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Guest post: Introducing the Open Data Definition

This is a guest post by Ben Werdmuller who is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social application engine. The Open Data Definition is a new format for the import and export of data from within social applications....

Tags: Software, Format, Data, Open Data Definition, Data Portability, Service Closure, Chances, Semantic Web Community, RDF Parser, RDF, Semantic Web, XML, RSS, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-04-28

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CLEAR: Your data will be properly disposed of

The defunct CLEAR service is attempting to re-assure its former customers that their biometric data will not be divulged or misused. The defunct registered traveler service CLEAR see previous post has recently sent out the following communication to its former subscribers,...

Tags: Clear, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Inside Dell's command center

If there’s a hurricane forming in the Caribbean, a major freeway closure in Los Angeles or flight delays out of Chicago, chances are that Jason Allen knows about it. Allen is in charge of Dell’s five worldwide Global Command Centers, around-the-clock operational centers where technicians are constantly...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Center, Command Center, Allen, Team Management, Web Technology, Data Centers, E-business/E-Commerce, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Do you have a call notification system?

Do you have a call notification system?RE: Do you have a call notification system?At http://os4ed.com, we offer an email and SMS text messaging solution as a module to openSIS EasyComm or as a stand alone offering bAlert. Our pricing is very low and the solution is very easy to...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, call notification system, notification system, FOIA, e-mail, phone

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

SAP: first to hit the buffers

SAP pre-announced its Q3 results at what could not have come at a worse time for the beleaguered stock market. Although executives were bragging about 4% growth in software sales as though BusinessObjects doesn't exist the reality is that year over year growth was off 9%. Management...

Tags: Software, SAP AG, U.S. GAAP Software Revenue, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?

Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?How do you define a speculator?The problem is not the guys who buy and sell commodities on an ongoing basis, it is the investors who have discovered a new asset class called "natural resources" and who take, and hold long positions betting...

Tags: Commodity Market, green technology, green tech investment

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Yahoo postpones shareholder meeting and more Microsoft tidbits

I've been out on tour for my new Microsoft 2.0 book this week and haven't been posting as regularly as usual. So here's a grab bag of a few Microsoft-related notes of interest. * Yahoo has postponed its shareholder meeting. Just when you thought the seemingly-never-ending Microsoft-Yahoo...

Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, Microsoft Windows, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Virtualization, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Software, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Office Suites, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Accor Cuts Period-End Closure Times by 30% in Its Hotel Business

Present in nearly 140 countries, Accor is Europe's leading hotelier and service provider with over 4,000 hotels representing such brands as Sofitel, Pullman, Novotel, Mercure, Suitehotel, All Seasons, Ibis, Etap Hotel, Formule 1 and Motel 6. Accor wanted to provide the group with the technological momentum to get ahead of...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Financial Management, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Software

Case studies 2008-04-01

Popular Apple rumor Web site to shut down

Popular Apple rumor Web site to shut downIs anyone else amazed....how Apples reputation remains untarnished? Good products or not they are weasily little jerks. Either way probably the best thing that ever happened to the thinksecrets guy.Their primary concern here is the shareholderApple is worth more than most household names:...

Tags: Web site development, Strategy, competitive advantage, Web site, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-12-20

Give Mother Earth the holiday gift of freecycle.org. I have.

Give Mother Earth the holiday gift of freecycle.org. I have.www.craigslist.com has been my freecycle.com for years. NT.RE: Give Mother Earth the holiday gift of freecycle.org. I have.Obviously you're unaware of all the problems with The Freecycle Network TFN. You might find the following articles helpful.http://tiny.cc/zNafihttp://tiny.cc/20jxihttp://tiny.cc/1wDXO http://tiny.cc/9nN6m TFN is still...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Semiconductors, Yahoo Groups, Freecycle Network, http://tiny.cc/1wDXO http://tiny.cc/9nN6m TFN

Discussion threads 2007-12-10

Mobius Amsterdam 2007: Symbian, Windows Live, and working group session

Mobius Project: I previously posted about the opening reception and Day 1 of the Mobius Amsterdam 2007 event and this will be my final installment that covers the 2nd full and final day. The morning started out with a short discussion on the Mobius Project that was kicked off back...

Tags: Device, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Mobius, Microsoft Windows Live, Apple Inc., Symbian Inc., S60, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Open source tells content owners adapt or die

Open source tells content owners adapt or dieAnswer your questionDo they deserve to live? Sure. Everyone deserves a chance. Of course the traditional media is still strong, but it is becoming irrelevant a little more every year. It's partly the fault of the 24 hour news networks. How much news...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Now IT, music industry, Internet, open source

Discussion threads 2007-10-03

Yahoo Photos out, Flickr in, Flickr video coming soon

Yahoo Photos out, Flickr in, Flickr video coming soonYahoo Photos is better than flickrAs a service, Yahoo photos improves upon flickr in many ways. It integrates with Other Yahoo services much more smoothly and seemlessly and is more userfreindly, and it is free.or was.now, as soon as Yahoo re-opens photos...

Tags: video, Flickr, Yahoo Photos, Yahoo! Inc., photograph

Discussion threads 2007-09-22

SunRocket.com: the website that STILL won't die

I took that grab at 5:31 p.m. Pacific Time, on Friday September 14. Let me tell you how I got there. While clearing out some websites from my IE Favorites list earlier today, I decided to see what was up with the...

Tags: Page, Web Site, SunRocket, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-14

Thoughts on the decline of EarthLink- and a way for them to come back

Colleague Larry Dignan is the first on our block to run with the story that ISP EarthLink is laying off 900 people, closing several offices, and so forth. After running excerpts of an EarthLink corporate statement citing reasons and intent for the downshift, Larry casts doubts...

Tags: EarthLink Inc., Colleague Larry Dignan, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-29

Sun sets on SunRocket

SunRocket, an innovative VoIP service that claimed 200,000 subscribers, announced today that it is closing for good this evening.As of now, the site's up but as if that tells us something. Could stay up for months as a frozen moment in time.Yet meanwhile:Om notes that this morning, Sonya Jefferson, then...

Tags: News

Blog posts 2007-07-16

A WGA success story

A WGA success storySuccess?I own a ligite Windows license.I have a copy of Windows from somewhere else installed.Most likely because the repair person has a mirror image he can put on a hardrive quickly. Less then an hourNow I need to uninstall a working system and re-install inorder to avoid...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, software, Imaging Software, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-09

Second Life IP rights; here today, gone tomorrow

Second Lifes IP policy reads: "You create it, you own it -- and its yours to do with as you please." The idea being that users own the Intellectual Property rights to any virtual works that they create in-world. However, a more honest version might read, "You create it, you...

Tags: Second Life, Linden Lab, intellectual property, intellectual property right

Blog posts 2007-02-03

SAP, Oracle under the SOA, on-demand gun

SAPs first fourth quarter miss in seven years has analysts painting a grim picture in the enterprise applications market as new trends such as services oriented architecture SOA win out. The picture goes something like this: SAPs big miss in...

Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, SAP, Oracle, SAP AG

Blog posts 2007-01-12

Apple, Microsoft, and openness

Apple, Microsoft, and opennessIn the case of mail......I use Apple's "Mail" program to access all of my various e-mail accounts, including GMail. That's one thing that Google got right that Hotmail and Yahoo haven't, at least as far as my usage goes. I can configure my GMail account...

Tags: E-mail providers, Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., e-mail, Yahoo! Inc., music, Apple iTunes, Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes Music Store

Discussion threads 2006-10-02