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TrekDesk Makes Working Hard Work
via OhGizmo! by Evan Ackerman on May 06, 2008
By Evan AckermanI prefer to do the majority of my work from a position that’s as horizontal as possible… Maybe that’s why I get winded whenever I have lift my hand from a jumbo bag of Cheetos to my mouth. If I had an ounce of self respect or motivation, I might get a TrekDesk, which is an attachment for any treadmill that turns it into a work surface. You’re supposed to set your treadmill...
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Autodesk Seek, search, select and specify building products from within Autodesk 2009 products.
via BLAUGI Blog of Autodesk User Group International by Mike Perry on May 05, 2008
... Calif., May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Driving the move to integrate rich information directly into building designs, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced the launch of Autodesk Seek, a groundbreaking web service that allows architects, engineers and designers to search, select and specify building products using Autodesk's advanced search technology.Autodesk Seek provides a...
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Autodesk Unveils Autodesk Seek Web Service for AEC Industries
via The Dirt by Pete Kelsey on May 05, 2008
Autodesk’s New Web Services Empowers Architects, Engineers and Designers to Search, Select and Specify Building Products from within their Design Applications SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 7, 2008 — Driving the move to integrate rich information directly into building designs, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced the launch of Autodesk Seek, a groundbreaking web service that allows...
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Autodesk Seek - Goes Live
via CADDManager Blog by CADDManager on May 05, 2008
... information-rich results — including relevant design files in multiple formats from within the customer’s design applications. Design files can be easily dropped directly into the designer’s building model or drawing, reducing the need to recreate individual components in the design. This embedded search functionality is now available in the 2009 U.S. versions of Autodesk’s Re...
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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog May 7, 2008
via Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog by Charles on May 06, 2008
Next Weblog update on 6/4/08.ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 257 (2008): Includes "Are Journal Publishers Trapped in the Dual-Media Transition Zone?," "The Audacity of SCOAP3," "Bound for Disappointment: Faculty and Journals at Research Institutions," and other articles.College and Research Libraries News 69, no. 4 (2008): Includes...
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Work while working out with the TrekDesk
via Boing Boing Gadgets by John Brownlee on May 06, 2008
The exercise-while-desk-jockeying initiative is a valiant idea for a sedentary age, but despite assertions to the contrary by the companies selling gizmos, it's actually harder to concentrate on that spreadsheet when your heart rate has popped your eyeballs out of their sockets and a miasma of your own foul drippings has turned your screen jaundice-color. There is a reason why physicists...
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Mayor Bloomberg’s Anti-Doobie Campaign
via Deceiver.com by Holly Won't on May 06, 2008
Michael Bloomberg, in 2001 (before he was mayor of New York), when asked if he’d ever tried marijuana:“You bet I did. And I enjoyed it.”These days, Mayor Bloomberg better watch his back before smoking spliffs on his Upper East Side terrace. He now oversees what the New York Civil Liberties Union describes as a “marijuana arrest crusade,” as the NYPD locks up more than 35,000 people...
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Why You Should Kick the “Versus” Habit
via Stepcase Lifehack by Adrian on May 06, 2008
A world painted only in black and white is a hard place to live or workIn our time-starved, action-obsessed approach to work and life, we easily drop into the habit of seeing every choice or decision in terms of simple opposites: good versus bad, right versus wrong, success versus failure, winners versus losers. Every choice must be one or the other, with no options in between. Macho management...
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Programmer Productivity: The "Tenfinity" Factor
via programming: what's new online by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
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Announcing Ribbit for Salesforce
via Ribbit Blog by Greg Goldfarb on May 05, 2008
... breakthroughs to many Salesforce customers.”—Clarence So, Chief Marketing Officer, salesforce.comSalespeople love it, too. We tested Ribbit for Salesforce with 70 power users, and received glowing feedback from salespeople, Admins, and team leaders as they reported gaining hours of work time each week simply by talking, rather than typing, to keep their Salesforce accounts up to date.R...
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