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Hollywood Tycoon (Windows)

Be a movie mogul in Hollywood Tycoon, the game that lets you build and run your very own dream factory. Select the best script, pick out the perfect actor, and hope for a blockbuster in this original challenge that puts you in charge of every production. Develop and produce epic...

Tags: Hollywood, Tycoon, Social Game Universe, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-13

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Bright Shadow 1.2.3 (Windows)

Game Story For over a century, the civilization of Luciena has known the mysterious properties of Soul Power. Soul power exists within every facet of the universe, in all sentient beings, and can be manipulated for power, benevolence, or evil. Lucienans used this power to create a peaceful society. However,...

Tags: Society, Microsoft Windows, Gamepot USA, Soul Power, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-26

The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards

On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it's interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Open Standard, Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Social Business in Action - Establishing Excellence

Human interaction is as old as humanity, and nothing beats personal contact. We can learn more from a few seconds of personal contact and get a 'gut feel' about someone or a situation experientially in person than we can from hours of research and remote contact....

Tags: Web, Team, Information Technology, Human Interaction, Cohen, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Team Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM

The debate and discussion about what defines Social CRM a.k.a. CRM 2.0 vs. its traditional parent has been going on for about 2 years pretty regularly and started, according to thought leader Graham Hill almost a decade before that. Personally, I'm done defining it and am moving...

Tags: Customer, Business, Tool, CRM, Social CRM, SCRM Business Strategy, Co-creation, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Can a startup challenge Google on the re-invention of e-mail?

Can a startup challenge Google on the re-invention of e-mail?Of course!"Can a small startup - made up the two co-founders and one employee working in a studio apartment in Silicon Valley..." Isn't this how Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo!, eBay, Google, etc., all started in their respective David-and-Goliath enviroments?RE: Can a...

Tags: Google Inc., e-mail, re-invention

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

Do We Really NEED CRM 2.0?

(I'm taking a weird or, to make that more polite, unusual step and publishing this at both PGreenblog and ZDNET because it impacts both audiences. Honestly, I'm not being lazy. I swear....okay, maybe a little) For the last several weeks, I've been thinking over what CRM 2.0...

Tags: Customer, CRM, CRM 2.0, Marketing Claim, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-03-06

CRM & the Mac is Oranges to, Uh, Apple

I have two Macs and 2 PCs at home. I have a MacBook Pro laptop which I love and an iMac which I like. While I'm not a fanboy, I'm at least an applecore who thinks that Apple products are not only cool but actually useful and important - especially...

Tags: Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-02-16

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

The end of the world?

Probably not. Today (Wednesday, well it is for me anyway), we see the first beam test of the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, in the CERN's labs in Switzerland. The point of this, quite frankly, bloody huge experiment is to try and recreate the Big Bang on...

Tags: Apple iPod, Big Bang, Computer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Productivity, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Are browsers the answer for the 3-D Web?

Just got back from a camping trip in northern Israel when I saw this release announcing GoWeb3D, a new virtual world venture that will bring virtual offices, conference rooms, classrooms, exhibit halls, and retail spaces to the Web. ...

Tags: 3D, Virtual World, Thin Client, Web Browser, GoWeb3D, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Microsoft opens philosophical can of worms with Live Search Cashback

Talk is bubbling up across the blogosphere, Gillmor Gang and Techmeme daily about social graph personal information. This may be among the most important discussions and topics of our time. How the "social mesh" works out now will affect our lives and businesses for a long time. It may even...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Data, Agreement, Commerce, Microsoft Corp., Worm, Data Portability, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-23

The OpenSocial Business Model: Will the biggest social containers win? Google's CEO says no.

In my most recent post regarding today's announcement between Google and MySpace that MySpace would be embracing Google's recently announced OpenSocial framework of APIs, I noted that I asked two questions during the Q&A session with executives from both companies. The first question (which I'm really still waiting for...

Tags: Container, Google Inc., Facebook, Google OpenSocial, Site, MySpace, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-11-01

Google's new mantra: Making the Web a better platform for all

"In the next year we will make a series of announcements and spend hundreds of millions on innovations and giving them away as open source," said Vic Gundotra, the new head of Google's developer programs. Google believes that innovation on the Web has been lacking. XML...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Idea, Goal, Microsoft Corp., Vic Gundotra, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-26

$3 million "Afterworld" debuts on MySpace TV; Windows Live Messenger comes to Bebo; New York Times launches personalized start page; Playboy creates social network for students

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… $3 million "Afterworld" debuts on MySpace TV. In what could be the most expensive online video production to-date, "Afterworld", an animated series about a man who wakes up to find...

Tags: Social Networking, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Network, IM, Microsoft Windows Live, New York Times Co., Microsoft Windows, TV, Playboy, MySpace, Social Networking Site, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-08-24

Facebook infiltrating the enterprise: the ups and downs

Facebook infiltrating the enterprise: the ups and downseverything in its placeDennis, I am a blogger - heck a 2 blogger -) so certainly part of the new world of social networking. But to put social media tools at center of universe and call them "Enterprise 2.0" is to insult all...

Tags: Blogging, Facebook

Discussion threads 2007-07-29

Grading our identity predictions from 2006

At the beginning of 2006, we posted a list of predictions over on Digital ID World for the upcoming year in identity. In keeping with our historical tradition, Id like to grade our past performance prior to looking toward the future.Accordingly, Ill grade our predictions on a scale of 1-5...

Tags: identity

Blog posts 2006-12-13

Hawking's cosmological riff

Hawking's cosmological riffLook out, Stephen.NOW, You REALLY are in hot water:- You evidently didn't include any mention of Intelligent Design in your talk.- You seem to want to kill babies just so they could find a cure for your condition.- You called an idea of Dubya's "stupid."Tsk, tsk, tsk, and...

Tags: Intelligent Design, cosmological riff, riff

Discussion threads 2005-11-11

Agent Smith invades online games

A Chinese exchange student was recently arrested in Japan for using software bots to rob characters in the Lineage II online computer game. This is a novel problem, and begs the question: what kind of penalty should be meted out for virtual thuggery? It's not like anyone REALLY ended up...

Tags: bot, game, online game, Tad Williams

Blog posts 2005-08-22

Half-Life Sven Co-op Mod 3.0 (Windows)

Sven Co-op is a Co-operative modification for Valve's genre-defining game Half-Life. In this modification, you are not fighting against other players -- they are your allies, and you need to work with them to overcome large numbers of AI-controlled enemies. Co-operative gameplay has been absent from the majority of recently...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Sierra Entertainment, Sven Co-op, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2004-04-19