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Comment: I'm surprised - Tim Bell - 4/30/2008
Securing Private Data From Network 'Zombies'
Mary Madden  
4/30/2008   8 comments
Social network users are faced with a myriad of choices about what they share and who they share it with
Steve Pearman, SVP, Product Strategy, MySpace
Dialogue  
4/29/2008   Post a comment
Steve Pearman, SVP of product strategy at MySpace, talked about the company's new Application Gallery, Facebook, OpenSocial, and losing user trust
Comment: Positive Change - Murugan - 4/28/2008
Support Your Social Network!
Chris Minnick  
4/28/2008   3 comments
Social networking sites are tapping into a growing trend of creating communities to help members advance professionally or just become better people
Comment: Re: thoughts on Web 2.0 - RPR - 4/25/2008
Comment: Re: 20th Century Man - RPR - 4/25/2008
Comment: Good step by Yahoo - Raza - 4/25/2008
Comment: Yahoo 1999 - jabailo - 4/24/2008
Comment: Re: 20th Century Man - jabailo - 4/24/2008
Yahoo: Social Is Dimension, Not Destination
Editor's Blog  
4/24/2008   3 comments
Yahoo announces the beta release of 'Search Monkey' and plans to open up its application and social platforms
Comment: Re: 20th Century Man - RPR - 4/24/2008
Comment: Re: 20th Century Man - jabailo - 4/24/2008
Comment: thoughts on Web 2.0 - Insultant - 4/24/2008
Comment: 20th Century Man - jabailo - 4/23/2008
Tim O'Reilly: Web 2.0 Is Not Over
Editor's Blog  
4/23/2008   20 comments
During his keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly assured the audience Web 2.0 is far from over
Comment: Interview - EliteC - 4/22/2008
Comment: Internation Effort - Mr. Roques - 4/22/2008
Vysr Beats Yahoo to the Punch With RoamAbout
Editor's Blog  
4/22/2008   2 comments
Vysr unveils new product RoamAbout at the Web 2.0 Expo, attempting to start the move away from a site-centric Web to one that is user-centric
The Online Shadow Economy
Maksym Schipka  
4/21/2008   4 comments
The online shadow economy is driven by a sophisticated online black market with tens of thousands of participants
Comment: For Pete's - Cheryl B. Preston - 4/19/2008
Information Warfare's Advances & Retreats
Mary E. Shacklett  
4/18/2008   Post a comment
Countries, companies, and individuals are using information as the new front in their psychological battles against one another
Comment: Internet now and then - Catm127 - 4/17/2008
The Future(s) of the Internet
Editor's Blog  
4/17/2008   6 comments
Five industry mavens offer perspectives about the future of the Internet, essentially admitting they are wholly unaware of where it's headed
Zoning the Internet to Protect Children
Cheryl B. Preston  
4/17/2008   23 comments
It is time to consider how Internet architecture can be harnessed to protect children from being exposed to sexually explicit material
Comment: Not My Resources - Murugan - 4/17/2008
Comment: That is weird - Mashka - 4/16/2008
In Search of Online Gods & Spaghetti Monsters
Chris Minnick  
4/16/2008   6 comments
From the Church of the Subgenius to the Church of the Spaghetti Monster, the Internet has spawned a plethora of fringe and parody religions
Comment: Re: I have been there - reiter - 4/15/2008
Comment: Re: I have been there - Mashka - 4/15/2008
Comment: Re: I have been there - reiter - 4/15/2008
Comment: Re: I have been there - Mashka - 4/15/2008
Comment: Re: I have been there - reiter - 4/15/2008
Comment: I have been there - Mashka - 4/15/2008
Comment: Some questions .. - experiences - 4/15/2008
Here's Peering at You, Kid
Editor's Blog  
4/15/2008   3 comments
Gomez Peers rake in a few dollars a month for allowing Gomez to perform Website performance monitoring from their PCs
Us vs. Them on ‘The Internets’
Alan Reiter  
4/15/2008   21 comments
The Internet has become battleground as citizens around the world rally to publicize government abuses while the authorities try to block the attempts
Comment: Behaviour+Attitude - hindsatya - 4/15/2008
Comment: Re: Cue Violins - RPR - 4/14/2008
Market to Change Customer Behavior, Not Attitudes
Paul Dunay  
4/14/2008   6 comments
Trying to affect customer behavior with social media is a dangerous idea for marketers to hang their hats on these days
Comment: Re: Cue Violins - Eve - 4/14/2008
Comment: Cue Violins - Erin - 4/14/2008
Comment: self-serving - M Hulot - 4/14/2008
Illegal File-Sharing: Better Than Shoplifting!
Editor's Blog  
4/14/2008   6 comments
An Internet Evolution poll shows a slim majority of readers think illegal file-sharing is not as bad as shoplifting
Semiotic Democracy: Transforming Online Campaign Fund Raising
William J. Kelleher  
4/9/2008   6 comments
The Internet’s emerging semiotic democracy is challenging the control of the campaign funding process and empowering grassroots contributors
Comment: Blocking to begin with - ecsd - 4/8/2008
Comment: Very interesting. - TNT - 4/8/2008
FTC: Failing The Consumer
Ira Winkler  
4/8/2008   9 comments
The FTC’s settlement with TJX in response to its bad security practices is the worst job of regulatory enforcement in history
Protecting the Children vs Freedom of Information
Chris Minnick  
4/7/2008   11 comments
I’m an advocate of the right to look at whatever we want to online, but I also believe that parents should be concerned about what their kids are viewing on the Web
What’s Possible in an Identity-Enabled Internet?
Mark Bregman  
4/7/2008   4 comments
With an identity-enabled Internet, exciting new areas for innovation emerge
Comment: Ask your doctor? Sure. - CatMc - 4/3/2008
Google Cuts Jobs, Fights Terrorists
Editor's Blog  
4/3/2008   6 comments
Google may be ruining lives with layoffs at DoubleClick, but the search giant is also providing servers to federal intelligence agencies protecting our national security
Quack Alert: Avoiding Internet Health Scams
Steven Krein  
4/3/2008   6 comments
The best defense against fraudulent health information online is an educated consumer




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Paul Korzeniowski
The smartphone market reached a significant milestone, a breakthrough that may cause vendors to celebrate but could strain the capabilities of IT service desks.
Maria Korolov
Maria Korolov   5/21/2013   8 comments
In the fall of 2011, around 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in a Stanford-sponsored online course about artificial intelligence. About 23,000 completed the course and got certificates, including 248 who got a perfect score. The university offered the same course the old-fashioned way to students sitting in Stanford classrooms. None of the those students got a perfect score.
Joe Stanganelli
As Mitch Wagner discussed today, Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr. The big Internet debate at the moment is whether Tumblr will be good or bad for Yahoo. Regardless of their stances on the future of Yahoo itself, many claim that Yahoo will somehow ruin Tumblr.
George Taylor
George Taylor   5/20/2013   10 comments
Has China stolen a march on the West, developing an Internet architecture that is not only based on IPv6, but is also inherently secure from both internal and external attack?
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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   3 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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Yahoo Needs to Break Tumblr in Order to Fix It
Joe Stanganelli
As
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