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The trouble with Groundswell: The trouble with GroundswellRealpolitik- Realpolitik (German: real ("realistic", "practical" or "actual") and politik ("politics")) refers to politics or diplomacy based primarily on practical considerations, rather than ideological notions.While there's a place for the 10,000 foot guys - analysts, theorists, high level management, authors - and their ideas are often tremendously...; Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Groundswell; Discussion threads 2008-04-03
The trouble with Groundswell: Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff at industry analysts Forrester are bagging a lot of positive blog hype over their new book Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. In my view the hype levels buzzing aeround the book make certain enterprise software claims seem tame. This from David...; Tags: Supply Chain, Blog, Groundswell, Sam Lawrence, Marketing Research, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-03

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Video: Jobs health and other Apple chatter: What started as a blog conversation weeks ago about the state of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health has turned into a groundswell of stories. Apple says Jobs' health is a private matter, but it's gone quite public with stories in the New York Times, BusinessWeek and Wall Street Journal. ...; Tags: Steve Jobs, Health Care, Apple Inc., Video, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-23
IT departments become Web 2.0 gatekeepers; 41% of execs stumped about mashups: Corporate technology departments are becoming the primary gatekeepers of Web 2.0 purchases--it used to be the business types--but could use a little education on concepts like mashups. According to a report by Forrester Research, IT departments are now in control of enterprise Web 2.0 deployments and the...; Tags: Web, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Mashup, Technology Department, IT Organization, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-11
Are Your Products Open or Closed? How to Respond to the New Openness: Companies in many industries are struggling to determine how best to deal with the power that social computing gives their customers as an open forum to share how they feel about products with millions of fellow consumers. This newfound power in the hands of customers is creating an openness of...; Tags: Endeca Technologies Inc., Product Innovation, Optaros, Roi/Tco, Social Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion; Webcasts 2008-02-27

How would you like to run Palm OS apps on your iPhone/iPod Touch?: How would you like to run Palm OS apps on your iPhone/iPod Touch?Garnet VM[url=http://www.access-company.com/products/gvm/]Garnet VM[/url] runs on Nokia's N770/800/810 models. Interesting--never tried though.RE: How would you like to run Palm OS apps on your iPhone/iPod Touch?Better question: Would the ability to run Palm OS apps make you buy an...; Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, PDAs, Palm OS, Palm OS app, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., iTouch, operating system, Newton, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod; Discussion threads 2008-02-22
Misys and open source medicine: Today was an important day for open source in medicine, as Misys Healthcare Systems released the code of its Misys Connect as open source. The importance goes beyond a single vendor's fate. That's because Misys Connect is essentially middleware, code for connecting applications together. Misys is...; Tags: Importance, Misys, Electronic Health Record, E-health, Healthcare, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-02-08
Microsoft Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA defense falls to spam bots: Microsoft Windows Live Mail's CAPTCHA defense falls to spam botsI'll second that...They, or someone, has also figured how to do the same with Yahoo accounts. One of my email accounts, not Hotmail or Yahoo, gets 5 - 10 spams a day from Hotmail, Yahoo US, Yahoo UK, Yahoo Taiwan,...; Tags: Operating systems, CAPTCHA, CAPTCHA defense, Microsoft Windows Live Mail, spam bot, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live, WLM, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-02-07
Is a recession good for the social web?: It's logical that if we are heading into a recession (I'm not convinced), ad-spending will likely take a hit. Whether or not online spend will be cut at the same rate as off-line media spend, is yet to be seen, but nonetheless budgets will be cut. And...; Tags: Web, Advertisement, Beinggirl.com, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-02-06
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to employees: We're looking at other options; Don't get distracted: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to employees: We're looking at other options; Don't get distractedTranslation:"Sell now and get the hell out while you can."Jerry Yang is desperate.Employee's keep working as hard as you can till we lay you off. (Yeah, that makes sense.)We haven't even thought about the MS offer....; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Jerry Yang, stock; Discussion threads 2008-02-04
How to really make money with Web 2.0: One of the most significant announcements made around the turn of the year attracted very little attention at the time, despite its huge import for the way on-demand applications get created and marketed. I'm talking about Amazon DevPay. Silicon Valley's online chatterati didn't give it much of a second glance,...; Tags: Developer, Web, Amazon.com Inc., Google AdSense, Amazon DevPay, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-01-22
Why 2008 will be a bad year for Microsoft's Ed Tech market share: This is not the usual Linux/Mac fanboy "Microsoft is Dead, Long Live [insert OS of choice here]" rant. Microsoft is a multikajillion (yes, I am a math teacher) dollar giant and it isn't going anywhere any time soon. However, I think it has some pretty significant obstacles ahead...; Tags: Student, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows XP, Software, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-01-01
Browser battle v2: Opera's complaint about Microsoft may sell better in Europe: Browser battle v2: Opera's complaint about Microsoft may sell better in EuropeUmm......Opera isn't open-source.One correction[i]Forcing Microsoft to strip IE out of Windows or abandon its web standards charge could be a major setback for Microsoft, which still owns more than 93 percent of the PC desktop market.[/i]This isn't true. Apple...; Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Opera Software, Web browser, operating system, Apple Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-12-13
Adobe takes data access technology open source; Will the enterprise bite?: Adobe on Thursday said it will open source a data access technology called BlazeDS. The goal: Speed up the adoption of enterprise rich Internet applications. BlazeDS connects data, which can be housed in the enterprise or pushed out, to Adobe Flex and AIR applications. Adobe says the data access...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Open Source, Rich Internet Application, Data Access, BlazeDS, Adobe Labs, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-12-13
HD DVD vs. Blu-ray ad nauseam: The battle between the HD DVD and Blu-ray formats is the battle that simply doesn't want to end. Many, however, think that this Christmas season could be critical, a Gettysburg-style confrontation that won't by itself knock either format permanently out of the race, but could start a "rolling downhill" effect...; Tags: Advertisement, Sony PlayStation 3, HD-DVD, Acceleration, Disc, Blu-ray, HD-DVD Forum, HD, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Sales Strategy, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sales, John Carroll; Blog posts 2007-11-29
Putin allies building a pro-Kremlin network of blogs, news sites: Putin allies building a pro-Kremlin network of blogs, news sitesWhy its differentIt's basically the same issue of whether a groundswell of blogger support for some candidate actually turns out to be funded indirectly by the candidate. Think Swiftboat. If the govt wants to put out a message, thats fine. But...; Tags: Blogging, Putin ally, pro-Kremlin, pro-Kremlin network, Putin, news site, blog, network; Discussion threads 2007-10-30
News to know: BEA bid, Green Friday, Windows Live events: Notable headlines: Dana Gardner: Oracle makes its move to acquire BEA George Ou: Green IT will get zero traction until IT pays the electric bill Harry Fuller: Greening your datacenter, what's it worth? New climate change report in November will...; Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, BEA Systems Inc., Dana Gardner, Green IT, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-10-12
OpenSUSE beats Ubuntu to the punch: OpenSUSE beats Ubuntu to the punchAdditional benefitsOpenSuSE is the only 'Microsoft certified Linux', even better;)False comparison but good reviewThe title "OpenSUSE beats Ubuntu to the punch" implies that the two distro vendors were racing to release the same capability, and OpenSUSE got their first. That's silly, of course -...; Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Novell OpenSuse, Novell Inc., Linux, Ubuntu, WARNING LABEL; Discussion threads 2007-10-05
Gnomedex, bloggers and rich internet applications: I'm on the bus so posting will be a bit light over the next couple of weeks but I'm trying to keep up with news feeds so if anything big happens I'll be on it. Since Marc did his write up of Gnomedex I thought I should follow and give...; Tags: Rich Internet Application, Blogger, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2007-08-16
Did anyone complain about the graphics in Super Mario Bros?: There's an open thread going on over at Web Worker Daily that asks, do Rich Internet Applications matter to you. Anne Zelenka has some commentary about what she thinks of RIAs and makes the point I see a lot, that things like Gmail, and del.icio.us offer "more-than-acceptable" interfaces with a...; Tags: Experience, Rich Enterprise Applications, Rich Internet Applications; Blog posts 2007-05-23