Free Is Not a Business Model Joel Smernoff 4/29/2008 17 comments Ambitious young tech entrepreneurs with promising ideas about offering free services and eventually adding advertising must realize that 'free' is not a business model!
Stop Talking, Start Scaling Todd Watson 4/29/2008 1 comment IBM has introduced a new category of server that is designed to address the needs of companies and organizations that practice Web 2.0-style computing
Vista & Apple TV: Losers! Editor's Blog 4/28/2008 3 comments The big losers in last week's reader poll asking which Apple and Microsoft products were the greatest disappointments are Vista and Apple TV
Why Facebook’s Valuation Is So Absurd Andrew Keen 4/28/2008 7 comments Facebook needs to prove that it’s a viable business by becoming accomplished in all that boring stuff – like generating revenues – a real media company does
What's Next for Social Platforms? Editor's Blog 4/23/2008 Post a comment Five representatives from social platforms spoke on a panel about data portability, third-party developers, and making money – concluding that the social Web is still a learning experience
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
Thinkers in the New Web Age Yihong Ding 4/18/2008 25 comments Whereas Web 1.0 was an age for technological revolution, Web 2.0 has seen the emergence of great 'thinkers' by turning raw data into collective knowledge
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
Twitter in 30 Seconds Todd Watson 4/17/2008 2 comments Some users reported spotting ads in their Twitter streams. I've seen no ads myself, but let me just say: What took them so long?
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
Yahoo Moves: Strategic or Insane? Editor's Blog 4/10/2008 7 comments Yahoo plays hard-to-get with Microsoft by flirting with Google and AOL. Is this good strategy or sheer madness?
Bloggers: A Dying Breed? Editor's Blog 4/8/2008 14 comments If you believe the NYT, the Internet is causing people to blog themselves to death. Run for your lives!
Cybernetics: Communication Theories Applied to the Internet Ranulph Glanville 4/4/2008 6 comments Our understanding of communication, as reflected in theories spanning the past 60 years, has dramatically changed as a result of the Internet and the present-day focus on chat rather than the transmission of information
What Will MySpace Music Mean for Everyone Else? Editor's Blog 4/4/2008 4 comments MySpace announces the impending launch of MySpace Music and the backing of three out of the four major labels. While great for users, what are the implications for the rest of the industry?
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
The Emergence of Micro Social Networks Peter Bowman 4/2/2008 13 comments There is a growing trend to transform micro-sites into micro-social networks to become more in line with Web 2.0 applications
Loomia Lets the Web Do the Thinking for You Editor's Blog 4/2/2008 1 comment Loomia, an online recommendation service that eliminates our need to think for ourselves, raises $5 million in a Series A round of funding
Tasting the Web: I’ll Drink to That! Chris Minnick 4/1/2008 6 comments In my quest for a virtual experience of hanging out with other people and sharing food and drinks, I've settled on my own online whiskey tasting event
Free Is Not a Business Model Joel Smernoff 4/29/2008 17 comments Ambitious young tech entrepreneurs with promising ideas about offering free services and eventually adding advertising must realize that 'free' is not a business model!
Stop Talking, Start Scaling Todd Watson 4/29/2008 1 comment IBM has introduced a new category of server that is designed to address the needs of companies and organizations that practice Web 2.0-style computing
Vista & Apple TV: Losers! Editor's Blog 4/28/2008 3 comments The big losers in last week's reader poll asking which Apple and Microsoft products were the greatest disappointments are Vista and Apple TV
Why Facebook’s Valuation Is So Absurd Andrew Keen 4/28/2008 7 comments Facebook needs to prove that it’s a viable business by becoming accomplished in all that boring stuff – like generating revenues – a real media company does
What's Next for Social Platforms? Editor's Blog 4/23/2008 Post a comment Five representatives from social platforms spoke on a panel about data portability, third-party developers, and making money – concluding that the social Web is still a learning experience
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
Thinkers in the New Web Age Yihong Ding 4/18/2008 25 comments Whereas Web 1.0 was an age for technological revolution, Web 2.0 has seen the emergence of great 'thinkers' by turning raw data into collective knowledge
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
Twitter in 30 Seconds Todd Watson 4/17/2008 2 comments Some users reported spotting ads in their Twitter streams. I've seen no ads myself, but let me just say: What took them so long?
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
Yahoo Moves: Strategic or Insane? Editor's Blog 4/10/2008 7 comments Yahoo plays hard-to-get with Microsoft by flirting with Google and AOL. Is this good strategy or sheer madness?
Bloggers: A Dying Breed? Editor's Blog 4/8/2008 14 comments If you believe the NYT, the Internet is causing people to blog themselves to death. Run for your lives!
Cybernetics: Communication Theories Applied to the Internet Ranulph Glanville 4/4/2008 6 comments Our understanding of communication, as reflected in theories spanning the past 60 years, has dramatically changed as a result of the Internet and the present-day focus on chat rather than the transmission of information
What Will MySpace Music Mean for Everyone Else? Editor's Blog 4/4/2008 4 comments MySpace announces the impending launch of MySpace Music and the backing of three out of the four major labels. While great for users, what are the implications for the rest of the industry?
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
The Emergence of Micro Social Networks Peter Bowman 4/2/2008 13 comments There is a growing trend to transform micro-sites into micro-social networks to become more in line with Web 2.0 applications
Loomia Lets the Web Do the Thinking for You Editor's Blog 4/2/2008 1 comment Loomia, an online recommendation service that eliminates our need to think for ourselves, raises $5 million in a Series A round of funding
Tasting the Web: I’ll Drink to That! Chris Minnick 4/1/2008 6 comments In my quest for a virtual experience of hanging out with other people and sharing food and drinks, I've settled on my own online whiskey tasting event
The US National Security Agency learned the hard way that it can be dangerous to give a contractor too much money and access, with too little scrutiny. The NSA and other government agencies hire tens of thousands of contractors
a year to analyze data. Edward Snowden -- who revealed himself as the NSA leaker after fleeing the country -- was one such contractor, reportedly holding a $122,000 salaried position at Booz Allen Hamilton at the time of his departure.
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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