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- The data center cost conundrum
- The other day I stumbled across a BusinessWeek slide gallery that shows the comparative cost of the five lowest cost data center towns in the US. Not being an expert on these matters, I passed the baton to my Irregular friend Vinnie Mirchandani who understands these...
- Tags: Data Center, San Francisco, New York, Boyd, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Research: Myspace and Facebook are different class
- In my recent post 'Facebook and MySpace are like chalk ‘n' cheese', I argued that the two sites have contrasting user-bases, and cater for different needs.... essentially I see the two giants generally catering for the needs of different demographics — hence their distinct differences in terms of layout and...
- Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Iconoclasm in the global village
- Blogger Boyd Stowe, who loves "social tools", doesnt love me (Ive actually got very nice social tools, especially after a few beers). In response to an essay I published this week on the Britannica website, which was critical of the Cluetrain Manifestos 4 sacred Cs: "community", "conversation", "customer" and "citizenship"...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-14
- FL certifies challenged election
- In problematic House District 13, where about 18,000 cast ballots mysteriously didnt include votes for a hotly contested House race, state officials officially certified Republican Vern Buchanan the winner by 369 votes over Democrat Christine Jennings, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. Democrats immediately followed with a lawsuit asking...
- Tags: Government technology, Elections
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
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- A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .
- I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- iPhone VoIP apps and services
- VoIP-sol.com has assembled a list of the various VoIP applications and services that are currently available for the iPhone, including iCall, fring, iPhoneGnome, JAHJAH, Talkety, sipgate, Raketu and Ringfree. Some require a jailbroken iPhone and others do not. Have you had succes with VoIP on iPhone? What is your app...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, jason D. O'Grady, Networking, Telecommunications, Telephony, VOIP, VoIP-sol.com
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Enterprise 2.0: my $0.02
- Enterprise 2.0 is over for another year and despite a poor start, the event turned out well. I attribute the poor start to the performance of Oracle and Microsoft: two of Jevon MacDonald's 'drag queens.' Both seemed tired, dated and out of touch with the mood of the new generation...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Social Computing, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., Groupware, Social Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Enterprise 2.0 Conference notebook
- Ironically this week has probably been my most offline in months - Sprint failed the brand new Westin Hotel in Boston disastrously with terrible or non existent wifi service. It was a real shame because Jive Software had an instance of Clearspace for the conference attendee community and there was...
- Tags: Security, Notebook, Collaboration, Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Wireless LANs, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- 3-D collaborative body art in Scotland
- A collaborative technology developed several years ago at ETH Zurich in Switzerland is now being used in a theater in Scotland. The Living Canvas technology allows performers on stage to interact with recorded visuals projected on them. As said the lead developer, who teamed with a theater director for this...
- Tags: 3D, ETH Zurich, Performance, Technology, Living Canvas Technology, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- LiveJournal's new owners stick it to Advisory Board
- No more ad-free, free user accounts. Having pledged to "do no harm", blogging and social networking platform LiveJournal's new Russian owners are no longer offering new users the Basic Level account, "which traded a pared-down feature set for an ad and cost free user profile", reports ReadWriteWeb....
- Tags: Advertisement, Board, LiveJournal, SUP, Corporate Governance, Social Networking, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Data trips between light and sound
- As you probably are aware, future communications networks will certainly be based on optics. A research team led by Duke University physicists has done an important discovery which might lead to these future super-fast optical communications networks. The team has found a way to store information coming from a beam...
- Tags: Team, Fibre, Data, Duke University, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, Storage, Networking, Telecommunications, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-15
- Feds seek cell positioning data without warrants
- Is that a cellphone in your pocket or are you just glad to for me to see you? Federal law enforcement agents are "routinely" seeking court orders for cellphone companies to provide them with realtime positioning data on suspects - often without even a pretense of...
- Tags: Agent, Warrant, Positioning, Cause, Judge, Real Estate, Branding, Business Operations, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Better build those barricades real high
- Josh Greebaum's thoroughly enjoyable explanation of his epihany at Office 2.0 is wrong. Or at least I hope so. Like Josh, I am from the PC generation. The first machine I bought was an Apricot Xi back in...for £1,799. A lot of money in those days. Like Josh, I remember...
- Tags: Microsoft Excel, Office 2.0, IBM Corp., Like Josh, Atlassian, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Today's Debate: Ban cell phones from hospitals?
- Today's Debate: Ban cell phones from hospitals?Improve Hospital MachinesI would hope that the medical companies could figure out a way to shild their machines from such devices. Even if you ban cell phones, as small as they are now, some folks forget they are turned on. I would...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, hospital, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Nuking cancer cells with alpha particles?
- Radiotherapy is widely used to fight cancers. Today, only beta particles are approved by health regulators, such as the U.S. FDA. Beta particles are small and travel fast, but it takes thousands of them to kill a cancer cell. Now, U.S. researchers have found a way to use alpha particles...
- Tags: Rice University, Particle, Cell, Radiotherapy, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- News to know: Google Apps; iPhone Watch; Golden Rules
- Notable headlines:Danah Boyd: Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpaceTechMeme coverageDavid Berlind: Google improves ‘Apps', offers organizations clear path off Exchange, Notes, etc. to GMailiPhone Watch Dan Farber: Steve Jobs goes 'all in' with the iPhone Bloomberg: iPhone Euphoria May Lead to Investor Disappointment Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iPhone - The bets are...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- More reflections from ETech
- In the morning sessions at ETech today, I listened to a very philosophical session by Mike Kuniavsky on the implications and role of magic in this technological world we inhabit. His presentation was heady stuff that engaged a number of people in the audience in a good conversation. The second...
- Tags: Desktops, Zimbra, Web
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Web 2.0: Are Cisco, News Corp., Viacom, Gannett really clueless?
- In the Web 2.0 social networking “users are in control” world, mega corporations must be feeling we’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t! I polled a few weeks back “Poor Google?,” noting a string of setbacks and a underwhelming 2007 beginning. Google, of course, is “everyone’s favorite...
- Tags: Newspapers, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Print, Video, YouTube, Content, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Culture, Google, Enterprise, Web 2.0, Usability, Media
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Intel rides the datacenter build out wave
- Intel is more than making up for slower sales of enterprise servers due to consolidation and virtualization by selling processors, such as the Xeon 5100 Woodcrest and 5300 Clovertown series, for large-scale datacenters built by leading Internet portals. "In the last three months we have shipped more product into this...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Datacenter, AMD, Intel, virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- Wikia magazines; Facebook gifts; Stumble Video for your Wii; Yahoo "copies" Digg
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week... Wikia launches magazine-style wikis. Jimmy Wales company, Wikia, has unveiled three wiki-driven community sites for politics, entertainment, and local interests. Wikia says it plans to roll out additional communities...
- Tags: Facebook, Social Bookmarking, The Social Web weekly, Video Sharing, Wikipedia, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
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