Author: Si Chen

Over the holidays, I read Worldchanging, a book about the “big picture” technological, environmental, social, economic, and political trends of the next […]

What’s in store for e-commerce?  A recent book, What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, offers a glimpse at a […]

Phil Simon has written an interesting new book, The New Small, about a new breed of small businesses that are taking advantage […]

opentaps In The Cloud with Amazon EC2 Want to get up and running quickly and easily on enterprise-class open source ERP and […]

We’re happy to let you know that we’re now an official Amazon AWS Solutions Provider.  We’ve learned a lot after working with […]

This is actually pretty cool: a timeline history of CRM, from Software Advice.

Sounds like a simple chicken versus egg problem, isn’t it?  But in fact, this is a very deep question.  How you answer […]

With all the excitement about social media, don’t forget how effective “old-fashioned” email marketing is. There’s nothing like a regular, relevant email […]

The success of open source is undeniable. Just about any website you visit today is running on some kind of open source […]

Cloud computing and open source applications is a great combination.  You get all the benefits of the cloud: easy to deploy, easy […]