New contracts to add

New contracts to add to the list:

Standard Form Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar Development Agreement
Applebee's International, Inc.

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Decide First, Spin Later

A great post from Fractals of Change:

We were having a small nuclear crisis in Vermont and Governor Richard Snelling convened a cabinet meeting which included me as Secretary of Transportation. “First,” he said, “we have to decide what the right thing to do is; then we’ll think about the politics. Otherwise we’ll just confuse ourselves.” I’ve never heard another politician say anything like that. (Link)

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Phillips Design: Affordable Web Site Development and Maintenance

I have developed a relationship with Phillips Design, which offers web site development and maintenance and an HTML e-mail service. Earl Phillips and I look forward to assisting each other's clients, and I am happy to encourage clients and readers of this blog to contact Earl.

Phillips Design also offers its popular "Stop 'Em Dead!" service. Earl and his team will scan and clean your system of viruses, spyware, Trojan horses, and other infections, along with installing programs to help your computer stay clean. This service is especially useful in today's electronic world, where new viruses, spyware, and other malware arrive everyday.

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Lance Armstrong

Anyone else out there rivited to OLN's Tour de France coverage and Lance's quest for seven? He is truly amazing and an inspiration.

USA Today has the following editorial: Innovative Armstrong changes the way we compete.

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The contract list, in blog form

See below in table form here.

Agreement for Number Portability Administration Center/Service Management System
Neustar, Inc.
Canadian LNP Consortium Inc.
June 28, 2005

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New contracts added

I just added links to publicly available contracts here. One day, I'd like the list to be as extensive and as organized as FindLaw's list.

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WiFi, Planes and Mount Rainier

Boeing recently conducted a WiFi test flight, with many famous tech bloggers aboard (Chris Pirillo, Eric Rice, Phil Torrone, Robert Scoble). Very cool. Internet access in the air.

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Competitive Intelligence and Classified Ads

Related to yesterday's Abercrombie wannabe post: Viewing your competitor's help wanted ads can be a good source of competitive intelligence. Here's what one firm says about analyzing classified ads:

Help-wanted ads are a source of often-overlooked information, according to Fuld: "They offer great clues about where a company is heading in its pursuit of markets and technologies. CareerPath.com http://www.careerpath.com/ and the Monster Board http://www.monsterboard.com/ are two sites that our analysts use all the time. Companies are between a rock and a hard place here. Most of them desperately need talented people, so they have to advertise their openings aggressively. But the more jobs they post, the more they expose themselves to people like us, who know how to analyze the postings. If you examine the kinds of backgrounds that a company looks for in its systems people, you can get a good sense of its technical infrastructure." Source: Gathering Competitive
Intelligence

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The new Abercrombie, Hollister or Aeropostale?

It appears that a Miami company (who will remain nameless) wants to emulate the style of Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister and Aeropostale. How do I know that? We'll they've got an ad looking for graphic artist who works for A&F. At the bottom of the ad is this:

Must have worked or working for Abercrombie, Hollister or Aeropostale.

What's interesting, is that the same company has ads in the New York and Miami for graphic artists, but does not have the requirement of having worked at those three companies. I wonder if they think Columbus graphic artist can only do the job if they worked for one of those three companies, but that NY and Miami graphic artists are so good that they don't need such experience.

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New sites

New to Mallory & Tsibouris - CyberlawAudit.com and links to contracts found in the SEC's EDGAR database.

For you MS IE users, I apologize about the poor image quality of the logo. I authored the website in Mozilla Editor and they look great there. Any suggestions on how to optimize for IE would be appreciated.

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