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- Twitter's failure updates: not good enough
- Update 5/30/08 11:00am EDT: TechCrunch says "Twitter's doing an excellent job of actually communicating with users all of a sudden." That's nonsense. Yes, they've improved, but there's a long way to go to achieve failure communication greatness. Twitter's downtime, lack of reliability and...
- Tags: Technorati, Twitter, Ruby On Rails, Blogging, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Technorati fails, fixes, and fully discloses
- Technorati, a major blog indexer, recently shut down their spiders to fix severe data problems. From the blog post explaining the incident emphasis added: [A] small percentage of recently created blogs were having their data scrambled. An example of this appears in this blog post. The spidering outages allowed...
- Tags: Technorati, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Technorati rolls out Percolator and Blogger Central
- Technorati rolled out its latest effort to fine tune its blog search service today, with a renewed focus on the blogger community and new ways to discover content, according to company CEO Richard Jalichandra. "We are going back to service the bloggers," Jalichandra said, who took on...
- Tags: Technorati, Blog, Sprint Communications, Blog Search, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
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- The Importance of Dissent
- The Importance of Dissentwould be nice...It would be nice if we could "shout from the rooftops" without fear of reprisal. In reality, with most companies, the options are "jump ship" or "keep your mouth shut and do as you're told".It's hard to disagree publicly with your companyI agree with you...
- Tags: Drizzle, Mat, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.
- I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...
- Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?
- Deploying and managing online communities: Who, how and why?Read the book Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh BernoffRead the book Groundswell if you want great insight into how to do this properly and there are also lots of case studies and stats in the book.In respect of the product ratings...
- Tags: Groundswell, Dell Computer Corp., Direct2Dell
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Microsoft's Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0
- Microsoft's Powerset hosts Lunch 2.0jummyYou my friend, have a good taste for Live/photo Blogging.Keep em coming :DTales
- Tags: Lunch 2.0, Powerset, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Enterprise buyers: Spare us the Web celebrities
- Enterprise buyers: Spare us the Web celebritiesEnterprise buyers: Spare us the Web celebritiesI wouldn't read anything Micheal Arrington or TechCrunch has to say. The guy is an idiot and does nothing but whine all the time.Avoiding "no"What you have to remember about large enterprises is that there are 100...
- Tags: Channel management, Enterprise Buyer, Web celebrity, social media, celebrity, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Presenting the most pointless website in the world
- Presenting the most pointless website in the worldWhat is it?I read the whole article on Regator and I still don't know what it is or what it does.Could someone please get a journalist to write some stuff for ZDNet?RE: Presenting the most pointless website in the worldIt's useless. I didn't...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Blogging, pointless website, Web site
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- 'Is enterprise collaboration an oxymoron?' Be the Voice Podcast with David Spark.
- I recorded a 25 minute conversation about my enterprise collaboration consulting work and blogging with David Spark a couple of weeks ago for his 'Be The Voice' thought leadership series of podcasts, which is primarily focused on how to drive business growth. David summarized...
- Tags: Collaboration, Voice, Podcasts, Leadership, Internet, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- "Why do you hate Vista so much?"
- "Why do you hate Vista so much?"Reasons that Vista bothers me...1) I have now spent over 4 hours trying to get SP1 installed on a new box.... the BSOD's are blurry (kind of funny huh?) The same box, XP installed with less heart ache and fewer issues... while I am...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, SP1, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing front
- Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing frontMarkets are based onDemand and Availability..Nobody needed a new OS at this stage.Nobody still does.. Ads won't change this.Plus for me.. i don't need fancy GUI tricks i could do 8 years ago under Enlightenment with X11 and Linux.There is no added...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Leopard, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Open source microblogging
- If I had to explain Twitter to someone for the first time, I would say that it's an addicting social news feed of my friends' status or commentary. It's micro-blogging. Pushing out a tweet to 10 or 10,000 people is as easy as sending a text message. ...
- Tags: Twitter, Podcaster Leo Laporte, Microblogging, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Open Source, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-24
- This week's rants
- This week's rantsYou've got it.I never tire of Robin Harris telling the world that MS has lost all their data...a classic. Even when he admits other filesystems are worse. Why then MS? Well they are the biggest and deserve to be blamed...so there..pouted Robin in reply to that question. ...
- Tags: Linux, Blogging, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Seinfeld
- Discussion threads 2008-08-23
- Excel and Basic Accounting Error
- Excel and Basic Accounting ErrorWe should go back to manual ledgers...VisiCalc was created to eliminate accounting errors. Now the spreadsheet is now being blamed for accounting errors. Perhaps the real problem is GIGO. Garbage in, Garbage out.The real culprit is slick sleaze ball corporate accountants and managers that are trying...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, fun thing, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet, big system, accounting
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Jive Clearspace 2.5: increasingly sophisticated social productivity tools
- Clearspace, Jive Software's 'social productivity' collaboration software, hits version 2.5 today. This latest release builds on a solid foundation, and has many new features and enhancements, as the above video illustrates. 2.5 marks some significant upgrades - there has been some major tweaks under the hood to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Tool, Clearspace Team, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Collaboration, Groupware, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Search engines under the spotlight this week
- I'm spending most of this week at the Intel Developer's Forum but also wanted to give some time to another show happening in the Bay Area this week: Search Engine Strategies, being held at the San Jose Convention Center in Silicon Valley. Monday was one of those unofficial days of...
- Tags: Search Engine, Search, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- An Event Apart 2008: Day 1
- The antique Palace Hotel in San Francisco houses An Event Apart, a collaboration of interactive presentations about web standards, user experience design, and best practices. The two-day conference features well-known speakers from around the world, including AEA's hosts Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer. ...
- Tags: Web, Framework, Web Design, Interfaces, Craftsmanship, D, Channel Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking
- My ZDNet blogging colleague Ed Bott's headline took me aback when I read it today. "Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7." What?!! Had hell really frozen over while I was at lunch? by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Blog, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
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