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- Looking back at Web 2006 from 2025
- Looking back at Web 2006 from 2025Is this the end of the revolution?Or it's total victory?See my small cartoon:http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2006/12/animal_farm.htmlBye,OlivermergermaniaI really prefer MicroGoo to GooSoft.Wrong YearShould be 2525 to 2006, not 2025. Zager and Evans would be upsat with the misleading refernce to the future.I agree but Wikisearch destroys Yahoo...
- Tags: Channel management, Web 2006, Looking Back, Microsoft Corp., Web
- Discussion threads 2006-12-21
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- Howard's happy: Sirius-XM merger (finally) approved; Now the work really begins
- The government regulatory debacle known as the Sirius-XM merger has officially ended as the Federal Communications Commission approved the deal after 17 months of deliberation and lobbying from the National Association of Broadcasters. According to the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal the FCC approved the deal...
- Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Sirius, Howard, Satellite Radio, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Federal Government, Mergers & Acquisitions, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Government, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-26
- MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more
- I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...
- Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Twelve best practices for online customer communities
- One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it...
- Tags: Community, Best Practice, Customer Community, Deloitte, Community Management, Marketing Research, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Appearance: PPUG meets tomorrow in Philly
- If you're in the Philadelphia area I'd like to invite you to attend the Philadelphia PowerBook User Group PPUG meeting tomorrow at the Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant. We meet from 12 noon to 3pm over lunch and fine local beer. Want to debate my theory on...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Philadelphia, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone gas application roundup
- On 18 June 2008 I published my iPhone app wishlist and I'm happy that most of my most requested applications have been released (Thank you Texas Hold'Em!). Two my most request applications dealt with fuel, specifically a fuel economy tracker and a cheap gas finder. Several iterations...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Vehicle, MPG, AccuFuel, Gas Finder, Roi/Tco, GPS, 3G, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP
- 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XPMy takeI don't count security patches, but I regularly have to clean malware from our XP machines but have yet to find anything on our Vista systems.RE: 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XPFile this in the "no...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Patches, Microsoft Windows Vista, secure, Microsoft Windows XP, VISTA IS
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users
- Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...
- Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- iPhone 3G availability tracker mashup
- Looking for an iPhone 3G? Apple provides an iPhone 3G availability application on their retail Web page that lists iPhone availability by store location. The app appears to be offline as of press time. The problem is that Apple's availability application forces you to drill down store...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone 3G, Mashup, Chris Barnes, 3G, Collaboration, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- 10 essential gadgets for studentsImpressive...A laptop with the same specs as a laptop! Wow!Only 2 are "essential"Out of the list of 10 only #1 is "essential" for students. If in college #10 is also needed, but the other 8 are nothing but luxuries and two are just plain useless....
- Tags: Scanners, Digital music, ONLY 2, essential gadget, Digital Pen, phone, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awardsRE:Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards"their motivation is to take money out of the system,..."is this a good thing?Hmmm...kinda wrong..."...their motivation is to take money out of the system, to take down the old Microsoft monopoly. They lack compelling business models of their own."If the only biz...
- Tags: Leadership, Web browsers, OpenOffice, motivation, old-Microsoft monopoly, old-Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., SourceForge
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?Different goals, maybe. Similar imperatives, yes.While the open source community is driven by solving mutual problems and then making the solutions available to everyone, if open source communities hope to make inroads into large organizations,...
- Tags: Desktops, Xen, VMware Inc., open-source community, open source, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T
- Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...
- Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- TP-LINK TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router
- The TP-Link TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router is a wireless router that supports the Draft N 2.0 specification and not much else. This means no network storage or dual-band support (the router works only in the 2.4GHz frequency), no print-serving capability, and no Gigabit Ethernet. The router doesn't even offer N-mode-only...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Home networking, router, TP-Link, Wireless-N, TP-Link TL-WR941ND, TL-WR941ND
- Product reviews 2008-07-24
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- HP Pavilion dv2945se
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Back to School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.HP's 14-inch HP Pavilion dv2945se looks like it should cost more than $899, thanks to a cool subtle pattern on the keyboard tray and lid...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Processors, laptop computer, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, keyboard
- Product reviews 2008-07-24
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...
- Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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