Andrew Lock shares his ideas for designing a customer referral system, tips on webinars as a marketing tool plus a simple marketing strategy from Hertz that SMBs can employ.
<b>StreamingMedia:</b> "VP8 is now free, but if the quality is substandard, who cares? Well, it turns out that the quality isn't substandard, so that's not an issue, but neither is it twice the quality of H.264 at half the bandwidth. See for yourself."
<b>Developer.com: </b>"The open source R language has been in use by statisticians to do data analysis, predictive modeling and visualization for over a decade. This week, R is set to undergo a revolution of sorts with a revamped commercial effort."
<b>Opensource.com:</b> "Interest in iPad app development is waning, and the device just got here. Maybe that means it's time to explore more open options. Here are five."
<b>LWN:</b> "Before I do that, I want to smoothly pass on the role of Fedora Project Leader, and make sure the person who next takes this role can be fully successful in it."
<b>Network World:</b> "Linux communities are hostile and Microsoft is a walled garden "stuffed-full of brilliant engineers", according to a former Linux, now Microsoft engineer, Crispin Cowan."
Want to extend your marketing reach more customers than you thought possible for less money than ever before? Author Clara Shih says get into social networking.
<b>Linux.com:</b> "In this article I am going to discuss ways in which you can have your Linux machine interacting with your co-workers' Mac and PC machines to keep you and your company working without a hitch."
OS Roundup: Is Oracle closing the door on OpenSolaris in favor of Linux servers? Recent actions, imply the company is determined to drive potential customers away from the UNIX offerings it acquired from Sun and into the arms of Red Hat and other enterprise Linux vendors.
<b>OS News: </b>"The [street-smart] people at MPEG-LA have made sure that from the moment we use a camera or camcorder to shoot an mpeg2 or h.264 video, we owe them royalties, even if the final video distributed was not encoded using their codecs."
OS Roundup: Is Oracle closing the door on OpenSolaris in favor of Linux servers? Recent actions, imply the company is determined to drive potential customers away from the UNIX offerings it acquired from Sun and into the arms of Red Hat and other enterprise Linux vendors.
The amount of data involved in the average Web-based workload today doubles every year, increasing costs and straining IT resources. The traditional response to this dilemma from IT organizations is to throw more servers at the problem, which furthers server sprawl and increases power and management costs. As a result, the typical x86 server is only running at 10 percent utilization.
<b>Wine-Reviews:</b> "CodeWeavers, Inc., a leading developer of software products that turn Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems, today announced the release of CrossOver 9.0.1 for both Mac and Linux."
What's the best tool for rescuing a broken Windows system? Linux. Eric Geier shows how to rescue your Windows data using Ubuntu Linux, without having to install it to your hard drive.
Social networking is a crucial part of small business marketing, but managing all the different sites and communities can be overwhelming. Laurie McCabe explains how social media management can tame the beast.
<b>Playstation Blog:</b> "This feature enabled users to install an operating system, but due to security concerns, Sony Computer Entertainment will remove the functionality through the 3.21 system software update."