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The problem with risk management systems

Danny_Lieberman — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:33:00 -0700

The problem with most risk management systems is that they don't manage risk.

They are not that easy to use and they make you work hard.

Let's say you need to comply with customer data protection or customer privacy regulations; PCI DSS 1.1 or GLBH

You have to get a bunch of people in your organization to schedule time, to fill out forms, be interviewed and tell you how much risk is in their part of the business process.[...]

Yahoo: Neva Gonna Givup

AO — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:01:00 -0700

In an open response to Carl Icahn's open letter earlier today, Yahoo's board is predictably resisting Icahn's takeover over bid, reiterating it's claims of self-worth.

From the press release:

Dear Mr. Icahn:

We are in receipt of your letter with regard to your intention to seek control of Yahoo!’s board of directors.

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Top Ten Tech Trends

joshkopelman — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:01:00 -0700

I just returned from participating on the Churchill Club's annual "Top Ten Tech Trends" panel. Quite an amazing event -- they pick five VC's for the panel and each gets to present (and defend) two trends for the coming year. With a panel consisting of Khosla, Jurvetson, Schoendorf, McNamee and Kopelman, I felt a little like I was part of a "Which One Of These Things is Not[...]

CBS to Buy CNET for $1.8B

WSJ — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:24:00 -0700

Dinner has begun for Big Media. CBS is still digesting new media studio EQAL, and it just scooped another huge helping onto its plate: CNET Networks will soon be gobbled up.

CBS Corp. agreed to acquire CNET Networks Inc. for about $1.8 billion, just as the technology-focused online news provider's battle with dissident shareholders was heating up.

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CBS Inks Production Deal with EQAL

Andy Plesser — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:11:00 -0700

This just in: CBS and EQAL, the new producer of online video which has been recently funded and opened its Hollywood office last week, have a production and distribution

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OnHollywood 100 Cocktail Reception

AlwaysOn — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:06:00 -0700

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Cabling together the Social Web -- that's Plaxtastic

Carter_Smith — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:34:00 -0700

Whenever technology advances to the point of usefulness, it's usually because someone found a great fit between two or more previously independent offerings. In techspeak, this has been referred to as a Mashup (adapted from the music industry).

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Collaborative Socialutions . . . Where Does Collaboration Fit In?

Carter_Smith — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:20:00 -0700

The social web seems to attract a lot of definitional redefining, whether by adding numbers after a term like Collaboration 2.0, Business

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The Top 10 Tech Trends

Venture Summit West — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:09:00 -0700

Each year, 5 of Silicon Valley's top luminaries convene at the Churchill Club to make 10 predictions for the near future. Prognostications must be specific and non-obvious. Archives coming soon!

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Plants are People Too?

jenniferlahl — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:33:00 -0700

We live in an age in which humanism is mutating into anti-humanism. Step by step and inch by inch, the broader culture's belief in the unique moral worth and importance of human life is being undermined by advocates for various social causes and ideologies leading to a radical anthropomorphism that views elements of the natural word as having moral attributes that are equivalent to those possessed by people.
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Icahn Launches Yahoo Proxy Fight

WSJ — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:17:00 -0700

UPDATE: It's (almost) official. Carl Icahn has launched a proxy fight to unseat Yahoo's board and will nominate 10 new members today, the WSJ reports.

From WSJ:

5/15: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is launching a proxy contest to unseat Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors, according to a person close to the matter, a move aimed at pressuring the Internet company to reach out to Microsoft Corp.

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Why enterprise security and compliance regulation is taking us in the wrong direction

Danny_Lieberman — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:17:00 -0700

Operational risk management strategies use a 4 step process similar to the Observe,Orient,Decide and Act loop, invented by the late John Boyd.

Information Security uses data collection, threat analysis, security countermeasure planning and implementation and security monitoring. In the areas of fraud and anti-money laundering the steps are Detection, Tracing, Quantification[...]

Socialutions Implementation Strategy

Carter_Smith — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:03:00 -0700

Taking your company from zero to hero on the social web

Many of today’s companies recognize the urgency of converting to a customer-centric, social web-based, operation. The excuses and faulty logic brought on by global prosperity have been replaced by an honest examination of internal operations and external market share.

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Tesla & why startups fail

Chris Maresca — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:31:00 -0700

Well, I posted something on Sunday about Tesla and, lone behold, they are in the news again with more internal turmoil.It seems that Martin Eberhard, the visionary [ousted] founder of Tesla was promised car #2, which has not yet been delivered despite the fact that car #3 has...

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Emergency Response 2.0

WSJ — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:25:00 -0700

Twitter, text messaging, and video blogging helped disseminate information and elicit emergency responses to China's earthquake much faster than the government could, or would.

From WSJ:

Technology Helped News Spread Quickly

BEIJING -- When the earthquake struck, the first instinct of one college student in Sichuan province, some sixty miles away from the epicenter, was to duck for cover in his dormitory room.

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