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Not all Open Source Software is free, and not all free software is open source. Open Sourcing Software can be done not just for community, but for security or integration. A sure way to make your software well documented is to provide the source code so that those integrating with your system can see the [...]
People keep saying, “It’s not Linux” “Linux is just the kernel” “It’s GNU Linux you Idiot”. Yeah posers go back to grade school, I’ve been running Linux since the days before it had a GUI. There are definite Non-GNU versions on of Linux, and While Gnu Linux is Linux not all Linux is GNU Article [...]
Just because you build something doesn’t mean you can give it away for free. You can’t draw a picture of Mickey Mouse, slap it on a T-shirt and sell it. The same is true for the Intellectual Property in software. Patents require licensing, and that limits what software can be truly free. The Free Software [...]
blackwaterops.com will help you judge the SEO of an of the themes available through WordPress “Extend” at wordpress.org. While SEO is not the only measure of a theme, it is an important one.
www.cloudsleuth.net released a report about the fastest cloud platforms that is pretty much a waste of time to read. Jon Brodkin’s artictle on Ars Technica is an even bigger waste of time to read because he makes some claims that would provide misinformation to the already skewed interpretation of what Compuware’s data actually means. Jon [...]
ZillionTV died Monday. They may not admit it, but much like Akimbo still refuses to admit it is dead, ZillionTV just hasn’t crossed over, but it’s lying dead on the table. Rallied by an overhyped Ben Silva, (overhyped is the polite word for the man who claims he won 7 Emmy’s but isn’t in IMDB [...]
Robert Scoble and I had a rather intense discussion around Friend Feed vs. Twitter the other night. He argues that Twitter is a sucky place to have a conversation, and I argue the Friend Feed is a sucky place to have a conversation. (in many ways they both are). Robert argued mostly points about the [...]
In this rapidly evolving world of online marketing it is sometimes hard to remember what all the terms mean, let alone how the strategy works. As such I have broken down the various services as applied to the bar scene. Brandon walks up to the cute girl at the bar and says “I’m great in [...]
Christine Lu is the Top China Expert when it comes to how to take an American business to China. Converting your business to work in the Chinese economy and market is not just a matter of translating your existing ad copy to Mandarin and Cantonese, it takes an understanding of the culture, politics, and business [...]
PR Web and CNN have sent the search term Greatest Living American to the top of the trends list, once again. As Colbert was just made Webby Person of the year and the press release claimed him to be Greatest Living American. Well not so fast my Bear Hating Foe! I earned that title Fair [...]
www.isayhello.com went live last night. The front page is ugly, I don’t have as many human edited pages as I would like, but it is day one, and this is the first step. In the coming days you will start to see better and better results pages, and more “Category” templates. Not all results will [...]
A How to Guide: Microsoft Windows Media Video 8, and DivX By Brandon Wirtz bwirtz@griffin-digital.com This document has now been expanded in to a full fledged book and multimedia presentation. To find out more visit my Digerat.com page here An Introduction: 1 Choosing the Right Codec: 2 Best Codec by Bit Rate: 3 Implementation: 4 [...]
In case you were wondering who invented Face Book? It was ME Brandon Wirtz inventor of Facebook but not FaceBook.com that was someone else. But back in 1996 I was about to graduate High School, and was on year book committee and though we should have a big hard bound book of everyone in the [...]
Brandon Wirtz is The Omniscient Deity of Video. Because Google says it, it will be true. Not until the crawler finds this, but in the mean time just know that my supreme powers of SEO, the same powers that made me the Greatest Living American. Will soon make me The Omniscient Deity of Video as [...]
Jonah left a comment for me which reads: “I would think that even with your new found celebrity status, or because of it, you would have found the time write a post thanking the San Francisco SEO company that was the inspiration for your rise to greatest living American.” I wasn’t avoiding you Jonah, I [...]
Role model and space hero Rowby launches his 98 cent space ship to search the universe for the Greatest Living American. The dimwitted Space Cows are on the lookout but keep forgetting their mission. The Green Thing is suspicious from the beginning, and thinks that Rowby is not telling the real reason for his search [...]
Man Competes with Stephen Colbert for Greatest American Title April 27, 2007 – Mountain View, CA. Brandon Wirtz–a Microsoft employee in Mountain View, California–is competing with comedy legend Stephen Colbert for the title of “Greatest Living American.†Wirtz was previously ranked as the “Greatest Living American†according to the popular search engines Yahoo and Google. [...]
Comparing the candidates for Greatest Living American: A completely biased look at Brandon Wirtz and Stephen Colbert. Stance on Bears: Stephen Colbert has announced on multiple occasions that he is a Hater of Bears, all Bears, but especially Polar Bears. Brandon loves bears, and as a Native of Michigan, and Resident of California he shows [...]
I’m holding my own in Number 2 Position. Pretty Impressive for only having been in the race for about 48 hours. Brandon Wirtz is the Greatest Living American with some caveats of course ;-) .
What do Tom Greene, Ryan Seacrest, Jenny Mc Carthy, Jake Ludington, and Brandon Wirtz all have in common? We were all on MTV without having to sing. MTV Obsessed