Kore Nordmann - PHP / Projects / Politics
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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:26:41 +0200
:Revision: 		7
:Copyright:		CC by-sa


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Revealing busimess.org
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:Description: It is time to make busimess.org public. Busimess tries to offer
  a service which shows you connections between companies and products.

We decided to finally reveal `busimess.org`__ , a new project, which tries to
make another kind of information searchable by the all users of the world wide
web. For now it was nearly impossible to easily retrieve information on
relations between companies. They may be accessible in publications or stock
reports, but impossible to search or aggregate.

__ http://busimess.org

For now you can add companies and relations on `busimess.org`__ , and finally
define relations between them like "owns" for companies, and "produces" for
company - product relations. Once data is added, you can search for relations
between objects, and display the found data in interactive `SVG`__ graphs. An
example for the current relations between the german publisher "`Axel Springer
Verlag`__" (who publishes the yellow press newspaper "`Bild`__  for example)
and the TV station `Sat.1`__ :

__ http://busimess.org
__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG
__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer_AG
__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild
__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sat.1

.. image:: relation_graph.png
   :alt:   Relation between Axel Springer Verlag and Sat.1
   :align: center

I personally often searched for resources on the relations between companies,
to understand their involvement in a project and failed, because there was no
easy way to search the different sources of these infomation. One evening, I
was again searching those relations, the idea for this project was born. The
knowledge about `graphs`__ , web application development and the usage of
mature `PHP components`__ to develop the backend made it easier than I thought
in the first place.

__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_%28mathematics%29
__ http://ez.no/components

For the relation graphs and `company charts`__ you need a SVG enabled browser.
Every modern browser supports this open vector graphics format, except
Microsofts Internet Explorer. If you are still using this browser get a more
decent one `here`__, `here`__ or `here`__.

__ http://busimess.org/company/Description/bild_t_online_de_ag_co_kg
__ http://www.getfirefox.net/
__ http://www.opera.com/
__ http://www.konqueror.org/

.. image:: sample_graph.png
   :alt:   Owners of Bild T-Online.de AG & Co KG

The development of busimess continues, and we are happy to receive feedback on
busimess, either on our `mailinglists`__ , or in the `bugtracker`__.

__ http://busimess.org/Static/Content/Mailinglist
__ http://bugs.busimess.org/

I added a `blog category`__ which will contain future posts on the development
and progress of busimess.org, which is of course available as a `RSS feed`__,
too.

__ http://kore-nordmann.de/blog/busimess.html
__ http://kore-nordmann.de/blog/busimess.rss


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- User at Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:37:00 +0100

  Der Feed funzt net.

- Kore at Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:44:00 +0100

  The feed should work now.