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Oracle's Mix Network, thoughts on remote conferencing

A couple of thoughts on the large scale Oracle OpenWorld Conference, which has a downtown San Francisco street closed, over 40,000 people in attendance and 1,700+ sessions. The logistics of catering to this number of people is huge, and so is the associated airlift. ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Network, Conference, Web 2.0 Movement, Mix Network, Web 2.0, Blogging, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Internet, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Conferences as conversation starters

Ten years ago Comdex - the gigantic Las Vegas hi tech conference and show - was reaching its high point. In that pre broadband internet era of CD ROM's, beige boxes and Windows 95, tens of thousands would converge on Vegas, stay in massively marked up hotel rooms and walk...

Tags: Channel Management, Conference, Corporate Communications, Internet, Management, Marketing, Oliver Marks, Strategy, Web, Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Movement

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Additional Resources

Sony VAIO VGN-NW270F/S

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.The Sony Vaio VGN-NW270F/S is a stylish, spacious laptop for high-definition fans with low budgets. For a reasonable $699 at Best Buy, the Vaio...

Tags: Desktops, Sony Vaio, laptop computer, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-24

It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)

Regular readers and followers of my Twitter feed will know that yesterday was pretty eventful. My wife and I (well, mostly my wife, but I did make some moderate contribution) had a baby girl who currently remains nameless (we're leaning toward Penelope, but she was delivered by c-section so...

Tags: Web Application, Social Media, E-books, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-10

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

SpotBerry 2.0 (for Storm) (Mobile)

Empower your Blackberry's GPS with SpotBerry software. SpotBerry provides you with a compass, a speedometer and a track log recorder. Getting directions, saving points of interests and recording your routs become easier with SpotBerry. Moreover, your handheld obtains several professional GPS Navigation functions such as speed limit alarm and unique...

Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Aion, SpotBerry 2.0, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-09

SpotBerry 2.0 (non touch screen) (Mobile)

Empower your Blackberry's GPS with SpotBerry software. SpotBerry provides you with a compass, a speedometer and a track log recorder. Getting directions, saving points of interests and recording your routs become easier with SpotBerry. Moreover, your handheld obtains several professional GPS Navigation functions such as speed limit alarm and unique...

Tags: Touch Screen, Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Aion, SpotBerry 2.0, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-07

LG W2486L

The Samsung SyncMaster XL2370 is currently the reining king of LED monitors. Compared with the LG Flatron W2486L, the SyncMaster offers better performance, lighter weight, and a thinner design. Granted, the W2486L comes with a VGA port and two HDMI ports--as opposed to the Samsung's single HDMI and DVI...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Samsung SyncMaster, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung SyncMaster XL2370, HDMI, brightness, LG Electronics Inc., monitor

Product reviews 2009-10-01

HP Envy 13

Even a cursory glance will tell you the HP Envy 13 is a very nicely made premium 13-inch laptop. It's a solid slab of aluminum and magnesium, etched with interesting visual details, and filled with capable components, such as a dual-core low-voltage Intel CPU and discrete ATI graphics. It's...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Envy 13, Hewlett-Packard Co., Voodoo, Apple MacBook

Product reviews 2009-09-30

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

ViewSonic VX2433wm

The ViewSonic VX2433wm is a typical Twisted Nematic monitor with DVI and HDMI connections and built-in speakers. It also has several useful color temperature options, but its performance in games and movies is marred by its relatively low brightness level. For about $200, the monitor is a good...

Tags: Monitors & displays, panel depth, ViewSonic Corp., monitor, OSD, ViewSonic VX2433wm

Product reviews 2009-09-28

Fads vs Business Value: Knowledge Management & Enterprise 2.0

Anyone with a computer and access to stock photos can put together a slide presentation and upload it to sites such as slideshare, and sometimes it seems like everyone and his brother is doing just that on social media, enterprise 2.0 and other 2.0-ish subjects. ...

Tags: Knowledge, Training, Originality, Knowledge Management, Harassment, Strategy, Training And Certification, Business Intelligence, E-learning, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Management, Data Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-27

How Kanye West influences enterprise social business strategy

Entertainment personality Kanye West's outburst over the weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has implications for the enterprise business world. Jive Software, whose 'SBS' Social Business Software 'frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are...

Tags: Marketing, Collaboration, Analytics, Twitter Inc., Social Media, Entertainment, Business Strategy, MTV, Radian6, Jive Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Brent Leary Expounds: The SMBs Rejoice

Brent Leary, who is not only my bud, but one of the leading, no, the leading, small business consultant and analyst when it comes to small business (duh!), CRM, social CRM and social media,  is someone that I want to highlight on these pages.  Not that you need to come...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Leader, Small Business, Small And Medium Business, CRM, Brent Leary, Maximizer Needs, Price Point, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Gateway FHD2402

For $260, the Gateway FHD2402 brings you a high-gloss and high-contrast screen with built-in speakers that has great movie and game performance, HDMI support, and a couple of USB ports. Unfortunately, the sound from the speakers is highly muffled and the high-gloss means you can practically use it as a...

Tags: Gateway FHD2402, Gateway Co., bezel, display

Product reviews 2009-08-18

Social Media Revolution?

Here's another YouTube video - 'Social Media Revolution' - conflating a lot of stats in order to make a case for 'Social Media' being the 'biggest shift since the industrial revolution'. Web 2.0...The Machine is Us/ing Us started this style of delivery and...

Tags: Social Media, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-16

Sony Vaio VGN-NW125J/T

Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-school 2009 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores. It won't be the lightest laptop on campus this fall, and it may not fit into every knapsack or laptop bag, but...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, software bundle, laptop computer, Sony Vaio, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-08-07

LG 42LH50

Photo gallery: LG LH50 series If the Internet is the future of television, then LG's LH50 series hails from the day after tomorrow. This flat-panel LCD is the first to offer Netflix streaming, which allows instant, free-to-subscribers access to an all-you-can watch menu of thousands of movies and...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, LG LH50, LG Electronics Inc., NetFlix Inc., Yahoo Widget

Product reviews 2009-07-24

LG 47LH50

Photo gallery: LG LH50 series If the Internet is the future of television, then LG's LH50 series hails from the day after tomorrow. This flat-panel LCD is the first to offer Netflix streaming, which allows instant, free-to-subscribers access to an all-you-can watch menu of thousands of movies and...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, LG LH50, LG Electronics Inc., NetFlix Inc., Yahoo Widget

Product reviews 2009-07-24

Sex Positive Socializing Online Arrives

If you're 'textually active' online looking for relationships on social networking and dating sites, finally you have a new option. Despite all the hoopla around the brave new world of Facebook, match.com et al, it's actually the same old industrial scale meat market for most people....

Tags: Facebook, Collaboration, Network, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-14