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Site helps developers navigate open-source jungle

Site helps developers navigate open-source jungleSite helps developers navigate open-source jungleThe main page is a little cluttered but after clicking on the project page its got a pretty nice layout.Stark illustration of MS incompetence"A few former Microsoft employees have launched a Web site that evaluates open-source projects."MS talks whilst a...

Tags: Loverock, open source, Microsoft Corp., Site helps developer

Discussion threads 2006-07-14

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Facebook Connect: The masses and the fishbowl

Facebook Connect, a service that allows someone to log on to Facebook from third party sites, is set to expand from its May launch. Reading the conversation this morning on Techmeme familiar storyline emerges. Facebook's Connect vs. the Open Social alliance between Google, MySpace and a bunch...

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Aclara application provides consumers with hourly visibility into electricity usage

Want to find out how that cold snap last night is going to affect your monthly utility bill? Or whether or not you should do your wash in the morning, afternoon or night? If you're one of the 1.4 million customers in Pennsylvania served by PPL Electric Utilities, you can...

Tags: Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Internet, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Go, Carts, Go! Trumps "drill, baby, drill."

Even in oil country folks are turning to electric golf carts for transport. Like in Hobart, Oklahoma. The annual fee: $10. How long before Exxon goes to court to stop this madness? City after city the local laws are being alterd to allow electric,...

Tags: Cart, Car, Street, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-30

IBM, HP update workflow and forms software with an eye to cutting paper waste

I love it when competing vendors do something semi-related within days of each other, because it makes these posts so much more relevant. So, here's the deal: Both IBM and Hewlett-Packard are making some noise right now about the impact of enterprise document management technology on green technology agendas. I...

Tags: U.S. Army, Hewlett-Packard Co., Workflow, IBM Corp., Document Management, Tools & Techniques, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-28

Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forward

I had an enjoyable conversation with Mark Redgrave recently, ahead of his company's unveiling of their 'meaning platform,' Amplify. Mark is CEO of London-based Hapax, a company that has been applying patented technology to natural language processing NLP since 2000. According to the Press...

Tags: Natural Language Processing, Advertisement, Brand, Ontology, Amplify, Branding, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-28

Microsoft's Live launches malware detection service for webmasters

Playing catch-up with Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic, Google's warnings for potentially hackable sites, and Yahoo's SearchScan introduced through their partnership with McAfee, Microsoft's Live Search has updated their Webmaster tools to offer detection for embedded malware. Moreover, as a late entrant they simply had to differentiate, and they did it...

Tags: Webmaster, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Rating Samsung's first notebooks for the U.S.

If your holiday list includes a laptop, there's a new choice from an well-known name: Samsung. In October, Samsung announced that it was entering the U.S. market with six new notebooks, as well as a netbook. The timing wasn't great. After several quarters of double-digit growth, the PC market cooled...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Laptop Computer, Laptop Magazine, PC Magazine, Notebooks, Modems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best Apple iPhone, iPod touch apps

Just about everyone seems to have either an iPhone or iPod touch these days and the companion App Store is chock full of over 5,000 great gift ideas. From powerful databases to file storage to music, this list has something for you. Can't decide? Give your special someone...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Database, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Apple iTunes, US$5, BeatMaker iPhone, Intua, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Talking with Likewise on GPLv3 and community management

I've been watching Palamida's tracking of GPLv3 (and LGPLv3) adoption over the last year with interest. It looks like adoption is moving at a reasonable, if not super-speedy, pace. However, not everyone is moving from version 2 to version 3. One company, Likewise, actually decided to move backwards from GPLv3...

Tags: Community, Likewise Software, GPLv3, Q, Open, Fall Edition, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Cassatt helps organizations implement in-house clouds

A crew of folks from Cassatt presented Active Profiling Service, a new service offering, and Active Response 5.2, a product update for the company's orchestration and automation product. I was very interested in learning more because Cassatt has long been helping organizations discover and then make best use of their...

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Cassatt Active Profiling Service, Cassatt Active Response, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-26

No surprise: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 planned for early January

It's no big surprise that the Mozilla team decided for sure to release a third beta of Firefox 3.1 before moving to release candidate mode. That was all but voted on at last week's meeting I thought but Mozilla "corporate" PR folks informed me that no decision...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Mozilla Corp., Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Blockbuster joins movie-streaming race with 2Wire MediaPoint digital media player

With Netflix pushing hard into the living room with the Netflix Player by Roku, Vudu offering an improved device (the BX100) with HD streaming, and, of course, Apple TV still hanging around, Blockbuster was bound to want to join the streaming movie club, even if the...

Tags: 2Wire, Digital Media, Movie, Blockbuster Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Photos: 2009 Ford Flex

The styling of the Ford Flex may be controversial, but some will definitely love its 1950s cruiser style. And everyone will like its extremely useful cabin tech, which helps you find cheap gas and avoid traffic congestion. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Ford Motor Co., CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-11-25

What we will want from our enterprise architects in 2009

As observed in previous posts, employment prospects for enterprise architects remain bullish, since many organizations are challenged with integration and IT-business alignment. Over at the Informatica Perspectives site, I posted a piece spotlighting the five key qualities to look for in an enterprise architect, circa 2009. Here...

Tags: Enterprise Architect, Research & Development, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Twitter to Facebook, thanks but no thanks

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about Facebook's proposal to buy Twitter for $500 million in stock and why the microblogging service has decided to remain independent. Diaz explains that Twitter would like to develop a more thorough revenue plan before partnering up with the popular...

Tags: Twitter, Facebook

Videos 2008-11-25

TiVo control comes to iPhone

I used to be a huge fan of TiVo until the cable companies made me a deal that I couldn't refuse. While I still like the TiVo interface much better than the abysmal Comcast DVR, it comes down to simple economics. The cable companies are willing to...

Tags: Apple iPhone, TiVo Inc., Digital Video Recorder, TiVo Mobile Site, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-25

MacBooks: World's greenest family of notebooks

Apple's latest Get A Mac television commercial proclaims the new MacBooks to be the "world's greenest family of notebooks." The ad touts the MacBook as completely recyclable and says that it uses a quarter of the amount of power of a single light bulb and has no mercury. ...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-25

News to know: Ubuntu; New Macbook; BlackBerry Storm; Google layoffs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu? Netbooks + Ubuntu: OS solid but... Robin...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Layoff, Apple MacBook, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-11-25

AppAsure: Good stuff but is it virtualization?

Naj Husain, CEO, and Dan Soschin, Director of Marketing, both of AppAssure, brought me up to speed on Replay VRA, a tool that protects messaging-based environments that include BlackBerry Enterprise Server as well as Microsoft's Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint. While Reply VRA appears to work in virtualized environments and...

Tags: Environment, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-25