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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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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.

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.

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).

Steve Saunders' Outernet
The All-Seeing 'Net: Part 2
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11|11|09 | 2:27 | 2 comments

In theory it’s now possible to build a monitoring network that can listen to every conversation on the Internet simultaneously. In practice, there aren’t enough people on the planet to make sense of the data. But that’s about to change.

Steve Saunders' Outernet
The All-Seeing 'Net: Part 1
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11|10|09 | 2:00 | No comments

The state of the art in network monitoring has advanced to the point that there are devices available that tap into Internet communications and listen in to the traffic via ultra-high-speed packet capture at full 10-Gbit/s line rate – which was inconceivable even a few years ago. What does this mean for Internet users?

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.

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.

Tom Nolle
Total Telephony Transcends Telepresence
11|20|09 | 2:11 | 2 comments

The problem with telepresence is that it's not universally accepted, because video calling isn't. While we can all do video calling, we also apparently worry too much about how we look. If we want HD telepresence in our future, we have to dress down, mess up our hair, and dive into our online life.

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.

Not Dr. Phil
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.

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.

Full Nelson
SanFran.gov
11|19|09 | 8:51 | No comments

Fritz has an exclusive talk with the mayor and CTO of San Francisco about that city's latest e-government efforts.

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
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.