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Google's Wikipedia rival, Knol, goes public | News - Digital Media - CNET News.com
by Elinor Mills on Jul 23, 2008 - 03:48 PM read 17 times
Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9997426-93.html?tag=nl.e433Think you are an expert on a subject? Well, Google's got a proposition for you. Google's Wikipedia competitor, Knol, was opened to the public on Wednesday morning, according to the Official Google Blog. So-called knols are articles about specific topics written by experts on that subject. Google is partnering with The New Yorker magazine to allow any author to add a cartoon from the magazine to their knol. Knol ... read more -
Cloud Computing Serves Up Occasional Thunderstorms
by By Dave Methvin on Jul 22, 2008 - 05:44 PM read 16 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...Last weekend's Amazon S3 outage shows that cloud computing isn't all upside. In theory, outsourcing services to companies that focus on them should make things more scalable and reliable. In reality, it doesn't always seem to work that way. ... read more -
Forrester: Corporate Blogs Fail to Engage Customers - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
by C. G. Lynch on Jul 22, 2008 - 02:02 PM read 25 times
Source: http://www.cio.com/article/422163/Forrester_Corporate_Blo...July 02, 2008 CIO A new report by Forrester Research found that most corporate blogs kept by business-to-business (B2B) firms failed to energize their intended audiences and engage them in meaningful conversations about trends and products. ... read more -
CIO.com Web Presentation - The Next Generation Workplace Solution
by Brittain on Jul 21, 2008 - 04:57 PM read 30 timesAccenture, Avanade and Microsoft shape next generation workplace vision and solution strategy Webcast Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008Time: 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PTLearn how Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft are helping organizations overcome productivity declines, unmanaged total cost of ownership and rising globalization costs by connecting people, processes and technology in a way that drives collaboration, productivity and better information management. Register today! More ... read more -
Private Clouds
by By George Crump on Jul 21, 2008 - 11:39 AM read 5 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...Last night, Sunday, July 20, Amazon S3 went down for more than two hours. Last weekend, Apple struggled its way through its MobileMe transition and it is still having some issues with its iDisk service. Both of these companies provide a high quality cloud service, but scaling these types of technology for the masses isn't an easy task and as we have seen in the case of Apple, ... read more -
In The Cloud, Where Do Borders Fall?
by By Richard Martin on Jul 17, 2008 - 05:35 PM read 35 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...I just read that the U.S. State Department now has an embassy in Second Life. Thats an inflection point if I ever saw one. ... read more -
The Rise Of Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing
by By John Foley on Jul 16, 2008 - 11:37 AM read 38 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...With its new Cloud Server, Elastra joins a growing list of vendors offering products and services for enterprise-class cloud computing. The year-old startup is betting -- rightly so, in my opinion -- that businesses are ready and willing to move workloads to the cloud, but only if they have IT tools that are sophisticated enough to manage the process. ... read more -
First Steps Into The Cloud
by By George Crump on Jul 11, 2008 - 01:26 PM read 45 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...Storage will be one of the first steps many will make in using cloud services. In fact, many users have already taken that first step without even knowing it. They are using services like online storage, backup, and archive. Online backup is there, because of block-level incremental and data deduplication technologies; sending backup data over a network connection is not the impossibility that it was even a few years ago. ... read more -
Startup Develops Single, Simple Interface To Cloud Services
by By John Foley on Jul 11, 2008 - 10:30 AM read 71 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...Kaavo, a startup founded by a former IT professional, has developed a browser interface for managing resources from multiple cloud computing providers. Not yet a year old, Kaavo is moving quickly to address whats likely to be a growing need as more companies plug into not just one, but a variety of cloud services. ... read more -
Software As A Service With A Personal Touch
by By John Foley on Jul 09, 2008 - 11:25 AM read 55 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...Landslide Technologies is pushing its way into the crowded field of Web-based salesforce automation and CRM applications. Its doing so by offering not just software as a service, but also personal assistance for busy sales professionals. ... read more -
New Data Integration Option For Amazons EC2 Service
by By John Foley on Jul 08, 2008 - 04:43 PM read 28 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...Open source software company SnapLogic has introduced a version of its data integration framework thats tuned for Amazon.coms Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, Web service. It gives developers and IT departments the option of doing their data integration work in Amazons cloud rather than on their own servers. ... read more -
Atempo Archives To The Cloud With Nirvanix
by By Howard Marks on Jul 08, 2008 - 02:01 PM read 34 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...Backup software vendor Atempo, now run out of the U.S. by CEO Neal Ater, formerly of Veritas but maintaining a bit of a French accent, entered the archiving market in February by acquiring Lighthouse Global Technologies. It has since released new versions of both the e-mail and file archiving solutions. Now, at the beginning of what I hope is a major trend, it has added the ability to use Nirvanix ... read more -
Microsoft Gets Off The Pot (Finally!)
by By Mary Hayes Weier on Jul 08, 2008 - 11:58 AM read 25 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...Microsoft has finally stopped dragging its heels on its vague "software + services" strategy and announced today some concrete details on upcoming products and pricing. Here are my initial observations. ... read more -
Google's Precipitate Rains Your Docs Down From The Cloud
by By Eric Zeman on Jul 08, 2008 - 11:35 AM read 64 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...Have a mish-mash of files spread between your PC and the cloud? Searching both for a document because you can't remember where you stored it costs time ... unless you use Google's new search tool called Precipitate. Precipitate is a desktop-based search client that scans your local machine and the cloud for your stuff so you only have to search once. ... read more -
Identity Management As A Service
by By George Hulme on Jul 07, 2008 - 07:21 PM read 47 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...Just before the long July 4 holiday weekend, I had a chance to speak with on-demand identity management start-up Symplified. This vendor is well capitalized and has veteran IdM leadership at its helm. It also wants to "revolutionize" the identity and assessment management (IdM) market. And it just might do so. ... read more -
Behind The Storage Cloud
by By George Crump on Jul 07, 2008 - 08:08 AM read 40 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...Last week we had an entry introducing everyone to cloud computing and cloud storage. As promised, it was and will be the first of many entries on the topic. In this entry we're going to start looking at some of the plumbing that will sustain the cloud. The look won't be exhaustive, and my intent is not to mention everyone that may have a role to play. I may ... read more -
A Bleak Vision For Orwell's Internet
by By Richard Martin on Jul 01, 2008 - 10:23 AM read 35 times
Source: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07...The new book by Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain, a technology thinker and provocateur, lays out a stark, Orwellian vision for the next phase of online development. ... read more -
The IT talent crunch and why it’s the CIO’s fault (maybe)
by Steve Elmore on Jun 26, 2008 - 01:27 PM read 232 timesInteresting post on Tech Republic... In order to survive the IT talent crunch, CIOs need to stop looking for people with particular certifications or technical talents. They need to look instead for technical people who are willing to learn. (more) Frankly, I have to agree. In my last professional incarnation I had a "lively discussion" with an IT director who said his group could ... read more -
Note to worshippers of the iPhone - closed to external innovation
by Jeff Milne on Jun 26, 2008 - 10:35 AM read 130 timesThought provoking interview discussing "generative" software and devices vs. closed devices here. Harvard Law School professor and tech guru Jonathan Zittrain warns of trouble in Apple's strategy. Excerpt: Since your book went to print, Apple has announced a Software Development Kit for the iPhone. Isn’t that good news for generative technology? Apple wants to have its cake and eat it too. Who doesn’t? But systemically, what it’s doing is a ... read more -
Good Identity 2.0 presentation
by Jeff Milne on Jun 25, 2008 - 04:35 PM read 341 timesFast pased, entertaining, informative presentation (great example) on digital identity from Dick Hardt at Sxip Identity: http://identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/ His Blog is here: http://identity20.com/ ... read more
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