http://www.scottsavage.net New school tech / Old school charm Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:46:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amit Mital kicked off TechEd Australia 2008 today with a keynote presentation on Microsoft's view of how software and services will develop in the future, particularly in relation to their new Live Mesh offering. There is a good summary of his presentation on the TechEd New Zealand site, it seems ... http://www.scottsavage.net/2008/09/islands-of-computing-power/ If you host Wordpress on an IIS Server then there is only one choice for URL rewriting, the Binary Fortress Wordpress URL Rewriting tool. I have been using it for about 6 months now, but a shiny new v1.0 was released about a month ago. Time to upgrade I think! URL ... http://www.scottsavage.net/2008/09/wordpress-url-rewriting-in-iis/ SAAS is a cheap delivery model right? Well it depends if you are a technical or a business oriented person. There was a very interesting article on Business Spectator today regarding the costs of deploying SAAS software. One of the most interesting statistics for me was that Salesforce.com (one of ... http://www.scottsavage.net/2008/08/costs-of-deploying-saas/ I was recently invited (for the third year in a row) to be filmed in a promotional testimonial for Microsoft TechEd Australia 2008. It was recently put online on the TechEd testimonials page, but I have uploaded a YouTube version to save everyone downloading Silverlight. Let me know what you ... http://www.scottsavage.net/2008/08/my-teched-testimonial/ I was reading Seth Yate's blog yesterday and noticed a few tweaks. One of them was the sidebar with a whole list of interesting bits of news and posts from other websites. This is a great way to boost your PageRank, seeing as Google loves you linking related content together. ... http://www.scottsavage.net/2008/08/yahoo-pipes-and-seo/ New Digital Media have today announced a partnership between Ebay and CareerOne. Well I use the word 'partnership' loosely, because essentially it is a cross-linking agreement. There is a new sub-domain of CareerOne with an Ebay header, and on the flip side Ebay have added a Jobs tab and CareerOne ... http://www.scottsavage.net/2008/08/ebay-careerone-partnership/ Let me say this from the start, I think Open Source software is the way of the future. Let me also say that I am not a lawyer. On that point I find it incredibly ironic that the urban definition of the IANAL acronym disclaimer directly references the GPL. This ... http://www.scottsavage.net/2008/08/gpl-licencing-headaches/ By now there are so many recruiters on LinkedIn that it is pretty clear it works as a recruitment tool. But what about as a retention tool? The first clue I had about this was that a when a staff member was preparing to leave a company they tend to start ... http://www.scottsavage.net/2008/08/linkedin-as-a-retention-tool/ It is all happening in the world of Australian Online RealEstate tonight! The Realestate.com.au board have announced the immediate departure of their long serving (since 2001) CEO, Simon Baker. This was a huge surprise, although the fact that he sent out about 50 LinkedIn recommendation requests to people (myself included) ... http://www.scottsavage.net/2008/08/realestate-dramas/ Some would say this is the silver lining to a US economic slowdown, a clean out of global mega-companies that prevent local competitors from entering the market. Starbucks seems to be the first to suffer publicly, with an announcement to close 61 of their 84 stores in Australia. The few ... http://www.scottsavage.net/2008/08/globalisation-crunch/