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Odd bedfellows: Facebook and Windows Live Spaces

In all the coverage of Microsoft allegedly pushing for a five percent stake in Facebook, there has been next-to-no mentions of Microsoft's own social-networking platform, Windows Live Spaces. Live Spaces, when it launched as a new and improved version of MSN Spaces, already had 112 million monthly...

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Live Spaces, Sponsored Spaces, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-09-26

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Wordpress BBQ at Conjunctured Ranch

Now this is real Texas BBQ. In San Francisco, shared work spaces are common, but I was surprised to see one in Texas. The locals here do say that this is like the Silicon Valley of the heartland. ...

Tags: Barbecue, Texas, Wordpress, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-15

IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeating

IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeatingOS/2 was the best OS...ever written at the time. It would still compete with anything MS has ever written. It was fast and you couldn't crash it. Even if you tried.You mention XP has its limitations. What are they?If anybody is planning on encroaching...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, desktop, IBM Corp., Linux, distro

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

Security-wise, Google Chrome is (potentially very) Good

Security bloggers are already commenting on Google's slightly premature "Chrome" browser leak. Built on top of the Apple sponsored WebKit engine, the browser offers several security features that we have only seen so far in the beta releases of IE8. The most interesting feature discussed so far...

Tags: Security, Google Inc., Application, Web Browser, Security Blogger, Chrome Philosophy, Web Browsers, Internet, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-09-02

New Eclipse-based tools from Genuitec offer developers more choices in migrating to IBM WebSphere 6.1

Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Genuitec. The arrival of the IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 presents Eclipse-oriented developers with some big decisions. The newest version of this popular runtime will depend largely on Rational Application Developer RAD for tooling. While this recent runtime environment...

Tags: Developer, IBM WebSphere, Environment, Web Service, Eclipse, Tool, IBM Corp., Genuitec, MyEclipse Blue Edition, Eclipse Obviously, Productivity, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-02-08

LiSA, a robot assistant for life sciences

We've all read for years that mobile assistant robots would help us to take over repetitive and boring work. Surprisingly, there are very few robots able to do this. This is why the German government has launched an initiative to develop safe and cost effective robotic assistants. For example, LiSA...

Tags: Mobile, Life Science, LiSA, Final Version, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-07

The next hacker frontier: Social networking sites

The next hacker frontier: Social networking sitesRe: The next hacker frontier: Social networking sitesGood...anyone stupid enough to put personal information out on the web for all the planet to see disserves to have their identity stolen. People who use these lame sites shouldn't complain when something happens to them. It's...

Tags: SECURITY, social networking, Social Networking Sites, virtual happiness, hacker, happiness

Discussion threads 2008-01-04

NJ counties expected to get OK to pursue wireless networks

New Jersey lawmakers are pushing forward legislation that would authorize counties to build and operate wireless networks for public use, NorthJersey.com reports. A bill in the state Assembly was voted out of committee and is heading for a floor vote soon, said a spokesman for Assemply Speaker Joseph J....

Tags: Government technology, Municipal broadband, State &, Local Govt, network

Blog posts 2007-01-19

Coca-Cola: Will Google Sponsored Video really sell cases of Coke?

“Nothing happens till something is sold,” was the bottom-line assessment of John Stichweh, Director, Global Interactive Marketing, Coca Cola Company, at the "Marketing Mashups: Navigating Consumer-Driven Marketing” panel at Ad:tech today.Newly arrived at Coca-Cola, but a seasoned P & G veteran, Stichweh’s real world focus on corporate objectives for playing...

Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Brands, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Social Media

Blog posts 2006-11-08

The Cookie Monster in the Closet

The Cookie Monster in the ClosetAll I can say isBravo! What you have described is my worst nightmare, and I already see it starting to happen.I've muted radio & TV commercials for yearsbut of course there are too many eyes and ears for them not to do it but...

Tags: advertisement, marketing, cookie

Discussion threads 2006-03-29

Will Foldera hit the mark?

I read this morning that Foldera, an online organizational tool that virtually no one has seen, has already had 400,000 people sign up for access to the public beta whenever it is finally made available. That's a remarkable number and it supports my contention that there are...

Tags: Foldera

Blog posts 2006-03-01

Message to Google: Get some packaging ASAP

The latest Gillmor Gang, recorded Feb. 17, is another great example of how strong ideas can uniquely flow and develop conversationally, where the power of the group-think merges in real time with the individual stream of consciousness to actually come up with some insights and conclusions that are truly fresh....

Tags: Google Inc., SOHO/SMB

Blog posts 2006-02-20

Google blacklists--fair or not?

Google blacklists--fair or not?Message has been deleted.Good on GoogleI'd rather have a fair result rather than a biased one.I'd rather have a fair economy rather than a biased one.I'd rather have a fair government than a biased one.I'd rather have a fair law than a biased one.I'd rather have a...

Tags: Government, P2pnet, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-02-07