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Web 2.0 Products We Need (But Which Don't Exist Yet)

Web 2.0 Products We Need (But Which Don't Exist Yet)here is a AJAX messengerhttp://www.meebo.comTried Searchfox?While it's not yet close to the "agent" status that you're looking for, the Web based Searchfox aggregator is worth a look. Scores/sorts items based upon your reading behavior, which has worked fairly well for...

Tags: Real estate, Instant messaging, Channel management, Blogging, web2.0, Web 2.0, Tried Searchfox, Quicken, Web 2.0 Products, Web, agent, IM

Discussion threads 2005-11-22

Web 2.0 Products We Need (But Which Don't Exist Yet)

Mike Arrington from TechCrunch.com has written an excellent post in which he lists 10 types of Web 2.0 products the world needs, but which nobody has developed at least to our knowledge. Here's his list and I'll add some more after: 1. Better and Cheaper Online File Storage 2. Blog/website...

Tags: Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Products

Blog posts 2005-11-21

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It's not easy being green--Optimizing eco-friendly packaging

Early adopter brands have further differentiated their products and won consumer affinity by adopting green strategies in their brands and packaging. But risks are many says Affinnova's Steve Lamoureux. Commentary--On every progressive brand manager’s short list is a sustainability initiative. In just a few short...

Tags: Risk, Brand, Standard Quantitative Approach, Branding, Marketing, Steve Lamoureux, Affinnova, Special to ZDNet, Steve Lamoureux, Affinnova, Special to ZDNet, green, packaging

News items 2008-10-15

Judge freezes assets of massive spam ring

The Federal Trade Commission won a huge antispam victory in court yesterday, with a federal courts in Chicago's order to freeze the assets of a botnet spam group generally known as HerbalKing. The group used botnets to spread its poison around the globe. Just one botnet...

Tags: Asset, FTC, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-15

80 ways to mix open source and business

Open source and business do mix. In fact, according to Matthew Aslett at the 451 Group, you can mix open source into more than 80 combinations of development model, licensing model, and revenue schemes. Usually, people talk about three licensing combos: Proprietary, mixed, and "pure" open source...

Tags: Aslett, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Gartner Top 10 embraces the Cloud

As in previous years, the analysts at Gartner have unveiled their 'Top 10 Strategic Technologies,' and Jason Hiner provides details elsewhere on ZDNet. The press release is here. One of the analysts involved David Cearley discusses the Top 10 over on YouTube, and posts the information from...

Tags: Gartner Inc., David, Jason, Semantic Web, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Firefox 3.1 raises the browser bar ... again

Competition is a good thing, and the way that Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome have re-invigorated browser development will mean good a better web experience all round. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Firefox 3.1, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Google Chrome

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Firefox 3.1 raises the browser bar ... again

Competition is a good thing, and the way that Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome have re-invigorated browser development will mean good a better web experience all round. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Firefox 3.1, Web Browsers, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, firefox, mozilla, minefield

Image galleries 2008-10-15

Workout for brain just a few clicks away

Researchers at UCLA studied people doing Web searches and found that it sharpened the memories of middle-aged and older people. CHICAGO--Searching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. Researchers at the University of California...

Tags: Brain, Internet Search, Internet, Search, Reuters, research, search, brain

News items 2008-10-15

High-tech manufacturers rev up Oregon e-recycling program

The Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company is flipping the switch on its state-wide electronics recycling program in Oregon. The next three months will represent a pilot phase, funded by Panasonic Corp. of North America, Sharp Electronics Corp., Toshiba America Consumer Products and CRT Processing, which is an e-waste recycling...

Tags: Oregon, Electronics, Manufacturer, E-waste, CRT, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-15

News to know: Gartner, Firefox 3.1, Apple notebook event, Intel

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Gartner: Top 10 technologies to watch over the next three years Larry Dignan: IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers ...

Tags: Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Apple MacBook, Gartner Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Notebook Event, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Can the Semantic Web help education?

Dr Jason Ohler certainly thinks so, and discusses his views in a recent paper and during a conversation that we recorded earlier this week. Both Jason and I struggled to think of examples where educationalists and educational technologists are already working with these technologies, or seriously considering...

Tags: Education, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Live Webcast: The Privileged Account Management Debate

There has been a furor of debate following the recent issues with the City of San Francisco and its administrator not divulging administrative passwords. Much of that debate has centered on whether other admins would perform similarly malicious acts following an employment termination. Some reports have this percentage...

Tags: Password, Webcast, Account Management, Admin Password, Quest Software Inc., Sales Channel, Sales Force Management, Sales

Webcasts 2008-10-15

Feds to continue highway money flow. But mass transit?

Feds to continue highway money flow. But mass transit?MASS TRANSITMass transit is the solution for many commuters like me. hehe it will help me to save gas and for my parking fee going to my office. :D

Tags: Mass Transit, money flow

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)

In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession,  as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-14

OLPC and Intel trumped by small-scale virtualization

I had planned for my next post to be a followup to my interview with Sun's Joe Hartley, but it's going to have to take a back seat to a story about small-scale virtualization in the 1:1 computing market. Maybe, though, this particular story suggests that Sun is headed...

Tags: Desktop, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Secunia: popular security suites failing to block exploits

In a recently conducted comparative review, Danish security company Secunia, tested the detection rate of 12 different Internet Security Suites against 300 exploits (144 malicious files and 156 malicious web pages) affecting popular end user applications, to find that even the top performer in the test is in fact performing...

Tags: Web, Malware, Exploit, Secunia, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Thoughts on Apple's new products

Thoughts on Apple's new productsExcept the rest of the market didn't hold an event......announcing new products.The reasons to not buy anything always outweighthe reasons to buy.When you switch to a MacBook Air, you can't believe how you just don't care about what connectivity you don't have. With wi-fi everywhere...

Tags: FireWire, Notebooks, GO PC, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

Thoughts on Apple's new products

I'm going to round up my coverage of Apple's notebook event by sharing my thoughts on the new products. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., MacBook Air Apple, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-10-14

More on Apple's new Mini DisplayPort

More on Apple's new Mini DisplayPortDisplayPort is fine...but include the VGA port too so we don't have to carry around an extra cord....duh. It doesn't take up much space and EVERY windows laptop has a VGA port.30"!It's nice that it finally works with 30" even on MacBook (non-Pro).I just...

Tags: Corporate communications, Notebooks, Network technology, DisplayPort, Mini DisplayPort, Mini, Apple Inc., adapter

Discussion threads 2008-10-14