Startups today are almost half the size than they were a decade ago. It seems that a lot of the collaborative tools that have emerged over the last year help productivity so you can do more work with less employees. And I don't think its just true for startups, I know at work we're doing a lot of work with just 3 people in the Digital Media department.

Will we see more organizations outsourcing email services? Having run my own personal mail server for a few years, I'd be quite wary of purchasing and operating your own mail servers. Yes, if you own your mail servers, you can make them as secure and redudant as you want if price is no limit. But there's always a budget, and it will always not be enough to provide the uptime, redundancy, and backups that someone like Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft can provide.

If you need help with *nix stuff, and who doesn't, then my friend Mike's site is worth bookmarking and/or adding to your feed aggregator: Tip o'the Day.

If you have a Tivo, iPod, or anything else that lets you view videos or listen to music on a digital player, you've run up against DRM.  You may not be aware of it but its there.  It's what's kept TivoToGo from working on non-windows PC's until last month, when the encryption was finally cracked.  Its also what keeps you from taking the music you buy from the iTunes store and listening to it on anything but an ipod or in in the iTunes program.  Its generally a big pain in the ass for consumers.  But its there to protect the artists and producers from unscrupulous pi

Wether your a hoarder or deleter, your inbox says a lot about you according to a study at the Center for Internet Behavior.  i'm a deleter, but its more because I get a lot of email that's not worth keeping after I read them- messages from my server, mlsnet and dcunited offer.  If its from a friend or family member I don't delete, unless its something about coordinating dinner tonight or meeting up over the weekend.  The conclusions from this study are amusing if anything, and have some fun

From: MercuryNews.com | 09/09/2004 | TiVo, ReplayTV agree to limits. How many people order pay-per-view, especially for movies? The last time I ordered PPV, I can barely remember. I think it was a friendly between the USA and Chile back in 1999...

Salon writes abouts RocoCup Soccer, a robotics competition who's aim is to field a team of robots that can beat the world cup champions. The bar is pretty high and I'm sure that's going to spur progress tremendously. However, I don't think the world's elite players would ever set foot on a field against robots and risk any career threatening injury. Would you go up for a header if there's a big piece of plastic or metal going for it too?