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Seagate uses social media to 'humanize' storage devices

It was about two years ago that storage device company Seagate realized it had to get into the social media game. The company's initial strategy was to listen, build community and learn. So, the communications team set up a presence on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and so on, and strapped...

Tags: Storage Device, Storage, Social Media, Twitter, Seagate Technology LLC, Harris, Q., Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Fortune 500 series: Texas Instruments uses social media to connect 10K+ engineers

A frequently asked question around corporate social networking is, "What kinds of companies are using it?" When social media first became the trend it is now there was a lot of speculation about how only smaller, flexible companies could implement effective social media program. I started this Fortune 500 series...

Tags: Strategy, Marketing, Social Media, Customer, Texas Instruments Inc., E2E, Q., Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-03-25

Focus on success: HubSpot's rapid growth

HubSpot seems to be everyone's favorite marketing firm these days -- or at least the favorite of many. The firm, which charged into the market two years ago, now has more than 1,000 customers leveraging its inbound marketing services. I know I'm not alone in being fascinated by HubSpot so...

Tags: HubSpot, Q., Marketing Research, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Q&A with a Twitter technologist: 'Think: we're a startup'

Adams discusses what Twitter is really doing about security, and, quite frankly, why people should stop telling them what to do. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Twitter, Q., OAuth, Security, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-01-16

NFL uses Reality Digital to turn fans into video producers

The NFL needed way to "socialize" it's video and site content. Read how Reality Digital helped the league accomplish its goals. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NFL, Video, Reality Digital, NFL.com Replay Re-Cutter, Q., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Q’n'A: What you're all talking about

From time to time, I'll get absolutely inundated with an email, which naturally I'll delete straight away. On the rare occasion I get something worth reading, I'll flag it for a post like this. The reason we have TalkBack's on ZDNet is not so we can harvest off your user...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Antivirus, Twitter, Q., Q. Windows Server 2008, E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Security, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-12-14

JavaFX Q&A

To learn more about the technical aspects of today's launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of the Java Platform Group. For a more business oriented perspective see the...

Tags: Developer, Application, Mobile, Ed, Eric, FX, JavaFX Script, Q., FX Common, Flex, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-12-04

The social media corporate identity crisis

The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...

Tags: Brand, Social Media, Twitter, Joel Postman, Popeyes Chicken, Q., Branding, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-06

BreakingPoint adds real-time Twitter traffic protocol to network equipment testing tools

As many Twitter users are on company-sanctioned time, there's a lot of microblogging traffic flying through company networks. But even too much unaccounted-for Twitter traffic could affect your company's network performance. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Network, Traffic, Network Equipment, Twitter, Tool, BreakingPoint, Development Team, Q., Networking, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-30

Your correspondence so far

It's been just over a month now since I started writing here, and it's certainly been an interesting one. I've had many emails over the last month asking me this, that and the other, not even a single death threat yet! I'd like to share some questions and my answers...

Tags: Web Server, Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Q., E-mail, Web Servers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Online Communications, Internet, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-29

Q&A with LinkedIn's Allen Blue: Post-funding plans, Company Groups and corporate intranets

Last Tuesday LinkedIn announced that it had closed a $53 million round of funding. Yesterday I chatted with Allen Blue, LinkedIn's co-founder and vice president of product strategy, about its plans to grow the company's feature set, as well as its potential as a corporate intranet and my nitpicky concerns...

Tags: Corporate Intranet, LinkedIn, Intranet, Q., Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-06-26

50 questions asked and answered on Android

At the very end of the Google I/O 2008 conference last week the Android development team hosted a great fireside chat on the new mobile platform. The session was free-form, completely driven by questions from the audience. Although Google was trying to keep mum on a number of issues, several...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Application, Google Android, Phone, Device, Platform, OEM, App, Question, Q., A., XMPP, A. Goal, A. Qemu, Thing Cert, Apk, UMA, A. Compatability, A. Distribution, Android Device, Linux, Wireless LANs, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Wi-Fi, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-05

GWT fireside chat

I'm still wading through all the notes I took at the Google I/O 2008 conference last week. If you want to see pictures, check out my flickr photoset (183 photos). While I was there, I went to two sessions called "fireside chats". Although there was no fire...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Web Toolkit, Google Web Toolkit 1.5, JS, Q., Q. Google Web Toolkit 1.5, Q. Model, Programming Languages, RPC, Development Tools, Java, Scripting Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking, Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Jason Chen answers questions about Android

At the recent Google I/O 2008 conference, Jason Chen from the Android team presented a 90 minute introduction to Google's new software platform for mobile devices. Since I've written about Android basics before I'll just cover some of the points that were new or previously unclear. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Jason Chen, Android, Q., Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Additional Resources

Salesforce Chatter: what a clanger!

Running Cover-it-Live has produced some interesting commentary about this morning's announcement of Salesforce.com Chatter. Best summed up by Nenshad Bardoliwalla: The length of this keynote has turned "Chatter" into "Splatter" IMHO A three and a quarter hour keynote marathon, laced with the kind of hyperbole we've come to...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Running Cover-it-Live, Saesforce.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Selling customer information leads to prosecution

What's the big deal?Isn't this how everyone does it? My boss would routinely buy millions of data records from companies to conduct email campaigns.Ah, but in Great BritainThey have made it TOTALLY illegal to sell data records. You cannot do stuff like this period over there, and I applaud...

Tags: Asset management, INTERNET, Big Deal, asset, customer information

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Widespread BlackBerry data outage reported, is it time to move on?

umgotta say this sounds like a justification for an iffy iphone purchase or usage maybe? you make it sound like if BIS goes down you're dead in the water, but if BIS goes down all you lose is what you don't have with any other service anyway, you still get...

Tags: Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, BIS, outage, BlackBerry Data, RIM BlackBerry, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Super Capers for iPhone 2.0 (Mobile)

Super Capers for iPhone the application is based off the super hero comedy Super Capers: The Origins of Ed and the Missing Bullion and is designed exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Herbert Q has designed, based on the cast of amazing characters, a series of Emergency Buttons for...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, RG Entertainment, Herbert Q, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-16

EPA's Energy Star program continues to have teeth

It wouldn't surprise me if the real motivation was...In a poor sales market, I'm wondering if many homeowners are looking for an edge and attempt to get certified just to have their home stand out when trying to sell it.people make a bigger difference than organizationsThis is good evidence for...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Energy Star, EPA Energy Star program, EPA Energy Star, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Yes, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 will run on Linux

Red Hat created a bit of stir recently when it shipped its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers product because the management component runs on a Window server.  That's right -- no Linux support. The platform is an enhancement of the former Qumranet's KVM-based platform, which was designed for...

Tags: Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Server, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-11-11