VentureBeat:
The seminal conference on the Smart Grid has arrived.Our two-day inaugural GreenBeat conference kicks off this afternoon at the San Mateo Marriott, bringing together 400 utility, finance, political and entrepreneurial leaders working to make our electrical grid cleaner, reliable and more efficient.This is the first time we’ (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie weighed in at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference today on the battle between different smartphone platforms (including Windows Mobile). The applications won’t be the differentiators, Ozzie said, even though that’s what many companies and writers seem to focus on.It’ (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Faced with media scrutiny, Facebook reiterated in a blog post that it is taking action to improve the quality of third-party ads in its apps. The post was inspired the controversy that began last Friday when Techcrunch editor Michael Arrington confronted Offerpal chief executive Anu Shukla about scam offers.Today, the compa (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Marc Benioff has been the reliably outspoken chief executive of Salesforce.com for 10 years. Salesforce was one of the pioneers of the software-as-a-service business model, where traditional software is replaced by a web-based application that customers pay for via subscription, and he trumpeted the model with ads declaring (Read More)
VentureBeat:
I’m sitting here listening to Qi Lu, who left Yahoo after a decade to run Microsoft’s Online Services Division, and is talking on-stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.Microsoft is announcing “Bing 2″ and is going live with a beta shortly after Lu’s talk. They’re announcing a strategic partnership with Twitter. Micro (Read More)
Submitted by Sugarbabe Ab
from Google Reader:
Digital and DM agency Tullo Marshall Warren (TMW) is boosting its mobile marketing offering with the appointment of Douglas McDonald as Head of Mobile. With McDonald’s appointment, TMW says it can now offer a full mobile marketing service, which includes strategy, creative, project management and delivery.“Too often, mobile (Read More)
mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY:
We expect to hear news on the BusinessWeek sale any day now, but it seems that whether Bloomberg LP or Zelnick Media -- the two bidders left in the process we've been tracking all summer -- buy the business magazine, there will be changes for the staff to endure. Although it remains to be seen what will happen, one choice s (Read More)
FriendFeed - fredzimny:
With the sudden explosion of attention businesses have begun giving social media, many are jumping into the social sphere without understanding how to use it to its fullest.I mainly blame a lack of training and an abundance of sub-par resources.To try and help people find a better way to get started with and understand soci (Read More)
BBC:
Suddenly there is a plethora of choices for anyone who wants to obtain music online via a legal route - a rare breed if you believe figures suggesting there are 20 illegal downloads for every legitimate one. Napster has just relaunched its subscription service in the UK, cutting its starting price from £10 to £5 per month. (Read More)
Submitted by Morgan
from Google Reader:
Online platforms have a long track record of providing advertising as a business model, but few have implemented direct lead generation functionality as part of their business models. Enter the team at SlideShare.net who recently announced the launch of two new business services. The first service, AdShare, allows users to (Read More)
Consulting Pulse:
On purchasing a subscription to a stock trading newsletter recently I was offered entry to their discount online brokerage. I couldn't help but laugh. "How on earth do you guys make money out of that?" I blurted out.Stock broking used to be a highly lucrative profession. One where a licensed somebody could act as a go betwe (Read More)
Conversation Agent:
He wrote recently in a comment that participation in the community - online or otherwise - improves lives. That is also my belief. Brian can write - he gets right to the core of an issue with the ability to craft an honest story. Take a look at what he writes to introduce himself on LinkedIn:It's all about adaptation thes (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
If cloud computing or cloud storage is a gold rush, hosting providers are a rich vein. I attended the Tier1’s Hosting Transformation Summit this week to learn more about them.The short answer: hosting companies are at least as confused about cloud infrastructure as the rest of us; but the lure of annuity revenue has their f (Read More)
VentureBeat:
[The following story, by Amitabh Srivatsava, Microsoft's vice president for Windows Azure, is part of a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft authors will participate, as will VentureBeat writers and outside experts.]Cloud computing is democratizing the inter (Read More)
Submitted by Motown Terri
from blog:
Author : George RayAffiliate programs are very popular and effective way to make cash as a home business on the Internet It is just another area of marketing on the Internet which is grown extremely quickly in popularity in recent years and only continues to grow as more and more companies capitalise on the huge opportunit (Read More)