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Metasearching: Gada.be and Inform

Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome fame just launched gada.be, a metasearch service (beta, of course), based on RSS feeds and the results are output in OPML Outline Processor Markup Language. It's simple and quick, which is great for searching on mobile devices. Currently Gada.be searches about 150 feed sources. Google, for...

Tags: RSS, Neal Goldman, Inform Technologies, Gada.be

Blog posts 2005-10-17

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Mac ZFS is dead: RIP.

fortunatelywhile zfs is cool, there are enough other file systems, so we users won't miss it muchHow about EXT4 and BTRFS?What do you think of EXT4 and it's destined successor, BTRFS?NTFSActualy has similar features to most of these but maybe its not implemented as well.Apple picks NetApp WAFL over...

Tags: Storage, Mac ZFS, Actualy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, NetApp Inc., ZFS, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

How To Sell Collaborative Business Performance Internally

Sameer Patel and I are running a series of sessions during November's Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco entitled 'Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies'. The challenge of getting that catalyst - the executive buy in...

Tags: Performance, Organization, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Will the FCC's inquiries about wireless market be a waste of time?

The wireless industry is about to find out what it's like to be under Washington's microscope. The FCC this week announced efforts to further study competitive landscape of the mobile wireless market and determine whether consumers have the necessary information they need to make informed decisions about mobile phones and...

Tags: FCC, Phone, Washington, Mobile, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Wireless, Wireless Industry, Federal Government, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless And Mobility, Government, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-28

FCC to vote on wireless industry competition inquiry; Watch out Verizon and AT&T

How does the current setup stiffle innovation?Is the fcc indicating that they feel phones are not as advanced as they should be, or that wireless networks are not as innovative as they chould be?The current setup prevents consumers from ....1. Choosing the device they want2. Using it with...

Tags: 3G, Federal government, Cellular phones, Wireless and Mobility, Asian Governments, bureaucrat, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., FCC, phone

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

Is Microsoft getting serious about education?

Is Microsoft getting serious about education?Feed the beastBest I can tell, it's still the old "everything feeds back to Microsoft" strategy. MS doesn't have a competitor to Moodle just now, but the plugin is as always MS-only. Moodle isn't.Why do you carelinux, smart folks, Geez, who give u...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., education, Moodle, software

Discussion threads 2009-07-23

CollegeNET ends the thick/thin letter game

Do you remember the waiting game after you'd applied to college? Checking the mail every day, waiting for that letter? Would it be thick or thin? Because everyone knew that a thin letter would read somewhere along the lines of "We regret to inform you that you do not...

Tags: Game, Admission, CollegeNET, E-mail, Portals, Web Technology, Internet, Sales Force Management, Online Communications, Sales, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Wyzo 3.0.3 (Windows)

Wyzo is a new Web browser that focuses on optimizing your online media experience. Wyzo gives you easy access to all your favorite media sites, to make it easy to download media content and inform your friends about your discoveries. Wyzo integrates your torrent downloads inside our download manager. Now...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Radical Software, Wyzo, Channel Management, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-06-01

Wyzo 3.0.3 (Mac)

Wyzo is a new Web browser that focuses on optimizing your online media experience. Wyzo gives you easy access to all your favorite media sites, to make it easy to download media content and inform your friends about your discoveries. Wyzo integrates your torrent downloads inside our download manager. Now...

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Radical Software, Wyzo, Channel Management, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-05-21

Google to Congress: We can help news publishers - if they embrace opportunities

When did the news industry become like the music industry - a group of finger-pointing businesses trying to find someone else to blame for their woes? In both the music and news industries, the adoption of new technology completely disrupted a long-standing business model. But whose fault...

Tags: Google Inc., U.S. Congress, News Industry, Strategy, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Signs of the Times, Redux: The World's Next Mass(ive) Medium?

In colonial times, journalism was born on broad sheets of cheap paper and the vocal chords of human marketing throats. The long sheets delivered news to those who could read. But in the middle of most cities of any size, from Derby, England, to New York, NY,...

Tags: News, Willard, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Convergence alert: Keep an eye on the building network tech guys

This is one of those thinking-out-loud posts that I believe will inform many GreenTech Pastures posts to come. Just wanted to direct your attention to a new ad campaign out of IBM this morning that is focused on the role that "smart buildings" will play in the green movement in...

Tags: Data Center, Network, Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Convergence, Data Centers, Strategy, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Interview with Andrea Vaccari, research associate at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory

Now that machine and sensor data is joining social data traffic on the Internet, the ability to interpret and create meaning out of the information to improve life could be the post-Web 2.0 manifesto. MIT's Senseable City Lab has been on the task for years with various...

Tags: City, Mobile, Network, Data, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cell Phone, Analysis, SENSEable City Laboratory, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Giving quizzes with Google Docs

It's budget season around these parts (always good times, especially in a recession) and my first pass at a budget was cut by around 50%. I have a week until our next round of meetings to fully justify the items that remain. The 50% cuts were...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Student, Teacher, Response System, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-02-18

Worlds.com patent litigation could ripple through virtual worlds

Worlds.com patent litigation could ripple through virtual worldsQuake 3 predates this patent by two yearsQuake 3 would seem to run counter to this patent, as would Tribes, and several other online games from the 90s. The core concepts of such online interactions were also presented in the 90s movie...

Tags: Quake 3, patent, virtual world, patent litigation

Discussion threads 2008-12-30

E pur se muove (and yet it moves)

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Ivan Arce On January 15, 2008, the Vatican released a statement indicating that Pope Benedict XVI had canceled his visit to Italian La Sapienza University as a result of a series of protests...

Tags: Information Security, Galileo Galilei, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Unstructured transparency - the management methodology that pulls us through the crunch?

I've just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL's partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I've written before about...

Tags: Innovation, Pyramid, Employee, Financial, CEO, HCL Global Meet, Vineet Nayar, Nayar, HCL Tech, Krishnan, Hamel, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Leadership, Strategy, It Services, Team Management, Branding, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Management, Marketing, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-19

News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple

 Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Washington Times amongst newspapers putting semantic technologies to work with help from Inform Technologies

New York-based Inform Technologies issued a press release earlier this week, reporting the success of their recent partnership with the Washington Times on a major website redesign. Having spoken to both Inform’s CEO Jim Satloff and the Washington Times’ Executive Editor John Solomon, there’s an interesting story to tell of...

Tags: Story, Editorial Staff, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Corporate Communications, Operational Accounting, Channel Management, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Finance, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Buses as mobile sensing platforms?

According to European researchers, modern buses could be used as mobile sensing platforms, sending out live information to be used to control traffic and detect road hazards. The 3.83 million euro EU-funded MORYNE project was completed in March 2008 with a test in Berlin, Germany. During this test, the researchers...

Tags: Mobile, Sensor, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-26