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Who will be Microsoft's next top evangelist?: Who will be Microsoft's next top evangelist?Everyone is hiring analystsEven little Opera hired the one guy who had a decent blog about the product. Daniel Goldman at Operawatch is now an "Evangelist" for the company. Mary are you next?None Of The AboveProbably No-Fax-On-Mind or Love-Croc. Linux Run Backward...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, evangelist, Mary, Mike Cox, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-02-15
Who will be Microsoft's next top evangelist?: Microsoft is snapping up some off-the-beaten-path hires, as of late.The latest to join The Empire: Former Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg. In his new role at Microsoft, Gartenberg will be "an enthusiast evangelist." This new group of individuals is charged with doing "outreach to users" and creating new content for...; Tags: Corporate strategy; Blog posts 2007-02-15
Can Apple stick around?: Former evangelist speculates on future of companyGuy Kawasaki, a former Apple employee and current CEO of Garage Technology Ventures, further discusses Steve Jobs' role in putting the pieces back together, how Apple achieves its success, and what the future holds. CNET News.com's Amanda Termen reports.; Tags: Apple Computer Inc.; Videos 2006-03-30
Evangelist wanted, apply within: Evangelist wanted, apply withinThat's nothin'You think Evangelist is a strange title, try; Tags: evangelist; Discussion threads 2006-02-27
Evangelist wanted, apply within: Newsgroups... that's probably where it first got started. Employees and enthusiasts giving advice and helping out new users. In the beginning, it was on their own time. Next there were blogs. Again, informal at first. Truth be told, many were started against company wishes. One to one contact with...; Tags: evangelist, Evangelist; Blog posts 2006-02-26

Crosstown Traffic: Now that David Weinberger has released himself from any responsibility for keeping up with blogs, I'm taking the opportunity to release myself from being an evangelist about anything. I hereby renounce the thought that I am carrying the ball, the water, the meme, or any other burden--for RSS, attention, podcasting,...; Tags: evangelist, RSS; Blog posts 2005-06-20

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Telcos hurting national interest says Vint Cerf - Father of Internet: I spoke with Vint Cerf at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay. I asked him about net neutrality and the problems created by Telcos in trying to own the gateways to the Internet. Here is the video, the quality is very high contrast because of...; Tags: Vint Cerf, Internet, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-22
How much is a unit of cloud computing?: How much is a unit of cloud computing?It will never be as easy as kwh, but, we do need a way to pay for usage.And it needs to be fine grained. Amazons method is WAY to course.RE: How much is a unit of cloud computing?Phil,We at GoGrid decided on...; Tags: cloud computing, GoGrid, Mosso; Discussion threads 2008-07-16
iPhone 2.0 and all kinds of little mobile RIAs: I generally break RIAs into three categories: browser-based, desktop, and mobile. After playing with the iPhone 2.0 firmware, checking out some of the applications, and going through the experience in the iTunes store one of the best RIA examples out there, I'm pretty convinced that the iPhone is the best...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, Mobile World, App Store, Web 2.0 Player, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-07-10
Progress Software continues SOA buying spree with Mindreef acquisiton: Progress Software continues SOA buying spree with Mindreef acquisitonDon't forget SOAPscope Tester!Dana,Thanks for the thorough post. Yours was the first I saw as I was traveling in Iquitos, in the Amazon Jungle. Just back, and I wanted to point out to your readers that you've missed out on one of...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Mindreef, Progress Software Corp., SOA; Discussion threads 2008-07-06
Microsoft Equipt: good deal, lousy name: Microsoft Equipt: good deal, lousy nameJust what is "Equipt"?This name certainly does not contain any hint as to why someone would want it. Product names should be at least somewhat related to the purpose of the product.I also dont like software subscriptions. It seems that they are simply another way...; Tags: Microsoft Equipt, Microsoft Corp., lousy name, good deal, Microsoft Office; Discussion threads 2008-07-02
Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught: Microsoft's search plan apparently revolves around semantics. The software giant picked up Powerset, a natural language search provider for an undisclosed sum. Will it be enough to close its yawning Google and even Yahoo search gap? Probably not, but Powerset could give Microsoft a little leapfrog ability...; Tags: Google Inc., Natural Language, Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Vint Cerf on video distribution: Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google, speaks at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York Tuesday about his vision of a solution for video distribution via downloads. He says online video will be distributed in broadcast mode.; Tags: Corporate Communications, Marketing, News, vint cerf, google, online, video, distribution, media; Videos 2008-06-27
Ruby on Rails: scaling to 1 billion page views per month: While a lot of attention has been focused on Twitter with questions about whether Ruby on Rails scales, LinkedIn has been quietly running a RoR application on Facebook that is beating down around 1 billion page view per month. Bumpersticker, a relatively trivial Facebook application that allows you to create...; Tags: LinkedIn, Ruby, Joyent, Ruby On Rails, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-06-23
Practice Fusion shows off "Google Apps" for doctors: Practice Fusion, a SaaS and ad-driven set of applications targeted at the medical market has just released a a suite of applications that they're billing as "Google Apps" for doctors. I've written about Practice Fusion before and how it's a really great example of an RIA that's aimed at the...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Patient, Practice Management App, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-06-19
Yang's recovery runway: Months to days (and board should go too): It had looked like Jerry Yang would at least get a few months to prove he could right the listing ship that is Yahoo. Perhaps it's days now. The issue: Can you really turn a company around when the talent is heading for the exits at a...; Tags: Jerry Yang, Recovery, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-06-19
So what about mobile labs?: So what about mobile labs?Doesn't scaleIf you've got one or two carts in a smallish school, it can work pretty well, in part because using them is a special event. If you've got, say four or five carts in a school, it is pretty much a full time job...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, mobile lab, mobile; Discussion threads 2008-06-19
Apple finally goes RIA: Apple finally goes RIAPlease convince me.How can RIA and privacy coexist? I mean, the same people who are delusional about the patriot act live on myspace, youtube, and facebook where privacy is valueless.i likeits a great start, I think Apple is going in right direction.RE: Apple finally goes RIAThis...; Tags: rich Internet application, Apple Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-06-17
Is your ISP throttling your network connection?: If you aren't sure, you will soon be able to download a tool from Google that will tell you once and for all if they are. If ISP's aren't going to tell their users exactly what is happening with their network connections, Google wants to make sure that these...; Tags: Google Inc., Network, Internet Service Provider, Network Connection, Tool, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Productivity, Networking, Internet, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-06-15
Microsoft to showcase social bookmarking at TechEd: One of the new technologies that Microsoft is planning to showcase at its upcoming TechEd U.S. conference is its social-bookmarking tool. John Martin, Lead Evangelist for Server & Tools Online -- as he describes it, "the group that manages the global MSDN, TechNet, Codeplex, and Expression...; Tags: TechEd, Social Bookmarking, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-26