The Village View

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Being a good Manhattanite, I'm a ZipCar member/customer. Just had to call customer service because I had an outstanding balance (hey, it's call "float" - learned this thanks to my fancy MBA).  Anyway, I just called the customer support.
It appears that Air Force One was buzzing around lower Manhattan and northern NJ this morning as part of a photo op. Problem is, lots of folks in that part of the City hadn't heard about the exercise and got worried.  “People came pouring out of...
Yesterday, I attend the Economist Intelligence Unit event " Global Outlook 2009: What lies ahead for the global economy ." Below are a few notes based on diligent typing by my colleague Jeff Winter. The comments by the speaker were interesting..
Charlie Wood is an Austin, TX-based entrepreneur and fellow Enterprise Irregular blogger. After his sister got laid off, he came up with an interesting experiment to help her out (inspired in part by his going back to school to get a degree in...
Interesting NY Times article on privacy with regards to information/data you may store in the cloud. For me this would currently mean mostly Gmail and Facebook, but loads of folks are using Google Docs.  I generally regard my Gmail differently than my...