This is the new address of Prague office:
Notification of Potential Data Breach
September 13, 2007 by 1 Comment
Dear … Employee,
We recently became aware of an incident involving information that may affect you. A laptop belonging to an … director was lost during a business trip to Atlanta in late July. The laptop contained personal information on some employees, including you…The laptop was secured by a user name/password combination…
I received the letter above a few days ago from one of my former employers. It made me wonder what other sensitive data were on a laptop used by director of a large publicly traded company. And could this possibly happen if they used Software as a Service HR application?
SaaS will not make data on notebooks safer, but the chances are that this person would not need to download my personal information to his or her notebook. It is clear to me that incidents like this one prove that SaaS model is not inherently less secure…
Google Apps for GoodData.com
August 2, 2007 by 2 Comments
Here at Good Data we use the premier edition of Google Apps and we get email, calendar, IM, docs and spreadsheets for $50 / user / year. The quality and availability of this software as a service is very good and after being a subject of a large company’s crappy rigid IT infrastructure this is a very refreshing experience.
The problem starts when I use Google applications that are NOT provided as part of Google Apps – such as Blogger, Reader, iGoogle or private Gmail. Since Google tries to “personalize my Google experience” it will sign me off automatically from my Good Data account and sign me into my private account with everything that comes with it: private email, files and calendar. Going back to business calendar requires signing back into the business account. Checking blogs will take me back to the private account. And so on and so on…
At one point I got so tired from this “virtual hide and seek” that I decided to use two different browsers – Safari and Firefox – to keep my two work contexts completely isolated. At the same time I hope that Google will work on the account management – it’s the only part of Google Apps that I am not happy with.
WOW: It is Facebook and not Vista that makes me speechless
June 29, 2007 by Leave a Comment
I joined Facebook a few days ago and I am currently “searching for words“. Here are some of the reasons why:
– Networks: HP network has close to 9000 members. Facebook maybe already more useful and user friendly than the internal HP employee portal.
– Platform: There are 1,200 applications in the Application directory.
– Content: Facebook has “community first, content second” approach but it will very likely become a serious competitor to YouTube soon (there is 8.5 million photos uploaded daily…)
There are other reasons why I like Facebook and I am sure I will write more about my experience with this social networking site.
PS. Here is link to may Facebook profile:
Skype needs you
May 16, 2007 by 2 Comments
Let me be more precise: Skype needs you in Prague and only if you are a great software developer… The company plans to hire about 20 percent of the product-engineering workforce in Prague and I’ve learned about it from a huge Skype job advertisement that is posted next to the HP’s sales office.
I am really happy to see companies to open their development centers in Prague. On one hand it creates more competition for the talent but on the other hand it produces more and more experienced people with global skills. So while Skype needs us we need even more companies like Skype…
