Our company recently started to use Yammer as an internal communications tool.  For those that aren’t familiar with Yammer, it’s sometimes referred to as….. “it’s like twitter but for work”.  It allows employees to send updates knows as “yams” (kinda like tweets) to everyone else in the company.  Since most of our work is done virtually, an application that fosters communication was greatly needed.  We’ve been using it for the past few weeks and I’m [...]

For the past few years, I’ve been using dual-monitors while working (or browsing).  Once you start using multiple monitors, you’ll never want to go back to using just one….unless you’re forced to (ie laptops). Since I’ve grown pretty accustomed to my dual-lcd setup…I thought to myself…does it really increase productivity? Or am I just imagining that I’m able to get more done? Does it really save me any time…by allowing me to do things like [...]

I recently came across a billboard that was advertising “Sirius XM Satellite Radio Now on iPhone” . It got me thinking….. In my opinion, satellite radio is a dying industry. Why would people want to pay $10 a month to listen to good music when they can just do it through the plethora of internet apps like Pandora / Last.fm / etc.   Those apps are already available for mobile devices (iphone, blackberry, etc). .Don’t get [...]