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Business cards 2.0

Sunday, November 29, 2009
By Johan Louwers
Business cards 2.0

Business cards will change as the world is changing and the way we work is changing we will see a change in the use of business cards. They will mix with augmented reality and avatars. The question is how much policy can a corporation enforce and not scare away the workforce. »

Why marketing moves out of the movies

Sunday, November 29, 2009
By Johan Louwers
Why marketing moves out of the movies

Companies are using social media more and more in campaigns and so should you. You think your brand is to small or you do not have the budget? You have to think about it again. Everyone can use social media in a marketing campaign and they should to survive in the brand war 2.0... »

USPS Augmented Reality

Sunday, November 29, 2009
By Johan Louwers
USPS Augmented Reality

Personally I think augmented reality is really really cool and I see great future for augmented reality as a new way for people to insert interactive parts in documentation for example which would normally be only available in print. Manuals can now become alive and give more information than they do at this moment. »

e-readers from Barnes & Nobles

Sunday, November 29, 2009
By Johan Louwers
e-readers from Barnes & Nobles

Years and years bookstores are looking for a way who to get amazon under control. Selling books online is just cheaper and more easy to purchase for a customer. Books are a item you just buy because you need them or think you like them. It is a product you can not try before... »

Department of defense and Linux

Thursday, October 29, 2009
By Johan Louwers
Department of defense and Linux

The US Department of Defence has done a study on OpenSource software and prepared a document to give guidance. The document is giving guidance on how to approach opensource and by this making it valid for the military to use and consider opensource besides closedsource software. For a long time the US military was... »

100% of 50% to Linux switch

Thursday, October 29, 2009
By Johan Louwers
100% of 50% to Linux switch

As some people may know I did a switch from windows to Linux at my previous employer and was very happy with it. After some troubles I had running all the tools I needed on a Ubuntu instance running on top of a Dell laptop. Now I have spend the past time working... »

Location aware printing

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
By Johan Louwers
Location aware printing

Years ago people started to talk about not using paper anymore. Especially in IT and consultancy firms there was a lot of talking and discussion about not using paper anymore and doing all from your computer. We have made some steps. A lot of the invoices send to you are now digital and your... »

Oracle EBS certified on Windows

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
By Johan Louwers
Oracle EBS certified on Windows

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (12.1.1) is now certified on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) running on x86/x86-64 hardware. Note that MS Windows Server 2008 x64 (64-bit) and MS Windows Server 2008 R2 are not covered by this announcement. »

Goverment open data

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
By Johan Louwers
Goverment open data

Lets say you are a government, a city counsel or any other form of government and you have a huge huge set of data on all kinds of topics. And you do want to give this to the public. What do you have to do to make this data useful to the public? Do... »

Google side wiki

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
By Johan Louwers
Google side wiki

Google launched a new product named Google SideWiki. It is a browser plugin which can be used to add comments to a existing website without the owner of the website having any control about it. So now you have the option to leave a comment to something on the web even if their is... »

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Johan Louwers is for more then 10 years working in the IT world in several roles. As a Java and PL/SQL developer, UNIX and Linux administrator, Oracle Consultant, Oracle DBA, network consultant, storage admin and much much more.

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