 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce. Pandemic has about 220 employees, but an EA spokesman said that a core team, estimated by two people close to the studio to be about 25, will be integrated into the publisher's other Los Angeles studio, in Playa Vista.' An ex-developer for Pandemic attributed the studio's struggles to poor decisions from the management."
Software

Selecting a Software Project Management Tool?

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the-one-looking-for-the-right-tool
the-one-looking-for-the-right-tool writes "I am looking for a Software/Project Managemt Tool to manage medium to large software projects. For small projects I use tools like Trac or Jira and I am quite happy with them. But for large ones I require some features more:
  • Chart showing project phases, task dependencies and milestones
  • Cross-project resource management
  • Usecase support (create, edit, delete and overview)
  • Task support (linkable to a Usecase)
  • Ticket System / Bugreport integration
  • Sourcecode browser (CVS, SVN)
How are you guys managing your projects? Do you know some good (they may be commercial) Tools running on Linux platforms?"
The Courts

Electronic Frontier Foundation Sues Uri Geller 240

Posted by CowboyNeal
from the totally-saw-that-coming dept.
reversible physicist writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued spoon-bender Uri Geller for using 'baseless copyright claims' to silence critics who question his paranormal powers. Brian Sapient posted on YouTube a 14-minute excerpt from the 1993 PBS NOVA program 'Secrets of the Psychics,' in which skeptic James Randi says Geller's spoon-bending feats were simple tricks. YouTube took down the video after Geller complained — his lawyers claim that 10 seconds of the video are owned by Geller. A shorter excerpt of the video is still up on YouTube."

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