Did Microsoft abuse its position of power so badly many people are still motivated by the experience? The way in which Google is releasing Wave almost makes me think so.   Unlike Microsoft, they've made it open-source and made it clear that anyone will be welcome to run it, even on their own servers and change it however they like.   Perhaps making money for Google is no longer their top priority, but here's guessing that there's a revenue stream

Wow! Back in the office after 3 days at CeBIT in Sydney! The first day spent on the floor surveying the offerings (and the competition). Then attending the Web Forward sessions which was keynoted by Google, who were never too far from peoples minds.   It's easy to get complacent while listening to the large organisations that shared some of their secrets. Our focus, however, is on how small to medium-sized businesses can take advantage of this technology. The main themes: mobile presence,

Just a quick hello from the new guy at KayWeb. My name is Mark Simon and I've got a background in Web 2.0 applications. I will be fulfilling the business analyst role KayWeb.

This blog will explain how to search a MySQL database using keywords, then returning results which are sorted by relevance. The key involves an alternative to the "LIKE %keyphrase%" technique.