ArchiveAugust 2010

Web Content Management System (CMS) Smackdown

I wanted to give you advance warning that we’ll be having our annual Web CMS Smackdown at SBTUG on Wednesday 29 September. Yes, September – roughly 6 weeks away. This was one of our most popular events at the Sydney Business & Technology User Group last year. If you’re already sold on the event and don’t need to know anything more, then just pop over and RSVP now on our Facebook Event...

Microsoft – Privacy versus Profits

Good leaders make tough decisions. They may not always be the right decisions, and usually not everyone likes those decisions, but they have to be made. Ed Bott’s post – Good Microsoft versus Bad Microsoft – highlighted this interesting piece from the Wall Street Journal. It’s about how Microsoft decided to kill off some of the planned privacy bits (in particular what was enabled by...

Things I Like

No particular reason for this post except to mention a few things I’m liking at the moment – feel free to move along now… Let’s Golf 2 – I’m not really a golfer, but this iPhone game has me hooked. Glenmorangie – taking a big risk and trying something different from my usual Macallan 12 yo, I’ve gone for a Glenmorangie Sherry Wood Finish. A bit stronger than I’m used to, but not...

All About Microsoft promoting Google Apps

Google certainly knows how to get it’s advertising in the right place. Take this piece on the ‘All About Microsoft’ blog (one of my favourite blogs by the way – Mary-Jo is a bit of personal hero of mine). It’s a post about Microsoft’s recent white paper (PDF) on improved efficiency in their datacenters. It’s a great result btw – 25% improvements in energy efficiency in some of...

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