• my bizdriven blog- My Twits: snipr.com/2dl4y
• read in papers chikka instant messenger is in financial problems. just replaced the board and still letting people go. anybody hv details?
• somebody just replied to me in twitter days after I send him a @ message. is there a good way to check what my original message was?
• top 12 twitter tools in a slideshow - tinyurl.com/64je9g
• hellotxt allows you to write one message and post to twitter,jaiku, pownce,facebook, linkedin,myspace etc. but would I want to do that?
• + those who think every generation is getting worse, report says US teens having less sex, drugs, and cigarettes.tinyurl.com/5jjf73
• bobby fischer left about 2 million USD. he was eccentric, impossible, could not manage a biz or hold a job. but well, a champ is a champ.
• Instant Messaging Proves Useful In Reducing Workplace Interruption — don’t believe it, but here’s their story-tinyurl.com/3nb5yp
• check out twitscoop.com - its quite simple but it shows you what are the buzzwords and things people talk about
• Biz update - Inc.com Blogs: The Key to Doing Good in a Bad Economy? Cash Flow tinyurl.com/5guj9l
• Biz update - 50 highest-earning athletes tinyurl.com/5v2ec4
• Biz update - 17 best new cars - J.D. Power tinyurl.com/63cgla
• my bizdriven blog- Instant Messaging reduces Workplace Interruption? snipr.com/2dzkw
• you should hear this Gas prices 2 cents shy of $4 tinyurl.com/6gfzjq
• am in my 1,000th twitter update. did not know I could crank up so
  much thoughts…
• +china consumes over half of the worlds iron ore and probably over 40 pct of the worlds steel

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Even the best marriages, or partnerships have their own frictions.

Wall Street Journal revealed that in early 2000, near the time when Bill Gates handed the CEO job to Ballmer, there were several very tense moments and quarrels….

Gates-Ballmer clash- WSJ.com

One of the most successful business partnerships in history was coming unraveled. It was early 2000, and Bill Gates had relinquished the chief executive’s job at Microsoft Corp. to Steve Ballmer — for the first time taking a back seat to his college pal and right-hand man of 20 years.

I let my sales people use instant messaging. But for developers or myself, I believe a long train of thought without a screen popping up and say, ” Hi!” is essential to productivity.

Here’s a study that says otherwise — but i would say the jury is still out, and it is not good to generalize — whether it would or would not would still depend on individual preferences, and their job functions!

Instant Messaging Proves Useful In Reducing Workplace Interruption

Employers seeking to decrease interruptions may want to have their workers use instant messaging software, a new study suggests. A recent study by researchers at Ohio State University and University of California, Irvine found that workers who used instant messaging on the job reported less interruption than colleagues who did not.