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Comment: SERIOUSLY!? - chad.mcdonald - 9/30/2008
House Calls 'Time Out' on Incoming Email
Editor's Blog  
9/30/2008   8 comments
The House of Representatives limits incoming email: a clear demonstration of the Internet's inability to fully democratize politics
Comment: Re: Fight fire with... - rjh - 9/30/2008
Comment: Re: Isn't it exciting? - rjh - 9/30/2008
Comment: Re: Fight fire with... - rjh - 9/30/2008
Comment: Twit Power - Murugan - 9/30/2008
Socialtext Goes 3.0
Editor's Blog  
9/30/2008   8 comments
Enterprise tool provider Socialtext releases Socialtext 3.0, bringing social networking, social updates, and microblogs to the enterprise
Comment: Re: Fight fire with... - aum007 - 9/30/2008
Comment: Make it a democracy - Murugan - 9/30/2008
Comment: Going past the fence - Murugan - 9/30/2008
Comment: Isn't it exciting? - Jason_13 - 9/30/2008
Vysr Puts Portability Into OpenSocial Apps
Editor's Blog  
9/29/2008   2 comments
Vysr releases an update to its RoamAbout product, making OpenSocial applications available from anywhere on the Web
Comment: Re: Return Counter - rsheel - 9/29/2008
Malware 2.0's Going to Be Murder
Robert J. Hansen  
9/29/2008   20 comments
The potent combination of computational linguistics, social networks, image analysis, and data mining will make for nasty new malware
Googlenomics
Internet Evolution Poll  
9/29/2008   Post a comment
How do you think the economic crisis will hurt Google’s share price?
Too Much Text, Not Enough Social
Todd Watson  
9/29/2008   Post a comment
Study reveals it's time to talk less about corporate social networking and do it more
The Tech Industry's Economic Tolls
Editor's Blog  
9/29/2008   4 comments
Our readers vote on how the economic crisis will hit the tech industry
Comment: good and bad - Natalies_mommy - 9/29/2008
Comment: Re: who cares? - Mashka - 9/28/2008
Comment: Return Counter - EliteC - 9/27/2008
The Right Search Tool
The Big Report  
9/27/2008   2 comments
It’s mostly a one-search-fits-all world today. Startup activity suggests that could be ready to change
Letter Calls for 'Internet-Friendly Debates'
Editor's Blog  
9/26/2008   25 comments
2008 Presidential Debates: Keeping them above the belt and Internet-friendly
Scott Kveton, Chairman, OpenID Foundation
Dialogue  
9/26/2008   1 comment
Scott Kveton, chairman of the OpenID Foundation, talks about OpenID's security and implementation challenges, frustrations with the Data Portability Working Group, and his love for making pizza
Comment: Great tips - eCommerceblogger - 9/26/2008
Comment: Know your audience. - cjon316 - 9/26/2008
Hi5 Aims to Boot MySpace From No. 2 Spot
Editor's Blog  
9/26/2008   8 comments
Hi5 plans to extend its international success and unseat MySpace as the second largest social networking site
(Possibly) Surprising Tips for Online Retail
Jason Meugniot  
9/26/2008   4 comments
Success in online retail calls for what some might consider counter-intuitive thinking
Comment: Re: The Dynamite - Murugan - 9/25/2008
Comment: Re: The Dynamite - Mr. Roques - 9/25/2008
Comment: Re: who cares? - Mr. Roques - 9/25/2008
Comment: Re: Ignoring Politics - cjon316 - 9/25/2008
Tech, Creative Join Forces for Content Advocacy
Editor's Blog  
9/25/2008   2 comments
Industry creative and technology forces come together to change the course of digital content creation and consumption
Comment: Ignoring Politics - RebeccaGill - 9/24/2008
Comment: The Dynamite - Murugan - 9/24/2008
Yes, Hard to Believe: Narcissism on Facebook
Editor's Blog  
9/24/2008   9 comments
Have a lot of friends on Facebook? Scientists say you may be a narcissist
Comment: Re: Get On Board!!! - dlavie - 9/24/2008
Comment: Re: Cool no more... - reiter - 9/24/2008
Comment: Re: Get On Board!!! - viboons - 9/24/2008
Comment: 2nd life on TV - kochsner - 9/24/2008
Comment: Cool no more... - kochsner - 9/24/2008
Comment: IP No Evil... - kochsner - 9/24/2008
Comment: pretty funny - jonnomh - 9/23/2008
Comment: Get On Board!!! - Paul Whyte - 9/23/2008
Comment: definition of privacy - tech_ed - 9/23/2008
Comment: Re: GooHoo - jwallace - 9/23/2008
Comment: Re: GooHoo - viboons - 9/23/2008
Comment: Re: GooHoo - viboons - 9/23/2008
Comment: Re: GooHoo - Nicole Ferraro - 9/23/2008
Your Appliances Are Smarter Than You
Editor's Blog  
9/23/2008   24 comments
Newly formed alliance, the IP for Smart Objects (IPSO) Alliance, hopes to promote the adoption of IP-enabled inanimate objects
Comment: Re: GooHoo - jwallace - 9/23/2008
Comment: Re: Commercial Value?? - reiter - 9/23/2008
Comment: Commercial Value?? - Raza - 9/23/2008
Comment: Re: GooHoo boo hoo hoo - Raza - 9/23/2008
Comment: who cares? - Mashka - 9/23/2008
Comment: Re: GooHoo - Paul Whyte - 9/23/2008
Bring On the Invasion of the Google Maps Views
Alan Reiter  
9/23/2008   14 comments
Forget about privacy; Google's 'street view' should be even more granular, not less so
Comment: Re: GooHoo - Mr. Roques - 9/23/2008
Comment: Re: GooHoo - Nicole Ferraro - 9/22/2008
Comment: Re: GooHoo - hounhosp - 9/22/2008
Virtual Worlds: New Life for Interactive TV
Michael Mascioni  
9/22/2008   1 comment
How the Web can enhance and even change your favorite TV shows
Chris Heatherly, VP & General Manager, Disney Electronics, The Walt Disney Company
Dialogue  
9/22/2008   6 comments
Chris Heatherly discusses 'Disney 3.0'; the company's work with open-source; the Internet's impact on Disney's culture; and which Disney movie makes him cry
Comment: Re: GooHoo - viboons - 9/22/2008
Economic Mayhem
Internet Evolution Poll  
9/22/2008   Post a comment
How do you think the current economic crisis will impact the tech industry?
Comment: GooHoo - jwallace - 9/22/2008
GooHoo: Should We Fear It?
Editor's Blog  
9/22/2008   21 comments
In a poll last week, our readers, like the rest of the industry, proved to be split on the Google-Yahoo advertising deal
On the Web, It's Politics on Steroids
Editor's Blog  
9/19/2008   13 comments
With any luck, the Internet's role in politics will be about more than Facebook Friends going forward
Comment: Re: Ya right - Mr. Roques - 9/19/2008
Comment: Re: Ya right - viboons - 9/19/2008
Comment: Ya right - GajaKannan - 9/19/2008
Big Browsers Make Love, Not War
Editor's Blog  
9/19/2008   5 comments
An Internet Explorer platform architect says this time around it's not a war
Comment: Re: Yah yah - Mr. Roques - 9/19/2008
Comment: Monetizing videos - Mr. Roques - 9/19/2008
It's Not Information Overload; It's Filter Failure
Editor's Blog  
9/18/2008   5 comments
Newsflash: The Internet has not increased information overload
Comment: Re: Yah yah - BryanPerson - 9/17/2008
Comment: googling the internet - Asad - 9/17/2008
Amazee Looks to Ignite 'Social Collaboration'
Editor's Blog  
9/17/2008   4 comments
Swiss startup Amazee launches in the US, challenging Web users to tap social networking for collaboration on life projects
Comment: Twitterpated - kochsner - 9/17/2008
Group Seeks Better Web 2.0 ROI Metrics
Rob Salkowitz  
9/17/2008   4 comments
A new industry group aims to deliver some hard answers on soft value
Comment: Re: Social Hangout - Mr. Roques - 9/17/2008
Comment: Re: Yah yah - Paul Whyte - 9/16/2008
Comment: Re: Yah yah - jwallace - 9/16/2008
Comment: Re: Yah yah - Brian Newby - 9/16/2008
Comment: Yah yah - jonnomh - 9/16/2008
LiveWorld Turns Every Site Into a Social Network
Editor's Blog  
9/16/2008   10 comments
Social media marketing agency LiveWorld launches a new product, LiveBar, to bring the social network to any Web page anywhere
Marc Scarpa, Producer & Director, MySpace Live!
Dialogue  
9/15/2008   3 comments
Renowned producer/director Marc Scarpa discusses his latest work with MySpace, his new project, LiveOnSunset.com, and the digital media landscape
GooHoo?
Internet Evolution Poll  
9/15/2008   Post a comment
How do you view the pending Google-Yahoo advertising deal?
Top 10 Security Blunders of Web 2.0
The Big Report  
9/15/2008   6 comments
It's not just new technology that creates security glitches – there's a human element at work as well
Comment: Re: 'Podcast'? - Mr. Roques - 9/14/2008
Comment: Re: an opinion - dlavie - 9/14/2008
Comment: Re: 'Podcast'? - Brian Newby - 9/14/2008
Comment: awwwwwww - Natalies_mommy - 9/13/2008
Comment: an opinion - Mashka - 9/13/2008
Comment: Low Tech Tweeters - rjh - 9/12/2008
My Anti-Social Web 2.0 Life
Editor's Blog  
9/12/2008   22 comments
What good is social media when you have no one to socialize with?
An IT Lesson From Butch Trucks
IT Clan Editor's Blog  
9/11/2008   5 comments
If Rock 'n' Roll Hall-of-Famers can learn to tweak their business models, surely IT can
Pondering 9/11 in a Web 2.0 World
Editor's Blog  
9/11/2008   15 comments
If the events of 9/11 were to happen in today's always-on Web 2.0 world, would we have been better or worse off?
How to Improve the User Part of Search
Editor's Blog  
9/10/2008   4 comments
According to Boost eLearning, Google users are wasting over 40 hours per year on unsuccessful searches
Comment: Re: 'Podcast'? - lenrosen - 9/10/2008
Comment: Vetting Chrome - GajaKannan - 9/9/2008
Readers Divided on Chrome
Editor's Blog  
9/9/2008   11 comments
With the majority of our readers unenthusiastic, one-third say they 'can't wait to use it'
Word-of-Mouth Marketing Goes Online
Deborah Nason  
9/9/2008   13 comments
People will talk – offline or on
Comment: ICTech - Lewisxxxusa - 9/8/2008
Comment: stalking made easy - M Hulot - 9/8/2008
A Spin Across the Domed, Online Dance Floor
Editor's Blog  
9/8/2008   10 comments
The ubiquitous Internet: coming soon to a private-data-eating environment nearest you
William Swartout, Director of Technology, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Dialogue  
9/8/2008   1 comment
William Swartout, director of technology for the Institute for Creative Technologies, discusses immersive-reality environment, virtual humans, his work with the US army, and whether any of this can be applied in the day-to-day world
What’s Next for Interactive TV
Mary E. Shacklett  
9/8/2008   7 comments
Google, Intel, and Yahoo are preparing an onslaught that could change the TV market and doom cable TV firms
What Clients Want From Their Digital Agencies
Todd Watson  
9/8/2008   Post a comment
Marketers want their agencies to have a greater knowledge of the digital space
Comment: Re: won't [n]ever what? - ashy - 9/8/2008
Comment: Re: Google itself - Raza - 9/6/2008
Comment: Re: 'Podcast'? - hnicolassuero - 9/5/2008
Get Ready to Claim Your Content Co-Creator Status
Editor's Blog  
9/5/2008   9 comments
Joshua Green, research manager at the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT, says we need to ease up on calling 'piracy' and 'copyright infringement' on content producers
Comment: Re: 'Podcast'? - Paul Whyte - 9/5/2008
ISP Bandwidth Capping Could Set Us Back
Ross Chevalier  
9/5/2008   8 comments
Comcast and others could hinder the future of the Internet with short-sighted bandwidth limits for end users
Comment: Google itself - GajaKannan - 9/5/2008
Comment: 'Podcast'? - Mensa dropout - 9/5/2008
Comment: won't [n]ever what? - jwallace - 9/5/2008
Social Networking's Just a Feature
Editor's Blog  
9/5/2008   11 comments
Scott Kveton, founder of the Open Web Foundation, says the future of the Web is citizen-centric, not system-centric, and will reduce the need for destination social networking sites
Comment: I'm not a Twit.. - kochsner - 9/4/2008
Get Ready for the Touchy-Feely Internet
Editor's Blog  
9/4/2008   1 comment
Weiden+Kennedy's Renny Gleeson says, for brands, a presence on social media is not enough to establish a connection
The Biggest Threat to Google
Mike Moran  
9/4/2008   19 comments
A new search engine won't keep Google execs up at night. Here's what will
10 Worst Buzzwords of Web 2.0
The Big Report  
9/4/2008   10 comments
Our readers vote on the most overused, massively hyped, underperforming verbiage of the Web 2.0 realm
Comment: yodafy my yotify - kochsner - 9/4/2008
Comment: nice aggregator - modza - 9/3/2008
Comment: Re: well said modza - jwallace - 9/3/2008
Comment: About the Hat - ScottG - 9/3/2008
Yotify: Your Next-Gen Digital Servant
Editor's Blog  
9/3/2008   6 comments
New service Yotify travels the Web in search of those things you're too lazy to search for yourself
Shiny Browsing
Internet Evolution Poll  
9/2/2008   Post a comment
How do you feel about the release of Google's new browser, Chrome?
Social Messaging for the Corporate Set
Editor's Blog  
9/2/2008   4 comments
Socialcast, a provider of corporate social networking platforms, today launched a revision of its product to change its focus to social messaging
Comment: Getting Past 2.0 - lpricci49 - 9/2/2008
Comment: Re: middle man? - jwallace - 9/1/2008
Inverge Promises 'Web Plus Everything'
Editor's Blog  
9/1/2008   6 comments
Interactive convergence: It's about more than just Web 2.0 – content's king again, and now comes the hard part of distributing it far and wide
Counterpoint: Filtering Is Needed to Childproof Internet Porn
Mary E. Shacklett  
9/1/2008   25 comments
Filtering traffic may be controversial, but it's vital to the safety of children on and off the Internet




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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   31 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   13 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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In the 1970 science fiction thriller
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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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