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- On the future of Open Source thought leadership
- After over a decade of being in the shadow of the Free Software movement and 30 years of its inflexible dogmatic principles, disruptive new Open Source thought leadership is emerging that is truly able to compromise with the realistic needs of business and end-users without carrying...
- Tags: Software, Leadership, Richard Stallman, Open Source, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- RSS: A good idea at the time but there are better ways now
- I find it hard to believe that RRSusage was ever as high as 9%.I have a high-tech B2B client who had 1 person reading their RSS feed. But, within a week, had 15+ followers on Twitter.Twitter is easier for me to push out info.Twitter is easier for me to follow...
- Tags: RSS, Twitter Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying Guide
- Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying GuideAmerican Values?In which modern democracy, Israel included, would you find an ad-campaign like this inoffensive to women?You're way off-base there...1) You [i]do[/i] understand the difference between human beings and animals, don't you?2) It was an [i]Internet[/i] ad, launched on Facebook, and in...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Bacardi Ltd., Rum
- Discussion threads 2009-06-21
- Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying Guide
- Bacardi's misogynistic Israeli Internet advertising campaign will only get them scores of disdain from American consumers. What the hell was Bacardi thinking? I had to see it to believe it. Bermuda-headquartered Bacardi, the world's largest spirits distiller, decided to launch a English and...
- Tags: Bacardi Ltd., Serrales, White Variety, Barrilito, Barbancourt, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-06-21
- Will Ubuntu remain a minor player
- Will Ubuntu remain a minor playerWhat's novel here?Not the fact that you can try Ubuntu.It's the fact that you try any operating system.How is that happening? Most likely Click2Try is another open source hoster running Xen, much as Amazon Web Services, only they are moving ahead with easy 'on...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Only Problem, Ubuntu, minor player
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy
- By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Windows 7 editions … too many, too few or just right?
- Windows 7 editions … too many, too few or just right?RE: Windows 7 editions ? too many, too few or just right?Too many Windows 7 .... No ifs and buts about it. After the gazillion patches, I'm quite happy with my old Windows XP. It seems that banks and...
- Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 edition, Microsoft Windows, Home Premium, Starter, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-03
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Top 5 Netbooks
- The biggest surprise of 2008 was the arrival of netbooks. Asus was the first in the pool with its Eee PC, and after some initial hesitation, the big guys were forced to jump in as well. Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo are all among a long...
- Tags: ASUS, Hard Drive, Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Battery, Memory, Acer Inc., Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Dell Inspiron, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Kicking Internet pirates off the web
- Kicking Internet pirates off the webPiracy'They'still haven't figured it out!! Make the product a fair price and people will happily pay for it. With a blank CD at 50 cents, who will pay $20 from a shop for an 'Imported'music CD? PERCEIVED VALUE is the key. At $5 nobody would...
- Tags: Perceived Value, Web, piracy, Kicking Internet, Kicking Internet pirate
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Livin' La Vida Linux
- Livin' La Vida LinuxWell...Sure there are licenses. It all boils down to what you think is best for you.A proprietary license which is a collection of onerous restrictions on end-users or the GPL which can be loosely termed 'share and share alike'.No one is "looking over my shoulder". That is...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, shoulder, Samba, personal use
- Discussion threads 2008-10-15
- Phishers increasingly scamming other phishers
- A new study conducted by Marco Cova, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna, provides factual evidence of a well known practice by experienced phishers, namely, backdooring phishing pages that they would later on distribute for free across the IT underground, in order to build a covert network where other phishers would...
- Tags: Kit, Cybercriminal, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Viacom, Google cut deal on user data
- Viacom, Google cut deal on user dataIf I see one I'll let you know NT&Viacom, Google cut deal on user dataOh this is funny. Google never cared about user privacy before and now that they are going to be sued into oblivion they suddenly care? I hope Viacom hits...
- Tags: INTERNET, Digital media, Google Inc., Viacom Inc., user data
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Viacom statement on YouTube user data
- Viacom statement on YouTube user dataGreat news for the entire copyright communityDing dong ... the witch is dead! ... or at least she is starting to melt! Wow ... I would say this is very good news for the entire copyright industry. While potentially inconvenient to YouTube viewers, and understanding...
- Tags: INTERNET, Digital media, user data, Google Inc., Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- 12 terabytes of YouTube data
- 12 terabytes of YouTube dataHorrible loss for ConsumersThis Judge needs to be taught what he has the power to do, and not to do. This is a clear violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act. Not to mention a major privacy issue for all of us that have ever watched...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Digital media, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Windows updates galore: The latest on SPs, FPs and UEs
- The Windows client team has been pushing out service packs SPs, a new feature pack FP and Ultimate Extra add-ons for Vista over the past few days -- to varying degrees of customer satisfaction. On April 23, Microsoft began rolling out via its Automatic Update mechanism SP1...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hack
- TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hackSemantic HackHi,Just pointing out that the entire semantic hack projectmay be simple theft, see www.tsert.com/white-papers/nlp.pdfRegards,Tsert.comPierre InnocentRE: TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hackGive me a break! A company thinks they have a great tool, and they have to pay somebody $1M...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, TextWise, semantic hack, promoter
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- Lawson on Corporate Social Responsibility:Thou Shalt Obey The Law
- My, my! Industry Corporate Social Responsibility CSR white papers are becoming like buses - nothing for ages then all of a sudden three in a row. First the Economist Intelligence Unit supported by SAP, then IBM and now Lawson enters the fray with the oddly titled The Convergence of Corporate...
- Tags: Compliance, Lawson Software Inc., Industry Corporate Social Responsibility White Paper, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Panasonic AG-HSC1U
- Panasonic bills its AG-HSC1U, a souped-up version of its AVCHD-based consumer and now discontinued HDC-SD1, as the smallest available professional three-chip HD camcorder. Weighing about a pound and fitting easily in the palm, the camera certainly is small--but does it qualify as "professional?" You might say that if a...
- Tags: camera, HSC1U, AVCHD, Panasonic, Panasonic AG-HSC1U
- Product reviews 2008-02-19
- A tale of two statements: Apple and the EU on iTunes pricing
- A tale of two statements: Apple and the EU on iTunes pricingJust out of curiosityWhat typos are you referring to? The paragraph was properly spelled from front to back. The only questionable point is the replacing of z's with s's which is a perfectly acceptable British spelling. Hell,...
- Tags: Pricing, Digital media, Free trade, Sales force management, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, pricing strategy
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- Linux vs. Unix (Cost)
- Linux vs. Unix CostUnix/Linux distinction a mistake?Linux is cheaper than Unix. Whether an observation or a perception, buyers believe that in making choices. That's the reason Linux server sales have been primarily Unix replacements. Calling that a change within the same family is reasonable. There's a...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Unix, hobbyist
- Discussion threads 2007-11-30
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