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 Many IT managers would love to move some of their applications out of the enterprise data center and into the cloud. It's a chance to eliminate a whole litany of costs and headaches: in capital equipment, in power and cooling, in administration and maintenance. Instead, just pay as you...Sep. 27, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,837 |
 Russia "will" develop a new Web browser for federal employees. The news was published on infonews.ru. The project is funded by the Ministry of Defense and FSB (formerly KGB). According to infonews, "several million rubles will be spent on creation of Russian Web browser". They are pla...Sep. 26, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,410 |
 A major uproar has been brewing in Sweden over a recent government ruling banning the word "bank" from any Swedish domains that do not fit the official definition of a financial banking institution. (Basically *bank.se) On Thursday The Pirate Bay pledg...Sep. 25, 2009 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,521 |
 Internet Explorer, particularly versions 6 and before, are the bane of any web developer's existence. The Internet Explorer versions Microsoft produced during the competion-free era between when Netscape died and Firefox came on the scene are masterpieces of monopolistic neglect. IE 5 ...Sep. 24, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,407 |
 Wow. I’m impressed. For the past few days, Gmail has been hanging when I try to attach a file. It doesn’t matter what type of file it is or how big it is. More times than not, it hangs. The hang happens as soon as Gmail shows the bar that displays the percent loaded. I have to force-qu...Sep. 21, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,053 |
 I’ve mentioned before that I run my small business, Crucial Point LLC, primarily by leveraging cloud computing capabilities. With this post I’ll mention a book that helped me do that: Google Apps: The Missing Manual. This book does a great job at capturing the core functionality of Goo...Sep. 21, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,826 |
 Data loss is an unforeseen situations that could occur at any point, nevertheless of the hardware and software you are using. Data loss can harshly affect your business and may harm your company revenue as well as market reputation.Sep. 21, 2009 09:27 AM EDT Reads: 3,754 |
 Here is an interesting news item which claims that UK online ad spend overtakes mainstream TV. The same news was corroborated by another post which stated that spending on online advertising surpasses TV. The news was little disconcerting because it did not seem to match with my ground...Sep. 18, 2009 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,277 |
 Commoditized from solution to feature, from feature to function, load balancing is no longer a solution but rather a function of more advanced solutions that’s still an integral component for highly-available, fault-tolerant applications. |
 Cloud computing is in fact a real phenomenon and does create great technological and business value. Simply put, cloud computing allows one to build network applications without having to worry about the network. So far, so good; but what is the catch?Sep. 17, 2009 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 15,321 |
 Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) is a new type of storage designed specifically for Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS allows you to create volumes that can be mounted as devices by EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes behave as if they were raw unformatted external hard drives and...Sep. 12, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 8,637 |
 In the case of Ulitzer, as a writer I am focused on getting readers from within an existing audience. There are already thousands of readers coming to the Ulitzer site, so if they are interested in my topics such as marketing, they will find my articles as well as others. Ulitzer all...Sep. 12, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 17,783 |
 Interesting developments today in the scalable real time web front. In a rather unexpected move, Facebook has released a project called Tornado -- an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and and tools that power FriendFeed.Sep. 11, 2009 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,205 |
 ... There was an interesting article in the news yesterday from an insurance company about which professions have the worst road accident records. Topping the list... ahead of sales managers and students... are computer engineers!!!
Being an engineer at heart (although my programmin...Sep. 9, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,030 |
 There's a terrific colloquy between Google and Geoff Nunberg in response to Geoff's critique of Google's handling of the metadata attached to the books Google is digitizing (which I blogged about here). It's fascinating for its content, but also very cool as a conversation between a ...Sep. 8, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,844 |
 Every time a new search engine pops up, bloggers, journalists and analysts get all worked up about its potential (or otherwise) to be a ‘Google Killer.’ I’ve written about this before, and really can’t understand the apparent obsession with ‘killing’ a company that’s continuing to do r...Sep. 8, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,848 |
 Today, we are an early cohabitant of “The Cloud”, thanks in no small part to our adoption of all of the cool cloud enablers mentioned above. But to understand how cool cloud computing really is, you first have to understand that the cloud is still in its infancy, and already, it’s a c...Sep. 8, 2009 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 14,643 Replies: 1 |
 Working from home is a rare grand slam, game-winning business trend. In the contact center and elsewhere, the transition from commute to telecommute benefits employers, employees, end user customers and the environment alike. Employers can turn their business models upside down and hav...Sep. 1, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,855 |
 … but maybe some parts of the network should be.
What the heck am I talking about? Actually, when you remove the fluff, I’m talking about optimizi... Aug. 27, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,177 |
 An important milestone just got passed by Google – one of the big enterprise identity management vendors out there – Quest Software (full disclosure: I am working for the company) – has added Google Apps as a directory to which they can provision identities and access.
One might arg...Aug. 27, 2009 10:01 AM EDT Reads: 4,881 |
 Is your leadership style in business or in life inspiring others to take sought-after action? Or are you struggling with your leadership role? Would you like to grow into a leader who possesses authentic passion and clarity about your role?...Aug. 25, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,126 |
 In my last post I introduced event delegation in SproutCore and the basics of how to handle events. In this post I’m going to build on this foundation to show you how you can add event ... Aug. 24, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,721 |
 Google adds SVG compatibility to IE: With this library, we finally have a generalized way to write vector graphics across all browsers. Now we just need to make this code easier to generate. Next step: extend SC.RenderContext i... Aug. 24, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,447 |
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 Unix PhilosophyPerhaps the simplest form of early Unix Philosophy is as follows: every program should do one thing, do it well, and simply interface to every other program. In (early) Unix, Aug. 21, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,974 |
 Sometimes it’s hard to explain to people what a quality link is but in simple terms this is how I describe a site you want a link from. What it has to be is a site that wasn’t built SOLEY to provide links to other sites because generally speaking, it takes a lot of authority for Google...Aug. 21, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,420 |
 Why do application delivery vendors talk about both? Aren’t they the same thing? In general, acceleration implies that something will be done to the application: caching, Aug. 20, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,490 |
 For those that don't know what X-Forwarded-For is, then you might as well close your browser because this post likely will mean nothing to you… A Little Background Now, if you are still reading this, then you likely are having issues with determining... Aug. 20, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,787 |
 An exact match domain name is a web address with the same EXACT words in it that make up a popular search. As an example, I have these two (at the moment, I use for nothing more than testing). OK – you can forgive search engines for thinking a 100% relevant web address might be indicat...Aug. 18, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,656 |
 With roughly 24 hours left in the 3rd quarter Bug Battle, here is a brief summary of the results thus far. We've had more than 500 bugs reported, with more than 30 of them relating to the mid-competition addition of Google Caffeine to the Bug Battle mix.
Remember, the software testing...Aug. 14, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,802 |
 A very wise business owner I know frequently talks about search volume and search trends when discussing Internet marketing and in particular search engine optimization. He is a data guy, an entrepreneur, and a highly technical individual who always looks beyond simple numbers to peek...Aug. 14, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,109 |
 I'm hoping that you users and specifiers of enterprise software middleware, SOA infrastructure, integration middleware, and enterprise service buses (ESBs) will take 5 minutes and fill out my BriefingsDirect survey. We'll share the results via this blog in a few weeks.
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 Although I think these gadgets are lightweight for any kind of serious user, I can't help but think this feeds Google's overall social strategy that must be drawn up on some war room wall at Google. I think Google could given us more to save time working with our current social networ...Aug. 13, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,659 |
 The announcement of Google’s new engine “Caffeine” could not have come at a better time. In light of the current Bug Battle competition, we have decided to add Caffeine to the lineup of search engines to test.
The competition is roughly halfway through (testing ends ...Aug. 12, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,904 |
 About two months ago, I put together a post on the five ways professional services firms should use Twitter. From a readership standpoint, that post represents one of the all-time top five posts on Marketing Trenches. More importantly, we received a number of emails from professional...Aug. 12, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,991 |
 Late last night, we launched version 2.5 of the uTest platform. This new version incorporates a number of infrastructure improvements and bug fixes. And while some of these things aren’t visible to the naked eye, they are based upon feedback from our customers and testers, and ...Aug. 12, 2009 08:18 AM EDT Reads: 2,301 |
 If you haven’t revisited your brand architecture in more than a year, it’s likely what you’re building is a façade, rather than reinforcing a foundation. Because technology and innovation are inextricably linked, tech companies are continuously introducing new products and services, a...Aug. 10, 2009 08:59 AM EDT Reads: 6,607 |
 I focus on technological innovation because it drives innovation throughout the global economy, changing what we make, what we use, and what we do. Centers of technological innovation become centers of innovation across a broad economic spectrum for two reasons: innovation in technolog...Aug. 7, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,104 |
 The current web provides a two dimensional user experience. A user has to interact with 2 dimensional objects in a browser. This experience is so much frustrating that some users are turning back to old way of doing business - go offline and call the live person.
A study by Forreste...Aug. 5, 2009 10:47 AM EDT Reads: 3,154 |
 You may be wondering why something as seemingly simple as Twitter causes so much confusion and consternation among business people. Perhaps, it best likened to a tool like a hammer which is simultaneously simple and powerful. After all, a hammer can be used to put up a basic bookshel...Aug. 3, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,618 |
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