Video Plantronics Helps Make Remote Workers' Lives Easier (Video) 233
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If you're working at home or from a coffee shop or, really, anyplace outside your company's offices, they need to hear you when you talk, and you need to hear them. The same goes for dealing with clients via VOIP or video, the two communications techologies that seem to be driving POTS into obsolescence faster than we thought possible just a few years ago. In this video, Plantronics PR person Karen Auby -- who works remotely most of the time herself -- explains how Plantronics products help make work easier in a world of "unified communications."
WTF? (Score:5, Interesting)
WTF? This isn't even a thinly veiled slashvertisement, it's a full-on ad. I can't wait for the "Watch this 30 second advertisement before Slashdot will load" ads to come.
Sad (Score:5, Interesting)
it's official... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Bloody really?!?! Another one? (Score:3, Interesting)
Can someone recommend the new slashdot (Score:4, Interesting)
The signal:crap ratio is getting a bit high and this just blew it off the charts, are there some recommendations on alternatives sites that are currently what Slashdot (unfortunately) was?
Re:Most news stories originate with a PR source (Score:4, Interesting)
There isn't even a story here, though. If Boeing had a press release for a new airplane and Slashdot posted that, that's kind of interesting, impactful, topically relevant, and it likely wouldn't bother many people. This, however, is substance-free garbage.
FOADIAF (Score:5, Interesting)
Well guys, I guess it's been, what, 15 years, give or take? I can't say I was the first or second slashdot reader, but I might have been the thousandth. A lot has changed in that time, and there are a lot of tech news aggregators with comments these days. Many have advertising-driven business models, a brave few try other models from time to time. But virtually all of them are far less offensive than this crap, in that they have ads at the top of the page which are obviously paid content separate from the editorial function of posting, well, tech news of one sort or another. Each of us has a certain threshold, be it qualitative or quantitative, beyond which we clearly recognise that something has become intolerable. Often it's difficult to articulate that threshold's location until it's been crossed, or at least to imagine each and every possible fashion in which it could be crossed. But here we are, way the fuck on the wrong side of that threshold, and you've lost another reader. I'm not sure how you plan to make up for the inevitable loss of other readers like me; maybe you're not even planning to or thinking that far ahead. Maybe you figure advertisers are so stupid that they'll gladly pay vastly higher sums for these sore thumbs that they think your apparently even more retarded readers won't know are ads. Maybe they're right. Maybe you're right. I hope not, but I'm certainly a lot wiser than I was 15 years ago, and I wouldn't be surprised by anything at this point. So, please, take it to its logical conclusion. More ads. Less pretense of editorial independence. I'd suggest you do what the bottom-feeding Chinese link vendors do and just fill your entire page with paid links, graphics, and videos. Maybe throw in some real American know-how like real-time auctions, and tie it into Facebook so that you already know everything you could ever want to about people who like to be products. After all, many of our country's best and brightest now spend most of their time and energy finding more ways to sell other people as advertising viewers. I'm sure you'll think of something, and I hope for irony's sake that you make a mint. But you'll be doing it without me. Given the choices you're making, I don't think you'll miss me, as I'm no longer part of your target audience.
Re:This will crater out just like Digg (see stats) (Score:-1, Interesting)
This place already cratered out years ago. I remember when Slashdot regularly got 200-500 comments per story. Not sure where some people are getting the idea that Slashdot is still relevant today. It's become so irrelevant that when tech sites reported that Rob Malda left, most of the reaction outside of Slashdot was "Slashdot is still around?"
Re:FOADIAF (Score:4, Interesting)
Concur...
I wonder if Taco had to sign a non-compete clause when he left, and how long it might have left to run...