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So how DOES the sausage get made here at Buzzillions?

(First of all, we AVOID as many Web 1.0 lame-isms as possible but you never know when an 800 pound Gorilla reference is going to delight the noobie who’s still sending his friends joke emails.)

Okay back to tech talk…so we go for the “best of breed” approach and generally operate on the bleeding edge. Why not choose the tried and true tech of yesteryear? Well, using the right combo of stable open source and innovative enterprise software gives us a legion of low-cost outsourced programmers. Why reinvent the wheel? (…when you can just use other people’s cliches…)

Whoever said “Work smarter not harder” clearly did NOT work at a startup.

When you’ve got to work harder AND smarter, you want the best tools at your disposal and you want to dispose of the tools that don’t cut the mustard. We buy some tools (e.g., Jira, Intellij, Endeca) and use open source for others (e.g., Hibernate, EHCache, Apache, Tomcat, Spring).

We even tested three wikis for a month until we chose the one we wanted to use (Twiki). There were several Wikis that didn’t even support attachments…weird. As for why wikis have two search boxes…well, that’s a mystery for the ages.

If you add in the individual productivity tools such as Excel, Powerpoint – does it really boost productivity , SnagIt, Google Docs, Mind Manager and others, the list of tech becomes staggering.

Stay tuned and we here at Buzzillions will open the hood so you can learn from our mistakes and in turn share your insights with us.

Can you add to this list of Web 1.0 lame-isms?

“800 pound gorilla” – I later found out that a VERY LARGE gorilla is generally 550 pounds so if you’re the 800 pound gorilla you can really kick butt (unless you’re slow or dumb I guess)

“how the sausage gets made”- I researched this and wish I hadn’t

“dog and pony show” – many dotcom road shows were just a substantive

who’s got more of these?