The last few weeks, there has been a lot of press that Microsoft is ceasing to be competitive. When you read news like this, your opinions becomes changed, but then many times, articles are usually one sided. They have a point to make, and they only present facts that support their point.

After attending a series of demoes and talks with Microsoft engineers over last week, Read the rest of this entry »

The Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Summit was held in Seattle , Washington from Sept 28 to Oct 1. This year, over 1,500 of Microsoft?s MVP were there to attend various sessions and conference. Speakers include Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Group VP?s Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin. Here are some pictures.

That?s me in the Experimental Music Project Museum ( EMP Museum) in Seattle where the MVP Dinner was held.
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Four out of Five richest men in the planet earned it through IT. In total, based on the reports of Forbes Magazine, there are 34 billionaires who made it through information technology.

1. Bill Gates, Microsoft, $51 billion
3. Paul Allen, Microsoft, $22.5 billion
4. Michael Dell, Dell computers , $18 billion
5. Larry Ellison, Oracle, $17 billion
11. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, $14 billion (more)

This is fromMIS magazine, which surveys the top IT users in asia.

there are 2 stats there. first is the number of screens ( most likely desktops), the second is the size of the IS department

1. Ministry of finance in indonesia , 305000 , 260
2. Hong Kong Jockey club, 118814, 436
3. Singapore ministry of education, 100000, 80 Read the rest of this entry »

How much did the top executives of IT companies earned? Oracle?s Larry Ellison was one of the top. Last year, he got $7.48 million in salary and another $66.89 million for exercising his stock options.

IBM?s top executive, Sam Palmisano, got $6.84 million, plus another $2.81 million in stock options vested.

Microsoft?s top too executives were very cheap in comparison. Both Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer More …

Blogging can be addictive, and just like in sports or business, once you get the hang of it, you want to beat yesterday’s records.  How do I get more pageviews?  How do I interact more?

And the more you blog, the more possibilities you see, and the more things you thought about which is outside the confines of the parameters you have set about when you started blogging.

I have learned a lot not only from the interaction, but from the numerous technologies available on how

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These are some of my loose recollections of what to do in order to get traffic. This is just a beginners guide. Many fine articles are available in the web on how to get better traffic. One of the best ways is to put a search on Search Engine Optimization.

What is the purpose of maintaining a website? Normally, for a business site, to enhance your business. Nobody wants to be a webmaster of a website where there are no visitors. Much like opening a store, the more people who visit the better. Even if it is a personal website Read the rest of this entry »

I just went through an issue that I think more people should know about. As you may know, there are many companies that register a lot of domain names, and sometimes it is very difficult to keep track. But domain names are normally paid for every year, and you have to renew it to keep it.

Sometimes, if you are not careful, you let the domain name expire. But on other times, you may also forget. It did happened to us as well. One of the domain names expired. Read the rest of this entry »

In many ways, blogging has changed the way I work a lot, and as I looked at my counter in UserLand now, it is 18 days before my first anniversary in blogging.  In some ways, I have learned more about how the internet works at a deeper level, and have a better idea on how the internet can help business.

The last few weeks have been hectic, as in addition to putting up a blog site for my wife, and my company, I have also put up a community blog site now to promote our

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