Blog off would have been better off…

…if they installed something like Wordpress MU (Multi User). I mean look at it! They have developed their own system which is not all bad, but some of the basic functions lack which would have been there if they rolled with an open source system like WPMU or b2evolution.

I’m SURE they’ve got the resources to manage a setup like that. What is more, a big corporation like 24.com could be a useful contributor towards an open source project like WPMU! Whats up with THAT?! Why try and re-invent the wheel?! They could still brand their service. They could still make a somewhat closed community with WPMU. I simply don’t get why they spent resources writing their own system halfway.
I guess what Uno says makes sense. (In the comments section)

CEO: “Come on techie! Give us a Web2.0 site.” Inhouse dev: “Uhh, OK Boss.”

CEO doesn’t understand what he is asking for, Dev doesn’t know what
is being asked of him. And at the end of they it doesn’t tie in with
the larger, archaic structures of their site.

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One Comment to "Blog off would have been better off…"

• Uno said: On 02/14/2007 at 6:28 pm

  Ja totally. It’s weird how corps think that building their own thing, instead of using something that has been developed by the community that uses it.
  Well, they are getting a shit load of traffic though… the most commented blog looks like it averages about 30 comments a post… aah us bloggers dream of such linkity-love.
  But it’s all… erm. like Die Son in a way.

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