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Sunday News Watch: GigaOm sues hard drive makers; Scoble drops Twitter; Carr says IT matters; Edelman fakes own blog; O'Reilly 2.0; IBM's 300; 3Com buys Cisco unit; Fiorina coming back?

Sunday News Watch: GigaOm sues hard drive makers; Scoble drops Twitter; Carr says IT matters; Edelman fakes own blog; O'Reilly 2.0; IBM's 300; 3Com buys Cisco unit; Fiorina coming back?Sorry. Not funny. Not even close.if you can't be funny, stay outta the game.Sorry......I should have posted a warning, a sense...

Tags: Blogging, News Watch, Cisco Unit, O'Reilly 2.0, hard drive maker, Carr, GigaOm, Twitter, 3Com Corp., hard drive, blog, IBM Corp., information technology, Cisco Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-04-01

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Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos

Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos"Web 2.0" is Techno-HypeLike so many tech articles posted since Tim O'Reilly coined the term in 2004, this one references "Web 2.0" as if it were something tangible--or at least a concept with clear, concise definition. It is not....

Tags: Channel management, software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., Web 2.0, Web, Intuit QuickBase

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

eBooks, volume 2: What's the bridge document that would drive ebook reader adoption?

Last week, I ran a poll about the number of ebooks people purchased each month. The results suggest that most people don't buy ebooks, but get them from various free sources, such as Project Gutenberg, Biblomania and O'Reilly Open Books. Fifty-nine percent of respondents said they bought no books during...

Tags: E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Powering Facebook's proverbial brain: your Identity, Social Graph, and Lifestream data

In Tim O'Reilly's influential Web 2.0 manifesto', written in late 2005, he wrote: "The race is on to own certain classes of core data: location, identity, calendaring of public events, product identifiers and namespaces. In many cases... the winner will be the company that first reaches critical mass via user...

Tags: Facebook, Data, Social Graph, Identity, Lifestream Facebook Connect, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-07-29

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Beta version of Hello, Android book is out

Ever since Google and other members of the Open Handset Alliance announced the Android platform last November, I've been working on a book to help developers write programs for it. The book, called Hello, Android, is now available in Beta form at the Pragmatic Programmers web site. The current version...

Tags: Version, Adobe PDF, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-16

The fastest way to learn open source

Tim O'Reilly has taken everything he and his company have learned training people in programming for two decades and condensed it into the format of this series. Even I can learn with it. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Open Source, Tim O'Reilly, Series, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Virtual world tipping point: Is there an enterprise use?

Virtual world tipping point: Is there an enterprise use?"IBM has" not "IBM have"IBM is a single entity, therefore, please use singular verb usage. It should be "IBM has", not "IBM have". I see this grammatical mistake gaining momentum in a LOT of writing.RE: Virtual world tipping point: Is...

Tags: virtual world, enterprise use, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper

It would not be an exaggeration to say that yesterday was a very bad day for VMWare. My friend and fellow tech blogger colleague at ComputerWorld, Steven J Vaughn-Nichols, thinks the company will be down for the count when they take their next hit, that essentially, the...

Tags: Software, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Hardware, Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-09

News to know: Open Office; Google; Security metrics; IT jobs

Notable headlines: Dana Blankenhorn: What could Open Office do with a business model? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look at Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex. Gallery right Paul Murphy: Internet abuse and Cloud Computing An IT productivity horror story ...

Tags: Job, Security, Google Inc., Power Management, Information Technology, Photograph, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-07

The lighter side of Bill Gates

As you all probably know, considering the 2 year lead-up to today and the considerable press coverage, it's Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. I'd like to take a slightly different spin on covering his career and life, by pointing out the stupid stuff, in the hope it will appeal...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 95, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back down

After Hillary Clinton spoke last night I listened closely for what the loudspeakers would play. It was Tom Petty's hit "I Won't Back Down." (UPDATE: Clinton did back down Wednesday, with the official announcement now expected in two stages Friday and Saturday. OOXML opponents, meanwhile, fight on.)...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hillary Clinton, Office Open XML, Opponent, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Does it blend? Zoho and Google

The announcement earlier today that Zoho has added an import capability for those using GoogleDocs to its Writer apps is great news. It is something I asked for a short while ago and is an excellent example of how an agile cloud computing vendor can respond to a need when...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Commoditization, Abundance, Zoho Writer, Business Services, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), OpenOffice, Management, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Lessig: Bill to fix orphaned works is 'unfair and unwise'

Larry Lessig championed the need to fix copyright law with regard to "orphan works" – those works that are covered by copyright but whose owners are unknown. He was a guiding force behind the Internet Archive's 2004 suit to get the courts to address the issue. (See Free the...

Tags: Larry Lessig, Work, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Semantic Web enables innovative steps at Reuters

Global news agency Reuters is one of those venerable organisations that it's hard not to respect. Superficially, at least, it would be easy to assume them to be an organisation whose days must surely be numbered in a world where the data they used to monetise is increasingly available on...

Tags: Web, ClearForest Corp., Reuters Ltd., Calais API, Podcasts, Semantic Web, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Could robots become the open source hardware target?

Most of you probably just glanced at yesterday's post about Texas Instruments supporting open source with its new OMAP chips, and if so you probably missed an important target market. Robots. (Picture from Willowgarage.com) The age of homebrew robotics has arrived. As with computing...

Tags: Robotics, Texas Instruments Inc., Hardware, Quantity, Robots, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Richard Waters showcases the 'world wise web'

At the risk of getting tied in knots by timezones (x-8 to get on ZDNet's blog publishing timezone is hard when you only have two hands and need to keep typing...) and the distribution schedules of the print media, let me begin... Richard Waters writes in this...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Artificial Intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee, Vision, Advance, Richard Waters, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Wikinomics 6: Platforms for Participation

And once again we come to a post on co-author Don Tapscott's Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. This Wikinomics series has just two posts to go; savor it while you can. Don Tapscott's thesis in this chapter is that we're in an era of what I...

Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Don Tapscott, Sales Strategy, Development Tools, Sales, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Gottsman

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Welcome to the Semantic Web

Hello, and welcome to this latest offering from the ZDNet blogging stable. My name is Paul Miller, and I'm delighted that ZDNet have invited me to start a blog with them that can concentrate on bringing you insight and analysis on the Semantic Web. I'm grateful to...

Tags: Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-22

Mathematica to go Web 2.0

The O'Reilly School of Technology (a partnership between the University of Illinois and O'Reilly Media) will begin offering online courses using a new AJAX-based implementation of Mathematica. According to an article on the O'Reilly School's website, [The Web 2.0 version of Mathematica] will have extremely high...

Tags: Web, Wolfram Research, Mathematica, AJAX, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-20