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Todd Watson   11/20/2009   Post a comment
While Google introduces its new Chrome OS (which I'm hearing will be widely available in one year?  Did I mishear that?), IBM announced 10 new products today to help companies using IBM System z mainframe technology.
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To Cloud or Not to Cloud: IT Vendors Ponder the Question
Gordon Haff
Arms merchant or army? That's a fundamental question for vendors in the cloud computing space. Do they just sell their tooling to any and all comers, who then become the actual purveyors of hosted infrastructure, developer platforms, and software? Or do they offer their own cloud-based services, perhaps even keeping much of their technology in-house for competitive advantage?
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Groups Join Fight to Keep Big Brother Offline
Don Reisinger
Much has been made over the possibility of the U.S. government spying on Web users. There is a fear that through advanced technology, loopholes in federal regulations, and sheer gall, government officials will engage in acts that put the U.S. citizenry at risk. But whether or not the government is actually engaging in any activities online that puts its intentions into question is up for debate.
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Banks Cooperate for Better Risk Analytics
Mary E. Shacklett
With the value of toxic assets on the rise, large U.S. and European banks face many challenges on the road to recovery. Sharing key information may help these firms effectively track the way forward.
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How to Score, Not Bore, With Web Newsletter Graphics
Dan Cypra
A picture is worth a thousand words, or so the old saying goes. So understanding how to use images in e-newsletters effectively is quite important. Here are a few tips to ensure that your images in email newsletters work to your advantage.
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Reiter's Block
Tweeting for Customer Support
11|18|09   |   2:20   |   No comments

When Reiter gets incensed over incompetent Verizon FiOS order-taking and support, he broadcasts it via Twitter. Did it do any good? How should your company offer Twitter support? Watch this for all the answers.
Not Dr. Phil
Internet & TV in Perfect Harmony?
11|16|09   |   2:22   |   3 comments

A new set-top offers an Internet experience without screwing up what we like about TV.
Tom Nolle
Meatballs & Monetization
11|16|09   |   2:00   |   2 comments

Meatballs aren't an obvious source of monetization for the Internet, but Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs may well be just that, and might also represent a new dynamic in the complex world of Internet content delivery.
Sweeney Blog
Microsoft's Relevance in the Windows 7 Era
11|13|09   |   2:17   |   3 comments

The release of Microsoft's newest OS raises the question of the company's relevance in an era when Google dominates applications and search, and Apple runs circles around Redmond with its gadgets and user interfaces.
Eurotrash
Who Shot the Internet?
11|12|09   |   1:01   |   No comments

The Internet is under attack, sometimes from conventional weaponry.
what.the.ferraro
Two Keys to a Successful Facebook Group
11|9|09   |   2:00   |   4 comments

Most Facebook Groups are fundamentally useless, but Nicole thinks she’s found the two-part formula to making them work.
what.the.ferraro
Developers Take Google to Task
11|5|09   |   1:53   |   7 comments

The Google backlash continues. After seeing their Project 10^100 submissions disappear into the bowels of a Google server farm, a group of irate developers has started their own site to re-collect and vote on the ideas.
Reiter's Block
Slobbering Over the N900
11|4|09   |   2:41   |   11 comments

Techies have been going crazy over the pending release of Nokia's N900 cellular phone, which incorporates a newly revised touch-screen operating system. Reiter's got one. Is the craziness justified?
Full Nelson
San Francisco's Web 2.0 Government
10|30|09   |   2:43   |   4 comments

The city of San Francisco is on the leading edge of using the Internet to provide government transparency. It is providing WiFi for its have-nots, and its DataSF.org initiative is putting the city's valuable data back in the hands of its citizens, with innovative results.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Death of Anonymity: Part 4
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10|29|09   |   1:40   |   7 comments

In the final episode of this series about the death of Internet anonymity, Saunders describes how the Internet of the future will start to attain a level of intelligence that requires no human intervention. Scary.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Death of Anonymity: Part 3
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10|28|09   |   1:35   |   4 comments

What can users today do to protect their online privacy? The simplest and most obvious option is to not use the Internet – at all. However, once all digital information is consolidated over the Internet, trying to protect digital identity by simply unplugging from the Internet becomes impossible – a fact that has manifest implications for civil liberties, Saunders says.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Death of Anonymity: Part 2
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10|27|09   |   2:08   |   8 comments

By 2011 the number of Internet-connected sensors will exceed 1 trillion, making your chances of doing anything or going anywhere unnoticed pretty much zero. Saunders talks about how the 'sensortization' of the Internet is eliminating the traditional divide between online and offline populations.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Death of Anonymity: Part 1
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10|26|09   |   1:29   |   13 comments

The 20th Century Internet was characterized by the ability to interact with other people and information on the Internet largely without anyone knowing who you were. The Internet of this century, conversely, will be defined by identity. Saunders explains how Internet users are unwittingly contributing to the demise of the anonymous Internet.
Robert D. Atkinson
Americans’ Views of Internet Behavioral Targeting
10|23|09   |   2:04   |   1 comment

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans don’t like behavioral targeting on the Internet, even when it’s done anonymously. But the poll is seriously flawed in that it did not ask Americans about the tradeoffs involved. If we are to make good public policy with regard to the Internet and privacy, it’s important to have a debate that explores all aspects of the issue. This poll failed to do that.
Tom Nolle
Getting Broadband Empowerment Right
10|22|09   |   2:19   |   2 comments

The FCC is throwing money at rural broadband empowerment, but it's dealing with the wrong problem. The real issue is how we get users who could get broadband but choose to reject it to change their minds. The answer lies with mobile technology – but it may surprise you!
Singer at C-Level
GE's Jeff Immelt Speaks
10|22|09   |   1:06   |   No comments

GE CEO Jeff Immelt talks to IE about the difference between his company and organizations like Microsoft and Google (think 'vertical') and how GE plans to take them on in the future.
Sweeney Blog
GM/eBay Trial to Sell Cars Online Bites the Dust
10|21|09   |   2:07   |   4 comments

GM has pulled the plug on a trial with eBay to sell cars online, underscoring GM's feeble attitude to the Web and ecommerce – and a lot of defensiveness where dealers are concerned.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
Search Inversion & Profiling: Part 3
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10|21|09   |   1:40   |   No comments

Steve Saunders talks about the risks inherent in uncontrolled, widespread profiling of Internet users, and how one day this practice could form the basis of a new industry, the Outernet, which in economic terms will have outgrown the commercial value of the Internet itself.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
Search Inversion & Profiling: Part 2
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10|20|09   |   1:29   |   No comments

Search companies and social networks are collecting incredibly detailed information about their users, says Steve Saunders, who predicts that these 'profiles' could one day become commodities to be bought and sold by companies on 'profile markets' or 'identity exchanges’ – the digital DNA equivalents of the financial and commodities exchanges on which stocks, oil, and gold are traded.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
Search Inversion & Profiling: Part 1
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10|19|09   |   1:52   |   6 comments

One of the most important Internet issues of all time is being ignored by the media. In this three-part video series Steve Saunders explains how search companies are turning the tables on their users by creating user profiles for financial gain, and how soon this trend will explode into full scale profiling.
Thomas S. Kunz
Banks Get Social
10|19|09   |   1:32   |   1 comment

The PNC Financial Group is using social networking for outreach, product development, customer segmentation, branding, and more. It has also developed an iPhone-based virtual wallet application for Gen Y customers.
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Social Networks & Hiring Pitfalls
10|16|09   |   2:16   |   5 comments

More companies are trolling social networks to find and vet potential job candidates. Beware the pitfalls of blurring the line between personal and professional lives.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Coming Internet Bubble: Part 2
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10|16|09   |   3:38   |   18 comments

How do you recognize an Internet bubble when you see one? Saunders explains how all bubbles have four symptoms in common – and takes a swipe at Google and Twitter into the bargain.
Tom Nolle
So Many Ads, So Few Clicks?
10|15|09   |   1:59   |   6 comments

Some recent research shows that 8% of Internet users generate 85% of ad click-throughs. There are three possible reasons for this, and they go from bad to worse. Together, they show that we need to know more about Internet advertising.
what.the.ferraro
Flo 2.0: Mrs. Brady Gets a Website
10|15|09   |   1:46   |   11 comments

Florence Henderson, of Brady Bunch and Wesson Oil fame, is pitching a tech support site for digitally challenged seniors.
Full Nelson
Personal Mobile TV Makes Its Debut
10|14|09   |   2:28   |   7 comments

Mobile TV is everywhere, and yet, nowhere. Nobody uses it – because the handsets aren't good, the pricing is too high, and the coverage is not good enough. But Qualcomm's FloTV Personal TV aims to change all of that.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Coming Internet Bubble: Part 1
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10|14|09   |   1:54   |   16 comments

The sky is falling! And in other news, Saunders explains why he’s predicting a second Internet bubble – this one based around the current craze for social media.
TeleGraham
China's Broadband Revolution
10|13|09   |   2:36   |   1 comment

China is investing heavily in fiber to the premises to propel itself into the world broadband Internet first division. What's it deploying, and what's it going to do with all that bandwidth?
what.the.ferraro
Twitter Conferences & the Demise of Humanity
10|13|09   |   1:56   |   6 comments

The rise of industry events centered solely on the topic of Twitter is enough to make some people cry. Literally.
Not Dr. Phil
How Do You Measure Openness?
10|9|09   |   2:25   |   5 comments

Verizon is making a big noise about making its wireless network open, but how will we measure if they've been successful? Do we count devices? Applications? Or just take their word for it?
Steve Saunders' Outernet
Global Internet Growth: Part 2
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10|9|09   |   2:28   |   No comments

Saunders predicts the decline and fall of America’s Internet empire, and explains how the Internet of the future will be multi-lingual as well as multi-national.
Rob Salkowitz
Sync or Swim: Connecting Desktop & Cloud
10|8|09   |   1:45   |   No comments

Some thoughts on new tools that use the cloud for synchronization rather than storage, and how they might signal a shift in strategy for at least one software giant.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
Global Internet Growth: Part 1
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10|7|09   |   1:24   |   4 comments

Saunders explains how Internet users in North America are already vastly outnumbered by those in the rest of the world – a situation which is only set to accelerate.
what.the.ferraro
Google Drops 10^100 Ball
10|6|09   |   1:55   |   13 comments

Google has finally opened voting on Project 10^100, but rather than allow the public to vote on specific, concrete project ideas, Google spent a year watering down its submissions into broad idea 'themes.'
Steve Saunders' Outernet
Welcome to 2029
10|6|09   |   2:01   |   4 comments

It is 20 years since the invention of the World Wide Web, and the Internet has changed beyond recognition since then. Steve Saunders peers into the future to predict what the Web will look like in another 20 years time – and he doesn’t like what he sees.
Singer at C-Level
eBay & Business Analytics
10|5|09   |   2:09   |   No comments

eBay has hired data mining expert Eric Brill as its vice president of research and applied science. What does this mean for business analytics?
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