 Dear friends of Bizcloud,
I was browsing the Web over the weekend and I noticed an advertisement for outsourced project on Elance. A person in China likes what Bizcloud has to offer and wants to reproduce it. I am just curious, our site is free and copyright laws and patents clearly do not apply to China. How can we protect our intellectual property? What do you suggest I should do to protect Bizcloud and the investment we have made? What would you do? Should I just take it as a complement and not worry about it? Should the IP’s from China be blocked or should I work on launching a Chinese version of Bizcloud? Bizcloud censorship? lol I am open to your ideas. The sad reality is that we do provide a hosted private labeled version of Bizcloud and this business could have contacted Bizcloud to license our technology. I have included a screen capture of the Elance project. We have contacted Elance and they clearly do not have a policy against copy cats on the Elance site and have not removed this project. From what I can tell they still have 3 days remaining to accept bids on this project. The good news is Bizcloud is free to use today and our developers continue to keep ahead of the technology curve. If you find the information in our bizcloud blog or on our site useful please help spread the word about our site. Thank you in advance. Vahid Razavi Originally posted 2009-07-29 09:08:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter This letter was originally drafted and posted by Common Cause on Jan 21st, 2010. This was in response to the sellout of the US Elections to big business and powerful special interest by the US Supreme Court. Regrettably the special interest and big business won a major milestone against the needs of small business owners and local communities. Since BizCloud was established to support the needs of small business and local communities it would be fitting for this issue to be featured in our blog. BizCloud executives, management and the respected business community members fully support the content of this letter and the actions of Common Cause in regards to Fair Election Now Act. Read more » Assuming you have done your research and discovered that the suspect may have a need for your product or service, how do you get past the admin? Most sales reps treat the art of selling like fishing with a single rod, they make contact with the most senior person in the organization and start pitching the products. They treat the poor executive assistants unprofessionally instead of trying to make friends with the gate keepers. Read more » Originally posted 2009-09-30 00:01:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Technical Differences between Internet and Enterprise Search We’ll first focus on the “easier” technical differences. We’ve broken them into “User Experience” at the high and low level, and a section on data and spidering issues. User Experience: High Level The way users interact with a corporate search engine may be quite different than the casual use of Yahoo and Google on the web. Single Shot Relevancy – Over-Reliance in Both Markets Long time readers will recall that we’ve warned before that an over-reliance on “relevance” can belie a flawed usage assumption, that ANY engine can find the “correct” answer for the typical 1 or 2 word search. On the Internet, when I type “bush”, how could the system know with certainly whether I’m referring to President George Bush, junior or senior, or the Australian outback, or one of the many beers or musical groups with “bush” in their name (with or without that exact spelling), or perhaps a shrub to plant in the yard. In the enterprise, terms like “resource” or “schedule” are similarly ambiguous. Ironically, this first issue is something public and private engines often have in common. Which leads us to…. Read more » Bizcloud as part of its partnership with New Idea Engineering (NIE) will be featuring enterprise search and content management strategy under our technology blog. As Bizcloud is in process of greatly improving the user search experience we wanted to share the best industry expert advice on this topic. We have invited the team at New Idea Engineering to share valuable insight on search with our business community. As always it is through participation and questions that meaningful partnerships and opportunities develop. We will deliver on a engaging conversation around enterprise search technology with you and look forward to your feedback. Documents vs. DataModern search engines employ “fulltext” search, looking for specific search terms in relatively unstructured text. The unstructured nature of the data is the key; it was assumed that most content would be composed of paragraphs of text, with very little formal structure, verses the more traditional fields in a database, with their more rigid INT, DATE and CHAR datatypes. About the only assumption made about a document’s “structure” was that it would probably have a Title of some sort. References to specific numbers, colors or geographic locations may be blindly treated the same as every other word in the document. (See also Entity Extraction.) Hopefully, if a term appears in the title, it will be given a bit more weight, but that’s about it in the basic world of documents. Read more »  We’ll get back to the topics I continued in previous blog entries soon, but, I wanted to share some major developments from last week with you…
The first one, Google announced that their YouTube service is now available on IPv6 if you are using Google White-listed nameservers [1] .This is a major commitment that follows on to a string of developments and commitments to IPv6 by Google.
Read more »  Your business data is one of your company’s most valuable assets and keeping it secure must be at the top of your priorities. Small business owners often neglect protection of data, either because of the costs associated with it, or because they don’t have technical skills to employ necessary measures. Here are some simple tips that you as a business owner can follow to make sure your business data is secure and that your company is protected from financial damage that is caused by accidents or data security breaches. Read more »
Neil Barofsky has submitted his quarterly report in regards to the TARP bailout program. He states “On the positive side, there are clear signs that aspects of the financial system are far more stable than they were at the height of the crisis in the fall of 2008,” according to a quarterly report to Congress submitted by the office of the Special Inspector General for the government’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. The report, warned that the Obama administration’s and the Federal Reserve’s policies to support the mortgage market could in fact be creating another dangerous housing bubble. “Stated another way, even if TARP saved our financial system from driving off a cliff back in 2008, absent meaningful reform, we are still driving on the same winding mountain road, but this time in a faster car,” said the report. Read more » By Jason  Mobile applications can improve your efficiency as they allow you to do business in the moment. This year, more apps will help you stay connected to your company’s data and be productive while you are away from the office. As a small business owner, consider investing some time in educating yourself about the mobile applications that can help you with your business. Read more »
By Jason This year as the economy slowly enters the recovery phase, small businesses are continuing the search for improvement and they are turning towards new technology trends that are emerging as tools for helping businesses achieve higher efficiency and better costs control. For most small business owners it is difficult to stay on top of ever-changing business technology trends, but there are a select number of them that offer great benefits to small businesses. Read more » |  |
Dear friends of Bizcloud,
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