Business Rules and SDLC
Bhaskar Sharma of HCL wrote me a little while ago and asked about business rules and the software development life cycle (SDLC).
How Not To Give Your Software Away For Free
If you are a startup entrepreneur, at some point, you will need to make a decision regarding your business model. Many software startups have a strategy to build early market traction by giving away their offering for free with some plan to monetize at a later date. I’m not going to make a strong argument against this. So, for purposes of this article, lets assume for a moment that as a software startup, you actually *want* to charge money for your software someday.
SEO – Working for Clients or Yourself?
Early last week Brian Provost of Scoreboard Media Group posted The First Question You Should Ask Your SEO Consultant. That question according to Brian is “If you can rank a site in lucrative markets, why would you do it for clients instead of for yourself?” It’s an interesting question and one deserving discussion.
Duplicate Content – The Need for it
First, what is duplicate content?
Duplicate content is republishing similar or the same information on multiple pages of a website or publishing the same content on multiple domains.
Thoughts on WordPress Official Plugins Directory
When I first read last week that Wordpress had launched an official plugins directory I was excited. There are lots of good plugins out there that are not in any sort of searchable database other than a search engine. However, the Wordpress plugin directory isn’t living up to my excitations yet.
Could This Scandal Change us for the Better?
I wanted to add a non-personal comment about the impassioned scandal rocking our community, the best way I could think of to improve the silence.
This is a real test of the blogosphere. Our culture and openness. We don’t know all the facts, but there is enough to be disgusted. We do know that part of this involves real core and dedicated bloggers. We do know that this involves trolls, there will always be trolls, and we all have them. We do know that some speech is illegal for a reason, and sociopaths run against society, but there are slippery slopes in all directions from the hill we think we have climbed.
Google Playing Catch-up to Yahoo’s Mobile Efforts?
It’s not often you get to suggest that Google is playing “catch-up” to a competitor, so I’m sure the headline above will bring a wry smile to the folks at Yahoo.
Humor aside, it does appear that Google’s blog post, announcing their expansion of features for Google Mobile, is in reaction to Yahoo’s oneSearch initiative.
Web 2.0: Broad Risk Categories
There are two main broad categories of risk with Web 2.0, social engineering and flaws in developer’s code. For people who are working web 2.0, having a risk table and mitigation standards for these two broad categories will help define policy and guidance when something bad happens.
Oddball YouTube Awards Announced Far, Wide
The winners of the first ever YouTube Video Awards have been announced, and ninjas and treadmill-hopping pop stars, among others, ruled the day. Almost as interesting is the amount of attention the awards have gotten in the mainstream media.
MSNBC, ABC, and FOX. Newsday, the Chicago Sun Times, and the New York Times. Even sources in Australia, Britain, and Italy have reported on the outcome. If anyone still had doubts about how well-known Google’s pet project has become, let those lists erase their misgivings.
ESPC Survey On Managing Email
The Email Sender and Provider Coalition have released the results of their survey that examines the email behaviors of consumers. The results revealed that the average American is an experienced email user and that they have specific ways of managing email and spam.
The survey found that over 80 percent of consumers use the "Report Spam" and "Unsubscribe" features to manage the email they receive. Fifty-three percent said they would open and read email if the sending company had a certified icon in the email program.