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- Web Squared: Web 2.0's Successor?
- Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle discussed their vision and nomenclature for the next iteration of the web in a webinar last Thursday: I believe the recording will be available online sometime this week, slides are above. With the term 'Web 2.0' enjoying its fifth birthday...
- Tags: Web, ISBN, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-28
- WMP 12 toxic to certain MP3 files
- WMP 12 toxic to certain MP3 filesIrony isthat even from your genuine sources you can't be sure it isn't compromised either! [url=http://www.securityfocus.com/news/480]Oops #1![/url][url=http://www.dgl.com/dglinfo/1996/dg961023.html]Oops #2![/url][url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/25/microsoft_security_fixes_infected/]Oops #3![/url]3 strikes you're out! LOL so much for "genuine". More like genuine hassle to run Windows! ]:)Re: What do I think:Foolish to use it as the...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, WMP, WMP 12, beta
- Discussion threads 2009-01-05
- Alpine iDA-X100 digital media receiver
- When was the last time you walked into a store and purchased a CD? If it takes you a few moments to come up with an answer, you've probably made the jump to digitally distributed and stored audio. If so, Alpine may have the car stereo for you, the...
- Tags: Digital music, Monitors & displays, Advertising & Promotion, faceplate, digital media, Alpine iDA-X100, Alpine, knob
- Product reviews 2008-12-18
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UACSo I don't have to wait for Windows 7?The need to wait or upgrade to Windows 7 is looking more dim for Windows Vista users. Microsoft just yesterday announced their intention to improve the user experience for UAC in Windows 7. But with third...
- Tags: SECURITY, Web browsers, EXPLORER, UAC, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- BI Crystal Ball â€" Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think
- Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...
- Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
- After spending a few weeks working with a beta version, I've concluded that there's just enough that's better in the CS4 updates to Photoshop and Photoshop Extended--most notably, usability improvements for core features--that many people will find themselves sighing, biting the bullet, and upgrading. That bullet biting stems from Adobe's...
- Tags: panels architecture, Adobe PhotoShop, Photoshop Extended, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Product reviews 2008-09-23
- Adobe Photoshop CS4
- After spending a few weeks working with a beta version, I've concluded that there's just enough that's better in the CS4 updates to Photoshop and Photoshop Extended--most notably, usability improvements for core features--that many people will find themselves sighing, biting the bullet, and upgrading. That bullet biting stems from Adobe's...
- Tags: panels architecture, Adobe PhotoShop, Photoshop Extended, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Product reviews 2008-09-23
- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Tags: Dion Hinchcliffe, Itasca, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, Mashup, Mashup Exchange, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Serena, SnapLogic, Web
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Approach Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Beta with caution
- The company on Wednesday offered its Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 beta for download. While this version is feature complete, it's more than "rough around the edges," and users of the professional image editing and photo management software should be wary. According to a blog post by Tom Hogarty,...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Lightroom, Beta, Lightroom 2, Productivity, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Salesforce to Salesforce, the anti-viral network
- When I heard the details of Salesforce.com's newly announced feature that allows subscribing companies to link data and processes with each other, my first reaction was very favorable. My second reaction â€" when I heard the price â€" was, "How much? You must be kidding." Salesforce to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Network, Organization, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- EC ruling: careful what you wish for
- EC ruling: careful what you wish forStepping on third parties.When Microsoft integrates capabilities and thus functionality functionality into the operating system, other providers of that functionality are now competing with what Windows users already have.The Real complaint involved streaming media specifically. Microsoft has an advantage with streaming present...
- Tags: Operating systems, Digital media, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- HP Photosmart R937
- Don't judge a book by its cover, and don't judge a camera by its appearance. HP's 8-megapixel Photosmart R937 might look strange, but its unique design makes it one of the more pleasant snapshot cameras to work with. The R937 looks downright cyclopean, with its lens sitting in the center...
- Tags: Keyboards, ISO standards, Process improvement, Photosmart R937, camera, photograph, ISO, Hewlett-Packard Co., touch screen
- Product reviews 2007-09-05
- Microsoft's 'service-enabled' approach is really only sorta-SOA
- A new article on Redmondmag.com examines the fascinating topic of Microsoft and SOA. Microsoft's strategy -- pivoting on the strengths of Windows Communications Foundation WCF as well as (huh?) applications virtualization -- is different from earlier "embrace and extend" market assault campaigns.Microsoft's SOA strategy amounts to embrace and contract. They...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- WSO2 expands ESB market with Apache Synapse-based, open source SOA offering
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: WSO2WSO2, Inc. has entered the open source SOA field with a slate of veterans from Web services specifications, application server design and lightweight framework development. The company's latest offering to the market came June 11 with the arrival of WSO2 ESB 1.0,...
- Tags: Enterprise Java, management, Open Source, Podcasts, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Web Services
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- WGA - The "A" stands for Advertisments
- WGA - The "A" stands for AdvertismentsROIIt only seems fair. Microsoft has spent billions acquiring and securing an enormous user base. Now they're monetizing that investment. That's part of their fiduciary responsibility to their stockholders.I you don't like it, don't use their products.PS: have you ever noticed...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, software
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
- UDDI set to emerge from the shadows of obscurity
- UDDI set to emerge from the shadows of obscurityebXML has a smaller ad spendand there's the slashdot bias they refuse to allow current eb posts but it's adoption rate is higher than reported: http://www.ebxmlforum.net/ ( hosted at webservices.org )http://ebxmlforum.blogspot.com/http://ebxml.org/http://www.freebxml.org/Speaking of SOA thingies starting with"U"Universal Data Element Framework ( I call...
- Tags: ebXML, ebXML Registry, UDDI
- Discussion threads 2007-02-07
- Use this floating toolbar to set options (Windows Vista killer features)
- Use this floating toolbar to set options Windows Vista killer featuresYawn...gee, it's almost like a macAnd ........??????What is the whole point here? It is a fancied up version of WinMe that probably eats your memory due to the heavy 3D graphics of Explorer. I have a very fast...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, toolbar, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, photograph
- Discussion threads 2007-01-30
- Windows Vista's three killer features
- Windows Vista's three killer featuresWindows Vista killer featuresWindows Vista has those three killer features? Wow!!! I bet it can also start up and shutdown. Amazing!!! These are things we can do without, NO!!!!Honestly, these are lame reasons to switch to Vista, probably taken from a Microsoft Vista overview or something...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, killer feature, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-30
- The ups and downs (as in connectivity is down) of using Google documents
- The ups and downs as in connectivity is down of using Google documentsYou point out the true flaw......of online programs. How many times in the past have I typed a page into MS Office only to have the program crash after a few minutes of typing. This is...
- Tags: INTERNET, Google Inc., Google Docs
- Discussion threads 2006-12-23
- Acrobat 8 Professional for Windows
- Acrobat 8 Professional for Windows offers more intuitive software than Acrobat 7 to better bridge the gap between the online and print worlds.Whenever you download and print event registration forms, large reports, books, or sleek brochures from the Web, you usually wind up dealing with a file in Adobe's...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe PDF, Acrobat 8
- Product reviews 2006-11-09
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