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Comment: Re: NetFlix is "focused" - bri77 - 10/30/2009
Q&A With Malcolm Gladwell
Todd Watson  
10/29/2009   1 comment
Gladwell's first book changed the way many of us think about the way information is shared and disseminated, and how individuals influence one another and, in turn, the crowd
Comment: Re: Regular people.. - cbrown - 10/28/2009
Comment: "Nearly Free"? - cbrown - 10/28/2009
Comment: Telecommuting! - NewRulesMitchell - 10/28/2009
Comment: digital links - ChrisTOP - 10/28/2009
Comment: Regular people.. - hounhosp - 10/27/2009
Comment: Re: the fourth type - J DAmbrosio - 10/27/2009
Slideshow: Web 2.0 Summit 2009
Editor's Blog  
10/27/2009   5 comments
Check out the Web 2.0 Summit in slides for photos of Tim Berners-Lee, Sergey Brin, Evan Williams, Jeff Immelt, Aneesh Chopra, and more!
Comment: Re: Very exciting - Andrew Keen - 10/27/2009
Comment: Re: Writers revolt - Andrew Keen - 10/27/2009
Comment: Re: Writers revolt - cjon316 - 10/27/2009
Web 2.0 Summit: Web Squared in Slides
Slide Shows  
10/27/2009   5 comments
See photos from the 2009 Web 2.0 Summit, featuring Sergey Brin, Tim Berners-Lee, Sheryl Sandberg, Jeff Immelt, Evan Williams, and more!
Comment: Re: Writers revolt - Andrew Keen - 10/27/2009
Comment: don't like a choice - Mary Jander - 10/27/2009
Comment: Writers revolt - cjon316 - 10/27/2009
Nook Launch, Apple Tablet Augur Writers' Revolution
Andrew Keen  
10/27/2009   23 comments
E-books, including Apple's imminent 'iTablet' will dramatically change the writer's craft
Comment: Why DVDs persist - Phoebes - 10/27/2009
Comment: Just a thought..... - Mar1p0sa - 10/27/2009
Comment: Re: Im staying..... - ChrisTOP - 10/26/2009
Comment: Im staying..... - Mar1p0sa - 10/26/2009
Comment: NetFlix is "focused" - sbondy - 10/26/2009
IOD Press Conference: A Trillion Networked Things (Including Cows)
Todd Watson  
10/26/2009   Post a comment
I'm in the IOD 2009 press conference. Frank Kern, VP of IBM's General Business Consulting group, is now speaking
Comment: Adapt or die - smkinoshita - 10/26/2009
Why Netflix Persists With DVDs
David Vellante  
10/26/2009   46 comments
It's in Netflix's best interest to keep pushing DVDs, despite the fact that the company's future lies online
Comment: the fourth type - Mashka - 10/25/2009
Comment: Re: I guess... - Mashka - 10/25/2009
Comment: Re: I guess... - MShellC - 10/24/2009
Comment: I guess... - mathemagician - 10/24/2009
ShoZu Creates App Store to Counter Ovi Woes
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
10/23/2009   2 comments
Companies shouldn't rely on just one way to sell their applications. ShoZu learned this the hard way
Comment: When I was a lad... - Tom Nolle - 10/23/2009
New MySpace Strategy: More Music, Less Social
Editor's Blog  
10/23/2009   6 comments
In the wake of the Facebook era, MySpace moves away from a focus on social networking
Comment: Re: I'm surprised - Insultant - 10/23/2009
Comment: I'm surprised - donaldleegraham - 10/23/2009
Sergey Brin Drops in at Web 2.0 Summit
Editor's Blog  
10/22/2009   9 comments
Google's Sergey Brin makes a surprise visit to the Web 2.0 Summit to talk about Twitter, Books, Chrome, and search
Comment: No more down time! - Mark Odiorne - 10/22/2009
Disney's 'Keychest': Buy Once, Watch Everywhere
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
10/22/2009   14 comments
Walt Disney's new system enables consumers to purchase a video once and watch it on multiple devices
Comment: What problems? - Alan Reiter - 10/22/2009
Why Wi-Fly?
what.the.ferraro  
10/22/2009   13 comments
The three main problems with using in-flight Internet.
Comment: Re: A shift in focus - Tom Nolle - 10/22/2009
Comment: A shift in focus - Mary Jander - 10/22/2009
Comment: Facebook SPAM - Terri Eberle - 10/22/2009
Comment: No one has a right - Mary Jander - 10/22/2009
Car Windows
Todd Watson  
10/22/2009   1 comment
Is anybody but me getting a sudden influx of Facebook spam?
Old, New Media Clash at Web 2.0 Summit
Editor's Blog  
10/22/2009   9 comments
After his boss called them parasites, Robert Thomson of The Wall Street Journal accuses Google of being promiscuous
Getting Broadband Empowerment Right
Second Shooter  
10/22/2009   2 comments
The FCC is throwing money at rural broadband empowerment, but it's dealing with the wrong problem.
Comment: Exciting! - Xuefei Peng - 10/22/2009
Comment: but Phil ... - Insultant - 10/21/2009
'Nook' Heralds Rise of the Author-Developer
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
10/21/2009   4 comments
The arrival of a new kind of e-book from Barnes & Noble heralds a need for authors to engage in 'multimedia ecosystems'
Twitter: Not a Difference Maker
Not Dr. Phil  
10/21/2009   1 comment
Companies often place too much importance on inaccurate or abrasive Twitter posts.
Comment: Re: Uhh... - Paul Korzeniowski - 10/21/2009
Mapping Commuters' Pain
Adam Christensen  
10/21/2009   3 comments
Nothing is a more effective motivator for change than the desire to reduce one’s own pain and suffering, right?
GoogleTunes?
Todd Watson  
10/21/2009   Post a comment
Mike Arrington has posted that Google is soon to be launching a new music service
Comment: Mobile World - dcilea - 10/21/2009
Prizewinning Music Site Eschews Web Playbook
Vineeta Shetty  
10/21/2009   2 comments
The founders of Muziboo followed their hearts, not the rules of marketing on the Web
Welcome to the 'Next Major Computing Cycle'
Editor's Blog  
10/21/2009   2 comments
The mobile Web is set to triple in growth by 2013, according to Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker
Comment: track viral activity - cortimax - 10/21/2009
Comment: Re: What year is this? - ChrisTOP - 10/21/2009
Leaving Redmond
Todd Watson  
10/20/2009   2 comments
Let me quote freely from this USA Today blog post on the eve of the Microsoft Windows 7 launch that my colleague Bob Sutor Tweeted my way earlier today
Comment: What year is this? - cbrown - 10/20/2009
Web 2.0 Summit Gets Squared
Editor's Blog  
10/20/2009   8 comments
It's time for the Web to grow up and get to work
Dick Tracy
Todd Watson  
10/20/2009   Post a comment
Whew. It's already Tuesday and I'm already hysterical
Comment: Re: Uhh... - GajaKannan - 10/19/2009
Comment: Re: Uhh... - Terry Sweeney - 10/19/2009
Comment: Uhh... - M Hulot - 10/19/2009
Video Analytics Shift Into Focus
Paul Korzeniowski  
10/19/2009   9 comments
Products are emerging that track and report on audience interaction with online videos
Comment: Re: I pay... mostly - Kurtkeys - 10/17/2009
Comment: Being ID'd as a Crony - Kurtkeys - 10/17/2009
Comment: Bad Idea - pjpugliese - 10/17/2009
Comment: half luxury life... - Mashka - 10/17/2009
Comment: Murdoch's tactic - bob_calder - 10/16/2009
Comment: Re: People cheat - igor948 - 10/16/2009
Comment: Re: I pay... mostly - igor948 - 10/16/2009
Comment: 2.0 Hurdles - Lippencotte - 10/16/2009
Vendors Face Government 2.0 Hurdles
Editor's Blog  
10/16/2009   5 comments
For vendors, working with the government on social media is both time-consuming and costly
Comment: Re: People cheat - Insultant - 10/16/2009
Comment: when titans collide? - GajaKannan - 10/16/2009
Comment: Re: People cheat - Nicole Ferraro - 10/15/2009
Comment: Re: People cheat - Insultant - 10/15/2009
Comment: Murdoch fumes - Terry Sweeney - 10/15/2009
Comment: News? - Markets - 10/15/2009
Comment: I pay... mostly - burn0050 - 10/15/2009
So Many Ads, So Few Clicks?
Second Shooter  
10/15/2009   6 comments
Some recent research shows that 8% of Internet users generate 85% of ad click-throughs. There are three possible reasons for this, and they go from bad to worse. Together they show that we need to know more about Internet advertising.
Comment: People cheat - DavidSilversmith - 10/15/2009
Piracy Still Beats Paying for It
Editor's Blog  
10/15/2009   13 comments
In a poll, 41 percent of Internet Evolution readers say they download their music for free online
Google Outfoxes Murdoch
Rob Salkowitz  
10/15/2009   9 comments
Rupert Murdoch is running out of ways to displace Google and return to the days when paid content was king
Comment: If you cn rd this.. - Mary Jander - 10/15/2009
Flo 2.0: Mrs. Brady Gets a Website
what.the.ferraro  
10/15/2009   11 comments
Florence Henderson is pitching a tech support site for digitally challenged seniors.
Pass on These 2 Dedicated Devices
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
10/14/2009   4 comments
Without integral cell services, a new mobile TV and a portable Wikipedia 'player' miss the mark
IE Radio: We're LIVE With Clay Shirky
Editor's Blog  
10/14/2009   Post a comment
We're live on IE Radio with Clay Shirky
Personal Mobile TV Makes Its Debut
Full Nelson  
10/14/2009   7 comments
Mobile TV is here, but nobody uses it – Qualcomm's FloTV aims to change that.
IE Radio Welcomes Clay Shirky at 4 PM ET!
Editor's Blog  
10/14/2009   2 comments
Join us for today's IE Radio broadcast featuring Clay Shirky
Comment: Re: Google Voice - reiter - 10/14/2009
Comment: urk! - Mary Jander - 10/13/2009
Comment: vweets? - Terri Eberle - 10/13/2009
Comment: Google Voice - Michael P. Kassner - 10/13/2009
Comment: Please KISS Twitter - bwelford - 10/13/2009
Comment: New Age Twitter - robbie02494 - 10/13/2009
China's Broadband Revolution
TeleGraham  
10/13/2009   1 comment
China is investing heavily in fiber to the premises. What's it going to do with all that bandwidth?
Why a Video Twitter Would Be Disastrous
Editor's Blog  
10/13/2009   14 comments
Video Tweets? I'd sooner choose death
IBM & NFL
Todd Watson  
10/13/2009   Post a comment
My Dallas Cowboys looked pretty shaky there in Kansas City yesterday. All I can say is God Bless the emergence of Miles Austin!
Comment: Totally agree - KMT568 - 10/13/2009
Twitter Conferences & the Demise of Humanity
what.the.ferraro  
10/13/2009   6 comments
Industry events centered solely on the topic of Twitter are enough to make some people cry.
Comment: Great Interview! - nathanwosnack - 10/12/2009
IE Radio: We're LIVE With Tim Westergren!
Editor's Blog  
10/12/2009   Post a comment
We're live right now on IE Radio with Pandora's founder Tim Westergren
Comment: A survivor - DavidSilversmith - 10/12/2009
IE Radio Welcomes Tim Westergren at 2 PM ET!
Editor's Blog  
10/12/2009   5 comments
Join us for IE Radio with Pandora's Tim Westergren at 2 PM ET today!
Consumer Features Buff Up Business Phones
Alan Reiter  
10/12/2009   24 comments
Make way for the focus groups of 16-year-olds; consumer features utlimately benefit business cellphones
IE Radio: We're LIVE With Jason Calacanis
Editor's Blog  
10/8/2009   Post a comment
We're live on IE Radio with Jason Calacanis, so hurry up and get over there!
Comment: Correction - adwyer - 10/8/2009
VP Enterprise Technology & Quality, Sony Pictures Entertainment
David Buckholtz  
10/7/2009   Post a comment
David Buckholtz discusses several key benefits that have driven his company to embrace software-as-a-service.
Comment: Economics? - MShellC - 10/7/2009
Comment: Music. - ferodynamics - 10/7/2009
Comment: Buy Online Benefits - KMT568 - 10/7/2009
Comment: online online online - mtechie - 10/7/2009
Tuning In
Internet Evolution Poll  
10/7/2009   8 comments
Summary: Where do you get music? The store? iTunes? Or from some black hole in the Internet?
Comment: Re: more statistics... - vish - 10/7/2009
Comment: two emails, two phones - Mashka - 10/7/2009
Comment: more statistics... - Mashka - 10/7/2009
Online Time Not Worth What It Should Be
Rob Leathern  
10/7/2009   17 comments
If the average US adult spends about 120.8 hours per month watching television, shouldn't Internet usage reap more benefits?
Comment: Re: YAY!!! - reiter - 10/6/2009
Comment: Re: YAY!!! - reiter - 10/6/2009
IE Radio: We're LIVE With Philip Rosedale
Editor's Blog  
10/6/2009   Post a comment
We're live on IE Radio right now with Philip Rosedale. Join us!
Comment: Re: Time zone - J DAmbrosio - 10/6/2009
Comment: Re: Time zone - Paul Whyte - 10/6/2009
Comment: Re: Time zone - J DAmbrosio - 10/6/2009
Comment: wow and OMG - dbergman - 10/6/2009
Comment: Re: Time zone - Paul Whyte - 10/6/2009
Comment: Re: YAY!!! - kerryf - 10/6/2009
Comment: YAY!!! - donaldleegraham - 10/6/2009
Comment: Re: Time zone - Nicole Ferraro - 10/6/2009
Flash for Phones Creates Enthusiasm, Challenges
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
10/6/2009   10 comments
Adding full-bore Flash to cellphones is likely to increase cellphone video use, while straining cellphone networks
Comment: Time zone - hounhosp - 10/6/2009
Join Us for IE Radio With Philip Rosedale at 4 PM!
Editor's Blog  
10/6/2009   6 comments
IE Radio welcomes Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life, at 4 p.m. ET today
Comment: The tradeoff - Mary Jander - 10/5/2009
Comment: There is a limit. - chayes - 10/5/2009
Thanks for the Phone, Now Show Me the Money
Editor's Blog  
10/5/2009   12 comments
Two thirds of Internet Evolution readers responding to a poll say that employees should be compensated for checking emails on smartphones after hours
Comment: Re: editing textbooks? - reiter - 10/2/2009
Social Network Analysis: Getting to Know You
Todd Watson  
10/2/2009   3 comments
I don't do Mafia Wars on Facebook
Prepare for Windows Mobile 6.5 Hoopla
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
10/1/2009   Post a comment
Don't toast it with Dom Perignon, rosé will do; but Windows 6.5 is worth the upgrade
IE Radio: We're Live With Scott Monty
Editor's Blog  
10/1/2009   Post a comment
We're live on IE Radio with Ford's social media expert, Scott Monty. Come on over!
Look Into the Camera
Todd Watson  
10/1/2009   Post a comment
Merger Monday has evolved into Transaction Thursday
IE Radio Welcomes Scott Monty at 1 PM ET
Editor's Blog  
10/1/2009   Post a comment
Join us at 1 p.m. ET for IE Radio with Ford's Scott Monty!




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Mary E. Shacklett
Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Dan Cypra
Dan Cypra   5/23/2013   27 comments
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
Matt Heusser
Matt Heusser   5/23/2013   12 comments
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
David Weldon
David Weldon   5/22/2013   15 comments
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   4 comments


Whole Foods Global Wine Purchaser Doug Bell told me about some of the constraints on using analytics in the US wine market.
Paul J. Fleuranges
Digital Signage Keeps NYC Subway Straphangers on Track

5|6|13   |   3:51   |   No comments


New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
Kim Davis
Fast Forward to the Future

4|23|13   |   2:29   |   20 comments


A look back at tech writing in the 90s makes us wonder where enterprise IT will be 20 years from now.
Mitch Wagner
Google Launches Its Most Depressing Service Yet

4|15|13   |   2:59   |   10 comments


Google's new Inactive Account Manager lets you control how Google disposes of your accounts when you die.
Second Shooter
Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'

4|11|13   |   2:07   |   3 comments


The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
Kim Davis
Ladies, Your Tablet Awaits

3|21|13   |   2:22   |   37 comments


ePad Femme is the world’s first tablet “made exclusively for women.”
Wisdom of the Big Chair
NFC Moves Into the Mainstream

3|20|13   |   2:16   |   No comments


While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Wisdom of the Big Chair
Integrating Security Into Your Cloud Contract

3|19|13   |   3:35   |   No comments


Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information

3|18|13   |   1:15   |   No comments


Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Uses Analytics to Customize Site

3|14|13   |   0:47   |   No comments


The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet
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In the 1970 science fiction thriller
Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.

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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet
David Weldon
In the 1970 science fiction thriller
Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.

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