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More Open Source Blogs

Alex Fletcher, an analyst from Entiva Group is asking why IBM doesn't have more blogs devoted to OSS projects that IBMers participates in. He points to the easily findable blogs from Sun employees who work on NetBeans & GlassFish as examples for what he'd like to see from IBM.

Social Commerce and Fatigue

"As much as people want to connect through the Internet, the practice also can have the opposite effect: Social Networking Fatigue," so says the article Social Sites Becoming Too Much of a Good Thing (via: SteinBlog).

Google And Print Advertising?

In newspaper boardrooms across the United States, the news that Google wants to get into the print advertising business is probably causing a mix of emotions - a combination of those old favourites, fear and greed.

Email Marketing: Make It Personal!

Fruit trees provide a useful email marketing analogy. Like fruit trees, different types of customers need to be cultivated in different ways if they are to bear fruit.