Monthly Archives: October 2009

Why does Microsoft do this?

Because they can. Many times in the last 20 years I’ve seen independent  software vendors and IT solution providers flounder following an announcement by Microsoft about a new product. It seems that if they (Microsoft) see  a lucrative new area … Continue reading

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The CAN-SPAM legislation is a piece of shit…

That’s a technical term, and CAN-SPAM appears to mean what it says on the tin,’can spam’. It seems that more and more US businesses are realising they can spam everyone as long as they put an opt out on the … Continue reading

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Raindrop – Pulling more data, please no!

I’m obviously biased, I’m an XMPP fan, but I can’t help but think that Mozilla’s Raindrop project, in the context of the real time web, is missing the point. It’s going to be a similar argument that swirled around Twitter in … Continue reading

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Lunch time ramblings…

CRM – We binned SugarCRM last month because it became too time consuming to keep it up to date (it’s not very intuitive and ‘clunky to use, if you want a good CRM go here ) and the contracts support … Continue reading

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Slow posting…

So, looks like I’m tweeting more than blogging now…

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I’m a cheese fan so…

it’s good to see that the UK cheese industry is alive and kicking, article and cheese map (yum!)on the BBC’s web site.

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