Blogging seems to have all grown up, gotten serious, and become a business tool if BRW is this week (27/05/2005) reporting on business blogging and its effect on modern marketing. Apparently it is the saviour of marketing (according to a marketing person), which will only be the case when marketing understands how it works and …
If ever there is a topic you need to know about, the web’s free encyclopaedia will likely have the answer for you: en.wikipedia.com If you read up on how Wikipedia works, it seems anarchistic, it seems strange, and it seems somehow machiavellian in the extreme, but there is no doubt that it works. With all …
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At the presentation on Tuesday night (on the commercial issues of Open Source software) I was asked if it was possible to manipulate the Sourceforge rankings. Unfortunately the website was mostly down at the time, so it wasn’t possible to answer immediately. However, I have taken a quick look tonight and note that the Sourceforge.net …
So far this year I have been to see several clients to review their approach to information systems. Almost all have struggled with the in-house development of software – in many cases a lot of effort has been put into developing in-house software, and although it must have sounded like a good idea at the …
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The presentation I gave on Tuesday night (regarding commercial issues with open source) touched somewhat on the legal issues around open source licencing, although not a great deal. I did, after all, only have an hour or so, and a legal issue is not always a commercial issue – until it all ends in tears …