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 A Marketing Center of Excellence (MCOE) provides significant value—not just for reducing the risk of a “black swan fail,” but also for enabling innovation, effectiveness, and efficiency—from its enablement of a holistic, cross-disciplinary approach to marketing in the enterprise. In th...Jan. 15, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 1,654 |
 Let’s start with some acronym disambiguation.
The term CMS can be used to denote Content Management Systems, Content Management Services, Change Management Systems or Configuration Management Systems in IT alone. Let alone the Calcutta Mathematical Society (it does exist, we checked)...Sep. 13, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,192 |
 The highly empowered mobile user is a disruptive trend most enterprises have yet to come to grips with. This is causing huge changes in enterprises. Friends at Wikibon, the awesome open research and collaboration site, have produced an infographic that helps capture some key dimensi... Sep. 8, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,869 |
 If everyone else is faking it, here for the money, making it up as they go... Does integrity matter in Social Media? I believe that integrity is critical to success, for our nation, our business and ourselves. It's a slippery slope when we begin to sacrifice integrity for our own perso...Sep. 5, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,802 |
 There are two secret sauces for making a web site successful: SEO and WPO. Ok, I guess everyone knows about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) now. SEO was a secret sauce 5-10 years ago. At that time, not everyone was aware of SEO. These who did SEO ended up being very successful. But ha...Jan. 4, 2011 05:00 AM EST Reads: 6,641 |
 Ever since I first published here my tentative list of Top Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem - now expanded to a list of 250 and growing daily thanks to community feedback via my Twitter account (@jg21) and a very kind mention by ReadWriteWeb - there have been suggestions that a...Sep. 19, 2010 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 40,916 |
 Open source software is perfectly positioned to facilitate the massive overhaul that will be necessary to open up government data to the public. As consumers, this technology is already changing the way in which we go about our day-to-day lives. It powers maps on our phones and provide...Aug. 9, 2010 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,935 |
 If Tim Berners Lee had thought for a moment, back in 1990, that his invention at CERN of http + HTML + server + browser was going 20 years later to eliminate Newsweek from newsstands worldwide, he might have gone back to studying physics instead of ushering in the World Wide Web.
Bu...Jul. 4, 2010 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,708 |
 Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of cloud management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud Expo being held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010.
Malcolm is keynoti...May. 31, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 36,471 Replies: 3 |
 As a diversion from its high-profile “who-knows-where-it-will-end” dogfight with Gizmodo over an errant iPhone prototype, Apple has posted a longish open letter on its web site over the signature of its CEO Steve Jobs reiterating all the reasons why Apple has no use for Adobe’s Flash t...May. 2, 2010 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,484 |
 We have a brittle system underpinning the data center: the network. It’s brittle, yes. But it works. Thanks to years of tweaking and tuning and troubleshooting, it works. We know where everything is, and how everything interacts, and it works. It works well, in fact, now that we’ve got...Apr. 26, 2010 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 10,389 |
 I am glad that I switched over to Chrome. Otherwise it would have taken me lot more effort to go through the site created by Marcin Wichary and modified by Ernest Delgado.
If you want to get a feel of what is possible with HTML5 this is a good place to look at. Here is the link. (Yo...Apr. 26, 2010 02:05 AM EDT Reads: 5,995 |
 As for the right name, what more need be said than that Cloud Computing has caught on in a way that "Grid Computing" or "Utility Computing" or "Elastic Computing" never did?
As a metaphor is sums up perfectly the spirit of compute capacity that can be set up and torn down programati...Mar. 31, 2010 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 10,007 |
 As the adoption of cloud services grows and service offerings mature, business models must also evolve in order to fully capture revenue streams. However, most Cloud Service Providers today do not possess the required business support systems that enable them to easily create sophistic...Mar. 29, 2010 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,305 |
 Someone once asked Ernest Hemingway if it was difficult to write. He replied "Not at all, you just sit at the typewriter and bleed!"
Hemingway must be turning these days in his grave, because if Cloud Computing has done anything it has shown once and for all that technology commenta...Mar. 29, 2010 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,082 |
 For others, that will build and support their own enterprise cloud environments, the dynamic nature of cloud computing – with servers, networks, and storage dynamically showing up and disappearing from the environment, it will be a difficult and challenging model to manage; particularl...Feb. 17, 2010 08:00 PM EST Reads: 6,740 |
 Two news items have caught the attention this week, and both brought the John Lennon and Paul McCartney penned Beatles classic “The Fool on the Hill” to mind (more specifically the line “Well on his way, his head in a cloud”).
One piece compares data centers with rock stars and the ...Feb. 4, 2010 12:00 PM EST Reads: 7,295 Replies: 1 |
 I was speaking with a few colleagues the other day about the different benefits of social media as a whole, and blogging in particular. The folks in the room had varying levels of social media involvement, from no involvement at all to heavy involvement. Each of us discussed what we ...Jan. 21, 2010 08:00 AM EST Reads: 10,689 |
 There’s been increasing interest in Infrastructure 2.0 of late that’s encouraging to those of us who’ve been, well, pushing it uphill against the focus on cloud computing and virtualization for quite some time now. What’s been the most frustrating about bringing this concept to awarene...Jan. 19, 2010 06:00 PM EST Reads: 10,329 |
 Delegates will leave Virtualization Expo with a full understanding of the interaction between virtual servers and the rest of the data center infrastructure. Indeed our overall aim is to ensure that all attendees leave the Jacob Javits Convention Center with abundant resources, ideas a...Dec. 30, 2009 11:15 AM EST Reads: 24,016 |
 Web 2.0 may not have a clear-cut definition but irrespective of which way you look at it (there are 3 different ways of looking at web 2.0), it is about the behavior of complex system, it is about collective intelligence and it is about emergence. The fundamental principles governing s...Dec. 28, 2009 05:00 AM EST Reads: 6,176 |
 A Nov. 30 article in the Business Journal covered some of our experiences with being a company listed on Wikipedia, and with that listing being challenged. I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the lessons we learned and provide some simple advice for those of you who would li...Dec. 18, 2009 03:00 PM EST Reads: 8,571 |
 We all know about outsourcing, the ability to farm out work to people, often overseas, that will work for less, and sometimes for a lot less. But a not-so-new trend is changing the way that outsourcing happens, called crowdsourcing.
The idea is to take a job and divide it into small...Dec. 1, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 4,470 |
 Us “Baby Boomers” tend to believe we have accomplished a lot in the years ranging from our roots of hard rock, to the birth of basic internet technologies in the early 1970s. We started our generation with black and white television, experiencing everything from the assassination of P...Dec. 1, 2009 09:00 AM EST Reads: 8,342 |
 I was again reading and reviewing Lawrence Lessig's work tonight. The man is so very articulate and his observations so compelling. If you haven't become a student of his work, please take my advice and give it a try here.
At the 200... Nov. 30, 2009 09:00 PM EST Reads: 10,778 |
 Another incident on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) hits YouTube, and the world is once again asking the question if BART Police are using too much force, the police acted appropriately, or if BART passengers simply recorded a snapshot in time that could be interpreted at a later dat...Nov. 26, 2009 10:30 AM EST Reads: 12,579 |
 Yesterday, 23 November 2009, an Atlas V rocket from the United Launch Alliance successfully launched the Intelsat 14 satellite (IS-14). Liftoff of the Atlas V occurred at 1:55am ET. The satellite separated successfully two hours later. Today we received word that the satellite̵...Nov. 25, 2009 08:00 AM EST Reads: 5,451 |
 If you search Google Images for "Michelle Obama" (no quotes), the first image you'll see is a poorly photoshopped picture of her as an ape.
You'll also see a Google Ad on that page that links to Google's explanation of why such a blatantly racist photo is the top-ranked one at ...Nov. 25, 2009 07:30 AM EST Reads: 4,585 |
 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: 6,255 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: 8,563 |
 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: 5,812 |
 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: 3,983 |
 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: 5,010 |
 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: 16,420 |
 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: 21,504 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: 4,178 |
 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: 5,083 |
 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: 12,593 |
 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: 4,429 |
 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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