Iphone promotion on Epinions

Epinions wants your Iphone review! The first 10 very helpful (community rated) reviews submitted between now and July 6th can earn $100.

Details can be found here


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Toyota is helping

"There are some interesting statistics from Toyota. All hybrids sold (66 percent of which have been Toyotas in the U.S.) have been estimated to have saved 215 million gallons of gas since 1999. And since 1997, hybrids have saved the world 315 million tons of CO2. These calculations come from a study from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and if they're accurate, that seems pretty impressive. Let's keep on trucking hybrid-ing."

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Ebay Community wins a webby

On behalf of 233 million registered eBay users, CEO and President Meg Whitman will accept the award in recognition of eBay's contributions as a cultural phenomenon and commitment to innovation, growth and social consciousness. Since it's foundation in 1995, eBay has expanded to include some of the strongest brands in the world, including PayPal, Skype and Shopping.com, contributed over $8 million to non-profit organizations, and revolutionized the Internet.

Meg will need to give an acceptence speech, but it can only be 5 words. If you would like to help her go check out The Chatter

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I was a little behind in the times, the webbys were handed out already.

Meg's speech "Bidding starts at 99 cents"

Proud new owner of a PRII

We bought a 2007 Prius last week, right before the tax break was reduced. So far we are averaging close to 47 MPG. SWEEEET

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SD West 2007 - A project manager learns more about Agile

Better late than never. I attended 1 day of the SD West conference a couple of weeks ago. I went to two workshops in the People, Process & Methods Track. I've committed to increasing my knowledge in Agile/Iterative/Short Cycle development techniques and tools. According to Scott Ambler the industry is moving away from "traditional" processes towards more "agile " processes.

Here are the workshops I attended and what I thought of them,

Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD): Gain Without the Pain Scott Ambler
- I liked Scott's presentation skills and group tasks. I liked what he had to say. Some thoughts that I took to heart: "Just barely enough documentation" & "Use white boards more often"


Agile Estimating and Planning Mike Cohn
Mike was also a good speaker and the workshop tasks made me think about the planning process we just went through on some of our projects. I look forward to using his planning poker cards on some of our projects.

Overall I liked the workshops and will seek out more training in these areas.

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The Shopping.com Blog

We launched a blog last week called What's In Store.

"We’re here to share expert online shopping tips, discuss the latest trends, and most importantly, to create a new forum for online shoppers to share practical and useful information with each other. We hope to offer something for everyone, from active online shoppers to holiday-only gift buyers."

It's main focus is shopping but maybe we'll get a few mentions of some of things we're doing on Shopping.com and Epinions.com

SF Giants going solar - COOL

Googleis doing it and so are the San Francisco Giants.

I think this is great news and I look forward to hearing more news like this in the near future. I think it's very important that all these large buildings/structures start exploring ways to reduce their consumption.

What's even more impressive is that the panels were installed within days of the announcement. Usually these things take months/years to happen.

I wonder if the panels had anything to do with the new HD scoreboard?

Does anyone else have any corporate solar news??




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