On many webmaster and entrepreneur forums, people are often asking about million dollar ideas. Everyone is looking for that golden tip of money making, rocketing them into life-long wealth. Ofcourse, there are such ideas, like this one. But that particular idea is used every time the get-rich-quick-webmasters are getting together on a forum; needless to say, it won’t work for you! So what will?
Most business folk have had a common dream for years now; to assemble applications from small building blocks. This idea and that dream, in different forms, has been there for 40-50 years and has succeeded in different forms, but not yet how the business would like to see it (things like COM, DCOM, CORBA and before that a lot of more proprietary attempts by big integrators like Cap Gemini).
A lot of hype surrounding the web 2.5-3.0 and widgets is generated because of exactly this: none technical users being able to compose webpages from building blocks which are simple and easy to use. A bit too simple I think personally. In this article I present an overview of the current portlet niche market and the players. If I am forgetting anyone please let me know and I’ll add them.
Yesterday I decided to write something about running or working in different kinds of technical jobs. Using my experiences (good & bad), I tried to give a view on the kind of jobs and skills required to fit in the kind of companies I ran and run. Hopefully it is interesting for people when finding a business to run or job to fill.
This is the second part of ‘my story’.
As you can read here, I have been trying many different businesses. Did I like them all? No, not really. So how can you pick a business you are going to like without trying that all like I did. I’ll try to sketch my experiences, so maybe you can decide faster and more accurate on what you are going to like.
I bet none of the internet web-based get-rich-quick folks would like to hear this, but something we have learned by runnning many companies and talking to people running different kind of businesses; you can make any business succeed as long as you can hold out for three years.
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As a portlet fan at my company, I was wondering how the current widget hype affects the portlet market. As widgets, in my view, have the same principles as portlets we have been creating for years, I don’t really saw why widgets became such a hyped thing in the blogosphere and beyond. Even Wordpress in which I wrote this has drag & drop widgets!
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