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Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash

Say goodbye to Yahoo! MashSocial networking is the problemThe whole "social networking" paradigm has a fundamental problem, and that is that keeping in touch with other people shouldn't be an objective in and of itself.Yet a lot of these "concepts" are just that: get people into a herd mentality so...

Tags: Social networking, Yahoo! Mash, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

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Fourth type of cloud computing

Close, but no cigarThere is no requirement that a cloud be publicly accessible. In many cases, corporations use cloud products to supplement existing production. In that case, the public access is via the existing security scheme and the cloud assets are never directly accessible via public IP.Also, there...

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Open web

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Google Wave: Catching the Big One

Google unveiled a new online communications tool Thursday at its annual Google I/O Developer's Conference. Called "Google Wave", the new system sets its sights pretty high: replacing email, instant messaging, wikis, blogs, and static documents. If anybody can do it, it just might be Lars Rasmussen, creator of the wildly...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Wave, E-mail, AJAX, Channel Management, Online Communications, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-05-29

News to know: Dell; Comcast's cap; Yahoo Mash RIP; Google Apps

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins Google, Mozilla extend search box deal Jason Hiner: Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Hydrogen Road Tour, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash

On today's web, so many social sites never get off the ground because users don't easily migrate from their online communities. As much as I want MySpace to die, people will still be using it as long as their friends are using it. Yahoo's mashup social network...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Collaboration, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-28

When proprietary companies go open source

I've been burning the midnight oil yet again, working like a beaver on speed as I build my software castle on a server in Los Angeles not that beavers build castles. It's going well, and we are on the verge of starting trials in the UK. If any of you...

Tags: Software, Netscape Communications Corp., Stallman, Open Source, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Yahoo's desperate search times call for open source

Yahoo has opened its search for developers to customize in its latest step in what it calls its Open Strategy, a plan to make Yahoo a platform. The effort is dubbed Yahoo Search BOSS, which allows "allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., BOSS, RealNetwork, Open Source, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Dion Hinchcliffe, Itasca, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, Mashup, Mashup Exchange, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Serena, SnapLogic, Web

Blog posts 2008-05-15

How would Microsoft Live Mesh mesh with Yahoo's Y! OS?

While it's still premature to be trying to map how Microsoft and Yahoo assets will align if and when Microsoft ends up taking over Yahoo, the Web-services development arena is likely to be one area where the two vendors' offerings look increasingly unlikely to mesh. At the...

Tags: Operating System, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Balogh, Search Monkey, Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Asset Management, Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Gangsta cloud wars could pivot on the traffic-driving power of Google and Microsoft/Yahoo

As Phil Wainewright points out, the platform as a service PaaS wars are ramping up with the arrival of Google App Engine. And while there will be preferences around Python or Ruby, stack or ala carte -- there's one ingredient that Google and Microsoft/Yahoo sure to follow suit can bring...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Zimbra's Prism client - a great use case for RIAs on the desktop

Zimbra's Prism client - a great use case for RIAs on the desktopprism bookmarkletthis IS cool to see. I noticed that many people have tried prism+zimbra or gmail and other web email systems. I personally use gmail+grouphub inside of Prism everyday. I mostly leave the grouphub campfire...

Tags: Web browsers, PRISM, prism, Zimbra, rich Internet application, desktop, Use Case

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

These three Flickr images sum up some users' opinion of any Yahoo-Microsoft deal

These three Flickr images sum up some users' opinion of any Yahoo-Microsoft dealBrush UpTime to brush up on your internet memes there Russell!"Then we have this interesting mashup: a YouTube posted on Flickr, where poster jcrr appears to be cringing in pain"Uhmmm....yeah...that or it's a mash-up with last year's all-your-base-like-popular...

Tags: INTERNET, Flickr, Microsoft Deal, Yahoo! Inc., YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

Microsoft's Yahoo bids speaks as much of failure as opportunity

Is Microsoft buying Yahoo! because it has succeeded in its own Windows Everywhere strategy and 12 years of lackluster performance on the Web? Is Microsoft trying to buy Yahoo! because Yahoo! is seemingly at a weak point, unable to dominate in the key areas of search, advertising,...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Marketing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-02-01

All roads lead to the social Web

During a panel discussion at CES, Owen Van Natta, chief revenue officer at Facebook, said, "We believe that social network is not building a new niche or vertical but it will permeate everything on Web and unlock things we don’t do today." All roads lead to the social Web. ...

Tags: Bebo, Google Inc., Web, Facebook, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Portals, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-09

Kaiser Permanente CIO: Phil Fasano - Transcript

Dan Farber: Phil thanks for joining me. Phil Fasano: Thank you. Dan Farber: You’ve been at Kaiser Permanente for several months now, new at the job, almost parachuted in to fix some problems there. What’s the size and scope of your operation there?...

Tags: Patient, Physician, Analytics, Health Care, Information, Member, Medical Record, Organization, Kaiser Permanente, Software-as-a-service Obviously, Administrator

Blog posts 2007-12-04

The new old social network: Directory services and widgets

Saul Hansell of the NYT has fleshed out a few threads on the expected strategy from Google and Yahoo on the social networking front. The two will take advantage of their massive numbers of email and personalized page users as a base for a social network. Instead...

Tags: Google Inc., Directory Service, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Newsfeed, Social Networking, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Yahoo's social networking strategy: Connect the network profile dots

Yahoo in recent days has launched two social networking efforts--Mash, a social widget type site, and Kickstart, which is designed to be a more professional networking site. What exactly is Yahoo up to with these sites? For starters, it appears that Yahoo is clearly...

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Network, Yahoo! Inc., Kickstart, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-09

Popfly hits public beta

Looks like "real soon now" turned into a few months. Regardless, Microsoft has now extended the beta of its Popfly mash-up tool to any and all interested parties. Popfly's competition includes Yahoo Pipes and Google Mashup Editor. Early testers of Popfly credited the Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Mashup, Popfly, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-10-19

Yahoo's 100-day review: A lot of cards shown already

Yahoo's 100-day strategic review is now in its 84th day and when the details do emerge chances are the plan will be anticlimactic. Why? Yahoo's telegraphed its plans via a bevy of moves since CEO Jerry Yang mentioned his review that promised a "fresh look" at the company....

Tags: Card, Yahoo! Inc., Zimbra, Microsoft Corp., Wall Street, Social Networking, Mergers & Acquisitions, E-mail, Outsourcing, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Investment, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-08

Microsoft reportedly eyeing Facebook stake

Microsoft is eyeing an investment in Facebook that would value the social networking company at about $10 billion. The investment, which was reported by The Wall Street Journal citing "people familiar with the matter, connects a few dots on the social networking landscape. Over the weekend, TechCrunch reported that...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Microsoft Corp., Social Networking, Investment, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-24