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Think your workforce is buttoned-down when it comes to network security? After all, your employees probably have signed an “end-user computing agreement.” Upon threat of job loss, they’d never open a .exe file from an unknown source, or insert a CD or plug in an external drive to a networked company computer, right? Wrong! Find out what happened during a network security test when employees were tempted with cheap flash drives.
Lunch hour? Bah hamburger! Two studies show that more American workers are squeezing more work into their day and shortening up their lunch “hour.” So why do we work 270 more hours per year than the French? Read on…
AOL launched its MySpace killer last week and after using it for just a short time — mostly because there wasn’t much of anything you can do at this point — I have to say I’m less than impressed. AIM Pages more resembles something from 1996 than 2006, even the AJAX edit mode does little to make this a beta worth playing with at this point. AOL has a nice advantage in the fact they have a huge userbase for its messenger, get all those people to create an AIM Page and MySpace will look like the worst $500 million ever spent.
When I first ran across ShinyLetter I didn’t quite know what to think. ShinyLetter lets you compose a letter online and for two dollars they will print and send your letter through the good old postal system. But how hard is it to sit down, pull out some paper and a pen, write your letter and mail it yourself? Once I thought about it, I figured that unless you have stamps and envelopes on hand, it could be more work than a lot of people care to put into it. Even with that in mind, this site is taking niche marketing to new heights targeting the incredibly lazy and people who don’t own printers but have mail to send.
This is disturbing. Researchers from the Harvard School for Public Health and Children’s Hospital Boston have determined that kids eat an equivalent of a bag of potato chips (167 calories) for every hour they watch television. The study concluded that children who watch more television have a significantly increased chance of becoming overweight. If anyone wants validation that advertising works to this age group, the study also revealed, “children were eating significantly larger quantities of the snacks, sweets and fast foods that they had seen advertised most frequently on television.” I became aware of the study yesterday through a post on Boing Boing, but the story has spread quickly. Take your pick: