Author: Vince Kimball

Digital Web Magazine: An interview with Jeffrey Veen. There are amazing things happening on the Web, and, interestingly enough, most businesses couldn't imagine living without it. We're spending an increasing amount of our time at Adaptive Path trying to understand the value of a quality user experience. [Tomalak's Realm]

Freelance TS. Freelance TS: Grant Barrett has an excellent article here on setting up shop as a solo freelance technical support person. I think many of the arguments also apply to adding technical-service style options to other creative technical work… could be… [JD on MX]

Coursey on software growth. Coursey on software growth: David Coursey at AnchorDesk writes “What Microsoft should do with all that cash”: “My suggestion: Start over. Yes, I think they should build a new operating system, as much from scratch as necessary to solve Windows's… [JD on MX]

“Expert” Speaks on Legal Tech Cost Savings and More. Technology for Less. Ways for law firms to save money and extend their technology budgets. From the ABA eJournal Report. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Social Software – Why go to conferences. Quote: “After I grudgingly acknowledged that I hadn't heard anything particularly unique from the speakers, we started talking about why people go to conferences. Be honest. You seldom go to hear the speakers. You go because of the other people who are going to be there. That doesn't… Continue reading Social Software – Why go to conferences

Productizing legal services. It’s not online yet, but be sure to look out for this month’s Law Practice Management Magazine which has a cover story on productizing legal services by Sally Schmidt. In it, she looks at three firms who’ve gone to some lengths to deliver packaged services (often for a flat fee) that clients… Continue reading Productizing legal services

Dell Researchers Deem MySQL Replication Cluster Easy, Effective for High Volume Applications. A Dell study demonstrates the ease with which high performance Web applications can be built using the popular open source “LAMP” (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) software stack on the PowerEdge server blade system. The article outlines a sample application showing MySQL replication for… Continue reading Dell Researchers Deem MySQL Replication Cluster Easy, Effective for High Volume Applications

Pollster is Quick, Painless, and Fun Too. I've been playing with the polling application included in DRK4, you can see an example of this on the left side of my blog page. Pollster comes with a ColdFusion administrator tool used to define polls (the question, what the answers are, etc.) as well as to report… Continue reading Pollster is Quick, Painless, and Fun Too

I was just at Borders in Redmond and I had an epiphany: there are no business books about the role that secrets play in corporate marketing, management, and corporate strategy. That's very strange, I think. After all, secrets are among the most important tool a marketer (or an evangelist) has to offer. If I was… Continue reading

I was just at Borders in Redmond and I had an epiphany: there are no business books about the role that secrets play in corporate marketing, management, and corporate strategy. That's very strange, I think. After all, secrets are among the most important tool a marketer (or an evangelist) has to offer.

If I was smart, I'd keep this fact a secret. I'll bet that a marketing book with a title of “keeping secrets” would make an author a boatload.

Hey, look at Coca Cola. Anyone know their “secret recipe?”

Secrets are part of marketing lore. In talking to tech industry veterans about their secrets, they often say “we can't talk because we don't wanna pull an osborne

Minsky: Why A.I. Is Brain-Dead. Marvin Minsky, co-founder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, says the field of artificial intelligence has lost its way. An interview with Josh McHugh from Wired magazine. [Wired News]