MySQL Enterprise Inroads

MySQL makes some commercial inroads this week:

At the LinuxWorld conference this week in San Francisco, MySQL signed partners Novell and Dell to resell the upstart company’s database and support service, making the product easier to procure. MySQL is also readying a release of its namesake database with features including stored procedures and distributed transactions, […]

20 Ways To Say No

Saying “No!” can be hard. Ramona Creel at OnlineOrganizing.com published a list of 20 different ways you can say no. A couple of favorites:

LET ME HOOK YOU UP WITH SOMEONE WHO CAN DO IT
NOT RIGHT NOW, BUT I CAN DO IT LATER

Read the complete list at onlineorganizing.com

Online Ad Revenue to Double to $18.9 Billion by 2010

Online ad sales to double in the next five years! 
Another sign that e-commerce has come of age appeared yesterday as JupiterResearch predicted online advertising would reach US$18.9 billion by 2010 — almost double last year’s gross of $9.6 billion.
Much of that revenue growth will be stoked by search engine advertising, which garnered 40 percent […]

Wikis For Business

This great article from Information Week gives an overview of the benefits of using Wiki technology to enable collaboration within the enterprise: How To Use Wikis For Business.
But they fail to mention what I consider the best all-around Wiki software — Dokuwiki.
Here is how the author of DokuWiki describes the software:
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The Perfect Pen

I’ve long been a fan of gel pens and felt tip pens. A lot of my writing is annotation and markup, so I need a smooth writing but bold ink that stands out on a page. Since writing is such a big part of my life, I finally decided to search for the perfect pen. […]

Resources for the Freelance Web Designer

Anyone who manages web projects — freelance or otherwise — can find a nice list of resources in this article by Garrett Dimon. A basic list of references from how to execute low budget projects to the best web resources for web designers.

Blinksale vs. BillingOrchard

I’ve used BillingOrchard for some time now to create and manage invoices online. Now there is a competing service called Blinksale offering many of the same features.
Which do you like best? I have to say BlinkSale has the edge in look and feel.
BlinkSale.com’s Service

Bloggers Cautioned About Being Copy Cats

Thomas Smart, co-chair of the intellectual property and patent litigation group at Kaye Scholer explained that the courts ask four questions to determine if someone is making fair use of copyrighted material:

What is the nature or purpose of the use?
What is the nature of the work being copied?
How much of the […]

InformationWeek on Getting Things Done

A nice article on GTD. I like the emphasis on breaking things into small achievable tasks, and focusing on the task at had while putting aside your master list: 

So you make your to-do list, and then you start on the first task. And here’s a very important part–put the to-do list aside. When you work […]

Apple’s Mighty Mouse

Take a look at Apple’s latest invention. 360-degree scrolling. A great boon for graphic artists. Here’s the description:
Meet the mouse that reinvented the wheel. The scroll wheel, that is. At $49, Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And with […]