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Twitter announces "significant" funding; offers few details

Dear God, Let Twiitter FailIt's idiotic.[b]I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR TWITS, TWATS, OR WHATEVER THE F YOU WRITE ON TWITTER. [/b]Twitter = EPIC FAILWebsite value calculatorTwitter tooHere is a tool to calculate a website valueCalculated twitter value too:http://www.how-much-is-my-website-worth.info/

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Twitter Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Supernova: The Future of the Desktop

Panelists: Lili Cheng Microsoft, Tom Ngo NextPage, Gary Benitt Goowy, Chris Thomas Intel, Kevin Lynch Adobe Panel intro by Kevin Werbach from program: "Windows and Mac OS, the dominant computer interfaces of our time, are two decades old. And the standard office productivity software suite is not much younger. Have...

Tags: Lili, Tom, desktop, decentralization

Blog posts 2006-06-23

Making software fun again

Making software fun againNot on fun software; one big ASP advertisementWas hoping for a more general commentary on how the software world could regain some shine and inspiration; instead it turned out to be one long ad for ASPs.Sorry, been there, done that...I think you are going to have a...

Tags: Thin clients, Scripting languages, Microsoft Windows, Servers, e-mail, Decentralization, window, thin client, Microsoft ASP, computing, software

Discussion threads 2004-06-18

Additional Resources

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Social Business in Action - Establishing Excellence

Human interaction is as old as humanity, and nothing beats personal contact. We can learn more from a few seconds of personal contact and get a 'gut feel' about someone or a situation experientially in person than we can from hours of research and remote contact....

Tags: Web, Team, Information Technology, Human Interaction, Cohen, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Team Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-21

10 data center paradoxes -- out of complexity comes simplicity

For every action there is an equally potent reaction, and that is certainly the case in IT developments we've been seeing as of late. Call them paradoxes if you will, and I just published some of them in an article for Database Trends & Applications on the...

Tags: Data Center, Paradox, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Overall spam volume unaffected by 3FN/Pricewert's ISP shutdown

Following last week's shutdown of 3FN/Pricewert's operations by the FTC, wishful thinkers expected a major decline in the overall spam volume, with botnet masters once again caught off guard just like it happened in November, 2008 with McColo's shutdown. However, according to numerous vendors that doesn't seem...

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Malware, FTC, Spam Volume, 3FN/Pricewert, Marshal8e6, Rustock, Pricewert, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Business Security, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Business Operations, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-06-10

Google: Spam volume for Q1 back to pre-McColo levels

It took only a couple of months for cybercriminals to catch-up and reintroduce the massive spam volumes that briefly disappeared following the shutdown of the cybercrime ecosystem's sitting duck McColo in November, 2008. According to Google's Postini Spam data and trends for Q1 2009, during the first...

Tags: Google Inc., Spammer, Spamming, Spam Volume, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-04-02

After the collapse: Tech insights provide the way forward

The structures of society are breaking down - banking, government, retail, housing - in as profound a way as they did in the Great Depression. What will our future world look like? The insights of technology - openness, networking, decentralization - provide the key. by Richard Koman

Tags: Sustainability, Banking Industry, Obsoletism, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-02-22

Emirates NBD Leads Human Resources Technology Revolution Across the United Arab Emirates

Emirates NBD wanted to upgrade Human Resources HR system and add genuine business value through decentralization and create a "Virtual HR manager" by instilling greater dependency on systems and self-service while eliminating bottlenecks. The challenge was to reduce overhead costs associated with core HR processes, including workflow, payroll, and performance...

Tags: Human Resources, Oracle Corp., Training

Case studies 2009-01-01

The emerging case for open business methods

The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...

Tags: Business, Business Method, Business Strategy, Dave Bort, Dion Hinchcliffe, Internet, Management, Network, Open Source, Reasons Organization, Strategy

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Video Is Not The Future of the Internet. It’s the Present.

Video Is Not The Future of the Internet. It’s the Present.User generated video is now kingThe web 2.0 revolution was all about decentralization of content authoring and social media. This video generation on the web is also going to be user generated. Our system at http://www.digitalchalk.com is user generated...

Tags: Corporate communications, video, User Generated Video, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-11-20

Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels

Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levelsWhose side are you on? ntnt = no textWhose side are you on? ntOn the objective one.Objective?I dunno, it sounds to me like you're:a) Giving them advice on what to do nextandb) Telling the rest of us how useless it is to fight them"objective"?Re: Objective?a)...

Tags: Atrivo/Intercage, spam level

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

Systems log analytics offers operators performance insights that set stage for IT transformation

When technologies get started, they tend to start in a disaggregated way, but as technology -- and certainly data centers -- have matured, you see that you have to be able to not only address the decentralization, but you have to be able to bring it all together in one...

Tags: Performance, Analytics, Information Technology, Information, LogLogic, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-09-11

Whatever happened to CMP?

When this decade dawned, the big three technology news publishers were International Data Group, Ziff-Davis and CMP Media. Now, Ziff-Davis has been split into multiple pieces, including this site owned ultimately by CBS. And the initials “CMP� are nowhere to be found. The business that brings you...

Tags: Acquisition, Information Week, CMP Media, United Business Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Thin Clients, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Openness

I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...

Tags: Talent, Mozilla Firefox, Collaboration, British Telecommunications, Openness, JP Rangaswami, Sam, Web Browsers, Groupware, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Public vs. Private? Outspoken Congressman mulls government's investment role in green tech

The kind souls at LimeLeap, a technology services company that has donned a green mantle as its new business mantra, have taken an item off my to-do list, which was to follow up on a green business roundtable that they hosted in Washington last month. As I...

Tags: Green Technology, Government, Congressman, Entrepreneurship, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-10

We know SOA depends on cultural shifts, but -- like the weather -- we still don't do much about it

Recent observations on SearchSOA.com on lack of meaningful SOA adoption suggest that the technologies and techniques have amounted to but a mere improvement on EAI. Some conveniently calling it EAI 2.0, but admit the effects are not yet wide nor deep. We have yet to see SOA...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, End-game, Sides, Profits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-27

A Lightweight Java Taskspaces Framework for Scientific Computing on Computational Grids

A prototype Taskspaces framework for grid computing of scientific computing problems that require intertask communication is presented. The Taskspaces framework is characterized by three major design choices: decentralization provided by an underlying tuple space concept, enhanced direct communication between tasks by means of a communication tuple space distributed over the...

Tags: Java, Communication, University Of Colorado, Grid, Computing, Framework, Taskspaces Framework, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Programming Languages, It service Management, Networking, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-01-01

How Cisco IT Achieves Consolidation and Standardization in the Data Center

The need to manage and build isolated islands for each application cost Cisco IT too much in resources and flexibility, and a solution was required. Underutilization of resources is a major factor in high TCO. Like many enterprises, Cisco is challenged to control the costs and improve the inefficiencies of...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Consolidation, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Standardization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2007-12-18