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Gnomedex: Canter's People Aggregator

Marc Canter of Broadband Mechanics is rolling out his company's People Aggregator at Gnomedex tomorrow. People Aggregator is described on its Web site as follows: At the center of all great Live Web software will be one’s digital identity. Each end-user will control who has access...

Tags: People Aggregator

Blog posts 2006-06-29

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Yahoo's dwindling search share: Time to panic?

Typical MicrosoftThis is normal business practice for MS. Partner up with someone, take what they need, then discard them.Ask anyone from RealNetworks how their partnership went.It's about search.Wow, it looks like the volume of search users use the search engine that delivers better results.Google search is better than Bing...

Tags: E-mail, SEARCH, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Bing

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Newsmakers: Be careful what you wish for

Without Google they get no trafficIt does not take a rocket scientist to know that without Google, most of this news sites would probably have little to now traffic at all.So how is Google stealing from them? Since when is sending customers to your door a bad thing?Without the...

Tags: Web site development, Operational accounting, Google Inc., Google News

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?

As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...

Tags: E-learning, training and certification, Sol, education, Dawson, online learning, Harvard

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

RSS: A good idea at the time but there are better ways now

The Google Reader team posted a blog entry today with some results of a survey it conducted. The team wanted to know what an elite group of "Power Readers" were reading online - presumably using their Google Reader account - and so they asked them and have highlighted some suggested...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Reader, Twitter Inc., Blog, RSS, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Semantic Technology Conference kicks off with Keynotes from Open Calais and Siri

This year's Semantic Technology Conference got fully underway this morning, with Keynote presentations from Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters' Open Calais Initiative and Tom Gruber from Siri. Despite the wider economic situation, attendance for this fifth year of the event feels a little up on last year, and there's...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Tool, Siri, Tom Tague, Tague, Enterprise Adoption, Virtual Personal Assistant, Virtual Personal Assistant Paradigm, Podcasts, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Social PR Survey II: Continued disconnect between clients, agencies

Back in February I published the results of a social public relations survey that attempted to gauge client satisfaction levels with their current PR agencies. What showed up was dismal - and really showed that client trust in their agencies was low. Given that data, and several...

Tags: Agency, Social Media, Client, Survey, Advertising & Promotion, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-05-11

10 things I hate about Twitter

Chris loves it, Jen never shuts up about it, Dennis uses it "for work purposes", and even my editor-in-chief uses it. So why can't I get my head around it? Why have I tried to use it on three separate occasions and still can't stand using it? Why is Twitter...

Tags: Twitter, E-mail, Blogging, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-24

Adtribution links could keep news free

Rupert Murdoch and the Associated Press have been stepping up their rhetoric over shutting out the news aggregators and other "parasites" from copying their content for free. News might be free today, but it won't be free for ever because it's not free to produce. That is...

Tags: Adtribution, News Aggregator, News Story, Blogging, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-04-07

KooMail 5.41 (Windows)

Koomail by the opportunities is the high-grade e-mail client convenient and simple in use. Koomail supports the basic e-mail reports: IMAP , POP3 , APOP (authorization at sending e-mail messages), SMTP, job with mail boxes MSN and Hotmail, job under the safe report SSL, the client can work even as...

Tags: Job, Microsoft Windows, Spam, KooMail 5.41, E-mail, RSS, Recruitment & Selection, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Security

Software downloads 2009-04-07

Google buy Twitter? Probably not the best move.

Yesterday, Twitter announced that it was incorporating search and trends features into its home page - a move that allows users to dig deeper into the real-time conversations occurring in the Twittersphere. There's valuable information there - as people chime in on current events, natural disasters, or even American Idol...

Tags: Google Inc., Twitter, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, RSS, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Gadget Gal's daily deals: Free Twitter iPhone app, 5th Gen 30 GB iPod, Griffin Technology and Skullcandy iPod speakers

Fifth generation 30 GB iPods, iPod speakers, and a free iPhone app. Here are your deals for Monday, March 30, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. If you still don't have an iPod because they were just too expensive before, today is your...

Tags: Apple iPod, Griffin Technology Inc., Speaker, Twitter, Woot, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-03-30

The Twitter Fantasy

It seems everywhere you turn these days there's an excitable story about Twitter, the microblogging tool that is a mystery to some people, a miracle to others, and a service some are noisily evangelizing in hope of self publicity. As Twitter scales up...

Tags: Twitter, Desktop Publishing, Productivity, Blogging, Collaboration, Groupware, Software, Internet, Enterprise Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-21

In defense of SOA standards bodies

Duane Nickull, who is very active in the SOA and Web services standards space, was incensed by an anonymous blog posting that savages the efforts of standards bodies, and has published a rebuttal defending the work of these groups. Since the offending post was anonymous and has...

Tags: SOA, Standards, Duane Nickull, Patterns, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-01-26

Web Development: How to Create an RSS Web Feed?

In web 1.0 era, most challenging problem faced by a Web developer was to keep in sync with the information updates because it consumed more time than new websites. Now in web 2.0 era keeping in sync with the updates of news headlines, blog entries, and pod casts are easily...

Tags: RSS Feed, Web, Web Development, Sigma Infotech, RSS, Internet

White papers 2009-01-01

Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for

Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays forOops. meant to place that in general :(Seems like a vested interest commissioned this study.What has googlebots copying web pages from websites got anything to do with consumer bandwidth?And the claim that google is copying certain websites every second is just...

Tags: bandwidth, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-04

When will textbook publishers get a clue?

When will textbook publishers get a clue?I buy all my books onlineI mostly use half.com, which is part of eBay. But there's also:http://www.allbookstores.com/This is an aggregator, so it searches a bunch of sites.Here's how much you can save: My "Advanced Suse Linux" book retails for $146.95 at school...

Tags: Wiki, Linux, Microsoft Office, textbook, Textbook Publishers

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

What is a company blogger good for?

I often hear from companies that want to "be social" or "hire a blogger." Usually, there hasn't been any effort put into the question of what they'd like to accomplish from the effort, so I send out the following. Now, you can call me to talk when you have an...

Tags: Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Industry New, Internet, Management, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe, Site, Strategy

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Review: HTC Advantage X7510 with 16GB flash drive, haptics keyboard and Windows Mobile 6.1

The most powerful Windows Mobile device I ever evaluated was the HTC Advantage X7501 that was released back in August of 2007 and I wrote quite an extensive review that was my most viewed blog post of 2007. The successor to the Advantage X7501, the X7510, was announced at Mobile...

Tags: Application, High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Battery, USB Flash Drive, Content, HTC Advantage, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?

Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?Comcast buys PlaxoI canceled my account.RE: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?Comcast is entirely out of touch with what it's customers want. For instance, a 1 year discount on an overpriced service doesn't attract anyone who's been paying cable...

Tags: TV & Home Theater, user number, TV, Plaxo Inc., Comcast Corp., social networking, network

Discussion threads 2008-05-15