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Archive for August 2005

Links Roundup for 2005-08-31

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-08-31 MindManager Accelerator for Google: New accelerator for Mindmanager that replaces the now-broken Google Smart Map Part with an add-in written in C# Keywords: MindManager/Tools Enhancing meaning with a visual vocabulary: Nick Duffill gives a good example of using visual map markers in MindManager to add a relationship between parent and [...]

Update on Strategy Reading

Over the summer I’ve been spending more time reading than writing, but even then the reading has been going more slowly than I expected! Just finished [bliki]Thinking Strategically[/bliki] and started to wrap my thoughts around [bliki]Strategy Maps[/bliki]. Unlike the previous books in my strategy reading which have focused on the [bliki]Game Theory[/bliki] approach to strategy, this [...]

Where to intervene in a system

Developer.* has published Places To Intervene In a System by the late Donella Meadows, with an afterword by Don Gray applying the thinking to software devleopment. Thought-provoking stuff - Meadows herself cautions that the essay is not a recipe for finding leverage points. Rather it’s an invitation to think more broadly about system change. In summary [...]

Links Roundup for 2005-08-30

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-08-30 iTunes Stats: Alex King has written some scripts to pull iTunes usage data into MySQL and analyse the results Keywords: Databases

Links Roundup for 2005-08-25

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-08-25 How to Save the Web from Splogonoma: An important post from Doc Searls highlighting the problem of advertising-based spam blogs and their interaction with search engines. Keywords: Internet/Content

Links Roundup for 2005-08-17

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-08-17 Asterisk: Open source Linux based pbx that can provide free roaming telephony access to VOIP clients Keywords: VOIP Gizmo: Standards-compliant multi-platform VOIP provider Keywords: VOIP Requiring HTTPS for Certain ASP.NET Pages: How to make some pages in your app require SSL Keywords: ASP.Net

Links Roundup for 2005-08-09

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2005-08-09 Snort: Open Source network intrusion detection software. Keywords: Internet/Tools WinPcap, the Packet Capture and Network Monitoring Library for Windows: WinPcap is the industry-standard Open Source tool for link-layer network access in Windows environments: it allows applications to capture and transmit network packets bypassing the protocol stack, and has additional useful [...]

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