4 days ago

silicon.com : Management While social networking sites can be fun for connecting with family and friends, they're no use when it comes to professional networking, says the Naked CIO. It used to be that social networking websites were a perfect place to collaborate with colleagues, bring together like-minded people and make professional contacts who (Read More)

Oct 08, 2009

Google Enterprise Blog Google recently sponsored a global, multi-industry research project surveying 1,125 IT decision-makers and their perceptions about cloud computing and the key drivers behind the growth of cloud-based IT solutions.We're sharing the results of the study in a new whitepaper: the Google Communications Intelligence Report. The f (Read More)

Oct 09, 2009

BBC Last week, I promised to kick the tyres of Google's shiny new collaborative communications tool Wave - and to let you know how it looked. Well, sorry for the delay - but it took days for the invitations I'd sent to friends and colleagues to arrive and without anyone to talk to, Wave is, well, pointless. But now that my coll (Read More)

Oct 01, 2009

Submitted by Sfoskett from Google Reader: During my day-job quest to define what “cloud filesystem” might most usefully mean, I keep coming back to one statement:: cloud users need somewhere to store their data. Yes, I know that seems obvious. It’s so obvious that one can scarcely imagine anybody thinking otherwise . . . and yet such thinking (or perhaps lack of (Read More)

Sep 29, 2009

CNET News.com Do you think the future of cloud computing revolves around virtual servers? Try again. Software developers are rethinking delivery of distributed applications and services, impacting the way we address IT from the very core. (Read More)

Sep 28, 2009

Submitted by Logicalextremes from Google Reader: SaaS and other Web services attract state and local governments, but some host their own private cloud services. (Read More)

Aug 20, 2009

Wikinomics If you haven’t conducted this experiment yet, visit the MIT Personas project and type your name into the search field. What comes out is a visual representation of your digital self. As noted on the project page, “Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.”Over the past year, we’ve been researching extensively the topic (Read More)

Aug 21, 2009

BBC Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon are to join a coalition against Google's efforts to scan millions of books for a huge virtual library. (Read More)

Aug 21, 2009

TechCrunch Since Gina Trapani stepped down from her role running Lifehacker, the blog she started under Gawker, she’s apparently been busy working on a new kind of Twitter application. Today, she gave a preview of what it will be on her new blog Smarterware. Tentatively called Twitalytic, it’s a self-hosted web-based application that (Read More)

Aug 11, 2009

Search Engine Land While Twitter is getting the lion’s share of all the social media and micro-blogging sites from the press and the blogosphere, there are other alternatives. I’m going to take you through 5 different micro-blogging platforms, pointing out the good, bad, and sometimes ugly. I’ll also point out some suggestions on how [... (Read More)

Aug 05, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Recently Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle released a white paper entitled Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. It focuses squarely, pardon the pun, on the intersection of social web technologies with the emerging Internet of Things (real world objects connected to the Internet). The 'web squared' moniker is, commercially speak (Read More)

Jul 09, 2009

readwriteweb A new study by Anderson Analytics looks into the demographics and psychographics of social networking users on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn with a goal of providing marketers with information about users' interests and buying habits as it related to their their network of choice. The end result is a detailed loo (Read More)

Jul 04, 2009

Smashing Magazine   Designing websites can be a long and complicated process. Dealing with clients, designing prototypes, coding, programming, and testing – there’s a lot to keep track of and a lot to make sure gets done. That’s where checklists can make your life a whole lot easier. With lists of points covering multiple areas f (Read More)

Jul 02, 2009

ReadWriteWeb A June survey released by Facetime, makers of a gateway appliance for managing Web 2.0 applications, revealed the growing popularity of social networking applications in the workplace. Out of 1199 survey respondents, all IT professionals, there were more who felt that social networks played an important role in the business (Read More)

Jul 01, 2009

Submitted by Sfoskett from Google Reader: Researchers at Arizona State University are using Nirvanix's cloud storage service to store images of the Moon transmitted by NASA's recently launched Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. The satellite will capture images of the lunar surface and transmit them to ASU for processing, which will include replicating the images (Read More)

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