http://www.up-business.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:17:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was only after he saw that some people were capable of bizarre behavior during interviews did he turn the clips into reality TV for the Web. Lusnia said that she sensed during the phony job interview that something was amiss. The office was barren and the man who posed as ... http://www.up-business.com/index.php/2010/09/04/youtube-video-weirdest-job-interviews-ever/ The service works with a variety of popular blogging tools like TypePad, Blogger, and WordPress. However, LiveJournal, Facebook, and MySpace users are out of luck since these sites don't allow JavaScript from outside sites. You know my stance on bad e-cards, and in the same vein comes my dislike for ... http://www.up-business.com/index.php/2010/08/29/viewdle-makes-those-horrid-in-text-links-useful-wi/ Facebook has hired an American Civil Liberties Union attorney to serve in the new role of director of public policy for the social network, according to The New York Times. Sparapani will join Facebook next month and report to Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly. Meanwhile, Kelly is expected to take a ... http://www.up-business.com/index.php/2010/08/24/aclu-lawyer-to-be-facebook-public-policy-director/ The OZOcar and driver Robert Reichenbach at 5:00 a.m. EDT Tuesday. NEW YORK--Flying out of New York this morning to San Francisco, I took an OZOcar to JFK. OZOcar is ahead of the pack. Earlier this month, the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission approved a regulation (PDF) requiring that ... http://www.up-business.com/index.php/2010/08/24/earth-day-ride-to-jfk/ But I have said, continuously, that Apple could significantly expand its market share by allowing Mac OS X to run legally on other hardware platforms, particularly to leverage and entice the efforts of the Open Source community working on Linux and similar systems. See what he did there? He riffed ... http://www.up-business.com/index.php/2010/08/24/clone-wars/ According to the Financial Times, music label EMI is planning to launch its own music portal to sell songs and videos, and offer some free content as well. My first reaction was similar to that of the anonymous music executive quoted in the FT article: dead on arrival. Listeners ... http://www.up-business.com/index.php/2010/08/24/how-an-emi-portal-could-work/ Next-generation data connectivity aside, the $1,399 M50Vm-A1WM (catchy name, that) looks to be a fairly typical media-oriented mainstream machine. Its WXGA+ display should do just fine for watching movies, and we hope its Altec Lansing speakers will make it easy to enjoy music; the laptop is also HDMI ready ... http://www.up-business.com/index.php/2010/08/24/asus-has-a-wimax-laptop-too/ Temporarily disable your security software. Overzealous firewalls and antivirus programs may inadvertently block Windows Update from downloading and installing necessary OS patches. Right-click the program's icon in your system tray and choose Exit or Disable (you may have to open the program's management console and close it from there). You ... http://www.up-business.com/index.php/2010/08/24/diagnose-problems-with-windows-update/ An unspoken reason for the MPAA event--which included a symposium earlier in the day with remarks from top House Democrats and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke--was the loss of $246 million in tax breaks when the Senate revised the economic stimulus bill earlier this year. An MPAA report released Tuesday appears ... http://www.up-business.com/index.php/2010/08/24/biden-promises-right-person-as-new-us-copyrigh/ We love it when companies just get it. Valve Software and its announcement of SteamCloud is a prime example. As reported by John Walker at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, SteamCloud will let anyone using Valve's Steam PC game download and networking service carry over saved game files, mouse, and keyboard configurations ... http://www.up-business.com/index.php/2010/08/24/valve-announces-best-pc-gaming-idea-of-the-year-s/