[SiliconBeach] Re: Hitwise

2009-08-09 Thread Daniel Purchas
Hey Kristin, sorry about the late reply, i meant to reply toyou directly about this when you sent it but it slipped my mind. So, back to what you need - questions: 1 - What is your business? Is this for the site in your profile? 2 - What are you trying to find out about your competitors? 3 -

[SiliconBeach] Re: Hitwise

2009-08-09 Thread Michael Motherwell
we were trying to find out stats on where we are at in regards to traffic to our site compared to our competitors both for marketing and to make sure we could out gun our competitors in reality as well. I'm not sure Hitwise is really very good for that. Their data in Australia is heavily

[SiliconBeach] Re: IP Protection to support open source to generate an income?

2009-08-09 Thread 1Place
Hi Rob A belated follow up to your patents are a silly idea ... The European Parliament agrees with you ... sort of ... as stated at: http://www.epo.org/topics/issues/computer-implemented-inventions/software.html ... an invention that works by using a computer, a computer network or other

[SiliconBeach] Re: low cost CRM/ Sales mgmt system

2009-08-09 Thread Kev
We are giving Vtiger a go - it is a fork of sugarCRM - open source. Seems good functionality wise but not a polished and delightful user experience :) Kev --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia

[SiliconBeach] Re: IP Protection to support open source to generate an income?

2009-08-09 Thread Renato Iannella
On 9 Aug 2009, at 04:50, Elias Bizannes wrote: My view (and Chris Saad's whom I'm catching up with now): With cloud computing, open source is no longer relevant; but open access to data is where it matters. But cloud computing is still a black-box. You don't know what happens to your data

[SiliconBeach] Re: IP Protection to support open source to generate an income?

2009-08-09 Thread Elias Bizannes
My view (and Chris Saad's whom I'm catching up with now): With cloud computing, open source is no longer relevant; but open access to data is where it matters. But cloud computing is still a black-box. You don't know what happens to your data in the backend As long as you can get the

[SiliconBeach] Re: low cost CRM/ Sales mgmt system

2009-08-09 Thread Ryan Cross
Hey Mike, I'm biased, but I would definitely check out OpenOnDemand - its based on vTiger CRM and provides really good value I think. There was even an open source iPhone app for it released for beta about a week ago. There are plenty of other open source CRM's that you can use and host yourself,

[SiliconBeach] Re: low cost CRM/ Sales mgmt system

2009-08-09 Thread Geoff McQueen - Hiive Systems
Hi Mike, As Ryan and Elias have mentioned, we might have something for you. It isn’t free, but it is great quality and has a lot of social features and automation that other products lack. We’re also pretty flexible on trial periods, especially for our Silicon Beach friends, and we’re putting