very interesting point.. who knew the secret to weight loss might be a fitness drug ;)

I thought we were too. /tear

I think that's a great term. I opened up Wikipedia to start an article on it, and meant to quote you, however it seems one needs an account to create articles these days :P. You should put it in Wikipedia; you probably stumbled on something big. There's a huge money in software that could ruin a Senator's career. Just think... Frameware, a term first coined by Monoman in 2009, .... go write the article =D

Very interesting!

Be cognizant of the fact that while the executives can translate actionable data into... action... they are often unable to figure out the information the data is conveying. Remember your audience. Instead of a latency chart, you might explain that 99% of customers (devices, etc) wait no longer than 10 seconds. Other great points above are: ask the executives, and agree on a mission statement. Is your job just to keep the computers running, or to lower capital costs? Do you take ownership of investigating possible hardware upgrades and new technologies?

Slashdot is pathetic sometimes. I scrolled through a few hundred posts, and not one of them read something like, "That Turing guy, he was a cool dude. Sucks he got owned."

I remember hearing that Firefox 3.5 takes ages to load, because it reads a whole chunk of your HD. I didn't upgrade. Does 3.6 do that?

I'd like some evidence that cloud computing is a fad. Tens of thousands of companies, in dozens of industries, do not list "computing hardware, availability, and capacity management" as a core competency, making them prime cloud customers.

I worked in the games industry, at a company that transitioned from desktop to console games. I believe wholeheartedly that graphics get so much love because, relative to other features, they have extremely high financial ROI.

I'm a video noob, and I don't understand what we're debating here. What's the question?

Should my browser be able to embed video without enabling javascript or relying on flash/etc? Probably.

Get your existing customers to bring in new ones by focusing on your Net Promoter Score. This is the % of customers that, when asked "would you refer this to a friend or colleague?", rate you 9 or 10, minus the % that rate you 6 or less. There's a lot of data showing that this metric correlates with growth.

Work on your Search Engine Optimization, i.e. appearing on the first page/first few hits, and buy key adwords.

Lastly, if you believe your app would be valuable to enterprise customers, hire an offshore concierge at $3/hour to do research on potential buyers. They work damn hard for their $3/hr.

But most of all, focus on your Net Promoter Score. You're literally investing in viral marketing probability. Traditionally marketing cannot fight the exponential growth of referrals.

Clearly you've never held a Kindle.

I know I know! Three cheers for public education!!

I was trying to think of an analogy for dns-based censorship that would resonate with politicians. Got it =D

It's like paying millions of dollars to keep prostitutes out of the phone book.

This thread contains lots of great perspectives on Ahmandinejad, election fraud, and the Iranian presidency. Unfortunately most of the world is missing the point.

I'd like to point that Ali Khamenei has been the supreme leader (dictator) of Iran for 20 years. During an EconTalk podcast on August 11 2008, expert Bruce Bueno de Mesquita comments that after interviewing over a dozen Iranian political specialists, his research concludes that Ahmandinejad is the 18th most powerful person in Iran.

The Iranian president is an important and powerful person in absolute terms. In relative terms it's a public relations office. So yes, election fraud was committed. Yes, their disinterest in concealing the fraud conveys the extent to which they believe it makes a difference.

However, everyone just take a deep breath, and understand that the electoral system and eligibility of candidates is up to the complete discretion of Ali Khamenei.