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'Quality Scores' For Web Content: How Numbers Will Create A 'Beautiful Cycle of Greatness for Us All'

Patrick Keane spent four years at Google, before becoming chief marketing officer at CBS Interactive which owns CNet and ZDNet. Now he’s in his third month as chief executive officer at Associated Content, the “people’s media” company. And...

Tags: Keane Inc., Web, Quality, Content, Associated Content, Channel Management, Engineering, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-17

AP, Meet AC. And, BTW, News is Not Really 'Monetizable,' on the Web.

The Associated Press was created in 1846 as a news cooperative. The idea was to allow member newspapers (and later, radio and TV stations) to combine costs in covering, reporting on and distributing news of import to its members. Its 21st Century counterpart, Associated Content, goes it...

Tags: Keane Inc., Web, Associated Press, News, AC, Associated Content, Channel Management, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-17

The Sustainable-Food Industry: The Power Of Green

In recent years sustainable agricultural farming is gaining favor over factory farming. Their goals are to maintain environmental and economic balance. Now more than ever, people are wanting to get back to nature, and share in a vision to leave the earth in better shape for the next generation. Sustainable...

Tags: Associated Content, Food & Beverage, Strategy, Manufacturing, Management

White papers 2008-08-15

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Flipping Fantastic

Getting the most out of Flip video cameras The picture above a still from a Flip video is of my venerable old three chip Sony VX1000 video camera, Frezzi light and associated 10 pound battery belt. In the foreground is a Flip video...

Tags: Microphone, Video Camera, Video, Camera, Flip, Flip Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-21

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with WindowsI gave it some thought too and realized that Chrome OS only has the bad and the ugly. There is nothing good about it. All data stored in the cloud, and on Google's...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Altova XMLSpy Standard Edition 2010 (Windows)

Altova XMLSpy 2010 Standard Edition is an entry-level XML editor for viewing, validating, and editing XML-related documents. It is perfect for users who need to open XML, DTD, XML Schema, XSLT, XQuery, HTML, and CSS files and perform light-weight editing tasks. XMLSpy Standard Edition includes advanced Text View with line...

Tags: Altova, XML Schema, Microsoft Windows, Altova XMLSpy 2010 Standard Edition, XMLSpy Standard Edition, Browser View, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Google hopes to remake programming with Go

Could be a really cool programming for old C/C programmers!!I will definitely try it out.No. No pointers.Umm, no. No pointers, no "*" symbols littered in my code anymore, thanks.. . . and, frankly, it pushes typing from bad to worse. No OOP, and no replacement, other than what...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Development tools, Programming languages, cloud computing, large project, object-oriented programming, Google Inc., programming

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Copyright associations want enforcement for free

The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...

Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon

Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....

Tags: Google Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Smart.fm - almost enough to make me want an iPhone

I really don't want an iPhone. I'm holding out for a Droid, just as soon as I figure out some way to justify getting rid of my perfectly adequate BlackBerry. However, the iPhone has lots of apps and one in particular is being unveiled today: Smart.fm's iPhone interface...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Smart.fm, iPhone App, RTI, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Microsoft drops 'Family Guy' special

Viewers watch Family Guy because they want tonot because it's forced in to their cubicles at work.That doesn't fit with the Windows brand, indeed.MSFT tried to alter the content of the show"Microsoft sent MacFarlane and Fox several notes expressing their concern over the show's content but ultimately decided just to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Family Guy, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Open source scores small victory at White House

Open source scored a victory at the White House this week with the government's choice to switch to Drupal for whitehouse.gov. The U.S. government's technology team announced that it had selected the open source content management system to make http://www.whitehouse.gov more transparent to consumers and developers. ...

Tags: White House, Government, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-10-26

News Cooperative Creates Touch-Friendly Mobile News Service for Windows Phones

As newspapers seek a way to thrive in the world of digital media, The Associated Press is assisting by identifying new outlets and revenue streams for member news providers. Its first response is AP Mobile, which delivers international, national, and local news from more than 1,000 content providers to Windows...

Tags: Phone, Associated Press, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Digital Media, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Case studies 2009-10-23

Fake 'Conficker.B Infection Alert' spam campaign drops scareware

Not much they can do.Not much they can do.Email was never designed for security, and it's HARD getting everybody on the same page with a solution that works, because basically every solution we know of pretty much requires everybody to use it. But, unfortunately, it's difficult convincing people running email...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Conficker.B Infection Alert, spam campaign, sample message, Internet Service Provider, e-mail, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Barnes & Noble ebook reader named the QUE, coming 7 January

It will be interesting to see . . . If they can keep the price down, or will they blow themselves out of the water by making it more expensive than everything else out there . . .Hard to price higher than the Kindle DXNo matter what features you put...

Tags: E-books, Digital media, Que, e-book, Barnes & Noble Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Newsmakers: Be careful what you wish for

Without Google they get no trafficIt does not take a rocket scientist to know that without Google, most of this news sites would probably have little to now traffic at all.So how is Google stealing from them? Since when is sending customers to your door a bad thing?Without the...

Tags: Web site development, Operational accounting, Google Inc., Google News

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

oXygen XML Editor 11.0 (Mac)

Oxygen is a Java-based XML editor with support for XML, XSL, TXT, XSD and DTD documents. It has Unicode support and the interface messages are translated in English, French, German, Italian and Romanian. It offers end tag auto-completion and a powerful code insight that guide the user to write valid...

Tags: Oxygen, Apple Macintosh, XSL, DTD, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-09

Net Neutrality vs. "do no evil"

6 of onehalf dozen of another. Like all extremists you paint a nice picture from one perspective. All these internet companies are so innocent and all they want is a fair shake . . . yeah right. In order to maximize profits, they purposely underbuilt their networks. They advertize high...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Regulations, regulation, Videotron, network, Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-10-03

AT&T cries foul to FCC, uses Google Voice to spark Net Neutrality debate

There's a Net Neutrality battle going on and AT&T has put a double-edged sword at the feet of the FCC - and Google's name is written all over it. AT&T sent a letter to the FCC today, asking the regulatory agency to look into the practices of...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Voice, AT&T Corp., Net Neutrality, Google Voice, Federal Government, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-25

If JFK's doing it, you should too

As I was browsing News.com, I stumbled upon an article from a couple years back talking about a 10-year project to digitize the complete collection of papers, photographs, documents, and audio records of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Awesomely enough, this collection will be made available to people around the...

Tags: Paper, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Corporate Communications, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Marketing, Doc

Sponsored content 2009-09-19