This is a great list of open source software alternatives. The author lists 50 of the most commonly used proprietary software solutions and offers a free alternative.
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With the millions of websites out there, you think you’re safe. You think the statistics are in your favor. That your website would never get hacked. Well, I’m here to tell you it CAN happen to you. The Small Business Trends website was hacked this past Christmas Eve. What happened is part of a larger and disturbing trend in which small-business
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Yahoo Inc. this week introduced a new monthly Web Hosting service for small and medium sized businesses, which provides unlimited hosted storage capacity and bandwidth.
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One blogger thinks small businesses should be wary of having too much Google in their operations.
Google Apps and AdSense as poor choices for small businesses? It's a surprising opinion to have, as Google made these services partially to address the SMB marketplace.
Yet Matt McGee suggested small businesses avoid those and a couple of othe
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THE e-commerce bandwagon bypassed millions of carpenters, massage therapists, lawyers and other service providers, mostly because it is impossible to drop an appointment into a shopping cart without unleashing a scheduling nightmare.
Now that a set of Internet start-up companies has emerged to help solve this problem, though, small businesses c
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logs and blog comments are great for a small business owner because they allow you to socialize with others within your niche, which can indirectly promote your business.
This is true for both your own blog and comments on others, but one thing you have to be careful of is a commenter who is out to make you look bad.
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Could Facebook ever be a place where serious business is done? Or does it pay to maintain two separate network profiles -- one for work and one for play?
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It's a frighteningly common myth - small businesses who falsely believe their data is safe. After years in IT, featuring numerous calls from people asking to be rescued, I assembled this quick guide which can help any small business avoid the misery.
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At its simplest, a wiki is software that lets users work together to create and edit a collection of linked web pages. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is the best-known example - its 85,000 contributors have written, edited, and policed the content of more than nine million entries. Like Wikipedia, all wikis benefit from the network effect: The m
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We made the mistake of treating gas like it was entering The Long Tail.
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Here's something I think more of us can relate to as technology improves!
“Where did I put that document?” is often a common plaint when desks are stacked with piles of paper. However the same thing may happen with our electronic files even though, being out of sight, they don’t scream for organization. The best way of handling electronic doc
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Even as small and midsize companies struggle with Web 2.0, it's time to look ahead at the even newer opportunities and challenges posed by Web 3.0 and the next generation of Web tools and techniques. In this first of a three-part series, a look at where the Web was and where it is now.
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Microsoft is merging the three existing paid versions of its Office Live Small Business product into one and making that single version available for free, the company announced on February 11. Office Live Small Business is the set of Web-based services, targeted at companies with 10 employees or fewer, that are designed to complement Microsoft
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Imagine a world without cancer, hunger, AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis. While there is still a long way to go in the fight to cure these afflictions, scientists are getting closer to finding the answers thanks to something called World Community Grid.
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From the Page: "When a Kansas City woman sought advice from The Today Show on supplementing her household income with a part-time job, Today’s Money 911 reporter Jean Chatzky topped her recommended work at home list with Virtual Assistant. Who would have thought? Finally, Virtual Assistants are gaining the respect they deserve. "
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