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- ZDNet Author Biography
Russell Shaw passed away in March 2008. He was an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. A specialist in open source architectures and strategies, Microsoft applications, wireless networking, and multimedia content creation, Russell covered these fields regularly for several IT, business and consumer publications, including Investor's...
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- WiseUp! 1.02 (Mobile)
- WiseUp! contains the best collection of 1000+ famous quotes and proverbs for all occasions!You will find the wit and wisdom of men and women from all walks of life and from all ages -- from Benjamin Franklin to Barack Obama, Albert Einstein to Sigmund Freud, Margaret Thatcher to Emily Dickinson....
- Tags: Proverb, Mobile, Wisdom, Michael Quach, Gender And Diversity, Leadership, Human Resources, Management
- Software downloads 2009-10-09
- Sophia Quotes 1.0 (Mobile)
- Sophia provides you the best quotes from 56 authors.The App is divided in three parts: Authors, Subject and Random.FEATURES- A amazing live menu with the New York Public Library in the background.- Select an author just touching his frame.AUTHORSAbraham Lincoln, Aesop, Albert Einstein, Ambrose Bierce, Aristotle, Benjamin Disraeli, Benjamin Franklin,...
- Tags: Mobile, Author, Pamgoo Software, Sophia, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2009-06-17
- Funny is hard
- My ire was raised by the results of an interview I had thought would result in a tribute to my late friend Russell Shaw. Instead Matt Richel made it plain he aimed to claim blogging killed Russell, which was so crazy I began to laugh. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Satire, Humor, Russell Shaw, Intellectual Property, Open Source, Research & Development, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- 2008 Between the Lines
- Welcome to the year in Between the Linesâ€"in about 5 minutes I hope. 2008 was a wild one and January feels like it was 20 years ago. Here’s a brief recap…. January: The year kicks off with the usual Consumer electronics show, which is then upstaged by...
- Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, IT-spending Expectation, Document Management, Social Networking, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Open source in a time of recession
- We face what my late friend Russell Shaw called "a shrinking water hole." Not every company will survive the drought. But open source as a business model will survive, because it's an adaptation that is meant for days like these. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Recession, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- 99.999 per cent of bloggers have a day job...
- Matt Richtel's New York Times article about the heavy stress of making a living as a blogger is not about the blogger life at all. It is about the life of a freelance journalist, which often sits at the bottom a very shallow barrel in terms of journalist compensation. ...
- Tags: Job, Media, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Anatomy of a 'Blogging will kill you' story: Why I didn't make the cut
- Anatomy of a 'Blogging will kill you' story: Why I didn't make the cutThat about.......sums it up for me as well Larry. I constantly wonder whether I'm playing a game of Russian Roulette with my life. At least that's the way my wife looks at the insanity of blogging. She's...
- Tags: blogging, anatomy, blogger
- Discussion threads 2008-04-06
- Anatomy of a 'Blogging will kill you' story: Why I didn't make the cut
- I read the New York Times' take on how the stress of blogging and how it can kill you with great interest: I was interviewed for it. But I pretty much knew I wouldn't make the final story as my take was different than Matt Richtel's. Now...
- Tags: Matt Richtel, Blogging, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Open source and the shrinking waterhole
- Despite a lot of brave talk at OSBC there is little doubt that open source is heading into its first recession. (If you want to explain a recession to your four-year old, here's one way.) During the last bust, what I call the dot-bomb,...
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- My friend Russell Shaw
- My friend Russell ShawThanks for sharingThanks for sharing, and again, my deepest condolences to his friends and family.Thanks Dana so much for your rememberancesRest in peace Russell Shaw.Watch out for the dead coming back to life!Russell's probably talking their ears off in heaven right now. They might come back just...
- Tags: Russell, Shaw
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- My friend Russell Shaw
- I need to say a few words about my late friend Russell Shaw. I knew him better than anyone at ZDNet, perhaps, because I knew him longer. Over 22 years. When I first met Russell, he was still coming down off rock and roll. Few from...
- Tags: Life, Portland, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- News to know: EclipseCon; Tired browser wars; Apple; P4P; R.I.P. Russell Shaw
- Notable headlines: Rest in peace Russell Shaw. Techmeme Ed Burnette: EclipseCon 2008: Fake Steve Jobs, Microsoft, E4, and more Jason O'Grady: Getting tired of the browser-go-round David Morgenstern: Fun facts about Mac OS X Leopard's icons Jason Perlow:...
- Tags: EclipseCon, Yahoo! Inc., P2P, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Peer To Peer (P2P), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Russell Shaw, rest in peace
- Russell Shaw, rest in peaceCondolences to his friends and familyHe was a good writer, and his sheer determination to call the big powers to account often made a positive difference in the industry. He'll be missed...RE: Russell Shaw, rest in peaceMr. Shaw shall be missed in this community. May he...
- Tags: Shaw, Russell
- Discussion threads 2008-03-16
- Russell Shaw, rest in peace
- Editor's note: Russell Shaw passed away on March 14. For more information, see Between the Lines. His family requested that we post this notice so people know that all scheduled meetings are canceled. by David Grober
- Tags: David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Rest in peace Russell Shaw; We'll miss you
- Rest in peace Russell Shaw; We'll miss youThis is truly very sadThis is truly very sad. It is a great loss to his family and to our family here at ZDNet blogs. My heart goes out to Russell Shaw's family. We will all miss you Russell.Sincerely,George OuRE:...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Blogging, VOIP, Russell, Shaw
- Discussion threads 2008-03-16
- Rest in peace Russell Shaw; We'll miss you
- Update below: Some mornings stink. I had gone offline for a few hours Saturday to wake up this morning to find that Russell Shaw died. At this point, I'm just stunned. Dan and I were emailed by Russell's girlfriend Ellen, but details are still sketchy see Techmeme....
- Tags: Girlfriend, Detail, Florida, E-mail, Blogging, Telephony, Telecommunications, VOIP, Handhelds, Broadband Internet, Online Communications, Internet, Networking, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Russell Shaw, rest in peace
- Editor’s note: Russell Shaw passed away on March 14. For more information, see Between the Lines. His family requested that we post this notice so people know that all scheduled meetings are canceled. by David Grober
- Tags: Peace, Editor, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Thanks for all the good times Russell, we'll miss you
- I was shocked and saddened when I read on Dan Farber's blog that Russell Shaw passed away on Friday, 14 March. I met Russell at Gnomedex last year after communicating with him virtually over the year previous to that. He was a fellow ZDNet blogger and wrote the IP Telephony...
- Tags: Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-03-15
- Sorry, Gizmodo, VoIP over iPhone isn't going to be "huge"
- Gizmodo's Brian Lam (no, not the C-SPAN guy, that'd be Brian Lamb) notes a snippet from Apple's SDK-coming-out-part press conference in which one Mr. Jobs noted that any third-party iPhone developer cooks up a VoIP program for iPhone, the utility will be allowed to work via...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Gizmodo, Brian, Mobile VoIP, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Over WiFi at DIA, free speech is DOA
- SI model Jessica Gomes, if you must know. Our own Maggie Reardon expands on a Denver Post story that notes the Denver International Airport has chosen to block Wi-Fi access to such sites as boingboing.net, the website of Vanity Fair magazine, and even the web link to...
- Tags: Sports Illustrated, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
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