The Portable Consultant

The Portable Consultant’s recent RFP was whittled down to two or three vendors and this was the week they did their demo presentations, the penultimate step in the process (all that’s left is price negotiations).
Although our RFP is for a web content management (WCM) system, the client has been interested in enterprise content management (ECM) […]

The Economist in agreement with The Portable Consultant
Back in January of 2006 The Portable Consultant mumbled something about YouTube and wondered online why Fickr hadn’t added video, suggesting that their acquisition by Yahoo had sucked the innovation out of them. Now, many months and several video startups later, it appears that Webshots and Flickr are […]

XML sitemaps protocol adopted by major search engines
XML sitemaps (as opposed to the graphical or people-readable list sitemaps) are a way for search engines to index web pages more easily/efficiently… Google has been using them for a while and now Yahoo and MSN have agreed to come on board.
The assumption is that if a search […]