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- Photos: Happy developers in da house
- Some 150 people gather in a Los Gatos, Calif., mansion for SuperHappyDevHouse, a 12-hour marathon of coding, hacking and socializing.Participants of the 19th SuperHappy DevHouse hackathon session descended on Tom Harrison''s family home last weekend in Los Gatos, Calif. Harrison far left opened his house up to some 150 tech...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, SECURITY, photograph, Amit Patel, SuperHappyDevHouse, Los Gatos, Facebook, San Jose State University, hacking, chief technical officer, Ohio State University, University of Washington, online v
- Image galleries 2007-08-16
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- SlideShare: user communication failure
- While Enterprise 2.0 applications can be useful, hassles sometimes abound. In this case, I innocently tried to upload a simple file to SlideShare, only to learn things aren't always straightforward.After attempting to upload the file, I received an error message stating in part: There's a big chance this is...
- Tags: Object-oriented Programming, File, SlideShare, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- HP cranks up the heat on sustainable IT research work
- As part of a corporate strategic overhaul in research, Hewlett-Packard Labs is cranking up its R&D efforts in three areas of sustainable IT. 1. Sustainable Data Center: The aim here is to reduce the carbon footprint of data centers by 75 percent overall, while simultaneously cutting...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Supply Chain, Data Centers, Research & Development, Strategy, Business Operations, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge
- In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...
- Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Microsoft takes wraps off Live Mesh
- At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Amit Mital, general manager of Live Mesh at Microsoft, demos the company's new platform. The initiative is a "software plus services" platform that enables PCs and other devices to "come alive" by making them aware of each other through the Internet, enabling...
- Tags: Platform, Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, web 2.0
- Videos 2008-04-24
- openQRM goes solo after Qlusters dumps open source strategy
- openQRM is looking for a new sponsor following its separation from Qlusters earlier this month. On April 9, on the release of openQRM 3.5, Qlusters announced it decided to donate the open source data center management provisioning and monitoring project to the community on SourceForge. The project, which will continue to be...
- Tags: Strategy, openQRM, Qlusters, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Microsoft to deliver first Live Mesh beta in late April
- After dangling some vague promises about its plans to create seamless social and device "meshes," Microsoft is set to deliver more details about its mesh-syncrhonization strategy -- and deliver its first Live Mesh beta to external testers -- later this month. In a Web 2.0 Expo keynote...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., FolderShare, Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Middleware, Internet, Software, Enterprise Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Women's attractiveness judged by software
- According to Haaretz, an Israeli team of computer scientists has developed a software that ranks facial attractiveness of women. Instead of identifying basic facial characteristics, this software has been designed to make aesthetic judgments -- after training. The lead researcher said this program 'constitutes a substantial advance in the development...
- Tags: Software, Face, Symmetry, Researcher, Women, Image, Computer, Haaretz, Gender And Diversity, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Putting perspective on the "30% of Vista crashes caused by nVIDIA" reports
- A story that's echoing around the blogosphere at the moment relates to how information contained in the 158 page pack of emails released as part of the Vista Capable lawsuit indicates that during some unspecified point during 2007, 30% of Vista crashes seemed to be down to nVIDIA drivers. Back...
- Tags: Recovery, NVidia Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., TDR, Diagnosis Information, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- 5 tips to prevent IT extinction
- 5 tips to prevent IT extinctionJargon - useful, concise, natural extension of vocabularyIT personnel should be reasonable in their use of jargon just as much as professionals in other disciplines - Medicine, for instance. A user who needs to be spoken in language devoid of any technical terms might...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Is open source the right way to bring innovation to market?
- Is open source now the right way to bring truly innovative ideas to market? Terracotta CEO Amit Pankey Pandey thinks so. Pankey told ZDNet "In the last year we've seen our market penetration go up by more than an order of magnitude.We attribute a lot...
- Tags: Innovation, Terracotta, Storage, Sales Strategy, Databases, Open Source, Hardware, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- The Moore's Law of open source
- Before joining ZDNet I wrote a lot about Moore's Law, the idea that things get faster-and-faster faster-and-faster. I found exponential Moore's Law effects everywhere. Not just in chips, but in magnetic storage, in optical storage, in optical transport, even in radios. The only place...
- Tags: Moore, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- MySpace U-turn: YouTube contributed to our success
- Long time readers of this blog will remember the MySpace vs YouTube war of words and actions that dominated much of 2006. It began when MySpace, albeit temporarily, blocked access to YouTube videos on the social networking site, reached its peak following the Google-acquisition of YouTube, and concluded with the...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., MySpace, Social Networking, Corporate Communications, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- eBay outlines fee overhaul; Is it smoke and mirrors?
- Updated with more information on listing fees: eBay on Tuesday said that it is cutting listing fees, boosting selling standards and dangling carrots in front of sellers to move more volume. The effort is new CEO John Donahoe's first move in an effort to boost eBay's growth. ...
- Tags: Fee, Goal, Seller, Safety, eBay Inc., Quality, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- The post Davenport-McAfee slugfest: the Twits speak
- n. r.v. twit·ted, twit·ting, twits To taunt, ridicule, or tease, especially for embarrassing mistakes or faults. See Synonyms at ridicule. 1. The act or an instance of twitting. 2. A reproach, gibe, or taunt. ...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Davenport Co., Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Sales Strategy, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Digital Inspiration has exclusive screenshots of Live Documents
- Live Documents, the Flex-based Office 2007 competitor that got a lot of attention last week has finally let out some screenshots to Amit Agarwal over at Digital Inspiration. I won't post them here, I'll let you head over there, but I won't lie; they're going to look VERY familiar. I'm...
- Tags: Inspiration, Microsoft Office 2007, Screenshot, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Analysts call Oracle's virtualization bluff
- Oracle on Monday announced its own server virtualization software and claimed it was three times more efficient than rival products. VMware shares were whacked on the news. What a difference a day makes. On Tuesday, analysts called Oracle's virtualization announcement "virtual FUD" and noted it was reminiscent to the company's...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Oracle Corp., VMware Inc., Xen Hypervisor, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Linux, Hardware, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Buzzword now available without signup
- Buzzword, the word processor that Adobe bought earlier this year has taken off the invitation code requirements and opened up the doors. I noticed that more of my Twitter friends were talking about it but hadn't realized that the invitation codes had been blown away. Amit Agarwal...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Word Processors, Software, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Video demo: Flixster built-into a MySpace profile via Google's OpenSocial framework
- Dan Farber and I just got done participating in a news teleconference with executives from Google and MySpace including MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt who talked about how MySpace's adoption of Google's recently announced OpenSocial framework will hopefully lead to OpenSocial's adoption as the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google OpenSocial, Video, MySpace, Aber, Social Networking, Podcasts, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Andy Smith
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- eBay: All is not well
- Forget the Skype acquisition debacle. It's eBay's core business you should be worried about. That's the takeaway from Wall Street on Thursday after eBay reported what appeared to be strong third quarter results also see Techmeme. But there's the fine print. Currency effects--if you haven't noticed the...
- Tags: eBay Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Financial Planning, Finance, Investment, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
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