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	<title>Open Source Business</title>
	<link>http://gasperson.com</link>
	<description>tech journalist Tina Gasperson</description>
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		<title>Quick custom text ad placement in WordPress blog categories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress plugins abound for Google AdSense and other third-party text ad brokers, but what happens when someone wants to buy ad space directly from you, on a specific category page in your blog? You can easily add static HTML text ads to your category search result pages by creating category-specific page templates.

Because most WordPress themes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gasperson.com/2009/02/quick-custom-text-ad-placement-in-wordpress-blog-categories/</link>
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		<title>Open source business plan for Mindquarry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lars Trieloff was already familiar with open source software before he launched Mindquarry as a business based on it. Trieloff studied in Germany at the Hasso Platner Institute, where he received a degree in software systems engineering. During that time he noticed that, outside of the software development industry, true collaborative efforts didn&#8217;t happen often, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gasperson.com/2009/01/open-source-business-plan-for-mindquarry/</link>
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		<title>Four Twitter clients for Linux</title>
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Twitter is a social networking platform that keeps you in conversation by allowing you and your friends to follow each others&#8217; updates. The service lets users post and read 140-character updates, called tweets. With Twitter, you can do social networking on the fly, from your mobile phone or at your desktop, from a Web browser [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gasperson.com/2008/12/four-twitter-clients-for-linux/</link>
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		<title>Three Firefox extensions for Gmail</title>
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Gmail, Google&#8217;s popular Web mail application, is already full of useful features all on its own. But Firefox users can further customize Gmail with a variety of add-ons. Some only change the appearance, while others add functionality that makes Gmail more like a personal planner than just a plain old email application. Let&#8217;s take a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gasperson.com/2008/11/three-firefox-extensions-for-gmail/</link>
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		<title>Asterisk awakens open source love in telecom entrepreneur</title>
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Marc Fribush, a former &#8220;Microsoft guy,&#8221; is a telecommunications industry entrepreneur who discovered the benefits of open source when he launched a turnkey SAAS telephony business based on Asterisk. &#8220;It&#8217;s really powerful stuff,&#8221; Fribush says. 

Fribush&#8217;s previous company produced Web telephony software for the online dating industry. When that business was sold in 2006, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gasperson.com/2008/10/asterisk-awakens-open-source-love-in-telecom-entrepreneur/</link>
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		<title>Linux Today Managing Editor Carla Schroder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
arla Schroder says she just &#8220;kind of wandered into&#8221; her current life as a free software advocate and well-known IT journalist. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have much in the way of formal education. But I&#8217;ve always been mechanically inclined &#8211; your classic ripping things apart and figuring out how they work. I think that makes open source [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gasperson.com/2008/10/linux-today-managing-editor-carla-schroder/</link>
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		<title>A business built on open source, virtualization, and clouds</title>
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ReadyTechs provides network support services for companies that don&#8217;t want the expense of hiring and caring for their own employees. Now CEO Gerry Libertelli says the company is using Linux virtualization to open a new income stream based on cloud computing.

Libertelli say he catches his existing customers at the end-of-life stage in hardware maintenance to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gasperson.com/2008/10/a-business-built-on-open-source-virtualization-and-clouds/</link>
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		<title>Software configuration management built on OSS gives Virtusa a competitive advantage</title>
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Virtusa, an IT services company founded in 1996, was using proprietary version control and collaboration systems to develop software for its clients until Sri Lankan founder Kris Canekeratne decided that a custom solution built on open source components was a better fit for internal use. As a result, the company ended up saving millions of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gasperson.com/2008/08/software-configuration-management-built-on-oss-gives-virtusa-a-competitive-advantage/</link>
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		<title>Social networking for sports sits on an open platform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sportsvite.com, a kind of MySpace for ballers, exists because Steve Parker and a few friends wanted to find a better way to organize softball leagues and other casual sports teams in their New York neighborhoods. Parker, who lists badminton as a favorite sport on his Sportsvite.com profile, says he has always been an advocate of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gasperson.com/2008/06/social-networking-for-sports-sits-on-an-open-platform/</link>
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		<title>Thingamablog makes client-side blogging easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thingamablog is a cross-platform GPL blogging application that lets you create, update, and maintain multiple blogs from the client side. Thingamablog even acts as its own FTP client when you&#8217;re ready to publish or update your blog with new content. The software is easy enough for beginners to use, but sophisticated enough that veteran bloggers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gasperson.com/2008/05/thingamablog-makes-client-side-blogging-easy/</link>
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