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- ZDNet Author Biography
- David Berlind was fomerly the executive editor of ZDNet. David holds a BBA in Computer Information Systems. Prior to becoming a tech journalist in 1991, David was an IT manager.
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- Newsgator updates knowledgebase on OPML export problem, hints at new feature too
- If you caught my blog and video yesterday, then youd know I was having some difficulties getting Newsgators OPML export process to work. Today, from Newsgator Technologies Inc. product support manager Ronnie Gilbertson comes an update on that OPML problem. Via e-mail Gilbertson wrote: This is a follow up to...
- Tags: OPML, Web technology, Software Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Help! My OPML has fallen down and it can't get up!
- Last week, on the Dan and David Show, although the service is still an early prototype, my colleague Dan Farber heaped praise on Googles RSS reader imaginatively named Google Reader. I decided to finally give Google Reader a look but wanted to save myself the trouble of having to...
- Tags: NewsGator, OPML, RSS, RSS reader
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Winer on wikis: Just add OPML
- According Dave Winer, wikis could use a bit of OPML Outline Processing Markup Language. Now that I've had my hand at running a public facing wiki for three months see the Web site for Mashup Camp to which many other people have contributed, I'm in agreement with Dave that...
- Tags: Blogging, Wiki, Web, blog, OPML
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
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- Microsoft patents 'Page Up' and 'Page Down'
- The software maker has been granted a US patent on "navigating paginated content in page-based increments." Microsoft has been granted a patent on 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' keystrokes. The software giant applied for the patent in 2005, and was granted it on August 19, 2008....
- Tags: Page, Microsoft Corp., Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Microsoft, patent
- News items 2008-08-29
- News to know: IE 8; iPhone password locks; SOA; Palm Treo Pro reviews
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: IE 8 Beta 2 ready for download Ed Bott: Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover Gallery: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Password, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, SOA, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- 'Is enterprise collaboration an oxymoron?' Be the Voice Podcast with David Spark.
- 'Is enterprise collaboration an oxymoron?' Be the Voice Podcast with David Spark.Perhaps it's more about security....Or at least it clearly needs to be.If you couple your APS to closely, no mater how much work you do to secure your side, it's only as secure as their side.Now if they coupe...
- Tags: podcast, David Spark, enterprise collaboration, APS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- '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
- Dancing on E-voting's grave
- Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...
- Tags: Fair Use, e-voting, client-server, Fairness Doctrine
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Feel like taunting an identity thief? Don't.
- The next time you get the urge to enter angry messages to phishers on fake malicious Web sites, stop and consider this discovery by researcher Joe Stewart. The identity thieves behind the Asprox botnet have built extra logic into phishing sites to detect taunts and subject those...
- Tags: Identity Thief, Asprox, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Banking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Financial Services, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
- In a tunnel under the Franco-Swiss border, the world's most powerful particle accelerator passed its final test run before its full-fledged attempt on September 10. Pre-initiation testing of the Large Hadron Collider has now been completed, ahead of the particle accelerator's official launch on September 10. ...
- Tags: CERN, Tunnel, Particle, Beam, LHC, Team Management, Leadership, Management, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator
- News items 2008-08-26
- Office 2.0: an Irregular mashup
- The upcoming Office 2.0 conference is one of the first in the fall calendar that keeps people like me in more airports than I care to think about. It's also one for which I have fond memories. Office 2.0 started out as an idea put out into the Enterprise Irregulars'...
- Tags: Innovation, Conference, Office 2.0, Mashup, Unconference Session, Ross, Susan Scrupski, Zoli Erdos, Vinnie Mirchandani, Vinnie, David Tebbutt, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- The Perils of Showboating
- The Perils of ShowboatingMocking companies looking for VC moneyYears ago I wrote two articles about start up presentation events. Out in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley there are tons of these events. It was getting out of hand so to have some fun with it, some producers thought it...
- Tags: Gong Show, Perils
- Discussion threads 2008-08-24
- The Perils of Showboating
- My friend David Spark sent me the link to the above video while we were chatting online this morning, and I facetiously commented it was a little like TechCrunch vs ZDNet. The bizarre contest above, which appears to be between a Capoeira performer and a boxer,...
- Tags: Contest, Online Collaboration, Collaboration, Oliver Marks
- 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
- Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisoners
- An employee at Home Office contractor PA Consulting has been suspended after the loss of a memory stick holding the unencrypted details of every prisoner in England and Wales. A staff member at PA Consulting Group has been suspended after the contractor lost details on all prisoners in England...
- Tags: Data Loss, Data, Worker, Spokesperson, Government Department, Government, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, security, UK, memory stick, Home Office
- News items 2008-08-22
- PowerBook G4 display manufacturing defect coverup
- PowerBook G4 display manufacturing defect coverupAnd yet Apple is rated highest ........ in customer satisfaction. Go figure!Ah yes, the give and take of adult conversation...... as people use logic, facts, and evidence to debate and explore the issues of the day. Perhaps if we listen in, we can...
- Tags: Notebooks, Olevia TV, manufacturing, Apple Inc., Apple PowerBook, Apple PowerBook G4
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up?
- Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up?Google and Search are ONE.Yin/yang, Google is search, search is Google, they are one, inseperable and harmonious. To tear them apart would rip the fabric of the universe.Google won when it became a verbSeriously, I'm surprised Google only has 62%. Like the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- IKEA's mixed bag of IT investments
- Last evening I read an interesting Gartner case study (registration wall warning.) It tells how IKEA Components, a company that is part of the iconic retailer of flat pack furniture used Lawson Software products to make significant across the board process savings and improvements. The business intelligence/process project makes great...
- Tags: IKEA, Information Technology, IT Investment, David Meerman Scott, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- FCC issues 'radical' order re: Comcast
- The FCC has released its formal decision PDF against Comcast, ordering it to stop throttling BitTorrent traffic. As Wired's David Kravets views it, it's an open invitation for ISPs to censor content – so long as they're protocol-agnostic about it. Calling the decision "vitriolic," Kravets says:...
- Tags: FCC, Commission, Network, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Network Management, Federal Government, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Sales Force Management, Networking, Government, Internet, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- BigFix makes government's power management mandate more palatable
- For those of you readers who work within federal government agencies and have been faced with meeting mandated conservation policies, software vendor BigFix has negotiated a deal with the General Services Administration to offer its software at an annual license of $3 per computer for the first year of new...
- Tags: Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
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