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Deconstructing Twitter

"Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging" is the title of a study that look s at the microblogging phenomena engendered by Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce. The authors--Akshay Java and Tim Finin of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Xiaodan Song and Belle Tseng of NEC Laboratories America--analyze user intentions associated...

Tags: User, User Intention, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-06

Additional Resources

myManuals 2.1 (Mac)

myManual is made for creating all kinds of manuals. It's for teacher wishing to have more attractive teaching aids, trainer dreaming of interesting training manuals with screenshots and software developers writing gorgeous user manuals. With myManuals you succeed in crafting attractive manuals and templates in no time. You are free...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Manual, MOApp Software Manufactory, myManual, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-28

iHacked: jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded

Yesterday, a "Your iPhone's been hacked because it's really insecure! Please visit doiop.com/iHacked and secure your phone right now!" message popped up on the screens of a large number of automatically exploited Dutch iPhone users, demanding $4.95 for instructions on how to secure their iPhones and remove the message from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, SSH, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-11-03

SocialToo gives social networkers a false sense of security

False SenseI think there is an innate false sense of security with social media after the initial exposure and use of a platform (FB, TWTR, LinkedIn etc.).Anything that adds an additional layer of "false sense" needs to be brought in the light, as you did... good post.If SocialToo "GETS IT"...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SocialToo, false sense, social networker, networker, security

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Do you really need Office? Really? If the Feds don't, do we?

Sounds like these users could get by just fine with Wordpad.[i]That being said, how many of your teachers are doing this sort of thing? Teachers need to create content, no doubt about it, but that content should be online, accessible, collaborative, and reusable. You don?t need Office for that.[/i]The problem,...

Tags: Next Up, Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Google Apps

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

iVolume 3.5 (Mac)

Tired of constantly adjusting your music's volume? iVolume ensures that all your songs play at the same volume level. iVolume calculates the volume perceived by the human ear for each song of your iTunes music collection. Thereby iVolume gets the most out of the approved Replay Gain algorithm and adjusts...

Tags: Algorithm, Apple Macintosh, Multiprocessor, Volume, Adjustment, Manfred Schwind, iVolume, Engineering, Digital Music, Digital Media, Processors, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-09-17

Eudora 8.0.0b7 (Mac)

Eudora is a mail and news application based on the open source Thunderbird client from Mozilla. It's *not* our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it. We are committed to both preserving the Eudora user experience and to maintaining maximum compatibility, for both developers and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora Installer, E-mail Clients, Groupware, Software, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2009-09-04

iPhone users strangling the AT&T network

Network BandwidthIn all fairness, I doubt that any carrier in the US would have been ready to handle the massive amount of data streaming across it's 3G network that iPhone users have generated. If a carrier like Verizon were to offer the iPhone, a lot of people would jump...

Tags: Smart phones, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, network, iPhone Users

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

wKiosk 5.2 (Mac)

wKiosk is the ideal solution for Mac OS X to present web-based content (HTML, Flash, PDF, videos, etc.) and applications in a safe and stable way on public access terminals with or without access to the Internet. You can use wKiosk to individually restrict access to Web sites, the operating...

Tags: Multimedia, Terminal, Apple Macintosh, Apple Safari, Web Browser, app4Mac, wKiosk, Apple Mac OS X, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Internet

Software downloads 2009-08-21

Apple App Store to be bigger than Wal-mart?

OMG. Where do you "journalists" get these stupid comparisions? Wallmart? Since when does the App Store sell furniture, mobile phones, electronics, computers, body care etc. ? What the F ? It sells mobile applications for a mobile platform, what does this have to do with wallmart?Why not compare it to...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Desktops, Wireless and Mobility, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Apple Inc., rice, metaphor

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

HiMyTribe helps iPhone, iPod touch users network with GPS [review]

For the last couple of weeks I've been playing with Never Alone Anymore's HiMyTribe iPhone/iPod touch app, which lets users network for business or pleasure using the device's built-in GPS functionality. A social networking tool, HiMyTribe fuses aspects of Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Network, Apple iPod Touch, App, HiMyTribe, GPS, Social Networking, Handhelds, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Apple puts image ahead of safety ... again!

Apple puts image ahead of safety ... again!The End: isn't that TWO questions?I've been told by the one who I give that blasted wedding band to that counting--and numbers in general--isn't one of my strong suits, but I do believe I can confidently get at least to five...er ok,...

Tags: Adrian, Apple Inc., Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Windows 7 ultrathins still not hitting the true netbook sweet spot

Windows 7 ultrathins still not hitting the true netbook sweet spotMy point: Simple...I'm happy with what I've got and I don't need to keep up with the Joneses, the Smiths or anyone else. Thankyouverymuch...Eh.. I'm quite happy with my old HP DV5000...It's small enough to slip in it's case, it...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, ultrathin, netbook, Windows 7 ultrathin, true netbook, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

New Socialtext Microblogging Appliance Signals Increased Flexibility

Socialtext are making available an 'unbundled' appliance version of their microblogging product 'Signals' at an attractive $US1 per user per month, plus $1,000 per month server subscription. With the rapid increase in business use of Twitter, the hugely successful but internet based free microblogging platform, there...

Tags: Socialtext, Socialtext Microblogging Appliance, Socialtext Signals, Social Networking, Wiki, Strategy, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Time to dump Schmidt from Apple board

Time to dump Schmidt from Apple boardHow much money does Apple have in the bank?$30 [b]BILLION[/b]? How about you? How much money do you have in the bank? Less than $30 [b]BILLION[/b]? Yeah, thought so.Why do all of you Apple haters feel you can tell Apple what to do when...

Tags: Corporate governance, Apple Inc., board

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

Google Chrome OS is a game changer

Google Chrome OS is a game changerthis is just another silly ideadon't you understand that people want more than web-surfing on computers? be it netbook, notebook, desktop or what ever.if google means business then it means my smartphone offers more capabilities than this so called web OS calle google chrome...

Tags: Operating systems, Games, operating system, Google Chrome OS, Google Inc., Chrome OS, Google Chrome, game, Chrome, game changer, Web, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Google Chrome OS is a game changer

Late last night Google finally owned up to having an OS in the pipeline the Google Chrome Operating System. This is going to be a game changer. We don't have a lot of information on Chrome OS just yet, but what we do know is very interesting: ...

Tags: Game, Google Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Google Chrome OS, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Sorry, the Help Desk Doesn't Cover That.

Dion Hinchcliffe has another good post up, this time on Cloud vs open source: there's a third dimension I'd like to expand on, and that's user support. After all the strategic planning is done, the plumbing hooked up and sawdust swept up, the...

Tags: Environment, Dion Hinchcliffe, Dion, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-14

Microsoft proposes launching an IE-free Windows 7 'E' in Europe

Microsoft is stepping up its campaign to try to appease European Commission EC regulators who are mulling possible remedies in the ongoing Opera-Microsoft browser-bundling case in the European Union. According to News.com, Microsoft's newest proposal is to offer a version of Windows 7 which strips out Internet...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, European Union, Softies, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-06-11

SAP's John Wookey: the task ahead

Phil Wainewright has provided a first take on John Wookey, SAP executive VP's saas strategy session at SIIA Europe. As Wookey outlined the strategy, I could not help but feel 'about time.' SAP has been dancing around the whole saas/on-demand topic for some time. On the one hand it came...

Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, Frictionless Commerce, Phil Wainewright, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-10