In the latest issue of Fortune magazine, the cover story takes a look at how Bloomberg LP operates. The company aligns its employees on its business goals through prominent displays of sales metrics placed around the office:
There are close to 9,400 employees at Bloomberg, and all would cheer that analyst’s fidelity to the product. [...]

The numbers 1 to 400,000 cover the 40 panels of The Darfur Wall. Each number represents a person killed in Darfur. By donating $1 or more you can light a number, turning it from dark gray to brilliant white. As we light the wall, we acknowledge the importance of each life lost, [...]

Having spent more time than I would’ve liked with Authorize.net support on the phone over the last week, it’s clear to me that our current account with them will simply not work with our hosted service products.
Should you be looking to buy a gateway + merchant account package from Authorize.net, DO NOT GET [...]

Some news in the studio: our second product, Harvest, has made headlines on Lifehacker… twice. There’s been a lot of people signing up (thanks!), and we’ve gotten some good feedback. Since the launch of Harvest, a couple of guys have commented on how our interface design is a rip off of the 37 [...]

Samsung and GreatCall Inc. just announced a carrier/cellphone combo for the aged and infirm.
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Here’s an idea for a spam filter: spell-check incoming emails, if a message has more than 5 spelling errors, trash it! If my friends can’t spell right, those emails should go to junk anyway.

This is slightly different from Threadless’s photo gallery. Amazon explains the reasons behind this feature,
Sometimes product descriptions and manufacturer supplied images are not enough. Here’s your chance to help millions of fellow customers learn more about how a product looks, behaves and performs. Think of customer uploaded image as reviews in pictures.
Another move by [...]