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- 7/31/2012

Cloud Clan Editor's Blog 7/31/2012 2 comments
Box has added a whopping $125 million to its funding, which it plans to use for further enterprise market expansion.

- 7/31/2012

Editor's Blog 7/31/2012 13 comments
NBC doesn't understand social media, and Twitter isn't doing a great job of helping.

- 7/31/2012

The Big Report 7/31/2012 3 comments
The Internet has accelerated our fascination with those who challenge virtual boundaries and extend our knowledge of what's good and bad, innovative and destructive.

- 7/31/2012

- 7/30/2012

Wagner James Au 7/30/2012 24 comments
Once a hub of hipness that attracted celebrities and Internet visionaries, the WELL has fallen on hard times. Here's what went wrong.

- 7/30/2012

Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 7/30/2012 9 comments
Facebook is big -- very big -- but the social world is bigger than Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn put together.

- 7/30/2012

Mary E. Shacklett 7/30/2012 8 comments
The very low-tech "scrum" project technique introduces "crowd talking" to projects.

- 7/29/2012

- 7/28/2012

- 7/27/2012

- 7/26/2012

Editor's Blog 7/26/2012 77 comments
Facebook confounded predictions of a disastrous first earnings report, by just squeaking in above the market's low expectations.

- 7/26/2012

IT Clan Editor's Blog 7/26/2012 35 comments
The Chick-fil-A restaurant chain confronts a PR nightmare but fails to make good on social networks.

- 7/26/2012

- 7/25/2012

Jason Mick 7/25/2012 27 comments
Broadcasting giant NBC has set up a series of Olympic social media partnerships; this raises questions about competition and the effectiveness of social media.

- 7/25/2012

Christine Parizo 7/25/2012 45 comments
Twitter is adopting a strategy of page additions to engage users, marketers, and developers.

- 7/25/2012

- 7/24/2012

Ron Miller 7/24/2012 74 comments
Former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson may end up in a better spot than new hire Marissa Mayer.

Editor's Blog 7/24/2012 3 comments
Despite a mixed showing by other sectors, IT and consumer Internet startups had a strong first half in terms of overall investment and number of deals made.

- 7/24/2012

- 7/23/2012

Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 7/23/2012 8 comments
Understanding the empowered customer should be eCommerce 101 for the midmarket.

- 7/23/2012

Editor's Blog 7/23/2012 6 comments
Internet Evolution sat down with Marissa Mayer for three exclusive video chats a while back. Check them out.

- 7/23/2012

- 7/22/2012

- 7/21/2012

- 7/20/2012

- 7/19/2012

CMO Clan Editor's Blog 7/19/2012 13 comments
It's easy to talk about customer engagement through social networking. But these three companies have demonstrated how it's done.

Jason Mick 7/19/2012 51 comments
Facebook offers a platform that's already equipped to draw in more than 50 percent of voting Americans. Why not make it the voting booth for November's elections?

- 7/19/2012

- 7/18/2012

Executive Clan Editor's Blog 7/18/2012 10 comments
Stunt driver Ken Block garnered over 20 million views for a video shot on behalf of DC Shoes. It's a strategy worth examining.

- 7/18/2012

Second Shooter 7/18/2012 13 comments
She has to look at something that Yahoo has always rejected, a relationship with telcos and cablecos.

Todd Watson 7/18/2012 Post a comment
As marketing organizations take the lead in tech acquisitions, it's notable that IBM has spent some $3 billion making acquisitions in this growing market over the past several years, including the acquisitions of Coremetrics, DemandTec, TeaLeaf, and Unica.

- 7/18/2012

Mary E. Shacklett 7/18/2012 31 comments
Thanks to the widely differing attitudes people have about online privacy, future laws could be very different from what they are today.

- 7/17/2012

Todd Watson 7/17/2012 Post a comment
Research confirms strong uptick in mobile commerce.

- 7/17/2012

Kim Davis 7/17/2012 8 comments
Google+'s latest desperate offer is a summer online "maker" camp for teenagers.

- 7/17/2012

Scott Kinoshita 7/17/2012 15 comments
How your business uses a phone should guide your Web design.

Todd Watson 7/17/2012 Post a comment
InformationWeek surveyed 405 IT professionals to evaluate enterprise social networking software.

- 7/16/2012

- 7/15/2012

- 7/14/2012

- 7/13/2012

Todd Watson 7/13/2012 Post a comment
The IBM Intranet Experience suite combines social networking with analytics, mobile computing, and front office operations.

- 7/13/2012

Editor's Blog 7/13/2012 28 comments
The once-mighty social bookmarking site has been sold for comparative peanuts to a NYC firm.

- 7/13/2012

- 7/12/2012

- 7/11/2012

Executive Clan Editor's Blog 7/11/2012 12 comments
The ability to do an about-face in strategic planning is key to succeeding in any business endeavor.

- 7/11/2012

Steven C. Bennett 7/11/2012 18 comments
Use of social networks at work has generated legal controversy as to what is protected worker activity and what is grounds for termination.

- 7/11/2012

- 7/10/2012

Editor's Blog 7/10/2012 44 comments
In an odd turnaround, a comment spammer sent lawyerly memos to several blogging sites demanding his own comment spam be removed.

- 7/10/2012

George Taylor 7/10/2012 40 comments
Despite efforts to make the London Olympics the Digital Games, organizers claim all images of the games are copyrighted to them.

- 7/9/2012

- 7/8/2012

- 7/6/2012

- 7/5/2012

IT Clan Editor's Blog 7/5/2012 14 comments
IT professionals would do well to review their email archiving strategies and services, in light of ongoing headlines involving email.

Chris Poley 7/5/2012 22 comments
Voice-activated assistants are busy gathering info about you -- and you may not like the final result.

- 7/5/2012

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Jon Carter 6/19/2013 6 comments

most recent post: Mitch Wagner... Yup, I can walk from one room to another and forget why I did. But I have an encyclopedic memory for...

Kevin Jacoby 6/19/2013 10 comments

It's safe to assume Microsoft isn't going anywhere.

most recent post: robjvargas... I agree that Microsoft has an amazing propensity for screwing up. But let's take a look at something...

Jason Mick 6/19/2013 7 comments

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.

most recent post: Mitch Wagner... I expect the NSA did not avoid paying benefits. I expect Booz paid benefits, and that would have come...

Hilary Allison 6/18/2013 10 comments

most recent post: Hilary Allison... You're all onto the same observation as me! Emoticons are like a set of gestures- expected among one...

Charlotte Erdmann 6/18/2013 4 comments

Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.

most recent post: dcawrey... Good article. I don't think that enough time is taken to look at these contracts before they are signed....

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How Big-Data Is Changing Marketing

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Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13

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Paul J. Fleuranges
Digital Signage Keeps NYC Subway Straphangers on Track

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Kim Davis
Fast Forward to the Future

4|23|13

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Mitch Wagner
Google Launches Its Most Depressing Service Yet

4|15|13

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Second Shooter
Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'

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Kim Davis
Ladies, Your Tablet Awaits

3|21|13

37 comments

Wisdom of the Big Chair
NFC Moves Into the Mainstream

3|20|13

No comments

Wisdom of the Big Chair
Integrating Security Into Your Cloud Contract

3|19|13

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Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information

3|18|13

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John Kennedy
How Big-Data Is Changing Marketing
6|13|13 | 1:07 | 1 comment

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.

Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine
5|21|13 | 2:23 | 10 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 | 1 comment

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.

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