Marketing Geek Show#44

Wed, Jul 16, 2008

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Marketing Geek Show#44 Marketing Geek Show#44

Ailsa was in Mildura this week on a house boat. They have water apparently.

We alert consumers of Domain services to the Worldwideweb Register scam out of Spain.

iPhone mania and the turning on of Mobile Me for data sync and push for contacts and calendars.

We talk about Open Source vs Propriety for content management, particularly WordPress vs Microsoft Frontpage or Expression Web. The New York Times site is based on Open source CMS.

Opening and closing music by Velvedene.
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2 Responses to “Marketing Geek Show#44”

  1. Funkygorilla Says:
    17. July 2008 at 2:39 am

    I guess that you have had the email from the old .Mac team saying one of the issues with mobile me? If you haven’t there is a 15 minute delay if you synch from computer to phone, but not the other way around.

    I am going to push another web service now to solve one of the problems you mentioned. Your issue was sharing contacts with Ailsa. If you are doing this you probably wouldn’t want someone to have access to all your personal contacts too. If you use highrise (http://www.highrisehq.com) that is a contact management system you can allow other people to use. You can email it a contact and brand it too. If you think of the possibilities of that you could brand a highrise account but set it up for your customer. Then just email to multiple addresses at once that you could set up as a group. Instant personalised contact sharing.

    Nice talk on content management. I thought your comments at the end re publishing versus design were probably right on. btw you could also try the open source Joomla and Droopal which are both more sophisticated than WordPress in that they give you much more flexibility.

    Lastly MS Frontpage and Expressions!!? Nobody uses those. Adobe Dreamweaver is the weapon of choice for most visual developers and you can team that with Contribute to add in the content management and templating solution!

    Okay this is the last one. Now I have bashed MS at should at least say you were hard on IE. Yes IE6 was a total nightmare, but IE7 is a improvement and IE8 is better still, and actually passes the ACID test!

  2. Funkygorilla Says:
    17. July 2008 at 2:43 am

    Why do I write such long posts, and why does my English suffer so much when I do!

    My comment re the contact sharing I thought would be interesting to small business. Having a shared contact system is a great way to ensure you stay top of mind with your customers.

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