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Comment: Re: Multimedia! - Insultant - 4/30/2008
Comment: I'm surprised - Tim Bell - 4/30/2008
Comment: Re: Some questions - Tim Bell - 4/30/2008
Comment: Re: Multimedia! - Tim Bell - 4/30/2008
Comment: Re: Multimedia! - Paul Whyte - 4/30/2008
Comment: Multimedia! - Murugan - 4/30/2008
Slideshow: Web 2.0 Expo
Editor's Blog  
4/30/2008   14 comments
Photos from the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco
Slideshow: Web 2.0 Expo
Slide Shows  
4/30/2008   Post a comment
Photos from the 2008 Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco
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
Comment: is it legal? - Mashka - 4/30/2008
Searching for the Next Search Engine
Editor's Blog  
4/29/2008   9 comments
Two new search engines emerged at the Web 2.0 Expo last week as the answers to Google users' problems
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: The Future of MySpace - Murugan - 4/29/2008
Comment: Some questions - Raza - 4/29/2008
Comment: Fake Steve Jobs? - alanh79 - 4/28/2008
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: Access to the people - Murugan - 4/28/2008
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
Comment: Future of Media - Paul Whyte - 4/26/2008
Fake Steve Jobs Invades Web 2.0 Expo
Editor's Blog  
4/25/2008   6 comments
'Fake Steve Jobs,' a.k.a. Dan Lyons, assails Apple, Facebook, and social media at the Web 2.0 Expo
Comment: Re: thoughts on Web 2.0 - RPR - 4/25/2008
Q&A: MySpace Talks Apps & Facebook (But Not Yahoo)
Editor's Blog  
4/25/2008   1 comment
Steve Pearman, SVP of product strategy at MySpace, talked about the company's new Application Gallery, Facebook, OpenSocial, and losing user trust
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
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
Comment: Interview - EliteC - 4/22/2008
Comment: People Power - IE ENT - 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
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
Facebook Adds Second-Rate Sharing Stream
Editor's Blog  
4/16/2008   6 comments
Facebook spruces up its news- and mini-feeds with a watered down version of Twitter and FriendFeed
Comment: Behaviour+Attitude - hindsatya - 4/15/2008
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: Help me understand - RPR - 4/14/2008
Comment: it's natural - Mashka - 4/13/2008
Comment: people just forget - Mashka - 4/13/2008
Comment: 10 more rules - Insultant - 4/11/2008
Comment: Re: I'll take a wing! - Murugan - 4/10/2008
Comment: I'll take a wing! - Tim Bell - 4/10/2008
Comment: Staying Single - Murugan - 4/10/2008
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?
Silicon Valley Slumps: Time for Another Bubble?
Editor's Blog  
4/9/2008   18 comments
Silicon Valley starts to experience economic downturn. What's that sound? Oh, that's just Web 2.0 threatening to burst at the seams
Comment: Very interesting. - TNT - 4/8/2008
Comment: Bloggers, on the rise - RPR - 4/8/2008
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!
Comment: Probably not for me - Murugan - 4/7/2008
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: Audio Advertisements - Raza - 4/7/2008
Comment: Indeed - Raza - 4/7/2008
Comment: YASN - Mr. Roques - 4/6/2008
Comment: Ning Nong Nang - Murugan - 4/4/2008
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?
Comment: cheers - Mashka - 4/3/2008
Comment: another tendency? - Mashka - 4/3/2008
Comment: Re: Revenue?? - peterbowman - 4/3/2008
Comment: Revenue?? - Raza - 4/2/2008
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
Comment: Anonymously - RPR - 4/2/2008
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
Comment: Fourth life - viboons - 4/1/2008
Virtual World 'Third Life' Launches, Grabs $15M
Editor's Blog  
4/1/2008   6 comments
Silicon Valley-based startup Lunar Laboratories raises $15 million for its new virtual community, 'Third Life'
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
Comment: Social Enhancement - Murugan - 4/1/2008




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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   17 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   5 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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