Don’t belive it huh
Go to http://goo.gl/maps/UISY
Instruction 43: (From Japan to China) is Jet Ski for 782 km
Very funny- and maybe an easter egg
happy diwali, google music
Listen to some nice Bollywood music on Google India
and on that note-
Happy Diwali folks and may you have a prosperous new year.
Thats the world’s most widely read marketing textbook in slideshare format slides. You think you are a marketing guru expert at selling or promoting software- well spend 10 minutes flipping for a fun reading
and a presentation trying to be the worlds best presentation by putting social causes, geeky languages, hot looks in the same slides – Hi It is BO (not Barack Obama)
and if you are like me and suck at presentations , but unlike me would like to get better at presentations
if you are still reading this you probably have too much time on a Friday, so here is one YouTube poetry video I created while in a graphics design course in Vol State- it’s a mashuo of 12 poems, some Prezi, some music by that big proft making Google machine called You Tub
The decision of quality open source makers to offer their software at bargain basement prices even to enterprise customers who are used to pay prices many times more-pricing is the reason open source software is taking a long time to command respect in enterprise software.
I hate to be the messenger who brings the bad news to my open source brethren-
but their worst nightmare is not the actions of their proprietary competitors like Oracle, SAP, SAS, Microsoft ( they hate each other even more than open source )
nor the collective marketing tactics which are textbook like (but referred as Fear Uncertainty Doubt by those outside that golden quartet)- it is their own communities and their own cheap pricing.
It is community action which prevents them from offering their software by ridiculously low bargain basement prices. James Dixon, head geek and founder at Pentaho has a point when he says traditional metrics like revenue need o be adjusted for this impact in his article at http://jamesdixon.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/comparing-open-source-and-proprietary-software-markets/
But James, why offer software to enterprise customers at one tenth the next competitor- one reason is open source companies more often than not compete more with their free community version software than with big proprietary packages.
Communities including academics are used to free- hey how about paying say 1$ for each download.
There are two million R users- if say even 50 % of them paid 1 $ as a lifetime license fee- you could sponsor enough new packages than twenty years of Google Summer of Code does right now.
Secondly, this pricing can easily be adjusted by shifting the licensing to say free for businesses less than 2 people (even for the enhanced corporate software version not just the plain vanilla community software thus further increasing the spread of the plain vanilla versions)- for businesses from 10 to 20 people offer a six month trial rather than one month trial.
– but adjust the pricing to much more realistic levels compared to competing software. Make enterprise software pay a real value.
That’s the only way to earn respect. as well as a few dollars more.
As for SAS, it is time it started ridiculing Python now that it has accepted R.
Dixon’s Pentaho and the Jaspersoft/ Revolution combo are nice _ I tested both Jasper and Pentaho thanks to these remarks this week 🙂 (see slides at http://www.jaspersoft.com/sites/default/files/downloads/events/Analytics%20-Jaspersoft-SEP2010.pdf or http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/news-events/free-webinars/2010/deploying-r/index.php )
Pentaho and Jasper do give good great graphics in BI (Graphical display in BI is not a SAS forte though probably I dont know how much they cross sell JMP to BI customers- probably too much JMP is another division syndrome there)
While just browsing through Google Code repositories for R Packages-
https://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:R
I came across Playwith- which is basically a toolkit for creating interactive data visualizations. I then played with ClusterApp and it really seems promising (hierarchical) – Since I am using R 2.12 on Win 7 (x64) platform somthing broke but overall this seemed like a promising interactive tool making widget.
playwith is an R package, providing a GTK+ graphical user interface for editing and interacting with R plots.
The playwith package is maintained by Felix Andrews <felix@nfrac.org>
Here is the Data Visualization called Cluster App that impressed me There is an obvious synergy between Rattle and Playwith (though some bugs with new R 2.12 on an X64 do come into play)
https://code.google.com/p/playwith/wiki/ClusterApp
Official Bloggers on LibreOffice- http://planet.documentfoundation.org/
Note- for some strange reason I continue to be on top ranked LibreOffice blogs- maybe because I write more on the software itself than on Oracle politics or coffee spillovers.
LibreOffice Beta 2 is ready and I just installed it on Windows 7 – works nice- and I somehow think open Office and Google needs an example to stop being so scary on cautioning—— hey,hey it’s a beta – (do you see Oracle saying this release is a beta or Windows saying hey this Windows Vista is a beta for Windows 7- No right?)-
see screenshot of solver in LibreOffice spreadsheet -works just fine.
We cant wait for Chromium OS and LibreOffice integration (or Google Docs-LibreOffice integration) so Google starts thinking on those lines (of course
Google also needs to ramp up Google Storage and Google Predict API– but dude are you sure you wanna take on Amazon, Oracle and MS and Yahoo and Apple at the same time. Dear Herr Schmidt- Last German Guy who did that , ended up in a bunker in Berlin. (Ever since I had to pay 50 euros as Airline Transit fee -yes Indian passport holders have to do that in Germany- I am kind of non objective on that issue)
Google Management is busy nowadays thinking of trying to beat Facebook -hint -hint-
-buy out the biggest app makers of Facebook apps and create an api for Facebook info download and upload into Orkut –maybe invest like an angel in that startup called Diaspora http://www.joindiaspora.com/) see-
Back to the topic (and there are enough people blogging on Google should or shouldnt do)
-LibreOffice aesthetically rocks! It has a cool feel.
More news- The Wiki is up and awaits you at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation
And there is a general pow-wow scheduled at http://www.oookwv.de/ for the Open Office Congress (Kongress)
As you can see I used the Chrome Extension for Google Translate for an instant translation from German into English (though it still needs some work, Herr Translator)
Some slideshare.net presentations I really liked.
A tutorial on SEO and SEM-
Carole Ann Matignon deals with optimization and scheduling, rules in the…….NFL!
Carole, We are waiting for the sequel on analytics on football and the beer game.
Social Media Screw-Ups
Social Media doesnt matter at all- Social Media matters a lot- Still undecided? Take a look
Slideshare is a great VISUAL interface on sharing content. I liked Google Docs embedding as well, but Matt Mullenberg and Matt Cutts seemed to have stopped talking. Mullenberg is going like Zuckenberg, not willing to align with Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin. or maybe they are afraid of Big Brother Brin. Google loves Java and Javascript (even when they are getting sued for it)- while Matt M hates it- bad for RIA I guess.
Scribd also is a great way to share content- and probably is small enough for. WordPress.com to allow embedding
Thats the reason why I sometimes prefer Scribd for sharing my poetry to Slideshare and Google Docs. Also I like the enhanced analytics and the much easier and evolved interface for reading. Slideshare is much more successful than Scribd because it is open to sharing with everyone- scribd tries to get you to register …;)
(* Also see MIT’s beer game at http://beergame.mit.edu/ which is ahem different from Duke’s beer games).
DECISION STATS 