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Google finally ready to launch Jaiku on their platform

Jaiku is down, and according to jaikuinvites, it's because they have finally moved their system to the Google App Engine platform. There's no official word from Google about what's happening, but their website describes it as "server maintenance". If you're wondering what Jaiku is, you can...

Tags: Google Inc., Jaiku, Activity Stream, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Channel Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telephony, Servers, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Networking, Hardware, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-08-23

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TV's future: the partnerships are forming now

In just the last few days, there were a few news announcements that, separately, were kind of ho-hum. But together, it appears that the stars are suddenly starting to align for the next generation of television, one that's more of an on-demand Internet-based experience, instead of a schedule-driven feed from...

Tags: Partnership, TiVo Inc., Programming, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Want To See (And Talk About) What Your Friends Are Buying? Zappos Set To Introduce 'Social Shopping'

Zappos, the online retailer of shoes and clothing, is about to become a social networking site, borrowing aspects of Twitter and Facebook and applying them to their customers’ particular passion: buying stuff. CEO Tony Hsieh Wednesday confirmed to Between The Lines that it is working on an...

Tags: Facebook, Customer, Twitter, Zappos, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Microsoft Money Just Wants to Be Free

Microsoft is abandoning its personal finance software, Microsoft Money, after over 16 years of development and marketing. But why abandon perfectly good software when it could be released to the community as an Open Source project? This week, Microsoft announced its...

Tags: Be Free, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Personal Finance, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Why does 'complex event processing' have to be so complex?

I've always felt that "complex event processing" is a term that scares people away. Perhaps there needs to be a softer way to describe what this thing is -- perhaps just plain old "event processing" will do? Or perhaps "sense and respond, times 100,000"? You don't need...

Tags: Event, Financial Services, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition

I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...

Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Facebook to revamp App Directory, launch "Verified Apps" certification

It looks like Facebook may be taking a lesson from Apple when it comes to applications. With thousands upon thousands of applications working their way through the user base, there needs to be a way for users to sift through them and find what they're looking for. ...

Tags: Facebook, Certification, Blogging, Quality, Internet, Business Operations, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-14

The four stages of the average Twitter user

The four stages of the average Twitter userRE: The four stages of the average Twitter userFifth stage - Tweeting incessantly, addictively, neglecting work, family and real friends not the virtual ones.RE: The four stages of the average Twitter userhmm - I primarily use Twitter Search so not sure what stage...

Tags: Twitter

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

Facebook open streams, takes down walled garden

tweetmeme_url ='http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=533'; tweetmeme_source = 'mager'; Facebook has always been known as a walled garden of social data. Until today, the only data you could access was the status updates of...

Tags: Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Facebook opens up, launches Open Stream API

Facebook said Monday it will open its streaming data to third party developers.  In a blog post, Facebook outlined the plans also see documentation. The Facebook Open Stream API will allow developers to incorporate the user data on Facebook in other applications. Users can choose whether their...

Tags: Facebook, API, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Capturix VideoSpy 6.03.2176 (Windows)

Capturix VideoSpy is a complete software that combines video surveillance and domotics. Supports any video for windows device like USB Webcam or Tv Tuner card and network cameras or video servers. With this software you can record all video activity with a programmed schedule, insert data in picture, work as...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Video, Capturix Software, Capturix VideoSpy, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-04-23

Facebook responds to redesign concerns; Changes are coming

After more than a million Facebook users expressed their dislike of a recent Facebook redesign, the social networking site said today that it plans to make some changes, enhancements and other tweaks in response to user requests and concerns. In a blog post that acknowledged "thousands of...

Tags: Facebook, Redesigns, Blogging, Social Networking, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-24

March Madness meets IT: We're guinea pigs

updated below: Here at CBS, parent of ZDNet, March Madness is a big deal. We don't discourage employees from watching the Web streaming extravaganza and folks don't have to worry about boss buttons and such. To us, the March Madness tip-off is almost like a holiday....

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Audiovox ACA250 wireless rearview camera

Photo gallery:Audiovox ACA250Offering a simple, four-wire installation on most vehicles, the Audiovox ACA250 wireless backup camera can be installed by a person comfortable with simple hand tools in an afternoon. For your labors, the camera system greatly increases the low-speed safety of your vehicle by giving you a looking into...

Tags: wireless, camera, Audiovox ACA250, AudioVox

Product reviews 2009-02-19

Why RIAA, ISP cooperation may deliver returns for both sides

Why RIAA, ISP cooperation may deliver returns for both sidesHow do they catch you anyway?For BitTorrent They check trackers for your IP? I'm not sure how other peer-to-peer systems work, but as long as I'm using trackers that have "no logging IP adresses/usage" in their privacy policy, I'm going to...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, ISP-A, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Phishers as street-level drug dealers

The Microsoft report on the profitability of phishing and its associated economic constraints is reminiscent of another illegal enterprise: street-level drug dealing. Microsoft released a report stating that phishing is no where near as profitable as commonly believed. If you have not read the report or...

Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-01-11

Cyn.in Desktop 1.0b10 (Mac)

Cyn.in helps teams to create collective knowledge by sharing workspaces, applications, documents, files and digital content within a secure, unified environment. Cyn.in combines the capabilities of collaboration tools like wikis, blogs, file repositories, micro blogs, instant discussions and other social applications into a seamless platform.The cyn.in desktop client keeps users...

Tags: Desktop Client, Apple Macintosh, Cyn.in, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-12-18

Cyn.in Desktop 1.0 beta 10 (Windows)

Cyn.in helps teams to create collective knowledge by sharing workspaces, applications, documents, files and digital content within a secure, unified environment. Cyn.in combines the capabilities of collaboration tools like wikis, blogs, file repositories, micro blogs, instant discussions and other social applications into a seamless platform.The cyn.in desktop client keeps users...

Tags: Desktop Client, Microsoft Windows, Beta, Cyn.in, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-12-18

Riot Tagging

Tokyo is currently the largest city of origin of Twitter messages in the world, more than twice that of second placed San Francisco and New York in the USA as of this summer. (Incidentally, while the Japanese Kanji language Twitter service, which only launched in April of...

Tags: Tagging, Twitter, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-14

Schwartz: Three reasons you need JavaFX

In the run-up to today's launch of JavaFX, ZDNet sat down with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz to get his thoughts on JavaFX, Flash, and the future of Java. [ Read: Sun launches JavaFX 1.0, and JavaFX Q&A ] [Ed] Q. Why did Sun create...

Tags: Developer, Java Platform, Sun Microsystems Inc., JCP, Audience, JavaFX, Ed, Jonathan, Microsoft Obviously, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-12-04