Category Archives: IT Business

New Years Resolutions or Last Years Mistakes

Posted: 10:53 pm
December 27, 2007
IT Business, Vladville
4 Comments

Pre-emptive DFWVF post, since it’s almost Friday and things are kindda light so I wanted to share something different with you: Those who don’t learn from their mistakes are bound to repeat them. This is the time of the year … Continue reading →

Vlad Big Book of IT Firm Staffing

Posted: 10:10 am
December 26, 2007
IT Business, IT Culture
3 Comments

From the mailbag: “Just because you’re a sociopath doesn’t disqualify people who won’t carry a mobile phone every time they leave their house from working in the IT field.” Dear gmail.com “IT professional”, since blog comment concept seems to be … Continue reading →

Heading Over To The Dark Side

Posted: 11:35 pm
December 23, 2007
Apple, Beta, IT Business, Microsoft, Vladville, Web 2.0
on Heading Over To The Dark Side

I spent most of last week and will likely spend the rest of 2007 on the dark side. Google If you are looking to chat with me and don’t do business with OwnWebNow, you can find me on Google Talk. My … Continue reading →

I will never, ever, ever do that.

Posted: 5:42 pm
December 19, 2007
IT Business
2 Comments

Those lies would make me a great spiritual leader or politician. Mostly because for those roles, the preconceived assumption or fact (depending on who you ask) is that things are now the same way they have always been and always … Continue reading →

We Weed You A Merry Christmas

Posted: 12:00 am
December 18, 2007
IT Business, Vladville
5 Comments

On the drive to work today, things were quickly approaching zero. My laptop battery, Florida temperature and of course Katie’s gasoline bar.  Time to make a quick call: be stuck on the side of I4 for over an hour during … Continue reading →

Twitter, Explained

Posted: 1:40 pm
December 15, 2007
IT Business, IT Culture, Web 2.0
4 Comments

Sometimes it takes me a while to figure out the value in certain things. I’m so inundated with stuff that I almost subscribe to the mantra that everything is crap until it proves otherwise. I remember that, after giving Twitter a … Continue reading →

How can you get people to read your corporate blog?

Posted: 3:05 pm
December 14, 2007
IT Business, IT Culture, SMB, Web 2.0
2 Comments

Got this one in the email today: Hi Vlad, Love your blog! I don’t believe in the community stuff but you always brighten up my day and I would appreciate your advice. I started a blog for my business but … Continue reading →

Communications Server: Please don’t take it personal

Posted: 9:43 am
December 14, 2007
Friends, IT Business
on Communications Server: Please don’t take it personal

Last weekend we rolled out Office Communications server to go along with our existing Exchange 2007 and SharePoint infrastructure. What an awesome, awesome product. Unfortunately, bringing in IM on a wide-scale like this to the entire company calls for some … Continue reading →

Dell Me-too’s a Tablet, Dead on Delivery

Posted: 6:05 pm
December 12, 2007
IT Business
2 Comments

Yesterday Dell me-too’ed tablet, joining the phenomenally unsuccessful line of computer genre soon to be in your basement under the pile of books you never read. Too expensive for consumers, too overpriced for anyone else and too ugly for a … Continue reading →

Load Balancer Fun

Posted: 9:36 am
December 12, 2007
IT Business, Linux, Open Source
1 Comment

I really don’t like talking smack about my competitors both because I know how difficult of a task we all have always being a step behind spammers and I choose to put my energy into building our own products. After … Continue reading →