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 If you have spent any time online using social networks like LinkedIn or Facebook, you know they can be difficult to grow your network and add contacts. But even harder is the ability to extract your contacts once you have built up a reasonably sized network. None of the social network...Oct. 26, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,256 Replies: 2 |
 There are reports that Yahoo has put Zimbra on the block. Honestly, this came as no surprise at all to us at Zoho. I remember scratching my head when the acquisition was made; I didn't see how an enterprise/business focused open source offering like Zimbra fit with Yahoo, as a technolo...Sep. 22, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 906 |
 Back in June, we released the very first security hardened virtual machine images for the Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment. These original images were based upon the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release and were configured in accordance with the guidelines published b...Sep. 21, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,472 |
 On Thursday, September 10th, 2009, I moderated a panel at the 1105 Group’s Enterprise Architecture Conference in Washington, DC entitled, “SOA Goes Mainstream – An Industry and Government Roadmap.” On the panel we had two Federal government agency representatives and two industry repr...Sep. 18, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,205 |
 First, there are reasons to think that the raw exposure of sins and self-embarrassments at Facebook and other such sites won’t have a directly proportional effect on the quotient of nastiness. It will certainly provide a greater trove for those who are intent in wreaking havoc on peopl...Sep. 12, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 686 |
 According to a new report by Forrester Research, despite a long-term future marked by commoditization, enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies will surge over the next five years, growing 43 percent each year to reach $4.6 billion globally by 2013. The 5-year enterprise Web 2.0 for...Aug. 30, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 978 Replies: 1 |
 Another storm? Didn't we just have one in the financial and credit markets you say?
Well, yes, and no. Yes, we did have a storm, though it wasn't one of innovation, unless we count the complex and innovative derivative instruments created by Wall St. in which banks, investment firms...Aug. 8, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 721 |
 As more and more data become available as a matter of course, the examples set by organisations such as MySociety become increasingly attainable for us all. Other than ensuring that it is ‘open,’ do we need to be asking for more from those making data available? And once it’s there, wi...Aug. 2, 2009 04:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,448 |
 The search engines such as Google and Yahoo! provide millions of potential customers every year for most industries. Taking advantage of this is a must for any budding online business. But what if you just service a small local area? Can the search engines be of advantage to you? Of co...Jun. 22, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 882 |
 YouTube's Health channel has several flaws from a user experience perspective. These flaws are contributing to the bleeding of cash at YouTube and fixing it can be one of the ways to turn around its profit picture.Apr. 14, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,128 |
 Responding to an article accusing Joel Spolsky that since his business has only 25 employees, Joel is not a successful businessman.Feb. 10, 2009 08:01 AM EST Reads: 1,300 |
In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (http://openweb.sys-con.com... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 43,543 Replies: 1 |
 My seven-year-old daughter thinks that there is a knowledge genie that her teacher 'Googles' for answers. While cute, the anecdote also exemplifies how much Google's obsession with simplicity has helped build brand awareness, making their name literally synonymous with search. I can fo...Dec. 11, 2007 01:30 AM EST Reads: 10,639 |
 One of the Google folks working on OpenSocial sent me a message via Facebook asking what I thought about the technical details of the recent announcements. Since my day job is working on social networking platforms for Web properties at Microsoft and I'm deeply interested in RESTful pr...Nov. 6, 2007 02:45 AM EST Reads: 37,006 Replies: 2 |
 There are 50 million Facebook users who don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care. There are about 5,000 tech bloggers and developers who think it is a revolution that will 'Checkmate' Facebook and leave them with no moves. TechMeme has over 100 stories saying that OpenSocia...Nov. 6, 2007 02:30 AM EST Reads: 14,229 |
 The year 2006 in which YouTube became culturally ubiquitous, Flash video became the de facto Internet video standard of the Web, Microsoft beta-launched Vista, and the Wii entered our lives - was also memorable for one or two other real-world events such as the hanging of Saddam Hussei...Jan. 18, 2007 03:00 PM EST Reads: 23,094 |
 As I write this, the stock price of Google, Inc. just exceeded $500 for the first time in the company's still-brief (two-year) history as a public company. That gives the search colossus a market cap of $150 billion, many times in excess of its physical assets - currently valued at $10...Dec. 13, 2006 12:00 PM EST Reads: 22,327 |
 Does the arrival of 'Google Apps for your Domain' sound the death-knell for Redmond's world domination? That is the question sweeping the industry this week as the owner of the world's most-used search engine released a set of hosted applications 'for organizations that want to provide...Aug. 30, 2006 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 29,697 Replies: 6 |
What comes after Google? Where will the Web, the Internet, the whole nexus of telecommunications, i-Technology, and the quest for a better world, take us? Jun. 14, 2006 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 26,011 |
 Like so many of the ideas that tumble out of the Googleplex into the public domain, Google Trends is irresistible. Jeremy Geelan puts the application, newly taken out of beta and now available to all cyberspace from the Google main page, through its paces by taking it out for a giddy s...May. 12, 2006 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 29,914 Replies: 7 |
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