{"id":547,"date":"2008-12-30T02:36:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T07:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2008\/12\/30\/business-tweets\/"},"modified":"2008-12-30T02:36:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T07:36:59","slug":"business-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2008\/12\/30\/business-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of late I have been more active on Twitter and often I just blast tweets about software development, business, and work life.  Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants on business and design.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Old media is not only old, it is also fat, slow, dumb, and decrepit.<\/li>\n<li>The work week: casual Mondays, martini Tuesdays, hump day Wednesdays, hookie Thursdays, and half-day Fridays.<\/li>\n<li>If there is blogging, micro-blogging, and nano-blogging, then what is giga-blogging?<\/li>\n<li>What about meta-blogging? It seems that a lot blogging is meta-blogging, link blogs and aggregators that rehash, repurpose, and repost.<\/li>\n<li>This so called business analyst is asking developers business question.<\/li>\n<li>Developing the brand usually takes longer than developing the technology<\/li>\n<li>Reading past typos and grammatical errors in technical books, currently reading JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Something or Other<\/li>\n<li>Maintaining a network should be more net benefit and not soo much work.<\/li>\n<li>No joke but I just had to help an MBA send out a fax, the funny part is that he has our CEO help him with the cappuccino machine.<\/li>\n<li>Marketing really exploits and abuses the misconception between free of charge and freedom. Free of charge is not free!<\/li>\n<li>50% off + extra 20% off does not add up to 70% off, it means 60% off. This is Marketing Math, designed to confuse even more than normal math.<\/li>\n<li>Here is some more marketing math, &#8216;buy one and get second item 50% off &#8216;adds to 25% off.<\/li>\n<li>The yogurt container needs to be redesigned, it is not optimal for extracting every last bit of yogurt in it.<\/li>\n<li>Best shipping material: air bag used by Amazon. Worst package material: indestructible clear plastic used on electronics such as USB sticks.<\/li>\n<li>Scotch tape dispensers need to be redesigned, the protruding metallic teeth used to cut the tape can easily scrape your thumb in heavy use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I frequently tweet and update my social status.  If you like to follow m or befriend me, feel free to hit me up on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/techknow\">twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/identi.ca\/xelipe\">identi.ca<\/a>, and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/friendfeed.com\/xelipe\">FriendFeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of late I have been more active on Twitter and often I just blast tweets about software development, business, and work life. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants on business and design. Old media is not only old, it is also fat, slow, dumb, and decrepit. The work week: casual Mondays, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-8P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}