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Jason Fried: Why Work Doesn’t Happen at Work
37signals co-founder Jason Fried recently published REWORK, a collection of essays on topics as diverse as progress, productivity, culture, evolution and hiring in modern business. Last month, Fried spoke at TEDxMidwest in Chicago, exploring some of the themes of REWORK in an intriguing fifteen minute talk:…
Read MoreThe Future Of Work: How Jobs Change in the Next Decade
Gartner research analysts recently convened to discuss the changing nature of work and table some predictions for the coming decade. Their consensus view was that distributed and ad-hoc teams of people, along with blurred organizational boundaries, would become the norm for most modes of work.…
Read MorePeerdrum: Peering Over the Shoulder of Remote Coworkers
As virtual teams and remote workers become more common, employers increasingly feeling the need to employ remote monitoring and management tools. The latest of these is Peerdrum, an app that enables managers to track remote workers by taking a snapshot of their screens every few minutes.…
Read MoreData-as-a-Service: Factual, InfoChimps & Google Squared
Although we've seen online office suites added to the portfolio of web worker productivity tools, database tools have been curiously absent from the mix. Even suites like Google Apps lack a dedicated application for managing and sharing specialized data, leaving users creating crude spreadsheet-based approximations.…
Read MoreCan 0boxer Really Make Achieving Inbox Zero Fun?
0boxer is an extension for Gmail that encourages you to read and archive messages, rewarding you with points and badges for reaching "inbox zero." The service wasn't operational when Simon first took a look at it, but last week I put it through its paces.…
Read MoreCoworking Stories: Carrboro Creative Coworking’s Brian Russell
Continuing our ongoing series of posts looking at coworking, I recently had the chance to chat with Brian Russell, the founder of a coworking space in Carrboro, a small college town in North Carolina. Here's a lightly edited version of our conversation.…
Read MoreCoworking Stories: Pakistan’s suite401
The bustling and vibrant city of Karachi is home to the suite401 coworking community, located in the stylish beachfront neighborhood of Clifton. With passes ranging between 750 and 7500 Pakistani Rupees ($9-90), coworking in Pakistan seems as though it's within the reach of most professionals.…
Read MoreReimagining Coworking for Writers, Women and Green Entrepreneurs
Successful coworking communities have always been diverse at their core; their ability to bring together tech professionals from various disciplines is part of the value of being a member. It's gratifying to see this innovative model of working now permeating beyond the technology sector.…
Read MoreWorking from Home: Both Awesome and Terrible!
I've long been a fan of Matthew Inman's webcomic The Oatmeal and its caustic humor. So when I saw the title of his latest comic -- “Why Working From Home Is Both Awesome And Terrible” -- I knew we had to share it with our readers.…
Read MoreAppMakr: Roll your own iPhone apps
The tech news has been buzzing with the launch of Google's (s goog) App Inventor for it's Android platform. Despite Apple's restrictions on third-party development kits -- codified in clause 3.3.1 of iPhone's developer terms -- there are toolkits available for iPhone app development, too.…
Read MoreYubNub: The Web's "Social Command Line"
The recent release of the Google Command Line Tool may seem targetted at the Python-coding ultra dorky user, but belies the extent to which the command line interface is still an intimate and intrinsic part of everyday computing.…
Read MoreEventware: A Roundup of Software for Event Planning
Services such as Yahoo's Upcoming and Meetup and Facebook's Events have led to an explosion of event invitations in our various inboxes. That first generation of tools is looking a little creaky to today's event planners, so here's a roundup of the current generation of "eventware."…
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