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I just gave a presentation on Hacking Business Models and Open Source Business.
For those interested, here's my slide deck...
Cheers,
John
 

I consider myself a pretty tech savvy kid, you may even call me a mid-term adopter of all things tech. But there is one project that has offended me more over the past few months that has finally pushed me to post a blog against it.

Ksenia asks, how difficult is it to move all our stuff from Media Temple to SliceHost? I want to be able to make changes on site any time myself.

We have a fundamental problem with the structure of public companies in our business economy. For too long, public companies have been held accountable to one single standard: its stock price.

So one of my biggest issues with using Open Source technologies here at Freelock comes with perhaps the easiest task most business people do on a day to day basis, and that is using a piece of office productivity software and sharing it with someone else.

We get a lot of questions about how to fight spam. For the most part, it's too late when it reaches your email program--but on the mail server, there are several tactics we employ to minimize what reaches your inbox.

On my drive to work, I see businesses up for sale, big stores closing left and right, and people looking for work on the corners.

Dan Knauss of New Local Media wrote up a nice comparison between Word Press, Joomla, and Drupal last summer, which I came across last weekend.

No, it's not a misspelling. Symfony is a framework for rapid development of PHP web applications.

Jim asks: