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From the Blogosphere

By Fuat Kircaali

Between 1991 and 1994 I worked for the French company Rhône-Poulenc in its U.S. headquarters in Cranbury, New Jersey. Rhône-Poulenc is the biggest French company in the world and is owned by the French government. During those three years I designed, coded and delivered a state-of-t...

Aug. 29, 2010 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 961

The Socialization of the Enterprise

By Dana Gardner

Strategies to resist the socialization of the enterprise may be futile. So Metastorm is suggesting enterprises embrace it, using tools that foster rather than squash social productivity in the workplace. Metastorm, the business process management (BPM) software provider that recently ...

Aug. 26, 2010 01:27 PM EDT Reads: 398

Time to Update Your Facebook and LinkedIn Privacy Settings

By David Strom

With the news last week about Facebook Places (which is not universally available in all locations, and only on certain phones), it is time to take a closer look at your privacy settings for Facebook. While you are at it, you might as well look at the same for your LinkedIn account. Be...

Aug. 23, 2010 10:06 AM EDT Reads: 639

A Cloud Computing Epiphany

By John Savageau

One of the greatest moments a cloud evangelist indulges in occurs at that point a listener experiences an intuitive leap of understanding following your explanation of cloud computing. No greater joy and intrinsic sense of accomplishment.

Aug. 20, 2010 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,602

Video Says it All

By Susan Cormier

When I put together training webinars for the National Association of Citizen Journalists, I thought long and hard about the most important tips and advice that I should give to practicing and aspiring citizen journalists. It amazed me this week when I found a quick, fast-moving and e...

Aug. 17, 2010 06:43 PM EDT Reads: 318

Getting Beyond “My Brand”

By William Arruda

These days, it seems that personal branding has faced increasing criticism. Much of it, I think, is driven by people who don’t get it, or at least who don’t get the concept that we advance at Reach. And, let’s face it, social media and the prevalence of internet marketers has allowed f...

Aug. 12, 2010 02:13 PM EDT Reads: 149

Is There a CDN in Your Future?

By Don MacVittie

Jessica Scarpoti has an article discussing the state of CDN and application delivery. While I had not put a ton of thought into this particular market – CDNs ...

Aug. 11, 2010 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 812

National Politics and Web 2.0 Usage in the Enterprise

By Don MacVittie

No matter what country you live in, if it is in any way democratic, you have seen the political trend wherein nearly everyone knows the correct solution to a given problem, but hidden agendas, partisanship, and general demagoguery get in the way of implementing that solution. In most i...

Aug. 5, 2010 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 573

Web 2.0 for TelePresence or Life After Second Life?

By Xenia von Wedel

In a meeting with the CEO of VenueGen, David Gardner, I am seated face-to-face with David's avatar in one of VenueGen's virtual board rooms. While answering my questions, he looks in my eyes and expresses to me how passionate he is about the topic when it dawns on me--what he really me...

Aug. 4, 2010 02:53 PM EDT Reads: 715

Open Letter to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad

By Fuat Kircaali

Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad: At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey, and taken to Syria. I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be comi...

Aug. 2, 2010 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,573 Replies: 2

Amazon’s Push for the Enterprise

By Dmitry Sotnikov

This also seems to be a natural adjacent market for Amazon (the IaaS company – not the online retailer). If they already successfully host web startups and are the most well-known compute platform for tasks such video transcoding or text recognition – why not use that same expertise an...

Jul. 27, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,630

Social Media Clouds

By Cloud Ventures

Where Enterprise 2.0 overlaps with Cloud computing is a very hot area for new ventures, as it helps to bring together a number of disparate and also quite technical strands and packages them into business and user-centric solutions.

Jul. 23, 2010 11:43 AM EDT Reads: 1,430

Social Media Benefits Seen for Smaller Fund Managers and Advisors

By Bruce Johnston

Unified Fund Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Huntington Bank, which is based in Columbus, OH, announced its sponsorship of a webinar for financial advisors and fund marketers on August 3, called "Using Social Media." In addition to offering some practical guidance on how to use social...

Jul. 21, 2010 08:24 PM EDT Reads: 722

3GL vs. 5GL Custom Web Application Development

By Treff LaPlante

I read a great article today in which Sinclair Shuller makes an argument for traditional 3GL’s (.net, java) versus “new” 4GL (force.com) and 5GL (workxpress.com) platforms. In fact, he questions whether these platforms are more akin to the old Microsoft Frontpage product, which practic...

Jul. 19, 2010 12:25 PM EDT Reads: 735

Major Ad Firms Will Struggle in Social Media

By Bryan O'Rourke

A recent WSJ article titled Social Media Draws a Crowd addressed the surge in social media advertising dollars and how traditional ad agencies are racing to get a piece of the action. The push to form a more formidable presence in social-media advertising is being fueled by the increa...

Jul. 18, 2010 11:12 PM EDT Reads: 852

Drive Sales, Manage Change, with Eric Blumthal

By Sharon Drew Morgen

Have you ever tried to change behaviors? Have you asked your sales team do something new that needs to be reinforced as they learn – and you’re not able to sit with them every hour to make sure they are doing it right? Do you know when you’re learning something if you’re getting it r...

Jul. 15, 2010 11:24 AM EDT Reads: 474

The New Distribution of the 3-Tiered Architecture Changes Everything

By Lori MacVittie

As the majority of an application’s presentation layer logic moves to the client it induces changes that impact the entire application delivery ecosystem

The increase in mobile clients, in demand for rich, interactive web applications, and the introduction of the AP...

Jul. 8, 2010 07:17 AM EDT Reads: 626

100-1,000X Faster Web

By Hovhannes Avoyan

Researchers at MIT say that the future of the internet looks like this: speeds up to 1,000 times faster than currently and, strangely, using less energy than what’s needed now. A faster internet, says an article I read, would also make high-speed data access a lot cheaper. What would t...

Jul. 5, 2010 01:56 PM EDT Reads: 591

ProStockMaster Turns Free with a Brand New Website

By Roberto Marinello

Starting from today, announced on a new restyled website, ProstockMaster turns free. ProStockMaster is one of the first and most popular tools for Microstock contributors. ProStockMaster is a free desktop software application helping to sell photos online through stock photography agen...

Jul. 5, 2010 10:59 AM EDT Reads: 651

Is 2010 the End of the Beginning for New Media?

By Jeremy Geelan

If Tim Berners Lee had thought for a moment, back in 1990, that his invention at CERN of http + HTML + server + browser was going 20 years later to eliminate Newsweek from newsstands worldwide, he might have gone back to studying physics instead of ushering in the World Wide Web. Bu...

Jul. 4, 2010 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,045

An Internet 1000 Times Faster than Today’s

By Bob Gourley

Imagine the possibility of an Internet 1000 times faster than the one of today. Dr. Vincent Chan, a great hero of modern telecommunications (and a mentor I’ve been honored to serve on an advisory board with) is leading research into developments that can produce just that. Dr. C...

Jun. 30, 2010 12:51 AM EDT Reads: 738

International Social Media Marketing

By Ambal Balakrishnan

One size fits all marketing does not work. In today's flat world, how do you incorporate cross-cultural awareness to adjusting your marketing to engage with different international markets? We asked Cindy King "What are key international marketing trends and predict...

Jun. 29, 2010 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 969

Extraordinary Scale

By Jnan Dash

Current websites like Facebook, Google, Twitter see unprecedented growth in number of concurrent active users and volumes of data in the guise of photos and videos. This level of scalability-demand defies our collective experiences from the past. For example, Facebook in January of 200...

Jun. 28, 2010 03:50 PM EDT Reads: 637

Smart Grids on the Verizon

By John Funnell

The European Union recently announced concern that more than 55% of its energy still comes from outside of its jurisdiction. Therefore new legislations have been passed to force large utilities to promote to their customers a more frugal approach to energy usage, backed by massive inve...

Jun. 28, 2010 10:10 AM EDT Reads: 932

A National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

By Bob Gourley

The White House has issued a draft for comment of a new National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The strategy draft was introduced by Howard Schmidt in a White House blog: A National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Howard’s introduction included: “Today, I...

Jun. 27, 2010 04:14 PM EDT Reads: 913

GovLoop "Member of the Week"

By Kevin Jackson

Thank you to Radiah Givens-Nunez and GovLoop for the honor of being their Member of the Week for June 21-25, 2010. Created in 2008, GovLoop is an online social network for government community around the world. Founded by Steve Ressler the "Facebook for Government" currently has over ...

Jun. 22, 2010 01:56 AM EDT Reads: 706

FCC: We Will Regulate Broadband

By Deborah Strickland

Since the dust has settled from a stinging defeat in federal court, the FCC has decided to move on its own to settle the broadband regulation dispute. With a 3-2 vote the commission issued a Notice of Inquiry that would set the stage for more regulatory authority of broadband. It seem...

Jun. 21, 2010 08:07 PM EDT Reads: 701

The Many Colors of Cinderella Castle

By James Swartwout

Walt Disney World fans at the Magic Kingdom know that the iconic Cinderella Castle changes colors each night more often than Flora, Fauna and Merriweather can work their magic. So what’s your favorite color for the castle each night? Enjoy this gallery of photos , and be sure to ...

Jun. 18, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 756

Personal Data - Driver Behind the Revolution

By Bryan O'Rourke

Elliot Van Buskirk had a recent post on Caterina Fake's (pictured on left) recent talk at the Wired Business Conference titled, "Mapping Desire, ...

Jun. 17, 2010 11:12 AM EDT Reads: 743

Do You Want to Test Drive Microsoft Office Web Apps?

By Jayaram Krishnaswamy

Convenience is the key word here. You can be anywhere and you are not too far from your Office Applications any time. If you want to know more, watch this video

Jun. 16, 2010 10:07 AM EDT Reads: 710

The Collapse of SaaS? Uh, Puhleeze!

By Hovhannes Avoyan

Lawson Software CEO Harry Debes, in a recent story that I read, says that SaaS will collapse in two years. That’s right, collapse. Debes says he’s lived through the “on demand” phenomenon three times in his career (first when they were called “service bureaus,” second when they were ca...

Jun. 16, 2010 04:17 AM EDT Reads: 1,006

On DRM and Piracy

By Kevin Hoffman

This morning I happened to be standing within earshot of a couple men in their 60s who were having a casual conversation. I've heard these folks talking before. If I were to rank their computer experience, I would have to put them into the category of people who are typically the butt ...

Jun. 15, 2010 11:22 AM EDT Reads: 698

Ad Revenues from Internet to Overtake Newspapers

By Bryan O'Rourke

The WSJ reported today that the Internet is poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television, ...

Jun. 15, 2010 08:38 AM EDT Reads: 685

What Sort of Internet Fanatic Are You?

By David Weinberger

Many of us have taken the Myers-Briggs test to determine exactly what type of personality we have. It places us along four dichotomies: Introversion-Extraversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, Judgment-Perception. You can express your personality type by using the first letter o...

Jun. 14, 2010 11:39 AM EDT Reads: 603

Relevance and Email are Like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

By Ardath Albee

Marketing Sherpa's Chart of the Week shows the results of asking marketers to rate the effectiveness of email tactics. I was happy to see that the delivery of relevant content came in at #1: This said, the drop in the effectiveness of email sent to house lists for B2B tells me that del...

Jun. 12, 2010 01:14 PM EDT Reads: 638

School Web Self-service Tools Need Monitoring

By Hovhannes Avoyan

I read a paper recently that listed a number of reasons why schools and universities are increasingly relying on their own websites to interact with students and deliver services, such as admissions, enrollment and registration, and other functions. Those reasons (and I’ll get to them...

Jun. 10, 2010 10:55 AM EDT Reads: 704

Give Your Unstructured Data the Meyers-Briggs

By Don MacVittie

For those who don’t know, according to the Meyers & Briggs Foundation, part of the Meyers-Briggs Assessment is defined as: The ess...

Jun. 10, 2010 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 882

Cloud and the Consumerization of IT

The idea of consumerisation - users being allowed to freely procure their own personal hard- and software - has been around for a while. But few CIOs and even less heads of IT Operations have embraced it. Other than some token adoption, where users could choose between an iPhone or a B...

Jun. 6, 2010 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,910

Susan Crawford: Rethinking Broadband

By David Weinberger

Telephone providers and cable providers have each been merging, increasing monopoly holds on regions.The government has a key role in providing a level playing field for innovators. If you’re worried about personalization at the app level (as per Eli Pariser yesterday), you should be v...

Jun. 4, 2010 11:41 AM EDT Reads: 573

Procurement 2.0: Using Collaborative Technology

By Bob Gourley

Christopher Dorobek of Federal News Radio moderated a panel that focused on how to use collaborative technology to improve procurement. There have infinite conferences regarding procurement, so talking about it isn’t new, but the BetterBuy Project, a platform that enables the pu...

May. 27, 2010 10:42 AM EDT Reads: 1,338