The best part about WordCamp isn’t the new technology, it’s the enthusiastic spirit of curiosity and generosity. There were many more female presenters this year and the meetings were playful and informative.

People who program can be biased and even intolerant about programming languages. Here’s a funny list if languages were religions.

Branding is important, but it doesn’t mean sanitizing what makes you special so that you can package yourself like a product. Here are two manifestos: one from a writer, one a company. The red poster on the left is the Lululemon Manifesto from a company in Burnaby (near Vancouver.) While their product is athletic wear, [...]

Don’t fall victim to the misleading Domain Name Expiration Notice that Domain Registry of America mails out. I register and manage my own domain names, and the domain names of many of my clients, at several registrars. Domain Registry of America is not one of them. I received a misleading “Domain Name Expiration Notice” from [...]

Who blocked Flash from iPhone, iPad and Android? It may be the carriers, not Apple or Google. Flash downloads gobble up bandwidth and run up charges.

The NYTimes reported that McAfee, the big security software maker, says that a security flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer was a factor in the Chinese cyberattacks on the Gmail of Chinese activists. An excerpt from the article follows: In a blog post on Thursday afternoon, McAfee said that after examining the malicious software code used [...]

In business school, we learned that entrepreneurs were different from professional managers, and that business creators were often pushed out the door by the stockholders after the business went public. This typically happens about five to seven years after launch, because stockholders demand reliable, professional management, not unpredictable innovation.  Tim Ferriss, author of the misleadingly-titled [...]

Millsap, Degnan & Associates, Inc. is a San Rafael builder with a gorgeous Flash website that shows off their high-end remodels and custom residential construction. They wondered why their neighbor, Artistic Cellars’, search engine rank was so much higher, so they asked owner, Madeline Wallen. They knew that Madeline and Patrick Wallen’s wine cellar business [...]

SRJC’s first WordPress class was Sept. 19. “Blogging for Business” was taught by Anet Dunne.

Wordcamp SF was the most fun I’ve had for $20 in a long time! The video of the presentation by Tim Ferris was the Kickoff Keynote and a highlight of the morning. I used to run conferences for the Univ. of Massachusetts and, man, was I impressed with the physical plant, conference planning, and content [...]