The African Globalist touches on issues brought about by the convergence of technology, open markets and global business strategy. It also chronicles lessons learned on an ongoing projects including a web-based content management system in PHP, ASP.Net development and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Towards the end of last week and these past couple of days, I been busy working with the rest of my team to get a demo up and running. The final demo will highlight the cool visualization features of Visio 2007 with it’s built in data linkage connectivity that now allows one to retrieve and [...]
Posted on March 20th, 2007 by andai
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This is pretty impressive and at the same time very promising. BizReport is reporting that Newspaper web sales increase 31%
Posted on March 19th, 2007 by andai
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In-game adverting is an area I find to be rather interesting from two perspectives. First, I have always wondered why it has taken so long for game developers to incorporate real ads in their games. Second, will the advent of in-game ads result in cheaper game prices?
Let’s think about this for a moment…looking back at [...]
Posted on March 10th, 2007 by andai
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The latest (March 9th to 16th) issue of the Economist has two very interesting articles, both on the same page, that fundamentally deal with the issue every global corporation faces, brand management and growth strategy.
The bigger article deals with Pepsi and Starbucks. Pepsi is dealing with the issue that more people are opting for [...]
Posted on March 7th, 2007 by andai
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I have been looking on the web for articles describing Web Part, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) and Excel Services. I really like this article on the Apress blog that does a great job in of explaining what Excel Services in a simple and clear way and how to publish an Excel 2007 spreadsheet [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2007 by andai
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Poverty
Originally uploaded by DEMOSH.
When I die, let it not be said that I lived a life that was solely to benefit myself and without sympathy for those less fortunate than myself. I hope that one day I can help elevate some poverty and suffering in [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2007 by andai
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The TimesOnline has a very interesting article concerning David Cameron, the new Tory leader feelings about the current state of the EU and his plan to help create a new EU, one that is outward facing, tackling real issues as opposed the current one that is inward facing and mired in bureaucracy and consumed by [...]
Posted on March 4th, 2007 by andai
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