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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)
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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)
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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)
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Submitted by Sfoskett
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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)
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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)
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SaaS and other Web services attract state and local governments, but some host their own private cloud services. (Read More)
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: What tends to worry people [about cloud computing] are issues like security and privacy of data -- that's definitely what we often hear from our customers,
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)
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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)
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: I could really use something like this to better determine how I'd like to use Twitter vs. how I use FriendFeed, since I tend to use the two services for different reasons.
: "Tentatively called Twitalytic, it’s a self-hosted web-based application that grabs your tweets, archives them, and uses them to give you some interesting data about the people you follow and those who follow you."
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)
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