Archive for August, 2008

When Holding a Contest, Think About What You Are Contesting

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two guy whom I find valuable to read, Alvin Phang, an up and coming “youngish” blogger from Singapore and Carl Ocab, one of the youngest bloggers of note at al, 14 I think he is now, are hold an “RSS Contest”.
Here’s an excerpt from a comment I just left for Alvin:
… A few months back [...]

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Just Who The Heck Are You, Anyway?

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There was an excellent post by Angel over on Revenews.com (one recommended reading sites, by the way) (I mean, how cool of a domain name is that .. Revenue News?) (I note they have been online longer that we have here at Talar Profit Systems … Kudos … not as easy a feat as you [...]

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If You Build It They Will Come?

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I’m always looking for real world experience someone’s get rich quick pipe dreams. 
One of my favorite online experts is a fellow named Andy Williams (no, not that Andy Williams, this one is a PhD who got tired of the class room and decided to teach by example).  he’s making a living by offering SEO [...]

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Scalable NAS for Digital Media — Plan Now or Crash later

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The biggest hurdle for any network operator or designer is planning for the future.  It wasn’t long ago that network authorities could just say, no video, no audio, no voice, etc. and make it stick … but it is not going to be that way in the future.  Plan now how you will accomodate the [...]

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How Much Are You Willing to Lose?

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I’ve been advocating virtualization and non-hardware consolidation of systems for years now, long before it was a buzzword.  There are many provable operational advantages … which is where the focus currently seems to be.
But at heart I am still a maintenance guy and I now see some real savings in the maintenance/logistics side of the [...]

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