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 Enterprise 2.0 is described by Carl Frappaolo and Dan Keldsen as, "a system of web based technologies that provide rapid and agile collaboration, information sharing, emergence and integration capabilities in the extended enterprise." It is basically social networking for businesses. ...Nov. 16, 2009 07:30 AM EST Reads: 827 Replies: 1 |
 The institutional horror stories continue, the old Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) address space is nearly gone, and if we do not transition to IPv6 with its nearly unlimited address space the Internet will grind to a halt. Nov. 13, 2009 02:00 AM EST Reads: 651 |
 Lately there seems to be a minor debate among the clouderati about the semantic differences between the term "the cloud" versus the use of "cloud computing". So I thought I'd jump into the fray.As someone who spends ... Nov. 9, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 839 |
 For businesses looking to do even more commerce and community building across the Web, text access and analytics forms a new mother lode of valuable insights to mine. Text-based content and information from across the Web are growing in importance to businesses. The need to analyze web...Nov. 9, 2009 07:22 PM EST Reads: 288 |
 Having grilled some of the top minds in the software business, this installment of Testing the Limits will deviate slightly from the norm. With us this month is John Winsor – author, entrepreneur and crowdsourcing expert.
After a successful career as a journalist and magazine publishe...Oct. 26, 2009 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 608 |
 Before the New York version of its International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which is about to be held again in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara Convention Center, 2-4 November, 2009), SYS-CON.TV invited four leading industry thought leaders to discuss how Cloud Computing brings the ...Sep. 28, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,259 |
 Ok, so, here are my thoughts on Ulitzer... As a blogger, I focus on traffic and I spend quite a lot of time optimizing my SEO. Since the target audience of my articles is much greater than the reach of my blog, Ulitzer is actually helping me increase my content reach. Moreover, Ulitzer...Sep. 26, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,335 Replies: 1 |
 A few months ago I purchased Giants tickets through MLB.com to take my mom, nephew and boyfriend to a game. It was the first time I’d personally purchased tickets to a Giants game, so understandable that I would now be on their email list. Right away I started receiving emails from MLB...Sep. 25, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 604 |
 First Web 2.0 conference was held October 5-7, 2004 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. Lot has happened in the last five years like the theme “Web as Platform” as a terminology is dead and has been replaced by “Cloud Computing“. In this year’s hype cycle...Sep. 23, 2009 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 960 |
 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: 1,036 |
 I was giving a seminar on the "18 People You Need To Connect with on Earth" which really focuses on crafting a strong social capital portfolio when one of the participants came up to me in tears during the first break. She didn't know if what she was doing right now in her life is wha...Sep. 21, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 802 |
 If asked, will customers submit themselves as possible case study or success story candidates? From consumer-products companies to B2B to nonprofit organizations, many now actively solicit stories with self-service “Share Your Story” links on their Web sites. Apple created a...
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 This afternoon I was sitting in a meeting discussing a potential upcoming marketing campaign to target developers. It’s a great concept, and I am looking forward to seeing it come to fruition. However, during the course of the discussion, it became clear that ad buys would be the pri...Sep. 8, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 859 |
 I must confess I am very new to Ulitzer as an online channel of social communication media. But I am delighted about its raison d'être. However, I cannot help but ask these questions: Is Ulitzer the beginning of a new trend or the ultimate death of journalism? Or is it the glorificatio...Sep. 6, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,847 Replies: 1 |
 This of course has an impact in writing your titles for pieces you want linked to – especially for those with a habit of taking the article title and linking it to the page. Most are aware a title should be under 70 characters to have maximum impact in Google. From a test I did, Google...Jul. 13, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 541 |
 The rise of reality TV shows over the past decade has continued to draw a steady stream of viewers, yet today, people seem to recognize that reality TV isn’t really all that real. The fact that the camera is there and the participants know it, has an impact on how they act. Shows need ...May. 31, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 560 |
 A revealing new report on monetizing social media predicts everyone but facebook stands to make money under the current business structure of leading social networks. The study, the latest from ContentNext Media, Inc. and authored by renowned analyst Lauren Rich Fine, compares the top ...May. 15, 2009 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,594 |
 In today’s Oregonian, Mike Rogoway’s article “Tech entrepreneurs defy recession“ quotes me as being able to build the first version of MioWorks.com for $5,000. Well this is very true but may be a little misleading so let me explain how this can be. The team behind MioWorks is not jus...May. 3, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 789 |
Today I attended the preamble to the InnoTech conference in Portland, OR called the eMarketing Summit. The day was filled with energetic and passionate speakers that made the $149 fee well worth the price. The topics varied by speaker but there was a common theme - there is much more ... Apr. 23, 2009 10:43 AM EDT Reads: 637 |
 The short answer is yes. Technology greatly facilitates the possibility and communication between executives and company heads, but depends on each individual company and the goals/objectives for that particular CNO. In today’s virtual world, companies are finding that traditional conc...Mar. 11, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 783 |
 FatWire Software announced that in 2008 the company delivered its strongest year ever, with revenue growth rates far exceeding that of the Web Content Management industry overall. FatWire achieved an astounding 40 percent growth in total year-over-year revenue, reaching $44 million in...Feb. 19, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 1,337 |
 More than a thousand sites are using Facebook Connect, says Mike Vernal, a member of the Facebook Platform engineering team, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Web 2.0 Journal. Some prominent examples Vernal mentions include Citysearch for local reviews, Joost and Vimeo for video sha...Jan. 16, 2009 05:35 AM EST Reads: 5,346 |
 The Web is slowly changing from a visual resource designed to externalize information to people, to a non-visual resource that's able to facilitate machine-to-machine communications. The catalysts of this change are non-visual communications that are enabled using APIs, or Application ...Dec. 31, 2008 01:30 PM EST Reads: 3,488 |
 I think it is only a matter of time before ALL of the leading networking players start talking about the (strategic importance of the) network as a way to succeed in an uncertain economic climate. Last week, in "Cloud Computing, Virtualization and IT Diseconomies" I talked about the in...Nov. 5, 2008 09:30 AM EST Reads: 4,091 |
 In the last two columns we talked about the emerging platform of the Web, and the use of Web APIs found through directories. Now I have something to show you that lives up to that hype, in essence a layer of technology, on-demand, that lives between the API provider and the API consume...Sep. 22, 2008 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,297 |
 Last week we launched a new column called “Web API Expert,” in essence, to provide a deeper focus on the emerging number of Web APIs out there, and show how to leverage them for mashups or other applications. This is the most exciting and interesting area of the emerging Web right now,...Aug. 26, 2008 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,902 |
 In its relatively short lifetime, the World Wide Web has had a dramatic impact on the way information is presented and shared. Before the Internet and the Web were available, "big media" companies invested heavily in expensive research, writing, editorial, printing, post-production, an...Aug. 5, 2008 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,744 |
 Web 2.0 tools are doing a wonderful job of providing consumers with cool and productive new ways of performing common, simple tasks over the Internet. These tools primarily perform a single task such as allowing consumers to manage their photos, read their favorite newsfeeds, express t...Jul. 18, 2008 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,307 |
 'Unlocking content to be remixed into new business value' is the driver of Web 2.0 in the enterprise, says Rod Smith, IBM VP of Emerging Internet Technologies, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geelan on the occasion of IBM's release of a new technology created by IBM researchers, code...Apr. 3, 2008 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 28,193 |
 I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning: 'Because they can only give you answers.' Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of t...Feb. 23, 2008 02:45 AM EST Reads: 108,816 Replies: 14 |
 Within the past few years, Web 2.0 has become a major technology trend, dramatically impacting the way consumers interact with information and applications. This consumer trend is now extending into the enterprise; however, businesses have been more reluctant than consumers to adopt th...Feb. 4, 2008 11:30 AM EST Reads: 11,981 |
 As a web 2.0 guy who blogs on 'Direct from Web 2.0', I did not see this coming. In fact, my preferences were Mitt Romney from the republican side (maybe McCain too) and Hilary Clinton from the democrat side. I think the three of them (Mitt Romney, John McCain and Hilary Clinton) will d...Jan. 9, 2008 10:00 AM EST Reads: 15,603 Replies: 5 |
 The evolution of Web sites to dynamic rich interactive applications is a true revolution for users. But for ASP.NET developers tasked with building high-performing scalable applications, it presents major challenges. The features that characterize blogs, wikis, personalized pages, and ...Dec. 26, 2007 04:15 AM EST Reads: 15,114 |
The Alliance's mission is to accelerate customer success with AJAX by promoting a customer¹s ability to mix and match solutions from AJAX technology providers and by helping to drive the future of the AJAX ecosystem. Jun. 8, 2007 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 51,034 Replies: 31 |
'The Java backlash,' writes Bruce Eckel, 'has been building up steam, and we're starting to see some fundamental shifts because of it.' Java has been around for 10 years yet applets are not the primary way that we interact with the web. Applets are not ubiquitous, and everyone got exci... Jun. 7, 2007 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 125,282 Replies: 38 |
Nowhere in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence did Thomas Jefferson reference the Internet, eBay, Skype, or Flickr. But if he'd lived another 180 years, to 2006 instead of 1826, I feel certain he would at some point have said something like this... Mar. 11, 2007 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 23,330 Replies: 3 |
The significance of blogging is not the word 'blog' whether used as a verb or a noun, but its role as a harbinger of the game-changing Web-as-platform revolution. In particular, the migration of blogging from the individual toward the enterprise... Feb. 25, 2007 12:30 PM EST Reads: 36,408 Replies: 2 |
The World Wide Web, as we know it, is exploding. From its fragments emerges a new 'container based' Web based on Widgets. For the lack of a better term, I shall call it a Widget Widget Web. I have long advocated the power of Widgets to transform the Web as we know it. Hence, I am start... Feb. 23, 2007 05:45 PM EST Reads: 21,334 |
 Adobe today announced that it intends to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).Jan. 29, 2007 02:45 AM EST Reads: 12,896 |
Early in 2006 there was a strong sense among industry insiders that AJAX-like approaches were a shoo-in as the new paradigm for fulfilling the software development community's dream of freedom from OS or runtime environment dependent technologies. Was the early optimism borne out by su... Jan. 11, 2007 02:30 PM EST Reads: 40,322 Replies: 3 |
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