Cool Wildlife Video

This video is one of the best examples I have ever seen about how team work can get you through the most complicated situations. Check out the herd of buffalos fighting back a small pride of lions. This copyrighted video was filmed at South Africa's Kruger National Park and it's also one of the most popular Youtube videos with more than 20 million views.


Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

You can read more details about this video here.

Cool Solar Powered Charger

Solio Classic Universal Hybrid Charger can be bought here for $99.95. But what is Solio exactly?
As you can read here Solio is an universal portable charger for devices such as mobile phones or mp3 players. Nothing new here! But now comes the best part as Solio has a built-in solar panel that enables you to charge your portable devices on the run and... in the wild!

Check out the CNBC video about it!

100 words about Adhocracy

Adhocracy is a type of organization being an opposite of bureaucracy. The term was popularized by Alvin Toffler (in the 1970s). Robert Waterman defined adhocracy as "any form of organization that cuts across normal bureaucratic lines to capture opportunities, solve problems, and get results.". For Henry Mintzberg, an adhocracy is a complex and dynamic organizational form suited for problem solving and innovation and thrives in a changing environment. Alvin Toffler noted that adhocracies will get more common and are likely to replace bureaucracy under the form of temporary structures, formed to solve a problem and dissolved afterwards, like cross-department teams.

Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Cite&page=Adhocracy&id=148414521.

100 words about Activity-Based Costing

Activity-Based Costing (ABC) is a methodology developed by Robert Kaplan and others (in the 1980s) for allocating costs to a product, service, customer, etc. Activities cause an organization to incur costs. Once the cost of the activities has been identified and each activity's cost has been determined, the cost of the activities is then allocated to the product, service, customer, etc. that required it. This methodology is more logical for allocating overhead than simply allocating costs based on machine hours or direct labor hours. Using ABC generated information to plan and control activities and processes drives organizations towards Activity-Based Management.

Adapted from: http://www.accountingcoach.com/accounting-terms/accounting-dictionary/index.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Cite&page=Activity-based_costing&id=145547335.

Cool Online Project Management Webapps VII

I have writeen some (positive) lines about Basecamp. However I found this website http://www.whybasecampsux.org/ and I think it's fare to share it with you. If you are considering Basecamp as an online project management solution for you or your company perhaps you should visit it because as any other webapp Basecamp has its own issues. You can find there a big list of alternatives to Basecamp. You can also read my posts about some of them.

Cool e-Book Reader

Kindle is Amazon's new wireless reading device. I watched the following video about it and I was impressed about its ease of use. As it works over GSM just like a common mobile phone it can be used almost everywhere! But you will only pay for the content you subscribe, not for the communications! The display also looks sharp and Amazon states that Kindle's battery will last for days which is also good! Kindle is sold out but there will be more available before Christmas! The current selling price is $399 and it is only available at the US. Boring! Sometimes globalization seems to be a slow process when it comes to new product availability... I will not discuss why because this is due to a big list of reasons like carriers, local authorities...

Cool email management app

Xobni - it's inbox backwards - markets itself as "A new look at your email - Effortlessly organize, search, and navigate your Outlook inbox". So Xobni is a downloadable app that integrates with Outlook and has the following list of features/advantages: "Lightning fast email search.", "Email analytics." (interesting!), "Navigate your inbox by people.", "Your personal assistant.", "Phone numbers extracted from emails.", "Quick attachment discovery.", "Hello, threaded conversations."

Xobni is still in beta stage but if you are an Outlook fan you should take a look at it right now. I found Xobni after reading this excellent post about Google, Yahoo and e-mail as THE social environment. Why should I need to send an invitation to connect to someone I regularly send e-mails to? The answers (or connections) are already at my inbox, just waiting for a better use!