There was a once a time when global brands selected their marketing and advertising departments on their creative ability and trained them in the philosophy of business.  The most successful staff members were the ones with the most unique ideas which would push their brand to success. This last sentence is still true these days, [...]








One of the nicest things about the web 2.0 world is the expectation that sharing and collaboration are more important than protectionism and corporate isolationism.  Opensource software development led the way twenty years ago and has blossomed so that global corporations like Sun Microsystems have both opensource (i.e. free) software as well as paid-for software [...]