CNET News.com | Tech news blog:
We have reached a critical inflection point for open source. With everyone from Qualcomm to UBS to Microsoft embracing open source in one shape or another, the question is no longer "why" to use open source, but rather "how."Because of this changing mindset around open-source adoption, we no longer need evangelists encoura (Read More)
Submitted by london2020:
Does web video promotion work? Is web video a great promotional tool? How do you get your web video ranking well in the search engines?
Most business owners using web video would love to have a strategy for extensive promotion and distribution of their web video. Find out how it’s all achieved. (Read More)
News Networks :
none (yet) -- click "share" to share with a network.
: Good solid article on web video marketing. Includes strategies for ranking in the search engines using targeted keywords. The two stage strategy mentioned in the article is interesting.
Mashable!:
The just-launched Twitter Lists feature is a new way to organize the people you’re following on Twitter, or find new people. In actuality, though, Twitter Lists are Twitter’s long awaited “groups” feature. They offer a way for you to bunch together other users on Twitter into groups so that you can get an overview of what (Read More)
Ars Technica:
P2P use is down this year, possibly thanks to the growing availability of online video. Network equipment provider Sandvine observed these two trends in its "2009 Global Broadband Phenomena" report (via Broadband Reports), noting that there was a "dramatic increase" in realtime (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
You’re a huge, global brand, and you’re on Twitter. You have lots of support employees on the network, and sensibly you’ve each allocated them a @name_company or @company_name username (i.e., ASOS_james). You have a unit working under your name, and they’re doing good things.One of your employees becomes the real star of th (Read More)
The Moderate Voice:
Google Voice is all about enabling choice: which phone you pick up your calls on, where to review your voicemail messages, how to send and reply to text messages, etc. So when it comes to your phone number, it was logical for us to also offer a choice of which number to use with Google Voice.Previously, when you created a (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Social search was in the news this past week when Google and Bing announced that they would be getting access to the Twitter fire hose. A flurry of subsequent posts speculated on what this "social search" would entail, and some expressed concerns over privacy and spam.But social search is not something to be afraid of. It's (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
(Cross-posted with the Social Web Blog)On the subway, I bump elbows with a guy for 20 city blocks without exchanging a single word. Forty-five minutes later, I find the same guy at the local guitar shop, and we start to talk — turns out he plays a Gibson Les Paul just like I do. We may have been strangers on the train, but (Read More)
MotherJones.com:
There must be something wrong with me. After receiving notice from 23andMe that my personal genetic profile was complete, I waited three months to go online and check out the results. I'm clearly out of step with the rest of humanity, which, judging from the explosive growth of direct-to-consumer genetic testing, is despera (Read More)
Reuters: Private Equity:
LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - A group of private equity firms
is expected to progress to the second round of the sale of
second-hand car dealership British Car Auctions, people familiar
with the matter said.
. (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Tim says: "Governator Arnold hides a colorful response in a carefully worded veto."
Schwarzenegger's press secretary, Aaron McLear, insisted Tuesday it was simply a "weird coincidence."
Can a statistician gives us the odds of this happening, please?
Did Schwarzenegger drop 4-letter bomb in veto?
. (Read More)
Submitted by crenk
from blog:
Social networks as they exist depend on the number of friends you start off with and thus you expand your network based on your existing network and grow from there. For many, not having an online presence makes it heard to start a social network when there is no online network to utilize to start. For [...]. (Read More)
Submitted by rush2pro:
To achieve our potential we must learn that the key element in life is to "feel" our way through our personal success. Our journey to empowered living is more about "feeling" than thinking; not to minimize thinking, au contraire.
When we begin to "feel out" people, things, and our state of affairs, we will have a knowing f (Read More)
Mashable!:
There are a lot of players vying to become your gateway to rest of the web: Facebook Connect, OpenID, Sign In With Twitter, MySpace ID, and Google Friend Connect just to name a few. It’s Facebook Connect however that seems to be leaving all of the other connect methods in the dust. This includes Google Friend Connect, whi (Read More)