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Everywhere I look, I see Clouds

No, not a comment on the weather in East Yorkshire this 'summer,' but rather a reflection on the recent eruption of content related to Cloud computing. Having taken a long weekend away from the computer, punctuated by occasional iPhone-powered checking of my feeds to sate the addiction, it really did...

Tags: Software, Web, Cloud Computing, Web 3.0, Cloud, Linked Data Movement, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-08-05

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Calling all global cooling, how about a little help here?

Don't shoot the messenger, you might not like it that the earth is getting hotter and that we need to do something about it, but, don't get mad at those reporting it.You probably don't like all of the photos of open water over the arctic either. Nor would you want...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, climate change

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Enterprise 2.0 conference impressions

I'm in seat 14c on a Virgin America flight back from Boston to San Francisco after an exhilarating Enterprise 2.0 Conference. There's a lot of similarities between this airline and the Enterprise 2.0 movement. The plane has wifi and a good modern user experience but essentially...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Collaboration Environment, Sharepoint Plan, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Web 2.0 Expo: the end of the online search driven era?

I attended last week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco with a sense of trepidation. A year ago this event was jam packed and had a celebratory, in some cases cocky atmosphere - I was worried this time the expo would be a washout as a...

Tags: Web, Tim O'Reilly, Internet Search, Conference, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-05

What is cloud computing?

What is cloud computing?Cloud = Virtual Private Server HostingThe Cloud is not new.Virtual Private Server Hosting has been around for years.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_serverIt's just the breadth of resources has turned it into a quasi-utility of sorts and pricing has come down sufficiently to make Cloud not only affordable but attractive to SMBs...

Tags: Windows Azure, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

Enterprise 2.0: innovation is the name of the game

I'm at the Microsoft FastForward conference in Las Vegas, and seeing and hearing quite a bit about the growing movement to open up enterprises and drive greater innovation with Enterprise 2.0.  Here are some observations: There's what I call it the LIFT phenomenon -- Linked In, Facebook,...

Tags: Game, Innovation, Network, Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Zemanta talks Linked Data with SDK and commercial API

I covered Slovene semantic technology startup Zemanta back in September when they secured investment from New York City's Union Square Ventures, and the company also received frequent mentions in the Semantic Web Gang's recent look back over 2008. Yesterday, the company released an update to their popular...

Tags: API, SDK, Zemanta, Freebase, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-12-09

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-04

SBSH SafeWallet - PC Edition (Mobile)

BODY,TD,P {FONT-FAMILY:verdana,tahoma,arial; FONT-SIZE:9pt; vertical-align:top; LINE-HEIGHT:14px}H4 {font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial; FONT-SIZE:10pt; color:#0A1E50}HR {width:95%}The Secure Choice For Your Sensitive Information!The Leading Wallet Application for Windows PCs!SBSH SafeWallet is a powerful and highly secured storage application allowing you to securely store various types of information. Use SafeWallet to store business and private information and enjoy easy-to-use...

Tags: Card, Password, Mobile, PC, SBSH Mobile Software, SBSH SafeWallet

Software downloads 2008-09-01

Oddball thinking about OOP

Oddball thinking about OOPVery interesting Murph ...... but a tad tricky to know if I followed your drift or not.OOP in my mind is a programmers management tool/way/approach/methodology. I'd find it hard not to write OO now. In the background Erlang is proving an interesting curve, but it's a hobby...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OOP principle, object-oriented programming

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

Sir Tim Berners-Lee addresses WWW2008 in Beijing

Speaking from the stage in China's Great Hall of the People last Thursday evening, World Wide Web inventor and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium Sir Tim Berners-Lee shared some of his hopes for the Web with his audience of WWW2008 delegates, impeccably polite and ever-helpful conference volunteers and...

Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business

Earlier this month I had the great pleasure to spend time talking with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Cambridge, MA. Our wide-ranging dig into the past, present and future of the Semantic...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Application, Tim Berners-Lee, Business Model, Transcript, Tim, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Google unleashes Social Graph API--indexes people connections

Following on its OpenSocial APIs for building cross-social network applications, Google has created a Social Graph API that searches the Web for explicit public statements of connections between people. The Web crawler looks for XFN XHTML Friends Network and FOAF Friend of a Friend, which are standard formats used to...

Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Web, Category, API, Site, Friend, People Connection, Social Graph API, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-01

What the electronic medical record movement needs

What the electronic medical record movement needsBut Consensus REQUIRES Leadership!Dana:As usual, you're absolutely right about consensus among vendors and standards would go a long way toward making ubiquitous electronic medical records a reality. But such consensus itself requires leadership. Such leadership must be able to persuade stakeholders to resist sometimes...

Tags: E-health, HEALTHCARE, electronic health record, leadership, electronic medical record movement, MedicAlert, patient

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

John Edwards, NAFTA and protectionism

John Edwards, NAFTA and protectionismTunnel vision...because I work for Microsoft, everything I do MUST be done to justify their existence.It couldn't be that I have argued consistently for the past 10 years in favor of free markets.Read Your US History! Oh Multi-National Corporate EmployeeFirst, thanks for taking on the elephant...

Tags: Free trade, American-made product, Lincoln, black slave, American Party, Microsoft Corp., NAFTA, John Edwards, slave

Discussion threads 2007-08-07

Preliminary Evidence on Firms' Participation in Open Source Projects: Reflections Upon a Tentative Research Agenda

The Open Source OS software has progressively gained economic importance in recent years and more and more commercial firms are getting involved, to various extents, in the OS movement. This paper contributes to the literature by providing empirical evidence on the role and the activities of software houses in community...

Tags: University Of Pisa, Open Source Software, Open Source

White papers 2007-01-22

The digital election: Even networks emphasize the Net

Yet another way that the Net has changed the election of 2006. Increasingly, Election Night reporting will happen on the Web, The New York Times reports. And to some degree, bloggers, not what the networks say, is the story. This is because, after two elections of suspicious exit...

Tags: Blogging, Web site development, network, blogger, blog

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Former Microsoft senior security strategist now leads Mozilla security

Former Microsoft senior security strategist now leads Mozilla securityMeasure anything you want, Firefox is still 100x safer than IE.You can eliminate a huge portion of the Windows security problems by using Firefox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice.A decent metricI think a decent metric should be something like:Mean time between (reporting of the...

Tags: Web browsers, Patches, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., security, vulnerability, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2006-09-14

Friction in the flat world

I attended the UPS Technology Summit in Louisville, KY, today, moderating a panel on the technological challenges in going global. UPS has invested billions over its 99-year history in optimizing the movement of material goods around the world. The company delivers nearly 15 million packages and documents per day, operates...

Tags: United Parcel Service of America Inc., supply chain

Blog posts 2006-09-06

Will terror push us into the coud?

A couple of days ago, I wrote about the "need" for a Web OS and opined that replication of what already works is not likely to influence the vast majority of PC users to the cloud. I concluded that post by saying the following: ...

Tags: cloud, laptop computer

Blog posts 2006-08-11