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Best Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office Word

SocialFish

As more features emerge on Microsoft’s text and spreadsheet management tools, many companies want to compete with it by releasing free software available to everyone. Libre Office is open-sourced by its huge community that works on bringing useful updates and assets daily. Completely free and open-sourced.

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Top programming Languages In High Demand At Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other MNCs

BeingOptimist

Swift is a business programming language invented by Apple in 2014 to compete with Microsoft. This is an open-source language programming and is extremely easy to learn and requires you to have very few coding skills in comparison to other programming languages.

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The 4 Best Ecommerce Platforms for Selling in 2023

Hootsuite

Typically, these platforms are hosted solutions instead of open-source. Typically, they require less up-front work than open-source solutions like WooCommerce. That being said, WooCommerce is the best open source ecommerce platform, in our humble opinion. What is the best ecommerce platform for Instagram?

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Free Culture and Attention as Currency

Waxing UnLyrical

.” With “openness” (coders, rejoice!) we imply an Open Source culture, where the ratio of creators to consumers is shooting up faster than ever. Now, with the barriers lifted, a swamp of creators are competing the bigwigs, creating a culture with 1,000 broadcasters for 10 million listeners.

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The Rise of the T-Shaped Agency Model

Convince & Convert

It’s mind-boggling how much has changed in the agency business in the last 5-10 years and we know how hard it is compete. Contrast that with newer open-source web-based software services like OpenOffice. What is the T-Shaped Agency?

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Poisoning the Online Well

Net-Savvy Executive

It''s a challenge when multiple entities are simultaneously trying to (a) get useful information from open sources online and (b) planting deceptive information in the same sources. I wonder how much blue-on-blue deception happens between information operations and open-source intelligence gathering, anyway.

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The New Small

Ari Herzog

It is about how small businesses are using cloud computing, SaaS, open source, mobility, and social networks to compete with larger organizations. My next book is called The New Small: How a New Breed of Small Businesses is Harnessing the Power of Emerging Technologies. Technology books can be dry. This one won’t be.