links for 2008-09-03

  • Smaller Indiana got some great press this week on how it supported a regional theatre festival, The Indianapolis Fringe Festival. I developed the aggragate page in Ning that pulled all the content from the different bloggers
  • A small, digital book startup thinks it has a solution to the age-old student lament: overpriced textbooks that have little value when the course is over. The answer? Make them open source — and give them away.
  • Google is jumping into the Browser wars with Chrome. With Google having so much clout in SaaS, cloud computing, Internet traffic, and advertising, I'm not sure if this is a move that will propel them, give them legal issues, or simple improve their products.
  • Both sets of systems maintain a contact database used to drive outbound marketing campaigns. Both provide reporting and analysis tools to understand promotion results. Both sometimes include marketing planning, content management, and project management.