IBM originally built cash registers and calculation machines back in the late 19th century, this boomed and spurred a whole consumer goods industry that could sell things quickly as store clerks did not have to actually do the math for the cost of goods themselves. They simply typed in the price of goods and they could quickly give the total amount owed. As those...

A lot of people ask me what is Open Source Software (OSS)? Some think OSS is a communist hippie plot sent to destroy modern day capitalism, others believe it to be a blessing sent from on high to banish the evil software companies that charge way too much for something they can make unlimited copies of with very little to no expense. No matter what your view, Open...

A few years ago Google created an advertising system called Adwords which allowed individuals and companies to advertise on their search engine directly without a middle man. The program was so successful that they later introduced Adsense which allowed other websites to share in the ad revenue. In both programs, advertising money is not spent or made until a user...

Google’s core business model is to create a platform for people to use and then step back and let the scientific data make the decisions. Their first product was the search engine we now know as Google Search and it utilized a combination of web spider software that constantly surfed and cataloged the Internet and used user generated feedback to create results...

In Jeff Jarvis’ 2009 book, “What Would Google Do?”, he presents the case that companies like Google are not merely creating a new way to use the Internet, but instead are revolutionizing how businesses think and work rocking many industries to their very core. My wife and I walked into Picture People in order to take some photos of my wife’s...