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Posts Tagged ‘Blogging

Why is hard when anybody can do it

Posted by: Geries Handal on: February 28, 2009

Anybody can setup a blog and be publisher; anybody can upload videos to Youtube and have a TV channel; any body can create music and distribute it to the whole world, but being “that easy” is what makes it hard. Easy to do, equals low barriers of entry, with that comes low barriers of exit. [...]

How does misleading pricing looks like? Look at Userfly.

Posted by: Geries Handal on: February 7, 2009

Userfly is a service that permits site owners, record the sessions of their visitors. All you need to put a script in your website and viola.  Its a pretty cool and useful tool, because you see how your visitors “behave” in the website, as well what works and what doesn’t.
When you sign up they give [...]

"Our software will be open source", so what

Posted by: Geries Handal on: November 2, 2008

Lately I have heard the term “open source” and the word advantage in the same sentence. And my reaction being “aja and…”, which made me realized that people tag a new project as open source, underestimate the efforts of starting, sustaining and growing a open source project. Even more, I wonder if there are naive [...]

Where is the conversation?

Posted by: Geries Handal on: October 19, 2008

Blogging and social media in general, is about the conversation. You post, others read and a few comment. Sometimes readers will discuss (or fight) about the topic. However, most of the time I see the author just speaking his mind and “talking”. Maybe the author is busy or he just is not arose intellectually by [...]


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