IT Strategy Trends: Open Source, Cloud, Mobile, Synchronization, Localization

Updated 20-Sep-2023 Note: This was originally published in July, 2009. Looking at this from December, 2018 these all hold fairly well. Internationalization and localization is a small issue, since the world hasn't really gotten that much smaller or more connected, except for the enormous (though largely invisible) efforts of Google with Android and Noto fonts ... Read more

The Art of Pricing – Three Simple Strategies

Updated 20-Sep-2023 There is a long and storied history regarding pricing of goods and services. Wikipedia has a nice overview article with linked sub-articles. Simplicity - The Rule of Three Complexity is managed easiest with simplicity. In this case all the various Pricing "strategies" can be summed under three specific uses of pricing: * Pricing ... Read more

WordPress upgrade, theme refresh, list of plugins

Updated 20-Sep-2023 Just upgraded to WP 2.7.1. There were a few fun moments. The Upgrade It should have gone like this $ svn sw http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.7.1/ . but instead it went like this $ rm -rf *.* $ svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.7.1/ . New Theme Also installed the Grey Matter theme. Did some hackery on a few ... Read more

What is the Meaning of your Brand?

Updated 20-Sep-2023 I highly recommend the book Making Meaning by Diller, Shedroff & Rhea (2006). The material is well researched and built from significant insight and a good deal of hard data. The core question of the book is what meaning is being produced through interaction with a brand. From this perspective, the production of ... Read more