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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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Facebook Lacks Social Skills
11|20|09   |   1:53   |   1 comment

Facebook's 'Suggestions' for users demonstrate how little social networking sites understand about true social relationships.
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ThinkerNet Wins Min's Award for Best Blogs!
11|19|09   |   1:13   |   4 comments

ThinkerNet wins the Min's award for 'Best Blogs' – Internet Evolution's fifth award this year!
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.
what.the.ferraro
Dogster.com More Popular Than Gov 2.0
11|17|09   |   2:05   |   1 comment

A lot of attention is being paid to launching Gov 2.0 Websites, but these sites aren't attracting a lot of visitors.
what.the.ferraro
LinkedIn Takes a Step Away From Professionalism
11|12|09   |   2:10   |   12 comments

LinkedIn partners with Twitter to incorporate Tweets into its status updates. So much for a professional network.
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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.
The Incredible Hultquist
Tweet Less, Get More Clicks
11|9|09   |   2:24   |   No comments

Evidence shows that you can tweet too much. Sites and services like Twitter and Facebook are a good place to reach your audience, but think quality over quantity.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The New Information Divide: Part 3
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11|6|09   |   1:46   |   No comments

A digital content market is emerging. Only two things are known about it: the first is that at some point the Internet will primarily become a paid network. The second known factor is that there are innumerable variables in the digital content market that have yet to be worked out. It’s not known, for example, exactly how users will pay for content (micropayments, subscriptions, bartering of farm animals, other).
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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.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The New Information Divide: Part 2
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11|4|09   |   2:19   |   4 comments

Bad news! By eliminating the world’s digital divide we’re likely to create a new divide: the information divide, where we end up creating a two-tier Internet where access to 'quality' content is controlled and charged for by mega-corporations, and the gulf between information haves and have-nots is entirely dependent on how much money they have. This is, of course, an almost exact inversion of the current situation on the Internet – where access is expensive and content is free.
The Incredible Hultquist
Web 2.0 – Just Being There Isn't Enough
11|3|09   |   2:15   |   9 comments

As enterprises leap into the Web 2.0 world of blogging, commenting, and social networking, just 'being there' won't deliver ROI. You may want a 'Web Evangelist' to systematically harvest the feedback in order to polish your product or service.
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The Unimportance of Real-Time Search
11|2|09   |   1:36   |   6 comments

The big news at the Web 2.0 Summit was that Twitter partnered with Google and Bing, enabling the search engines to show Tweets in search results. This couldn't possibly be less interesting.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The New Information Divide: Part 1
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11|2|09   |   1:07   |   No comments

Good news! The cost of Internet infrastructure, services, and access devices has been plummeting at an accelerating rate over the last 10 years and will approach a point in the next 20 years where these technologies become so fantastically cheap that ubiquitous, low-cost, high-speed networks, storage, and access devices will effectively eliminate the digital divide for most of the world's population.
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.
Rob Salkowitz
Generation Blend Revisited
10|30|09   |   2:23   |   2 comments

Boomers are getting more comfortable with Web 2.0. Does that end the 'digital age gap' in the enterprise or just make it more complex?
Aneesh Chopra
Federal CTO of the US
10|28|09   |   01:06   |   4 comments

Aneesh Chopra talks about how President Obama's administration plans to tackle the digital divide.
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.
Singer at C-Level
Bing + Twitter: Wrestling a Tweety Fire Hose
10|27|09   |   2:33   |   2 comments

Now that Bing has struck a deal with Twitter, its search service will have to process a tsunami of Tweets, many of which are worthless junk. Stefan Weitz, director with Bing Search, explains to Michael Singer how his service will make sense of the Twitter mayhem to provide relevant results to end users and enterprises.
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.
Singer at C-Level
Inside the Bing/Twitter Deal
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10|26|09   |   1:43   |   3 comments

Bing, Microsoft’s search service, has struck a deal with Twitter. Here Stefan Weitz, director with Bing Search, talks through how the deal will work from a technical perspective, and what’s in it for users.
Marissa Mayer
VP of Search Products & User Experience, Google
10|26|09   |   01:20   |   4 comments

Google's Marissa Mayer explains how its partnership with Twitter both makes Google search more comprehensive and extends its social-networking reach.
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.
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Twitter: Not a Difference Maker
10|21|09   |   1:55   |   1 comment

Companies often place too much importance on inaccurate or abrasive Twitter posts. The result: They end up looking foolish and waste lots of time.
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
Part 1 of 3   |   See complete series
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.
The Incredible Hultquist
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.
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.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The Coming Internet Bubble: Part 1
Part 1 of 2   |   See complete series
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.
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.
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.
Bob Evans
Interview With GM's Information Officer
10|5|09   |   4:17   |   No comments

Bob Evans talks to Kirk Gutmann, GM’s Chief Technology & Strategy Officer, about the challenges of the current economic climate and his company’s focus on the customer, including the drive to connect employees with the customer using social networking, and how the company is driving innovation through technology.
Marianne James
CIO, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
10|1|09   |   0:55   |   No comments

Cincinnati Children's Hospital CIO Marianne James explains some of her organization's innovations, including its fetal care portal, its expansion beyond just being a community hospital, and its collaborative efforts among all of its constituents.
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