Do you
have your head in the Cloud? Or should you be getting your head in the
Cloud? Like all waves or implementations of new technologies, there are
+s and -s to jumping into the cloud without first knowing how it will affect
your business, operations and goals. I invite you to share your lessons learned
-- either the easy way or the hard way -- so our readers can stand upon
what you have learned and not make the same mistakes. Thank you in
advance. Warren
First Posted by Larry Dignan, August 12th,
2008 on http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9646
Google’s
Gmail outage on Monday was the latest stumble for nascent cloud
computing services, which are becoming the lifeblood for small
businesses and startups. The Gmail outage–along with Amazon’s stumbles
of late–raises a few key questions: Where’s the offline synchronization
capability? Can we depend solely on the Web? Is Microsoft’s software
and services mantra the best path forward?
Those questions don’t have easy answers at the moment. But one thing
is clear: If you’re depending on these Web-based applications you need
a backup plan. To wit:
- Google said in a blog post
that Gmail was down “a couple hours” due to “a temporary outage in our
contacts system that was preventing Gmail from loading properly.”
Obviously, the Gmail outage (Techmeme) impacted Google Apps customers.
- MobileMe is becoming a long-running nightmare for customers and Apple CEO Steve Jobs has admitted that the device synchronization effort has been a disappointment.
- Amazon’s S3 storage service has had its share of problems and outright outages, but the company has improved its transparency when problems occur.
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This post presents Gabrielle Bonne's, Law.com article from April 12, 2006, on what lawyers do (or shouldn't do) to get the most and bests from their expert witnesses.
I just finished presenting two seminars on this topic to ACCA, along with Steve Brower, Esq., a Superior Court Judge, a Federal Court Judge, and an Appellate Court litigator. I'll post my thoughts/notes from this important seminar in a few weeks.
Meanwhile, what do you think of Gabrielle's checklist? Have you ever been asked to break some of your own ethical rules as an expert? What did you do? What happens if the relationship starts off well, but then the attorney begins to practice some of these "Sins" -- What do/did you do then?
"So, I'd really like it if I could say this ..."
If you've just said that to your expert witness, you've just made his blood boil. And that's probably not going to be very good for your case. As engineer Steven Murray, Ph.D., of Exponent Failure Analysis Associates in Menlo Park, Calif., says, "Our job is not to support a lawyer's theory, it's to find out the technical truth."
Working on a case can be like a juggling act -- you've got your client, the other side, the other side's attorney(s), your witnesses, your expert witnesses, the other side's witnesses and experts. That's a lot of balls in the air. But you should never lose sight of your expert witnesses -- they can make or break your case. Commit too many of the Seven Deadly Sins and you can sabotage your chances of getting the best results.
Continue reading "Working With an Expert Witness: The Seven Deadly Sins" »
Because Mark Zuckerberg is barely in his mid-20s, his résumé is a bit thinner than others here. Well, except for his first job as founder and CEO of Facebook, perhaps the most explosively popular social-networking company ever and the most high-profile Web 2.0 start-up. Mr. Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004, while still an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he studied computer science. He brought the company to Silicon Valley before he had a chance to graduate from college, but managed to get a $15 billion valuation for the company anyway.
Continue reading "Sharing Information and Ourselves: Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg" »
April 7, 2008, by Michael Krigsman @ 7:48pm, See http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=681
Anyone
having the misfortune to pass recently through Heathrow’s new Terminal
5 knows the huge project debuted as a case study in full-blown systems
failure. Most reports have focused on stranded customers, a crazed supermodel, and Queen Elizabeth’s grand opening speech, which called the terminal “a 21st Century gateway to Britain.”
Here’s my rundown of the major failures and why this debacle happened.
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