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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:32 PM/EST
Have you seen Tim (Internet Pioneer) Bray's post on why he's less-than-excited by the iPhone? It's pretty funny and, by the way, right on the mark. I don't wanna be a sharecropper on Massa Steve's plantation. I don't want to...
Monday, July 21, 2008 10:02 AM/EST
Parts of the Amazon.com S3 (Simple Storage Service) cloud computing infrastructure were down for at least 6 hours, according to news reports and the company's own health dashboard. The dashboard now shows that service is normal again, but as late...
Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:24 PM/EST
Alex Iskold at ReadWriteWeb is all wet today. The gist of his article is that business applications need to be efficient, almost Germanic in their precision, while software we use for personal entertainment can be more casual. Software is increasingly...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 4:26 PM/EST
Reports that Google Docs suffered a severe outage today couldn't come at a worse time for Microsoft. Ordinarily, this is the kind of news that would have Microsoft and SAP and the other on-premises pterodactyls rubbing their hands with glee...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:07 AM/EST
Don't expect IBM to become a champion of SAAS any time soon. After a visit to IBM's Somers, N.Y., campus, I am convinced that while IBM's heart is with the Web, its feet are still mired in 20th century technologies,...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:40 PM/EST
Microsoft seems like the most unlikely company to ship products that really support Enterprise 2.0. After all, the company is the poster child for packaged software. But everything the company is saying here in Orlando at TechEd 2008 is consistent...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:57 AM/EST
A Stanford University study shows that people carry over the benefits of their Second Life avatars into their real lives. For example, people with avatars skinnier than their real selves go out and lose weight. The researchers call this the...
Monday, April 21, 2008 11:54 AM/EST
The Wall Street Journal's tech blogger Kara Swisher has it partly right in writing about reports that Web 2.0 is gaining traction in the enterprise. Swisher was working off a story by Sarah Perez on ReadWriteWeb (happy fifth birthday RRW)...
Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:12 PM/EST
Here's a great piece by Alex Iskold that basically argues that Web 2.0 will make cold-calling an anachronism. LinkedIn is becoming one of the ways of warming those calls up, and now folks are writing basic primers on how to...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:22 AM/EST
Great article in the New York Times today about using virtual futures markets to get market insights. The gist is that instead of just paying lip service, corporate America is finally getting religion on the value of the collective intelligence...
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