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- MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release
- Today, MindTouch Deki announces Kilen Woods, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki into what Fulkerson calls the 'connecting tissue' between applications. Others might call it mashup environment, still others a means of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Aaron Fulkerson, Management Option, Wiki, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
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- Microsoft to bolster Live Search in Europe with Greenfield acquisition
- Microsoft to bolster Live Search in Europe with Greenfield acquisitionReagrding MS Live SearchHas it occurred to Microsoft that a great many people, far more than they imagine absolutely can't stand Live search. Microsoft's foray into the new and improved is a disaster and should be withdrawn, or at the very...
- Tags: SEARCH, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, Europe-with Greenfield acquisition
- Discussion threads 2008-08-30
- Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?
- The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...
- Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Social giving for charity begets social giving for community
- Normally I don't write about specific events but I'm making an exception as this is almost a mini overview for how charity in social media can turn into a benefit for the social Web community. In May I launched a Social Media Charity Auction that raised about...
- Tags: giveaway, social media, greg verdino, inbound marketing summit, jennifer leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Enterprise communities: build or join?
- Determining how a company should engage with or create an online community is a critical process. Aaron Strout, VP of social media for Mzinga authored this primer on what steps enterprises must take while evaluating their community engagement strategies. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Facebook, Community, Network, Social Media, Customer, Site, Social Networking, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- McCain's campaign team has no Facebook chops
- You have to admire the chutzpah of the idea of convincing voters that they should vote for a candidate through an arcade game rip-off of Space Invaders, because it's simply ludicrous coming from a candidate who has declared he doesn't even know how to "use a computer." Aaron Jacobs-Smith of...
- Tags: Facebook, Team, John McCain, McCain, Jacobs-Smith, Games, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group
- ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking groupWindows is to blameI hear that the Internet is basically run on Windows servers so it is hardly surprising that this happened. If ICANN would only switch to OS X I'm sure that no hacker would ever be able to break in.As...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Domain names, ICANN, IANA, hacking group, Turkish, hacker, hacking, IP, domain
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Art with Flight Patterns
- On a recent visit to the Gray Area Beacon, an art gallery in San Francisco, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi caught up with visual artist Aaron Koblin. His "Flight Patterns" has become a worldwide phenomenon online.
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, aaron koblin, flight patterns, gray area beacon, digital art, new york, world, youtube, but no tags matched
- Videos 2008-06-11
- Calling out lawyers on their own FUD
- Last week I did a little legal snark, suggesting that the BusyBox settlements do not, as attorney Edward Walsh wrote, add to the legal risks run by enterprises using open source. Now the Software Freedom Law Center has weighed in on this, and they agree with me....
- Tags: Edward Walsh, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Big earthquakes trigger tremors worldwide
- U.S. researchers who have studied 15 earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 7 since 1990 have found that at least 12 of them triggered smaller quakes thousands of miles away. Their study shows that large earthquakes routinely spark jolts worldwide, 'including on the opposite side of the planet and in areas...
- Tags: Researcher, Wave, University Of Utah, Velasco, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Developers snub Vista in favor of XP
- Developers snub Vista in favor of XPSlight misinformationIts very standard to target previous versions of OSs. In fact, 2000 was the last time I saw the majority of programmers target a recent OS, and that was just because 2k was so good.Dumb!To believe that Vista won't be accepted by...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Corporate America, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, developer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Microsoft plugs Office leaks; Delivers 4 critical patches
- Microsoft on Tuesday delivered four critical patches for vulnerabilities Office and Windows XP. There were six patches delivered. Here's a look by the CVE: CVE-2008-1091: Microsoft patched an object parsing vulnerability in Microsoft Word. Affected software includes Office 2000, 2003 and 2007. Microsoft explains:...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Attacker, Microsoft Office, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Zero Day Initiative, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- NASA's lunar breathing system
- When six astronauts share a 15 cubic meters spacecraft for weeks, how is it possible to avoid to be bothered by your fellows sweating and breathing? I've already written about staying clean in space, but NASA is going further this time. Its scientists are testing a lunar breathing system. The...
- Tags: NASA, Carbon Dioxide, CAMRAS, Sorbent, Flows, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Extracting the structure of networks
- Networks are used to represent the structure of complex systems, including the Internet or social networks, but often these descriptions are biased or incomplete. Now, researchers at the Santa Fe Institute SFI have shown that it's possible to extract automatically the hierarchical structure of networks. The researchers say their results...
- Tags: Network, Structure, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-03
- VMware targets long-term deals; pursues lock-in strategy
- VMware's first quarter results got the company out of Wall Street's penalty box and highlighted how the virtualization leader is trying to sign customers up to long-term licensing deals to fend off a potential pricing pressure from rivals such as Citrix and Microsoft. VMware after the closing...
- Tags: Strategy, Revenue, Customer, Agreement, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Not just hot air: Some details on Dell's server thermal design
- It takes a whole lot more than just a new multi-core microprocessor or even whiz-bang virtualization technology to create a greener server. A few weeks back, I wondered out loud exactly why Dell's latest PowerEdge M-Series blades were getting so much notice as a green option -- after having several...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerEdge, PowerEdge R300, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Xbox 360 owners - No Blu-ray for you!
- Following the horrible death of the HD DVD high definition format, many had predicted me included that Microsoft would pretty soon be offering a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360. Seems like Xbox 360 owners waiting for a Blu-ray player are out of luck. The news was...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Blu-ray, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Comcast hires these people off the street to help fill gallery for FCC Torrent-thwart hearings
- Seems as though Comcast wanted to ensure a sympathetic gallery crowd for yesterday's FCC hearings about the broadband Internet giant's habit of thwarting BitTorrent packets and connections. So what better way to do just that than getting some warm bodies off the street...
- Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Photograph, Portfolio.com, Federal Government, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Government, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses
- YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknessesBGP was implemented...to decentralize the Internet and make it more autonomous. I guess there was a few things they missed.One BGP router shouldn't be able to poison that much of the Internet. There is definitely going to have to be some...
- Tags: BGP, net security weakness, security weakness, YouTube Inc., security, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
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